New Acquisitions - April 2001


     ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS.  Dept. of Economics.    

     123    Andrikopolous, Andreas A. & Prodromidis, Kyprianos P.       
            Fiscal instruments, political business cycles and the EMU:  
            some stylized facts.  27p.                                  
     122    Andrikopoulos, Andreas A., Loizides, John C. & Prodromidis, 
            Kyprianos P.  Political business cycles and national tax    
            policies in the EU countries.  29p.                         
     124    Bitros, George C. & Tsionas, Efthymios G.  A consistent     
            approach to cost efficiency measurement.  19p.              

     BANCO DE ESPANA.  Servicio de Estudios.                            

     2001-2 Balakrishan, Ravi.  The interaction of firing costs and     
            on-the-job search: an application of a search theoretical   
            model to the Spanish labour market.  40p.                   
     2001-3 de Castro, Francisco, Gonzalez-Paramo, Jose M. & Hernandez  
            de Cos, Pablo.  Evaluating the dynamics of fiscal policy in 
            Spain: patterns of interdependence and consistency of public
            expenditure and revenues.  43p.                             
     200019 Hernandez de Cos, Pablo, Argimon, Isabel & Gonzalez-Paramo, 
            Jose M.  Does public ownership affect business performance?:
            empirical evidence with panel data from the Spanish         
            manufacturing sector.  54p.
     2001-1 Rendon, Silvio.  Job creation under liquidity constraints:  
            the Spanish case.  48p.                                     

     BANK OF JAPAN.  Institute for Monetary & Economic Studies.         

     2001-5 Amemiya, Takeshi.  Endogenous sampling in duration models.  
            22p.                                                        
     2001-2 Mann, Ronald J.  Card-based payment systems in the United   
            States and Japan.  56p.                                     
     2001-3 Technological innovation and banking industry/monetary    
            policy: forum on the development of electronic payment      
            technologies and its implications for monetary policy.  93p. 
     2001-4 Yamai, Yasuhiro & Yoshiba, Toshino.  On the validity of     
            value-at-risk: comparative analyses with expected shortfall.
             34p.                                                       

     BEN GURION UNIVERSITY.  Monaster Center for Economic Research.     

     200010 Ben-Zion, Uri, Hibshoosh, Aharon & Spiegel, Uriel.  Price   
            discrimination by coupons restriction.  7p.                 
     2001-1 Gavious, Arie, Moldovanu, Benny & Sela, Aner.  Bid costs and
            endogenous bid caps.  23p.                                  
     2000-9 Perez-Castrillo, David & Wettstein, David.  In whose        
            backyard?  A generalized bidding approach.  21p.            
     2001-2 Ruffle, Bradley J. & Kaplan, Todd R.  Here's something you  
            never asked for, didn't know existed, and can't easily      
            obtain: a search model of gift giving.  30p.                

     UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY.  Department of Economics.       

     295    Gandal, Neil.  The dynamics of competition in the Internet  
            search engine market.  19p.                                 
     294    Kirchsteiger, Georg, Rigotti, Luca & Rustichini, Aldo.  Your
            morals are your moods.  35p.                                

     UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.  Department of Applied Economics.         

     2000-22 Affuso, Luisa.  Intra-firm retail contracting: survey       
            evidence from the U.K.  24p.                                
     2000-24 Chadha, J.S., Janssen, N. & Nolan, C.  An examination of    
            U.K. business cycle fluctuations, 1871-1997.  29p.          
     2000-28 Coe, Patrick, Vahey, Shaun P. & Wakerly, Elizabeth C.  The  
            transparency and accountability of U.K. debt management: a  
            proposal.  18p.                                             
     2000-25 Immervoll, Herwig.  Fiscal drag: an automatic stabiliser?  
            24p.                                                        
     2000-27 Lewin-Solomons, Shira B.  The plural form in franchising: a 
            synergism of market and hierarchy.  29p.                    
     2000-26 Littlechild, Stephen C.  A review of U.K. electricity       
            regulation, 1999-2000.  21p.                                
     2000-29 Raiser, Martin, Di Tommaso, Maria L. & Weeks, Melvyn.  The  
            measurement and determination of institutional change:      
            evidence from transition economies.  24p.                   
     2000-23 Wright, Stephen.  Optimal monetary policy with sticky       
            nominal debt contracts.  35p.                               

     BANK OF CANADA.  Technical Reports.                                

     89     Hogan, Seamus, Johnson, Marianne & Lafleche, Therese.  Core 
            inflation.  0p.                                             

     UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III de MADRID.  Dept. de Economia.              

     2000-90 Pascual, Roberto, Escribano, Alvaro & Tapia, Mikel.  Adverse
            selection costs, trading activity and liquidity in the NYSE:
            an empirical analysis in a dynamic context.  37p.           
     2000-83 Pettit, L.I., Wiper, M.P. & Young, K.D.S.  Bayesian         
            inference for some Lanchester combat laws.  21p.            

     CENTRE D'ETUDES PROS. D'ECON MATH APPLIQUEES A LA PLANIFICATION.   

     2000-8 Boyer, Robert.  Deux defis pour le XXIe siecle: discipliner 
            la finance et organiser l'internationalisation.  32p.       
     2000-7 Boyer, Robert.  The French welfare: an institutional and    
            historial analysis in European perspective.  87p.           
     2000-6 Cahuc, Pierre & Zylberberg, Andre.  Redundancy payments,    
            incomplete labor contracts, unemployment and welfare.  20p. 

     UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN.  Institute of Economics.                 

     2000-20 Hendry, David F. & Juselius, Katarina.  Explaining          
            cointegration analysis, part II.  33p.                      

     COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS AT YALE UNIVERSITY.    

