New Acquistions - January-February 1998
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE. Dept. de Fundamentos de Analisis Econ.
9724 Alos-Ferrer, Carlos, Ania, Ana B. & Vega-Redondo, Fernando.
From Walrasian oligopolies to natural monopoly: an
evolutionary model of market structure. 27p.
9727 Bevia, Carmen, Quinzii, Martine & Silva, Jose A. Buying
several indivisible goods. 40p.
9725 Echevarria, Cristina & Merlo, Antonio. Gender differences
in education in a dynamic household bargaining model. 35p.
9726 Urbano, Amparo & Vila, Jose E. Pre-play communication and
coordination in two-player games. 44p.
9723 Vega-Redondo, Fernando. Unfolding social hierarchies in
large population games. 40p.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. Faculty of Economics.
332 Donoghue, Mark & Wright, Mark L.J. William T. Thornton on
the economics of trade unions: an early contribution to
efficient bargaining theory. 27p.
333 Heaney, Richard & Hooper, Vince. An examination of the
variation in equity market returns and volatility in the
Asia Pacific region. 29p.
334 Pointon, John & Hooper, Vince. The impact of obsolescence
risk on the after-tax value of a project. 20p.
335 Rogers, Mark & Dowrick, Steve. Convergence and technology
in the Solow-Swan growth model: an empirical analysis. 34p.
BANCO DE ESPANA. Servicio de Estudios.
9725 Alberola, Enrique, Marques, Jose Manuel & Sanchia, Alicia.
Unemployment persistence, central bank independence and
inflation performance in the OECD countries. 35p.
9726 Alonso, Francisco, Ayuso, Juan & Pages, Jorge Martinez. How
informative are financial asset prices in Spain?. 53p.
9727 Andres, Javier, Mestre, Ricardo & Valles, Javier. Monetary
policy and exchange rate dynamics in the Spanish economy.
36p.
9728 Dolado, Juan J., Gonzalez-Paramo, Jose M. & Vinals, Jose. A
cost-benefit analysis of going from low inflation to price
stability in Spain. 61p.
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA. Dept. de Economia et de Emet.
400 Bolton, Gary E., Brandts, Jordi & Ockenfels, Axel.
Measuring motivations for the reciprocal responses observed
in a simple dilemma game. 19p.
401 de la Fuente, Angel. Fiscal policy and growth in the OECD.
124p.
397 Fehr, Hans & Polo, Clemente. Viable integrated value-added
tax (VIVAT): a definitive VAT system for Europe?. 20p.
387 Garcia-Cestona, Miguel A. & Tribo, Josep. A main bank
approach to optimal financial contracting. 37p.
392 Kovalenkov, Alexander & Wooders, Myrna Holtz. Epsilon cores
of games and economies with limited side payments. 29p.
393 Kovalenkov, Alexander & Wooders, Myrna Holtz. An explicit
bound on epsilon for non-emptiness of the epsilon core of an
arbitrary game with side payments. 17p.
394 Kovalenkov, Alexander & Wooders, Myrna Holtz. An explicit
bound on epsilon for non-emptiness of the epsilon-core of an
arbitrary game without side payments. 28p.
390 Kovalenkov, Alexander & Wooders, Myrna Holtz. Three
theorems on non-emptiness of approximate cores, part I: game
theoretic results. 32p.
391 Kovalenkov, Alexander & Wooders, Myrna Holtz. Three
theorems on non-emptiness of approximate cores, part 2:
economies with clubs. 13p.
380 Marmol, Francesc & Reboredo, Juan C. Detecting unbalanced
regressions using the Durbin-Watson test. 39p.
379 Marmol, Francesc & Reboredo, Juan C. On the finite sample
behavior of the Durbin-Watson test in the presence of
nonsense regressions. 21p.
399 Martinez-Giralt, Xavier & Usategui, Jose M. Iceberg
transport costs, I: monopoly. 18p.
395 Miravete, Eugenio J. Time-consistent protection with
learning by doing. 24p.
389 Petith, Howard. Meek, Dickinson and Marx's falling rate of
profit. 15p.
384 Reboredo, Juan Carlos. Efficiency, solvency, and the size
of banking firms. 36p.
381 Reboredo, Juan C. Managerial reputation and bad
acquisitions: a note. 10p.
383 Reboredo, Juan Carlos. A Markov model for risk evaluation
in banking. 41p.
398 Rocher, Francesc & Vila, Xavier. A note on agent based
imperfect competition. 16p.
386 Tribo, Josep. Long-term and short-term labor contracts
versus long-term and short-term financial contracts. 33p.
388 Tribo, Josep. Market structure, financial structure and
inventories. 34p.
UNIV. DE BARCELONA. Div. de Ciencies Juridiques, Econ i Socials.
18 Bailen, Jose M. & Gil, Joan. Transitional effects of a
pension system change in Spain. 49p.
