New Acquisitions - April 2000
BANCO DE ESPANA. Servicio de Estudios.
9924 Fuentes, Ignacio & Sastre, Teresa. Mergers and acquisitions
in the Spanish banking industry: some empirical evidence.
53p.
BANK OF JAPAN. Institute for Monetary & Economic Studies.
2000-4 Baba, Naohiko. A reexamination of ex ante pricing of
currency risk in the Japanese stock market: a pricing kernel
approach. 49p.
2000-5 Baba, Naohiko. Testing the ex ante relationship between
asset and investment returns in Japan: an application of the
P-CAPM to the Japanese asset returns. 48p.
2000-6 Forum on the development of electronic payment
technologies and its implications for monetary policy -
interim repo. 56p.
2000-3 Oda, Nobuyuki & Shimizu, Tokiko. Prospects for prudential
policy: toward achieving an efficient and stable banking
system. 29p.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Department of Applied Economics.
9921 Chadha, Jagjit S. & Nolan, Charles. Inflation targeting,
transparency and interest rate volatility: ditching
`monetary mystique' in the U.K. 26p.
9920 Chadha, Jagjit S. & Schellekens, Philip. Monetary policy
loss functions: two cheers for the quadratic. 26p.
9919 Pesaran, M. Hashem. On aggregation of linear dynamic
models. 34p.
9918 Pesaran, M. Hashem & Weeks, Melvyn. Non-nested hypothesis
testing: an overview. 37p.
9917 Shimazaki, Masao & Solomou, Solomos. Effective exchange
rates in Japan 1879-1938. 25p.
CENTRE D'ETUDES PROS. D'ECON MATH APPLIQUEES A LA PLANIFICATION.
9919 Amable, Bruno & Petit, Pascal. Identifying the structure of
institutions to promote innovation and growth. 28p.
9912 Bourdieu, Jerome & Reynaud, Benedicte. Social aspects of
the decrease in working hours in 19th century France. 23p.
9914 Cahuc, Pierre & Zylberberg, Andre. Job protection, minimum
wage and unemployment. 25p.
9915 Cahuc, Pierre & Postel-Vinay, Fabien. On some undesirable
consequences of education and growth. 8p.
9916 Cahuc, Pierre & Lehmann, Etienne. Should unemployment
benefits decrease with unemployment spell? 19p.
9917 Caroli, Eve & Van Reenen, John. Skill biased organizational
change?: evidence from a panel of British and French
establishments. 51p.
9911 Feve, F., Henin, P.Y. & Jolivaldt, P. Testing for
hysteresis: unemployment persistence and wage adjustment.
28p.
9921 Laffargue, Jean-Pierre. Les conditions de Blanchard et Kahn
dans un modele macro-econometrique a anticipations
parfaites. 21p.
9913 Laffargue, Jean-Pierre. Financement d'une baisse de
cotisations sociales employeurs sur le travail peu qualife:
une etude a l'aide du modele d'equilibre general calculable
Julien 4. 39p.
9918 Piketty, Thomas. Attitudes toward income inequality in
France: do people really disagree? 27p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Institute of Economics.
2000-1 Keiding, Hans & Tvede, Mich. Imperfect competition and the
firm: some equivalence results. 19p.
COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS AT YALE UNIVERSITY.
1250 Andrews, Donald W.K. & Buchinsky, Moshe. On the number of
bootstrap repetitions for BCa confidence intervals. 22p.
(ENGLAND) CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH.
2391 Almazan, Andres & Suarez, Javier. Optimal corporate
governance structures. 41p.
2392 Bams, Dennis & Wolff, Christian C.P. Risk premia in the
term structure of interest rates: a panel data approach.
30p.
2389 Barsky, Robert B. & Kilian, Lutz. A monetary explanation of
the Great Stagflation of the 1970s. 46p.
2390 Ben-David, Dan & Kimhi, Ayal. Trade and the rate of income
convergence. 29p.
2381 Besley, Timothy & Coate, Stephen. Elected versus appointed
regulators: theory and evidence. 51p.