     1293   Andrews, Donald W.K. & Sun, Yixiao.  Local polynomial       
            Whittle estimation of long-range dependence.  34p.          
     1292   Bergemann, Dirk & Hege, Ulrich.  The financing of           
            innovation: learning and stopping.  41p.                    
     1295   Campbell, John Y. & Shiller, Robert J.  Valuation ratios and
            the long-run stock market outlook: an update.  31p.         
     1294   Dubra, Juan, Maccheroni, Fabio & Ok, Efe A.  Expected       
            utility theory without the completeness axiom.  12p.        
     1296   Dubra, Juan & Echenique, Federico.  Measurability is not    
            about information.  11p.                                    
     1297   Dubra, Juan & Echenique, Federico.  Monotone preferences    
            over information.  13p.                                     

     THE MAURICE FALK INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN ISRAEL.        

     2000-15 Paserman, M. Daniele & Della Vigna, Stefano.  Job search and
            hyperbolic discounting.  59p.                               

     FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA.  Research Department.             

     2001-2 Ginther, Donna K.  Does science discriminate against women?:
            evidence from academia, 1973-97.  64p.                      
     2001-1 Orrenius, Pia M. & Zavodny, Madeline.  Self-selection among 
            undocumented immigrants from Mexico.  36p.                  

     FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO.  Research Department.             

     2000-22 Ackert, Lucy F. & Hunter, William C.  An empirical          
            examination of the price-dividend realtion with dividend    
            management.  29p.                                           
     2000-21 Elliott, Robert J., Hunter, William C. & Jamieson, Barbara  
            M.  Financial signal processing: a self calibrating model.  
            26p.                                                        
     2000-20 MacDonald, James M. & Aaronson, Daniel.  How do retail      
            prices react to minimum wage increases?  40p.              

     FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS.  Research Department.              

     1/2001 Keonig, Evan F.  What goes down must come up: understanding 
            time-variation in the NAIRU.  59p.                          

     FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS.  Research Department.         

     284    Bergoeing, Raphael & Kehoe, Timothy J.  Trade theory and    
            trade facts.  42p.                                          
     287    Cole, Harold L. & Kocherlakota, Narayana R.  Finite memory  
            and imperfect monitoring.  20p.                             
     289    Cooper, Russell & Corbae, Dean.  Financial collapse and     
            active monetary policy: a lesson from the Great Depression. 
            44p.                                                        
     288    Kocherlakota, Narayana R.  Building blocks for barriers to  
            riches.  25p.                                               
     285    Ohanian, Lee E.  Why did productivity fall so much during   
            the Great Depression?  11p.                                
     286    Schmitz, James A.  What determines labor productivity?      
            Lessons from the dramatic recovery of the U.S. and Canadian 
            iron-ore industries.  59p.                                   

     FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA.  Economic Research Division. 

     2001-3 Mester, Loretta J., Nakamura, Leonard I. & Renault,         
            Micheline.  Checking accounts and bank monitoring.  36p.    

     FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.  Finance & Economics Discussion Series.     

     2001-13 Roberts, John M.  How well does the new Keynesian           
            sticky-price model fit the data?  42p.                     
     2001-12 von zur Muehlen, Peter.  The effect of past and future      
            economic fundamentals on spending and pricing behavior in   
            the FRB/US macroeconomic model.  20p.                        

     FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.  International Finance Papers.              

     697    Ericsson, Neil R.  Forecast uncertainty in economic         
            modeling.  23p.                                             
     695    Ericsson, Neil R.  Predictable uncertainty in economic      
            forecasting.  28p.                                          
     700    Ericsson, Neil R., Maasoumi, Esfandiar & Mizon, Grayham E.  
            A retrospective on J. Denis Sargan and his contributions to 
            econometrics.  25p.                                         
     694    Gramlich, Edward M. & Wood, Paul R.  Fiscal federalism and  
            European integration: implications for fiscal and monetary  
            policies.  24p.                                             
     696    Kim, Jinill, Kim, Sunghyun Henry & Levin, Andrew.  Patience,
            persistence and welfare costs of incomplete markets in open 
            economies.  28p.                                            
     698    Rogers, John H. & Smith, Hayden P.  Border effects within   
            the NAFTA countries.  36p.                                  
     699    Rogers, John H.  Price level convergences, relative prices, 
            and inflation in Europe.  36p.                              

     FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.  Bureau of Economics.                    

     237    Simpson, John.  Geographic markets in hospital mergers: a   
            case study.  25p.                                           

     HEBREW UNIV. Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory. 

     238    Abbink, Klaus, et al.  The fisherman's problem: exploring   
            the tension between cooperative and non coopreative concepts
            in a simple game.  21p.                                     
     236    Assaf, David, Goldstein, Larry & Samuel-Cahn, Ester.  Ratio 
            prophet inequalities when the mortal has several choices.   
            14p.                                                        
     235    Falk, Ruma & Samuel-Cahn, Ester.  Lewis Carroll's obtuse    
            problem.  10p.                                              
     234    Hart, Sergiu.  Values of perfectly competitive economies.   
            21p.                                                        
     239    Neeman, Zvika & Vulkan, Nir.  Markets versus negotiations:  
            the emergence of centralized markets.  25p.                 
     237    Venezia, Itzhak, Galai, Dan & Shapira, Zur.  Exclusive vs.  
            independent agents: a separating equilibrium approach.  23p.

     INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.     