17 Conesa, Juan Carlos, Diaz Moreno, Carlos & Galdon-Sanchez,
Jose Enrique. Underground economy and aggregate
fluctuations. 25p.
21 Borrell, Joan-Ramon. Price of medicines: a case study on
the impact of the rate-of-return regulation in the United
Kingdom. 30p.
19 Moreno, Rosina, et al. Evidence on the complex link between
infrastructure and regional growth. 42p.
BROWN UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9721 Andrews, Donald W.K. & Buchinksy, Moshe. On the number of
bootstrap repetitions for bootstrap standard errors,
confidence intervals, and tests. 51p.
9729 Arreaza, Adriana, Sorensen, Bent E. & Yosha, Oved.
Consumption smoothing through fiscal policy in OECD and EC
countries. 34p.
97-4 Ben-Ner, Avner & Putterman, Louis. Values and institutions
in economic analysis: an introduction. 61p.
98-1 Black, Duncan & Henderson, Vernon. Urban growth. 44p.
9723 Buchinsky, Moshe & Yosha, Oved. Endogenous probability of
failure for a financial intermediary: a dynamic model. 53p.
97-7 Cho, In-Koo. Learning to coordinate in repeated games.
37p.
97-2 Dagan, Nir & Serrano, Roberto. Invariance and randomness in
the Nash program for coalitional games. 10p.
97-8 Feldman, Allan M. Kaldor-Hicks compensation. 17p.
9726 Grossman, Herschel I. "Make us a king:" anarchy, predation,
and the state. 21p.
97-5 Grossman, Herschel I. Wherefore a prudent fiscal policy?.
13p.
9730 Grossman, Herschel I & Kim, Minseong. Human capital and
predation: a positive theory of educational policy. 25p.
97-3 Grossman, Herschel I. & Kim, Minseong. Predation and moral
decay. 33p.
9727 Grossman, Herschel I. & Kim, Minseong. Predation,
efficiency, and inequality. 17p.
97-6 Grossman, Herschel I & Han, Taejoon. Sovereign debt and
consumption smoothing. 10p.
9716 Kambhampati, Uma, Krishna, Pravin & Mitra, Devashish. The
effect of trade policy reforms on labor markets: evidence
from India. 21p.
9719 Krishna, Pravin. Are regional trading blocs "natural"?.
26p.
9717 Krishna, Pravin & Panagariya, Arvind. A unification of the
theory of second best. 34p.
9732 Lancaster, Tony. Orthogonal parameters and panel data.
39p.
9715 Lee, Darin & Volij, Oscar. The core of economies with
asymmetric information: an axiomatic approach. 28p.
9731 McKelvey, Richard D. & Page, Talbot. An experimental study
of the effect of private information in the Coase Theorem.
25p.
9720 Malliaris, A.G. & Stein, Jerome L. Methodological issues in
asset pricing: random walk or chaotic dynamics?. 30p.
98-1 Ostergaard, Charlotte, Sorensen, Bent E. & Yosha, Oved.
Permanent income, consumption, and aggregate constraints:
evidence from U.S. states. 48p.
9725 Panagariya, Arvind & Krishna, Pravin. On the existence of
necessarily welfare-enhancing free trade areas. 17p.
97-9 Serrano, Roberto & Volij, Oscar. Abstract equilibria,
interactive choice sets and Walrasian allocations. 26p.
9718 Serrano, Roberto & Shimorura, Ken-Ichi. Beyond Nash
bargaining theory: the Nash set. 23p.
9714 Sorensen, Bent & Yosha, Oved. Federal insurance of U.S.
states: an empirical investigation. 18p.
9728 Stein, Jerome L. European union: convergence, balanced
growth and the steady state. 27p.
9724 Volij, Oscar. Communication, credible improvements and the
core of an economy with asymmetric information. 20p.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Department of Economics.
258 Mortimer, Rika Onishi. Demand for prescription drugs: the
effects of managed care pharmacy benefits. 57p.
259 Segal, Ilya. Contracting with externalities. 77p.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Ctr. for Int'l. & Devel. Econ. Res.
95 Jeanne, Olivier & Masson, Paul. Was the French Franc crisis
a sunspot equilibrium?. 37p.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN DIEGO. Department of Economics.
9722 Betts, Julian R. Do grading standards affect the incentive
to learn?. 44p.
9732 Betts, Julian R. The two-legged stool: the neglected role
of educational standards in improving America's public
schools. 36p.
9730 Burns, Patrick, Engle, Robert & Mezrich, Joseph.
Correlations and volatilities of asynchronous data. 17p.
9736 Cox, James C., Shachat, Jason & Walker, Mark. An experiment
to evaluate Bayesian learning of Nash equilibrium. 26p.