2384 Boeri, Tito. Optimal speed of transition 10 years after.
30p.
2371 Boeri, Tito. Social Europe: dramatic visions and real
complexity. 43p.
2379 Bofinger, Peter & Wollmershaeuser, Timo. Options for the
exchange rate policies of the EU accession countries (and
other emerging market economies). 32p.
2365 Buiter, Willem H. Monetary misconceptions: new and old
paradigmata and other sad tales. 55p.
2393 De Grauwe, Paul. Monetary policies in the presence of
asymmetries. 23p.
2388 Dolado, Juan J. & Maria-Dolores, Ramon. Evaluating changes
in the Bank of Spain's intervention: an alternative approach
using marked point processes. 31p.
2376 Duranton, Gilles & Puga, Diego. Nursery cities: urban
diversity, process innovation, and the life-cycle products.
36p.
2375 Eijffinger, Sylvester, Schaling, Eric & Verhagen, Willem.
The term structure of interest rates and inflation forecast
targeting. 31p.
2377 Francois, Joseph & Wooton, Ian. Trade in international
transport services: the role of competition. 21p.
2374 Giavazzi, Francesco, Jappelli, Tullio & Pagano, Marco.
Searching for non-linear effects of fiscal policy: evidence
from industrial and developing countries. 35p.
2383 Guiso, Luigi, Sapienza, Paola & Zingales, Luigi. The role
of social capital in financial development. 56p.
2387 Ichino, Andrea & Maggi, Giovanni. Work environment and
individual background: explaining regional shirking
differentials in a large Italian firm. 42p.
2378 Lommerud, Kjell Erik & Vagstad, Steinar. Mommy tracks and
public policy: on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps
in promotion. 36p.
2373 Lutz, Stefan & Turrini, Alessandro. Skills, labour costs
and vertically differentiated industries: a general
equilibrium analysis. 18p.
2385 Manzocchi, Stefano & Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. Outsiders in
economic integration: the case of a transition economy.
28p.
2369 Miles, David. Funded and unfunded pensions: risk, return
and welfare. 37p.
2372 O'Rourke, Kevin H. & Williamson, Jeffrey G. The
Heckscher-Ohlin model between 1400 and 2000: when it
explained factor price convergence, when it did not, and w.
65p.
2370 Rodrik, Dani. Institutions for high-quality growth: what
they are and how to acquire them. 48p.
2380 Svensson, Lars E.O. The first year of the Eurosystem:
inflation targeting or not? 11p.
2386 von Hagen, Jurgen & Strauch, Rolf R. East Germany:
transition with unification - experiments and experiences.
26p.
2382 Winters, L. Alan. Trade, trade policy and poverty: what are
the links? 59p.
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX. Department of Economics.
505 Coles, Melvyn G. & Muthoo, Abhinay. Bargaining equilibrium
in a non-stationary environment. 26p.
504 Guariglia, Alessandra & Kim, Byung-Yeon. Determinants and
dynamics of moonlighting: the case of Russian married men.
29p.
506 Lahiri, Sajal & Ono, Yoshiyasu. Protecting environment in
the presence of foreign direct investment: tax versus
quantity restriction. 22p.
503 Li, Carmen A. Export diversification and export-led growth
in Mexico. 27p.
FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI.
91/99 Bartolini, Stefano & Bonatti, Luigi. Endogenous growth and
negative externalities. 25p.
100/99 Spagnolo, Giancarlo. Markets and cooperation. 20p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO. Research Department.
9930 Aaronson, Daniel & Sullivan, Daniel G. Worker insecurity
and aggregate wage growth. 28p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. Research Department.
264 Gowrisankaran, Gautam & Holmes, Thomas J. Do mergers lead
to monopoly in the long run?: results from the dominant firm
model. 36p.
265 Kehoe, Patrick J. & Perri, Fabrizio. International business
cycles with endogenous incomplete markets. 38p.
FED RESERVE BANK OF MPLS-UNIV OF MINN. Inst. for Empirical Macro.