     2000-48 Baranes, Edmond & Tropeano, Jean-Philippe.  Why are         
            technological spillovers spatially bounded?  A theoretical  
            approach.  27p.                                             
     2000-55 Bouchard, Bruno.  Exponential hedging and pricing under     
            proportional transaction costs.  26p.                       
     2000-54 Bouchard, Bruno.  A note on the utility based option pricing
            with proportional transaction costs under large risk        
            aversion.  16p.                                             
     2000-53 Bouchard, Bruno.  Stochastic targets with mixed diffusion   
            processes and viscosity solutions.  34p.                    
     2000-43 Casella, George, Lavine, Michael & Robert, Christian P.     
            Explaining the perfect sampler.  17p.                       
     2000-44 Casella, George, Robert, Christian P. & Wells, Martin T.    
            Rao-Blackwellization of generalized accept-reject schemes.  
            9p.                                                         
     2000-45 Chopin, Nicolas.  A sequential particle filter method for   
            static models.  25p.                                        
     2000-47 Francq, Christian & Zakoian, Jean-Michel.  Estimating       
            stochastic volatility models: a new approach based on ARMA  
            representations.  26p.                                      
     2000-57 Garcia, Rene, Luger, Richard & Renault, Eric.  Asymmetric   
            smiles, leverage effects and structural parameters.  50p.   
     2000-56 Garcia, Rene, Luger, Richard & Renault, Eric.  Empirical    
            assessment of an intertemporal option pricing model with    
            latest variables.  35p.                                     
     2000-46 Hristache, Marian, Juditsky, Anatoli & Spokoiny, Vladimir.  
            Direct estimation of the index coefficient in a             
            single-index.  29p.                                         
     2000-51 Lemel, Yannick & Rainwater, Lee.  The age and gender        
            components of social status in France: first results.  23p. 

     BANCA DE ITALIA.  Research Department.                             

     387    De Bonis, Riccardo & Ferrano, Annalisa.  The multimarket    
            contacts theory: an application to Italian banks.  37p.     
     389    Dedola, Luca & Lippi, Francesco.  The monetary transmission 
            mechanism: evidence from the industries of five OECD        
            countries.  46p.                                            
     391    Sbracia, Massimo & Zaghini, Andrea.  Expectations and       
            information in second generation currency crises models.    
            32p.                                                        

     LA TROBE UNIVERSITY.  Department of Economics.                     

     2000-9 D'Souza, Clare, Lim, Selena & Hewarathna, Ramya.  Gender    
            impact on women entrepreneurs: a cultural analysis.  16p.   
     2000-17 Magnani, Elisabetta & Prentice, David.  Did globalization   
            reduce unionization?  Evidence from U.S. manufacturing.     
            24p.                                                        

     UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE.  Dept. d'Econometrie d' Econ. Politique.   

     2000-26 Abul Naga, Ramses H. & Bolzani, Enrico.  Poverty and        
            permanent income: a methodology for cross-section data.     
            41p.                                                        
     2000-23 Brulhart, Marius & Trionfetti, Federico.  Public expenditure
            and international specialisation.  43p.                     
     2000-27 Butler, Monika.  The political feasibility of increasing    
            retirement age: lessons from a ballot on female retirement  
            age.  35p.                                                  
     2001-3 Lambelet, Jean-Christian.  A critical evaluation of the     
            Bergier report on "Switzerland and refugees during the Nazi 
            Era," with a new analysis of the issue.  76p.               
     2000-24 Neven, Damien J. & Roller, Lars-Hendrik.  Consumer surplus  
            vs. welfare standard in a political economy model of merger 
            control.  27p.                                              
     2000-25 Neven, Damien J. & Roller, Lars-Hendrik.  The scope of      
            conflict in international merger control.  14p.             
     2001-2 Perotti, Enrico C. & von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig.  Outside    
            finance, dominant investors and strategic transparency.     
            35p.                                                        

     LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.  ICERD-Devel. Econ. Discussion Series. 

     28     Besley, Timothy & Burgess, Robin.  The political economy of 
            government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India.  
            42p.                                                        

     LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.  Financial Markets Group.              

     367    Brown, Ward & Haegler, Urs.  Financing constraints and      
            inventories.  31p.                                          
     366    Haegler, Urs.  Recursive mechanisms and costly storage      
            audits to insure privately informed agents.  31p.           

     LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.  Int'l. Centre for Econ & Related Disc.

     409    Anderlini, Luca & Felli, Leonardo.  Transaction costs and   
            the robustness of the Coase theorem.  35p.                  
     413    Bai, Chong-En & Xu, Chenggang.  Ownership, incentives, and  
            monitoring.  34p.                                           
     412    Bolton, Patrick & Xu, Chenggang.  Ownership and managerial  
            competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership.  39p.

     UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON.  Department of Economics.               

     2000-12 Acemoglu, Daron, Aghion, Philippe & Violante, Giovanni L.   
            Deunionization, technical change and inequality.  46p.      
     2000-8 Acemoglu, Daron & Newman, Andrew F.  The labour market and  
            corporate structure.  32p.                                  
     2000-11 Aghion, Philippe, Howitt, Peter & Violante, Giovanni L.     
            General purpose technology and within-group wage inequality.
             42p.                                                       
     2000-14 Albano, Gian Luigi.  A class of all-pay auctions with       
            affiliated information.  9p.                                
     2000-15 Albano, Gian Luigi & Jouneau-Sion, Frederic.  A Bayesian    
            approach to the econometrics of English auctions.  15p.     
     2000-13 Albano, Gian Luigi, Germano, Fabrizio & Lovo, Stefano.  A   
            comparison of standard multi-unit auctions with synergies.  
            7p.                                                         
     2000-10 Albano, Gian Luigi & Lizzeri, Alessandro.  Strategic        
            certification and provision of quality.  24p.               
     2000-7 Altissimo, Filippo & Violante, Giovanni L.  The nonlinear   
            dynamics of output and unemployment in the U.S.  41p.       
     2000-5 Binmore, Ken, Swierzbinski, Joe & Proulx, Chris.  Does      
            minimax work?  An experimental study.  43p.                 
     2000-9 Garibaldi, Pietro & Violante, Giovanni L.  Severance        
            payments in search economies with limited bonding.  26p.    
     2000-16 Inderst, Roman.  Bargaining with a possible committed       
            seller.  38p.                                               
     2000-17 Inderst, Roman.  Decentralized markets with adverse         
            selection.  39p.                                            
     2000-18 Inderst, Roman & Laux, Christian.  Internal competitions for
            corporate financial resources.  35p.                        
     2000-20 Inderst, Roman & Muller, Holger M.  Project bundling,       
            liquidity spillovers and capital market discipline.  35p.   
     2000-4 Pemberton, Malcolm & Ulph, David.  Technical progress and   
            the measurement of national income.  25p.                   
     2000-6 Swanson, Timothy, et al.  Conflicts in conservation:        
            aggregating total economic values.  39p.                    
     2000-3 Ulph, David & Pemberton, Malcolm.  Measuring income and     
            measuring sustainability.  19p.                             
     2000-19 Violante, Giovanni L.  Technological acceleration, skill    
            transferability and the rise in residual inequality.  50p.  

     UNIVERSITE CATH. DE LOUVAIN.  Ctr. for Op. Research & Econometrics.

     2000-60 Bauwens, Luc, et al.  A comparison of financial duration    
            models via density forecasts.  41p.                         
     2000-33 d'Apsremont, Claude, Dos Santos Ferreira, Randolphe &       
            Gerard-Varet, Louis-Andre.  Endogenous business cycles and  
            business formation with a strategic investment.  21p.       
     2000-57 De Meyer, Bernard & Saley, Hadiza Moussa.  On the strategic 
            origin of Brownian motion in finance.  29p.                 
     2000-59 Demichelis, Stefano & Ritzberger, Klaus.  From evolutionary 
            to strategic stability.  33p.                               
     2000-50 Duran, Jorge & LeVan, Cuong.  A simple proof of existence of
            equilibrium in a one sector growth model with bounded or    
            unbounded returns from below.  19p.                          
     2000-55 Einy, Ezra, et al.  Information advantage and dominant      
            strategies in second-price auctions.  14p.                  
     2000-62 Gabszewicz, Jean J. & Wauthy, Xavier Y.  Another perverse   
            effect of monopoly power.  10p.                             
     2000-63 Gabszewicz, Jean J. & Grazzini, Lisa.  Strategic            
            multilateral exchange and taxes.  18p.                      
     2000-54 Grazzini, Lisa.  Ad valorem and per unit taxation in an     
            oligopoly model.  15p.                                      
     2000-56 Haimanko, Ori & Steinberg, Richard.  Price symmetry in a    
            duopoly with congestion.  11p.                              
     2000-58 Hindrika, Jean.  Public versus private insurance: a         
            political economy argument.  23p.                           
     2000-51 Louveaux, Quentin & Wolsey, Laurence A.  Combining problem  
            structure with basis reduction to solve a class of hard     
            integer programs.  18p.                                     
     2000-61 Michel, Philippe & Wigniolle, Bertrand.  Temporary bubbles  
            in an economy with under-accumulation.  33p.                
     2000-52 Miller, Andrew J., Nemhauser, George L. & Savelsbergh,      
            Martin W.P.  On the polyhedral structure of a multi-item    
            production planning model with setup times.  30p.           

     MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY.  Department of Economics.                    

     2/2001 Turnell, Sean.  Full employment and free trade: an          
            historical episode of Australian intellectual leadership.   
            23p.                                                        

     UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.  Department of Economics.                 

     783    Chang, Hsiao-chuan.  International trade, productivity      
            growth, education and wage differentials: a case study of   
            Taiwan.  19p.                                               
     782    Creedy, John & van de Ven, Justin.  Taxation, reranking and 
            equivalence scales.  32p.                                   
     778    Hirschberg, Joseph G., Maasoumi, Esfandiar & Slottje, Daniel
            J.  Clusters of attributes and well-being in the U.S.  26p. 
     779    van de Ven, Justin.  Stimulating cohort demographic         
            characteristics for Australia.  42p.                        
     780    van de Ven, Justin.  Stimulating cohort earnings for        
            Australia.  27p.                                            
     781    van de Ven, Justin, Creedy, John & Lambert, Peter J.  Close 
            equals and calculation of the vertical, horizontal and      
            reranking effects of taxation.  15p.                        

     UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.  Center for Economic Research.            

     311    Nyman, John.  The theory of the demand for health insurance.
             36p.                                                       

     UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL.  Departement de Sciences Economiques.      

     2000-17 Atallah, Gamal.  Information sharing and the stability of   
            cooperation in research joint ventures.  29p.               
     2000-16 Atallah, Gamal.  Vertical R&D spillovers, cooperation,      
            market structure, and innovation.  39p.                     
     2001-2 Barbera, Salvador, Bossert, Walter & Pattanaik, Prasanta K. 
            Ranking sets of objects.  57p.                              
     2001-5 Blum, Ulrich & Dudley, Leonard.  Religion and economic      
            growth: was Weber right?  40p.                             
     2000-15 Bossert, Walter, Brams, Steven J. & Kilgour, D. Marc.       
            Cooperative vs. non-cooperative truels: little agreement,   
            but does that matter?  19p.                                
     2001-1 Bossert, Walter & Sprumont, Yves.  Non-deteriorating choice.
             18p.                                                       
     2000-13 Poitevin, Michel.  Can the theory of incentives explain     
            decentralization?  (Innis Lecture 2000).  41p.              
     2001-4 Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J.  Inflation targeting under        
            asymmetric preferences.  48p.                               
     2001-3 Sprumont, Yves.  What is a commodity?  Two axiomatic        
            answers.  7p.                                               

     UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH.  Center for Economic Studies.                