134 Caselli, Francesco & Morelli, Massimo. Bad politicians.
41p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA. Economic Research Division.
2000-1 Berlin, Mitchell & Mester, Loretta J. Optimal financial
contracts for large investors: the role of lender liability.
33p.
2000-2 Stark, Tom. Does current-quarter information improve
quarterly forecasts for the U.S. economy? 56p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. Finance & Economics Discussion Series.
2000-4 Berger, Allen N., et al. Globalization of financial
institutions: evidence from cross-border banking
performance. 113p.
2000-7 Berkowitz, Jeremy. On identification of continuous time
stochastic processes. 16p.
2000-10 Covitz, Dan & Harrison, Paul. The timing of debt issuance
and rating migration: theory and evidence. 43p.
2000-9 Cutler, David M. & Sheiner, Louise. Generational aspects of
Medicare. 12p.
2000-3 Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Sheiner, Louise M. Should America
save for its old age?: population aging, national saving,
and fiscal policy. 46p.
2000-5 Kiley, Michael T. Stock prices and fundamentals in a
production economy. 32p.
2000-12 Maki, Dean M. The growth of consumer credit and the
household debt service burden. 26p.
2000-13 Orphanides, Athanasios. Activist stabilization policy and
inflation: the Taylor rule in the 1970s. 20p.
2000-8 Starr-McCluer, Martha. The effects of weather on retail
sales. 25p.
2000-1 Tetlow, Robert. Inflation targeting and target stability.
56p.
2000-11 Tevlin, Stacey & Whelan, Karl. Explaining the investment
boom of the 1990s. 33p.
2000-6 Whelan, Karl. Computers, obsolescence, and productivity.
40p.
2000-2 Whelan, Karl. Real wage dynamics and the Phillips curve.
25p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. International Finance Papers.
660 Canova, Fabio & De Nicolo, Gianni. Monetary disturbances
matter for business fluctuations in the G-7. 38p.
659 Davis, Donald R. & Reeve, Trevor A. Human capital,
unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. 35p.
HEBREW UNIV. Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory.
210 Assaf, David & Samuel-Cahn, Ester. Prophet inequalities for
optimal stopping rules with probabilistic recall. 17p.
213 Ney-Nifle, Muriel, Keaser, Tamar & Shmida, Avi. Location
and color learning in bumblebees in a two-phase conditioning
experiment. 29p.
211 Yaniv, Ilan & Schul, Yaacov. Acceptance and elimination
procedures in choice: non-complementarity and the role of
implied status quo. 27p.
212 Yaniv, Ilan & Kleinberger, Eli. Advice taking in decision
making: egocentric discounting and reputation formation.
31p.
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.
9971 Fagart, Marie-Cecile & Souam, Said. Optimal contract with
random auditing. 28p.
9972 Gabszewicz, Jean, Laussel, Didier & Sonnac, Nathalie. TV
broadcasting competition and advertising. 22p.
9970 Mas, Andre. Principal component analysis in Hilbert space:
a perturbation approach. 15p.
9969 Maurin, Eric. The impact of parental income on early
schooling transitions: a re-examination using data over
three generations. 38p.
9966 Selod, Harris & Zenou, Yves. Location and education in
South African cities under and after apartheid. 36p.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Department of Economics.
2000-2 Horowitz, Joel L. Should the DEA's STRIDE data be used for
economic analyses of markets for illegal drugs? 27p.
BANCA DE ITALIA. Research Department.
365 Cukierman, Alex & Lippi, Francesco. Labor markets and
monetary union: a strategic analysis. 42p.
361 Focarelli, Dario, Panetta, Fabio & Salleo, Carmelo. Why do
banks merge? 54p.
363 Gaiotti, Eugenio. The transmission of monetary policy
shocks in Italy, 1967-1997. 47p.
366 Giannetti, Mariassunta. On the mechanics of migration
decisions: skill complementarities and endogenous price
differentials. 47p.
368 Guiso, Luigi & Schivardi, Fabiano. Information spillovers
and factor adjustment. 47p.
362 Marchetti, Domenico J. Markup and the business cycle:
evidence from Italian manufacturing branches. 27p.
367 Parigi, Giuseppe & Siviero, Stefano. An investment
function-based measure of capacity utilisation, potential
output and utilised capacity in the Bank of. 48p.
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
2000-1 Jayasuriya, Sisira. Technical change in agriculture and
deforestation in tropical Asia: an analytical framework.
22p.
2000-2 Pereira, Robert. Genetic algorithm optimisation for finance
and investment. 26p.
UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE. Dept. d'Econometrie d' Econ. Politique.
9914 Aghion, Philippe, Bacchetta, Philippe & Banerjee, Abhijit.
A simple model of monetary policy and currency crises. 13p.
9917 Bacchetta, Philippe & van Wincoop, Eric. Does exchange rate
stability increase trade and welfare? 30p.
9918 Brulhart, Marius & Trionfetti, Federico. Home-based demand
and international specialization: a test of trade theories.
33p.
2000-2 Butler, Monika & Hauser, Heinz. The WTO dispute settlement
system: a first assessment from an economic perspective.
34p.
9919 Danthine, Jean-Pierre & Donaldson, John B. Macroeconomic
frictions: what have we learned from the real business cycle
research program? 26p.
9915 Holly, Alberto & Gardiol, Lucien. A score test for
individual heteroscedasticity in a one-way error components
model. 18p.
9916 Neven, Damien J. & Roller, Lars-Hendrik. The alloation of
jurisdiction in international antitrust. 16p.
9913 von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas. A note on fat cats and puppy
dogs. 9p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Financial Markets Group.
345 Benhamou, Eric & Serval, Thomas. On the competition between
electronic communications networks (ECNs), stock markets and
market makers. 36p.
343 Da Rin, Marco & Hellmann, Thomas. Banks as catalysts for
industrialization. 42p.
344 Dessi, Roberta & Robertson, Donald. Debt, incentives and
performance: evidence from U.K. panel data. 22p.
342 Foldes, Lucien. Valuation and martingale properties of
shadow prices: an exposition. 76p.
336 Goodhart, Charles & Huang, Haizhou. A simple model of an
international lender of last resort. 15p.
341 Hart, Oliver & Moore, John. On the design of hierarchies:
coordination versus specialization. 51p.
340 Snell, Andy & Tonks, Ian. The profitability of block trades
in auction and dealer markets. 24p.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
2/2000 Turnell, Sean. Establishing an East Timorese national
currency via a currency board. 22p.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Department of Economics.
733 Brooks, Chris & Henry, Olan T. The impact of news on
measures of undiversifiable risk: evidence from the U.K.
stock market. 28p.
736 Feeney, Rob & King, Stephen P. Sequential parimutuel games.
12p.
734 Gans, Joshua S. & King, Stephen P. Mobile network
competition, customer ignorance and fixed-to-mobile call
prices. 31p.
735 Negrin, Jose-Luis & Hyde, Charles E. Access pricing: a
survey. 35p.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Economic Development Center.
2000-1 Gaitan, Beatriz & Pavel, Ferdinand. Is "getting the prices
right" always right?: how trade liberalization can fail.
30p.
2000-2 Ruttan, Vernon W. Imperialism and competition in
anthropology, sociology, political science and economics: a
perspective from develop. 28p.
UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. Center for Economic Studies.
213 Anderlini, Luca & Felli, Leonardo. Costly bargaining and
renegotiation. 47p.
216 Bayar, Ali H. Entry and exit dynamics of `excessive
deficits' in the European Union. 23p.
207 Bos, Dieter. Earmarked taxation: welfare versus political
support. 34p.
208 Bos, Dieter. Inefficient R & D in public procurement:
negative consequences of a separation between award and
actual contract. 14p.
218 Cheung, Yin-Wong & Lai, Kon S. On cross-country differences
in the persistence of real exchange rates. 27p.