     384    Agell, Jonas.  On the determinants of labour market         
            institutions: rent-sharing vs. social insurance.  40p.      
     383    Agell, Jonas & Persson, Mats.  On the analytics of the      
            dynamic Laffer curve.  26p.                                 
     358    Asche, Frank, Osmundsen, Petter & Tveteras, Ragnar.         
            European market integration for gas?  Volume flexibility and
            political risk.  24p.                                       
     392    Asheim, Geir B. & Buchholz, Wolfgang.  The malleability of  
            undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of               
            intergenerational justice.  22p.                            
     373    Baye, Michael R., Kovenock, Dan & de Vries, Casper G.       
            Comparative analysis of litigation systems: an              
            auction-theoretic approach.  38p.                           
     372    Bentolila, Samuel & Ichino, Andrea.  Unemployment and       
            consumption: are job losses less painful near the           
            Mediterranean?  39p.                                       
     374    Binder, Michael, Hsiao, Cheng & Pesaran, M. Hashem.         
            Estimation and inference in short panel vector              
            autoregressions with unit roots and cointegration.  63p.    
     390    Bjorvatn, Kjetil & Schjelderup, Guttorm.  Tax competition   
            and international public goods.  17p.                       
     375    Bortolotti, Bernardo, Siniscalco, Domenico & Fantini,       
            Marcella.  Privatisation and institutions: a cross-country  
            analysis.  39p.                                             
     357    Bos, Dieter & Kolmar, Martin.  Anarchy, efficiency, and     
            redistribution.  32p.                                       
     340    Bottazzi, Laura & Peri, Giovanni.  Innovation and           
            spillovers: evidence from European regions.  51p.           
     367    Bradford, David F., Schlieckert, Rebecca & Shore, Stephen H.
             The environmental Kuznets curve: explaining a fresh        
            specification.  37p.                                        
     395    Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry & Schramm, Marc.  The     
            empirical relevance of the new economic geography: testing  
            for a spatial wage structure in Germany.  23p.              
     393    Burda, Michael C. & Dluhosch, Barbara.  Cost competition,   
            fragmentation and globalization.  26p.                      
     365    Carling, Kenneth, Holmlund, Bertil & Vejsiu, Altin.  Do     
            benefit cuts boost job findings?  Swedish evidence from the 
            1990s.  31p.                                                
     394    Cigno, Alessandro, Casolaro, Luca & Rosati, Furio C.  The   
            role of social security in household decisions: VAR         
            estimates of saving and fertility behaviour in Germany.     
            15p.                                                        
     342    Cnossen, Sijbren & Bovenberg, Lans.  Fundamental tax reform 
            in the Netherlands.  19p.                                   
     364    Corneo, Giacomo.  The efficient side of progressive income  
            taxation.  17p.                                             
     398    Corneo, Giacomo.  Inequality and the state: comparing U.S.  
            and German preferences.  18p.                               
     400    Dixit, Avinash & Jensen, Henrik.  Equilibrium contracts for 
            the central bank of a monetary union.  16p.                 
     354    Dutta, Sunil & Reichelstein, Stefan.  Controlling investment
            decisions: hurdle rates and intertemporal cost allocation.  
            32p.                                                        
     361    Economides, George & Philippopoulos, Apostolis.  Pollution  
            and resource extraction: do they matter for the dynamics of 
            growth?  30p.                                              
     402    Eggert, Wolfgang & Kolmar, Martin.  Residence-based capital 
            taxation: why information is voluntarily exchanged and why  
            it is not.  26p.                                            
     369    Egli, Dominik & Westermann, Frank.  Optimal tariffs and     
            subsidies and changes in market structure.  11p.            
     355    Eicher, Theo & Garcia-Penalosa, Cecilia.  Inequality and    
            growth: the dual role of human capital in development.  34p.
     366    Fenge, Robert & von Weizsacker, Jakob.  How much fiscal     
            equalisation?  15p.                                        
     338    Fleming, Wendell H. & Stein, Jerome L.  Stochastic          
            intertemporal optimization in discrete time.  22p.          
     397    Funke, Michael & Rahn, Jorg.  How efficient is the East     
            German economy?  An exploration with micro data.  19p.      
     406    Gersbach, Hans.  Competition of politicians for incentive   
            contracts and elections.  20p.                              
     380    Glazer, Amihal & Kanniainen, Vesa.  Term length and the     
            quality of appointments.  14p.                              
     399    Hansen, Claus T. & Kleven, Henrik J.  The role of taxes as  
            automatic destabilizers in new Keynesian economics.  12p.   
     363    Hartog, Joop, Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada & Jonker, Nicole.  On 
            a simple survey measure of individual risk aversion.  29p.  
     360    Hatzipanayotou, Panos, Lahiri, Sajal & Michael, Michael S.  
            Can cross-border pollution reduce pollution?  19p.         
     376    Haufler, Andreas, Schjelderup, Guttorm & Stahler, Frank.    
            Commodity taxation and international trade in imperfect     
            markets.  31p.                                              
     396    Heer, Burkhard & Schabert, Andreas.  Open market operations 
            as a monetary policy shock measure in a quantitative        
            business cycle model.  32p.                                 
     341    Heijdra, Ben J & Keuschnigg, Christian.  Integration and    
            search unemployment: an analysis of Eastern EU enlargement. 
            38p.                                                        
     356    Ilmakunnas, Pekka & Kanniainen, Vesa.  Entrepreneurship,    
            economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state:    
            results with OECD data, 1978-93.  31p.                      
     379    Kanniainen, Vesa & Leppamaki, Mikko.  Entrepreneurship in a 
            unionised economy.  27p.                                    
     359    Kanniainen, Vesa & Vesala, Timo.  Enterprise formation and  
            labor market institutions.  19p.                            
     381    Kanniainen, Vesa & Keuschnigg, Christian.  The optimal      
            portfolio of start-up firms in venture capital finance.     
            10p.                                                        
     371    Keen, Michael & Wildasin, David E.  Pareto efficiency in    
            international taxation.  20p.                               
     343    Kleiber, Christian & Kramer, Walter.  Efficiency, equity,   
            and generalized Lorenz dominance.  13p.                     
     382    Leininger, Wolfgang.  Auction theory from an all-pay view:  
            buying binary lotteries.  23p.                              
     401    Lengwiler, Yvan & Wolfstetter, Elmar.  Auctions and         
            corruption.  24p.                                           
     387    Malley, Jim & Moutos, Thomas.  Vertical product             
            differentiation and the import demand function: theory and  
            evidence.  35p.                                             
     339    Marin, Dalia & Schnitzer, Monika.  Disorganization and      
            financial collapse.  33p.                                   
     389    Meier, Volker.  Choosing between school systems.  10p.      
     385    Moutos, Thomas.  Neutral technological change and the skill 
            premium.  10p.                                              
     386    Moutos, Thomas & Scarth, William.  Work-sharing: an         
            efficiency-wage analysis.  30p.                             
     368    Ortuno-Ortin, Ignacio & Schultz, Christian.  Public funding 
            of political parties.  32p.                                 
     362    Paelinck, Jean H.P.  Controlling complexity in spatial      
            modeling.  16p.                                             
     377    Sinn, Hans-Werner & Reutter, Michael.  The minimum inflation
            rate for Euroland.  17p.                                    
     378    Sinn, Hans-Werner & Westermann, Frank.  Two Mezzogiornos.   
            35p.                                                        
     391    Wrede, Matthias.  Income splitting: is it good for both     
            partners in the marriage?  16p.                            
     388    Wigger, Berthold U.  On the intergenerational incidence of  
            wage and consumption taxes.  26p.                           
     370    Wildasin, David E.  Fiscal competition in space and time.   
            27p.                                                        

     NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH.  Working Papers.             

     8132   Abel, Andrew B.  An exploration of the effects of pessimism 
            and doubt on asset returns.  28p.                           
     8131   Abel, Andrew B.  Will bequests attenuate the predicted      
            meltdown in stock prices when baby boomers retire?  16p.   
     8169   Abrego, Lisandro, Riezman, Raymond & Whalley, John.  How    
            reasonable are assumptions used in theoretical models?      
            Computational evidence on the likelihood of trade pattern   
            changes. 14p.                                               
     8162   Alizadeh, Sassan, Brandt, Michael W. & Diebold, Francis X.  
            High- and low-frequency exchange rate volatility dynamics:  
            range-based estimation of stochastic volatility models.     
            63p.                                                        
     8160   Andersen, Torben G., et al.  Modeling and forecasting       
            realized volatility.  45p.                                  
     8139   Albanesi, Stefania, Chari, V.V & Christiano, Lawrence J.    
            How severe is the time inconsistency problem in monetary    
            policy?  37p.                                              
     8127   Alt-Sahalia, Yacine & Brandt, Michael W.  Variable selection
            for portfolio choice.  68p.                                 
     8144   Altshuler, Rosanne & Grubert, Harry.  Repatriation taxes,   
            repatriation strategies and multinational financial policy. 
            45p.                                                        
     8138   Auerbach, Alan J. & Hines, James R.  Perfect taxation with  
            imperfect competition.  36p.                                
     8181   Auerbach, Alan J. & Hines, James R.  Taxation and economic  
            efficiency.  114p.                                          
     8149   Beaudry, Paul & Green, David A.  Population growth,         
            technological adoption and economic outcomes: a theory of   
            cross-country differences for the information era.  70p.    
     8148   Bebchuk, Lucian A. & Ferrell, Allen.  A new approach to     
            takeover law and regulatory competition.  60p.              
     8134   Bradley, Cathy J., Bednarek, Heather & Neumark, David.      
            Breast cancer survival, work, and earnings.  45p.           
     8173   Brown, Stephen J. & Goetzmann, William N.  Hedge funds with 
            style.  33p.                                                
     8141   Caballero, Ricardo J. & Krishnamurthy, Arvind.              
            International liquidity illusion: on the risks of           
            sterilization.  34p.                                        
     8130   Caselli, Francesco & Coleman, Wilbur J.  Cross-country      
            technology diffusion: the case of computers.  24p.          
     8151   Chen, Joseph, Hong, Harrison & Stein, Jeremy C.  Breadth of 
            ownership and stock returns.  47p.                          
     8182   Cooper, Russell & Ejarque, Joao.  Exhuming Q: market power  
            vs. capital market imperfections.  21p.                     
     8167   Dai, Qiang & Singleton, Kenneth J.  Expectation puzzles,    
            time-varying risk premia, and dynamic models of the term    
            structure.  32p.                                            
     8140   Devroye, Dan & Freeman, Richard.  Does inequality in skills 
            explain inequality of earnings across advanced countries?  
            33p.                                                        
     8128   Dominguez, Kathryn M.E. & Tesar, Linda L.  A re-examination 
            of exchange rate exposure.  9p.                             
     8129   Dominguez, Kathryn M.E. & Tesar, Linda L.  Trade and        
            exposure.  9p.                                              
     8146   Engel, Eduardo M.R.A., Fischer, Ronald D. & Galetovic,      
            Alexander.  How to auction an essential facility when       
            underhand integration is possible.  27p.                    
     8176   Feenstra, Robert C. & Shapiro, Matthew D.  High-frequency   
            substitution and the measurement of price indexes.  34p.    
     8155   Freeman, Richard B.  The rising tide lifts..?  38p.        
     8143   Genesove, David & Mayer, Christopher.  Loss aversion and    
            seller behavior: evidence from the housing market?  40p.   
     8145   Genesove, David & Mullin, Wallace P.  Rules, communication  
            and collusion: narrative evidence from the Sugar Institute  
            case.  61p.                                                 
     8184   Glaeser, Edward L. & Shleifer, Andrei.  A case for quantity 
            regulation.  11p.                                           
     8170   Gokhale, Jagadeesh, Kotlikoff, Laurence J. & Warshawsky,    
            Mark J.  Life-cycle saving, limits on contributions to DC   
            pension plans, and lifetime tax benefits.  43p.             
     8137   Goldberg, Linda & Tracy, Joseph.  Exchange rates and wages. 