220 Cheung, Yin-Wong & Westermann, Frank. Output dynamics of
the G7 countries: stochastic trends and cyclical movements.
18p.
210 Chirinko, Bob, et al. Firm performance, financial
institutions and corporate governance in the Netherlands.
27p.
225 Christofides, Louis N. Social assistance and labour supply.
44p.
222 Frey, Bruno S., Kucher, Marcel & Stutzer, Alois. Outcome,
process and power in direct democracy: new econometric
results. 29p.
221 Frey, Bruno S. & Kucher, Marcel. Wars and markets: how bond
values reflect World War II. 23p.
214 Fuest, Clemens & Thum, Marcel. Immigration and skill
formation in unionised labour markets. 19p.
215 Fuest, Clemens & Thum, Marcel. Welfare effects of
immigration in a dual labor market. 13p.
223 Gersbach, Hans. Fiscal constitutions. 25p.
224 Gersbach, Hans & Schniewind, Achim. Imperfect competition,
general equilibrium and unemployment. 28p.
209 Gradstein, Mark. An economic rationale for public
education: the value of commitment. 18p.
211 Johnson, Simon, McMillan, John & Woodruff, Christopher.
Contract enforcement in transition. 51p.
212 Johnson, Simon, McMillan, John & Woodruff, Christopher.
Property rights, finance, and entrepreneurship. 48p.
219 Peri, Giovanni. Local human capital externalities: an
overlapping generations model and some evidence on
experience premia. 27p.
217 Schmidt, Klaus M. Convertible securities and venture
capital finance. 31p.
226 Sibert, Anne. Monetary policy committees: individual and
collective reputations. 31p.
UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN. Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultat.
9915 Apps, Patricia & Rees, Ray. Household saving, time
allocation and taxation. 26p.
2000-2 D'Souza, Patrick & Klein, Alexander. Ex ante and ex post
collusion in hierarchies. 49p.
9913 Hainz, Christa. Credit contracts and restructuring in
transition economies: on the role of bank competition and
collateral. 34p.
9912 Klasen, Stephan. Measuring poverty and deprivation in South
Africa. 35p.
2000-3 Klein, Alexander. Jail or fine: let them choose. 31p.
9910 Koman, Reinhard & Marin, Dalia. Human capital and
macroeconomic growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1997, an
update. 40p.
9907 Rotte, Ralph. Technological change and warfare: the
persistence of the human factor in combat 1600-1982. 41p.
2000-5 Schlict, Ekkehart. Aestheticism in the theory of custom.
24p.
9911 Stogbauer, Christian. Measuring the impact of the
depression on the radical vote in the Weimar Republic: a
spatio-temporal approach. 27p.
2000-1 Sussmuth, Bernd. Endogenously-timed herding and the
synchronization of investment cycles. 26p.
9904 Thum, Claudio & Thum, Marcel. Repeated interaction,
redistribution, and the public provision of private goods.
20p.
2000-4 von Weizsacker, Jakob. Mixing pay-as-you-go and funded
pension systems. 6p.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Working Papers.
7544 Acemoglu, Daron. Labor- and capital-augmenting technical
change. 23p.
7557 Autor, David H. Outsourcing at will: unjust dismissal
doctrine and the growth of temporary help employment. 51p.
7547 Barsky, Robert B. & Kilian, Lutz. A monetary explanation of
the Great Stagflation of the 1970s. 46p.
7545 Berman, Eli & Rzakhanov, Zaur. Fertility, migration and
altruism. 34p.
7594 Bertrand, Marianne, Miller, Douglas & Mullainathan, Sendhil.
Public policy and extended families: evidence from South
Africa. 46p.
7579 Besley, Timothy & Coate, Stephen. Elected versus appointed
regulators: theory and evidence. 50p.
7550 Blanchard, Olivier. What do we know about macroeconomics
that Fisher and Wicksell did not? 48p.
7560 Brown, Jeffrey R. Differential mortality and the value of
individual account retirement annuities. 55p.
7554 Burnside, Craig, Eichenbaum, Martin & Rebelo, Sergio. On
the fundamentals of self-fulfilling speculative attacks.
46p.
7590 Campbell, John Y., et al. Have individual stocks become
more volatile?: an empirical exploration of idiosyncratic
risk. 59p.
7578 Card, David & DiNardo, John E. Do immigrant inflows lead to
native outflows? 22p.
7566 Case, Bradford, Goetzmann, William N. & Rouwenhorst, K.
Geert. Global real estate markets: cycles and fundamentals.
22p.
7581 Chinn, Menzie & Prasad, Eswar S. Medium-term determinants
of current accounts in industrial and developing countries:
an empirical exploration. 42p.
7552 Cohen, Wesley M., Nelson, Richard R. & Walsh, John P.
Protecting their intellectual assets: appropriability
conditions and why U.S. manufacturing firms patent (or not).
49p.
7568 Coronado, Julia Lynn, Fullerton, Don & Glass, Thomas. Long
run effects of social security reform proposals on lifetime
progressivity. 59p.
7555 Dafny, Leemore & Gruber, Jonathan. Does public insurance
improve the efficiency of medical care?: Medicaid expansions
and child hospitalizations. 43p.
7570 Deaton, Angus, Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier & Paxson,
Christina. Social security and inequality over the life
cycle. 42p.
7569 DeLong, J. Bradford. The shape of twentieth century
economic history. 28p.
7561 Fairlie, Robert W. & Meyer, Bruce D. The effect of
immigration on native self-employment. 40p.
7556 Freeman, Richard B. Single peaked vs. diversified
capitalism: the relation between economic institutions and
outcomes. 45p.
7551 Gali, Jordi & Gertler, Mark. Inflation dynamics: a
structural econometric analysis. 29p.
7549 Gertler, Mark & Lown, Cara S. The information in the high
yield bond spread for the business cycle: evidence and some
implications. 40p.
7567 Goetzmann, William N. & Massa, Massimo. Daily momentum and
contrarian behavior of index fund investors. 48p.
7587 Goldman, Eitan & Gorton, Gary. The visible hand, the
invisible hand and efficiency. 51p.
7558 Goolsbee, Austan. The importance of measurement error in
the cost of capital. 27p.
7553 Gruber, Jonathan. Tax subsidies for health insurance:
evaluating the costs and benefits. 63p.
7563 Guiso, Luigi, Sapienza, Paola & Zingales, Luigi. The role
of social capital in financial development. 56p.
7588 Gustman, Alan L. & Steinmeier, Thomas L. Retirement
outcomes in the health and retirement study. 42p.
7548 Hall, Brian J. & Murphy, Kevin J. Optimal exercise prices
for executive stock options. 14p.
7564 Hunt, Jennifer. Why do people still live in East Germany?
47p.
7565 Jorion, Philippe & Goetzmann, William N. A century of
global stock markets. 43p.
7534 King, Robert G. & Rebelo, Sergio T. Resucitating real
business cycles. 100p.
7575 Kremer, Michael & Mehta, Paras. Globalization and
international public finance. 27p.
7582 Kroszner, Randall S. & Stahan, Philip E. Obstacles to
optimal policy: the interplay of politics and economics in
shaping bank supervision and regulation ref. 50p.
7583 Lemke, Robert J., et al. Child care and the welfare to work
transition. 40p.
7600 Lerner, Josh & Tirole, Jean. The simple economics of open
source. 38p.
7601 Levine, Phillip B. The sexual activity and birth control
use of American teenagers. 68p.
7574 McGarry, Kathleen. Guaranteed income: SSI and the
well-being of the elderly poor. 37p.
7571 Mankiw, N. Gregory. The savers-spenders theory of fiscal
policy. 14p.
7584 Mocan, H. Naci, Billups, Stephen C. & Overland, Jody. A
dynamic model of differential human capital and criminal
activity. 46p.
7599 Neumark, David & Wascher, William. Using the EITC to help
poor families: new evidence and a comparison with the
minimum wage. 43p.