            30p.                                                        
     8189   Gordon, Roger H. & Wilson, John D.  Expenditure competition.
             20p.                                                       
     8153   Grogger, Jeffrey.  The effects of time limits and other     
            policy changes on welfare use, work, and income among       
            female-headed families.  47p.                               
     8165   Gyourko, Joseph & Sinai, Todd.  The spatial distrbution of  
            housing-related tax benefits in the United States.  67p.    
     8188   Hadass, Yael S. & Williamson, Jeffrey G.  Terms of trade    
            shocks and economic performance, 1870-1940: Prebisch and    
            Singer revisited.  57p.                                     
     8161   Hermalin, Benjamin E. & Weisbach, Michael S.  Boards of     
            directors as an endogenously determined institution: a      
            survey of the economic literature.  39p.                    
     8136   Ireland, Peter N.  The real balance effect.  47p.           
     8172   Jagannathan, Ravi, McGrattan, Ellen R. & Scherbina, Anna.   
            The declining U.S. equity premium.  42p.                    
     8157   Joskow, Paul & Kahn, Edward.  A quantitative analysis of    
            pricing behaviour in California's wholesale electricity     
            market during summer 2000.  37p.                            
     8166   Jovanovic, Boyan & Rousseau, Peter L.  Vintage organization 
            capital.  31p.                                              
     8135   Judd, Kenneth L. & Guu, Sy-Ming.  Asymptotic methods for    
            asset market equilibrium analysis.  46p.                    
     8156   Kane, Thomas J. & Staiger, Douglas O.  Improving school     
            accountability measures.  56p.                              
     8142   Kaplan, Ethan & Rodrik, Dani.  Did the Malaysian capital    
            controls work?  47p.                                       
     8183   Katkar, Rama & Lucking-Reiley, David.  Public versus secret 
            reserve prices in eBay auctions: results from a Pokemon     
            field experiment.  31p.                                     
     8150   Keller, Wolfgang.  The geography and channels of diffusion  
            it the world's technology frontier.  51p.                   
     8158   Kopczuk, Wojciech & Slemrod, Joel.  Dying to save taxes:    
            evidence from estate tax returns on the death elasticity.   
            30p.                                                        
     8179   Lafontaine, Francine & Oxley, Joanne.  International        
            franchising: evidence from U.S. and Canadian franchisors in 
            Mexico.  43p.                                               
     8147   Lichtenberg, Frank R.  The benefits and costs of newer      
            drugs: evidence from the 1996 Medical Expenditures Panel    
            Survey.  25p.                                               
     8174   McCallum, Bennett T.  Monetary policy analysis in models    
            without money.  39p.                                        
     8175   McCallum, Bennett T. & Nelson, Edward.  Monetary policy for 
            an open economy: an alternative framework with optimizing   
            agents and sticky prices.  35p.                             
     8159   Mulligan, Casey B.  Aggregate implications of indivisible
	    labor.  44p.
     8152   Neumark, David.  Age discrimination legislation in the United
	    States.  44p.
     8168   Newhouse, Joseph P.  Medical care price indices: problems and
	    opportunities (the Chung-Hua Lectures).  53p.
     8154   Persson, Torsten, Tabellini, Guido & Trebbi, Francesco.  
	    Electoral rules and corruption.  41p.
     8177   Rajan, Raghuram G. & Zingales, Luigi.  The influence of the
            financial revolution on the nature of firms.  12p.
     8185   Ramler, Dahlia K., Rachlin, Jason E. & Glied, Sherry A.  What
	    can take-up of other programs teach ua about how to improve
	    take-up of health insurance programs?  23p.
     8171   Razin, Assaf & Sadka, Efraim.  Country risk and capital flow
            reversals.  8p.
     8164   Reese, William A. & Weisbach, Michael S.  Protection of
            minority shareholder interests, cross-listing in the United
	    States, and subsequent equity offerings.  42p.
     8133   Silverman, Elaine & Skinner, Jonathan.  Are for-profit      
            hospitals really different?: Medicare upcoding and market   
            structure.  35p.                                            
     8180   Stock, James H. & Watson, Mark W.  Forecasting output and   
            inflation: the role of asset prices.  72p.                  
     8187   Wei, Shang-Jin & Wu, Yi.  Negative alchemy?: corruption,    
            composition of capital flows, and currency crises.  51p.    

     UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.  School of Economics.               

     2001-1 Alaouze, Chris M.  The effect of the non-market component of
            standing value on the optimal forest rotation.  35p.        

     NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.  Salomon Center (Stern School of Business).   