7546 Rajan, Raghuram G. & Zingales, Luigi. The firm as a
dedicated hierarchy: a theory of the origin and growth of
firms. 47p.
7573 Rosen, Sherwin & Sanderson, Allen. Labor markets in
professional sports. 35p.
7562 Ruhm, Christopher J. & Borkoski, Carey. Compensation in the
nonprofit sector. 43p.
7586 Sinn, Hans-Werner. Germany's economic unification: an
assessment after ten years. 25p.
7592 Sinn, Hans-Werner. Why a funded pension system is useful
and why it is not useful. 33p.
7576 Slemrod, Joel & Bakija, Jon. Does growing inequality reduce
tax progressivity?: should it? 35p.
7572 Spender, Barbara J. & Qui, Larry D. Keiretsu and
relationship-specific investment: a barrier to trade? 41p.
7598 Svensson, Lars E.O. The first year of the Eurosystem?:
inflation targeting or not? 11p.
7577 Taylor, Alan M. Potential pitfalls for the purchasing power
parity puzzle?: sampling and specification biases in
mean-reversion tests of the law of one price. 28p.
7543 Thomasson, Melissa A. The importance of group coverage: how
tax policy shaped U.S. health insurance. 42p.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Salomon Center (Stern School of Business).
2000-8 Acharya, Viral, et al. Costly financing, optional payout
policies and the valuation of corporate debt. 44p.
2000-12 Acharya, Viral V. & Bisin, Alberto. Optional financial
integration and security design. 27p.
2000-9 Altman, Edward I. & Saunders, Anthony. An analysis and
critique of the Bank of International Settlement's proposal
on capital adequacy and ratings. 33p.
2000-10 Altman, Edward. Defaults and returns on high yield bonds:
analysis through 1999 and default outlook for 2000-2002.
47p.
2000-11 Altman, Edward I. Market size, investment performance, and
expected new supply of defaulted bonds and bank loans,
1987-1999. 34p.
2000-1 Bakos, Yannis, et al. Electronic commerce in the retail
brokerage industry: trading costs of internet versus full
service firms. 30p.
2000-4 Bennett, Paul, Garbade, Kenneth & Kambhu, John. Enhancing
the liquidity of U.S. Treasury securities in an era of
surpluses. 67p.
2000-5 Katz, Barbara G. & Owen, Joel. The emergence of
concentrated ownership and the rebalancing of portfolios due
to shareholder activism in a financia. 37p.
2000-3 Maag, Felix & Zimmermann, Heinz. On benchmarks and the
performance of Deutschmark bond mutual funds. 36p.
2000-7 Peterson, Sandra, Stapleton, Richard C. & Subrahmanyam,
Marti G. The valuation of American-style swaptions in a
two-factor spot-futures model. 37p.
2000-6 Stapleton, Richard C. & Subrahmanyam, Marti G. The term
structure of interest rate futures prices. 49p.
2000-2 Urich, Thomas & Wachtel, Paul. Financial market response to
monetary policy changes in the 1990s. 29p.
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
3/2000 Jensen, Sissel. Price discrimination and three part tariffs
in a duopoly. 25p.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9919 Ogaki, Masao. A theory of exchange rates and the term
structure of interest rates. 25p.
9913 Peck, James & Shell, Karl. Bank portfolio restrictions and
equilibrium bank runs. 29p.
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. Department of Economics.
2000-3 Apinunmahakul, Amornat & Barham, Vicky. Should charities
maximise social welfare? 41p.
2000-2 Coulombe, Serge. New evidence of convergence across
Canadian provinces: the role of urbanization. 31p.
2000-4 Perron, Pierre & Rodriguez, Gabriel. Residual based tests
for cointegration with GLS detrended data. 31p.
2000-5 Perron, Pierre & Rodriguez, Gabriel. Searching for additive
outliers in nonstationary time series. 30p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Industrial Relations Section.
432 Guell, Maia. Employment protection and unemployment in an
efficiency wage model. 21p.
433 Guell, Maia. Fixed-term contracts and unemployment: an
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