     2001-10 Altman, Edward I & Karlin, Brenda.  Default and returns on  
            high yield bonds: analysis through 2000 and default outlook.
             56p.                                                       
     2001-9 Altman, Edward I. & Cyrus, Keith.  Market size and          
            investment performance of defaulted bonds and bank loans,   
            1987- 2000.  37p.                                           
     2001-11 Apreda, Rodolfo.  Corporate governance in Argentina: new    
            developments through 1991-2000.  16p.                       
     2001-13 Brenner, Menachem, Ou, Ernest Y. & Zhang, Jin E.  Hedging   
            volatility risk.  31p.                                      
     2000-11 Dahiya, Sandeep & Saunders, Anthony.  Financial distress and
            bank lending relationships.  30p.                           
     2001-8 Fich, Eliezer M. & White, Lawrence J.  Why do CEOs          
            reciprocally sit on each other's boards?  37p.             
     2001-7 White, Lawrence J.  The credit rating industry: an          
            industrial organization analysis.  36p.                     

     NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.           

     21/2000 Hakonsen, Lars & Schroyen, Fred.  The relation between two  
            measures of efficiency loss (MEB & MCF) under optimal       
            provision of public goods.  27p.                            
     1/2001 Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard.  Explicit and implicit incentives 
            in fund management.  30p.                                   
     20/2000 Marchand, Maurice & Schroyen, Fred.  Markets for public and 
            private health care: redistribution arguments for a mixed   
            system.  23p.                                               

     UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA.  Department of Economics.                    

     2001-1 Day, Kathleen & Grafton, R. Quentin.  Economic growth and   
            the environment: a Canadian perspective.  54p.              

     UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.  Center for Analytic Research in Econ. 

     2001-13 Gomes, Armando.  Multilateral negotiations and formation of 
            coalitions.  53p.                                           
     2001-12 Gomes, Armando.  Takeovers, freezeouts, and risk arbitrage. 
            46p.                                                        
     2001-10 Mailath, George J., Matthews, Steven A. & Sekiguchi,        
            Tadashi.  Private strategies in finitely repeated games with
            imperfect public monitoring.  19p.                          
     2001-14 Pessoa, Samuel de Abreu.  Welfare characterization of       
            monetary-applied models and three implications.  39p.       
     2001-11 Rob, Rafael & Sekiguchi, Tadashi.  Product quality,         
            reputation and turnover.  20p.                              

     PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.  Industrial Relations Section.               

     451    Krueger, Alan B. & Whitmore, Diane M.  Would smaller classes
            help close the black-white achievement gap?  47p.          

     PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.  International Economics Section-Essays.     

     221    Cohen, Benjamin J.  Life at the top: international          
            currencies in the twenty-first century.  36p.               
     220    Fischer, Stanley.  On the need for an international lender  
            of last resort.  32p.                                       

     PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.  International Economics Section-Studies.    

     88     Rajan, Ramkishen S.  (Ir)relevance of currency-crisis theory
            to the devaluation and collapse of the Thai Baht.  80p.     

     UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM.  Department of Economics.                 

     2001-1 Hackner, Jonas.  Vertical integration and competition       
            policy.  18p.                                               
     2001-2 Lindquist, Matthew J.  Capital-skill complementarity and    
            inequality in Swedish industry.  53p.                       

     UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. Ctr. for Int'l. Research on the Japanese Econ.

     101    Fukuda, Shin-ichi & Onoders, Takashi.  A new composite index
            of coincident economic indicators in Japan: how can we      
            improve the forecast performance?  33p.                    
     106    Ihara, Motoi & Kudo, Akira.  Technology transfer and        
            adaptation to local conditions: multinationalization of the 
            Japanese chemical industry and the case of Kao.  38p.       
     100    Iwai, Katsuhito.  What is a corporation?  The corporate     
            personality controversy and comparative corporate           
            governance.  28p.                                           
     98     Matsushima, Hitoshi.  Small verifiability in long-term      
            relationships.  38p.                                        
     103    Miwa, Yoshiro & Ramseyer, J. Mark.  Apparel distribution:   
            inter-firm contracting and intra-firm organization.  27p.   
     105    Miwa, Yoshiro & Ramseyer, J. Mark.  Does ownership matter?  
            Evidence from the Zaibatsu dissolution program.  18p.       
     102    Miwa, Yoshiro & Ramseyer, J. Mark.  Japanese distribution:  
            background, issues, examples.  25p.                         
     104    Miwa, Yoshiro & Ramseyer, J. Mark.  Property rights and     
            indigenous tradition among early 20th century Japanese      
            firms.  12p.                                                
     96     Morita, Masataka & Nishimura, Kiyohiko G.  Information      
            technology and automobile distribution: a comparative study 
            of Japan and the United States.  39p.                       
     97     Nishimura, Kiyohiko G. & Shirai, Masato.  Fixed costs,      
            imperfect competition and bias in technology measurement:   
            Japan and the United States.  36p.                          
     99     Tabuchi, Takatoshi & Thisse, Jacques-F.  Labor mobility and 
            economic geography.  28p.                                   
     107    Takeishi, Akira & Fujimoto, Takahiro.  Modularization in the
            auto industry: interlinked multiple hierarchies of product, 
            production, and supplier systems.  23p.                     

     UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO.  Department of Economics.           

     2000-18 Berger, Mark C., Black, Dan & Smith, Jeffrey.  Evaluating   
            profiling as a means of allocating government services.     
            40p.                                                        
     2000-15 Chade, Hector & Ventura, Gustavo.  Taxes and marriage: a    
            two-sided search analysis.  45p.                            
     2000-17 Davies, James B., Zhang, Jie & Zeng, Jinli.  Optimal tax mix
            in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics.    
            46p.                                                        
     2000-16 Fried, Joel.  High closing.  19p.                           

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