9719 Crawford, Vincent. Learning dynamics, lock-in, and
equilibrium selection in experimental coordination games.
35p.
9723 Den Haan, Wouter J., Ramey, Garey & Watson, Joel. Job
destruction and propagation of shocks. 55p.
9721 Gaviria, Alejandro & Raphael, Steven. School-based peer
effects and juvenile behavior. 27p.
9724 Granger, Clive W.J. & Jeon, Yongil. Measuring lag structure
in forecasting models: the introduction of time distance.
46p.
9729 Granger, Clive W.J. & Marmol, Francesc. The correlogram of
a long memory process plus a simple noise. 19p.
9727 Hamilton, James D. The supply and demand for federal
reserve deposits. 58p.
9728 Hamilton, James D. & Monteagudo, Josefina. The augmented
Solow model and the productivity slowdown. 24p.
9735 Hoffman, Elizabeth, Libecap, Gary & Shachat, Jason M. An
experimental investigation of the incentives to form
agricultural marketing pools. 43p.
9726 Ramey, Garey & Watson, Joel. Contractual intermediaries.
44p.
9720 Rosenberg, Joshua V. & Engle, Robert F. Option hedging
using empirical pricing kernels. 34p.
9733 Shachat, Jason & Walker, Mark. Unobserved heterogeneity &
equilibrium: an experimental study of Bayesian & adaptive
learning in normal form games. 68p.
9716 Shimoji, Makoto & Watson, Joel. Conditional dominance,
rationalizability, and game forms. 32p.
9718 Sobel, Joel. A model of declining standards. 14p.
9715 Sobel, Joel. On the dynamics of standards. 47p.
9725 Sobel, Joel. A re-examination of yardstick competition.
18p.
9731 Sullivan, Ryan, Timmermann, Allan & White, Halbert.
Data-snooping, technical rule performance, and the
bootstrap. 49p.
9717 Watson, Joel. Starting small and renegotiation. 39p.
9734 Wooders, John & Shachat, Jason M. On the irrelevance of
risk attitudes in repeated two-outcome games. 16p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Centre for Industrial Economics.
9722 Dilling-Hansen, Mogena, et al. Firm productivity growth and
competition. 17p.
9719 Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis. Quality uncertainty and
informative advertising. 28p.
9720 Poddar, Sougata & Sasaki, Dan. Advance production,
inventory, and asymmetric Cournot-Nash equilibrium. 13p.
9723 Raimondos-Moller, Pacalis & Woodland, Alan D. Tariff
strategies and small open economies. 22p.
9721 Sasaki, Dan. Strategic quality decisions by heterogeneously
informed suppliers. 24p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Institute of Economics.
9716 Ascari, Guido & Rankin, Neil. Staggered wages and
disinflation dynamics: what can more microfoundations tell
us?. 39p.
9715 Ejrnaes, Mette & Persson, Karl Gunnar. Market integration
and grain price stabilization in Europe 1500-1900: an
equilibrium error correction approach. 61p.
9717 Garfiel, Sophus & Knudsen, Ulrik V. An eclectic negotiation
theory of trade policy behaviour. 28p.
9720 Guinnane, Timothy W. Cooperatives as information machines:
German rural credit cooperatives, 1883 to 1914. 35p.
9719 Hansen, Claus Thustrup. Second best antitrust in general
equilibrium: a special case. 23p.
9714 Hansen, Claus Thustrup & Tranaes, Torben. Effort commitment
in active labour market programmes: consequences for
participation incentives & wage formation. 35p.
9722 Nielsen, Carsten K. Floating exchange rates versus a
monetary union under rational beliefs: the role of
endogenous uncertainty. 53p.
9713 Roberts, Mark A., Staehr, Karsten & Tranaes, Torben.
Two-stage bargaining with coverage extension in a dual
labour market. 27p.
(ENGLAND) CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH.
1765 Abowd, John M., Corbel, Patrick & Kramarz, Francis. The
entry and exit of workers and the growth of employment: an
analysis of French establishments. 47p.
1760 Anderson, Kym & Francois, Joseph F. Commercial links
between Western Europe and East Asia: retrospect and
prospects. 29p.
1763 Ascari, Guido & Rankin, Neil. Staggered wages and
disinflation dynamics: what can more microfoundations tell
us?. 39p.
1764 Barros, Pedro Pita. Approval rules for sequential
horizontal mergers. 21p.
1775 Booth, Alison L., Jenkins, Stephen P. & Serrano, Carlos
Garcia. New men and new women?: a comparison of paid work
propensities from a panel data perspective. 32p.
1754 Bulow, Jeremy & Klemperer, Paul. The winner's curse and the
failure of the law of demand. 33p.
1753 Cohen, Daniel. Growth and external debt: a new perspective
on the African and Latin American tragedies. 33p.
1767 de Crombrugghe, Alain. Wage and pension pressure on the
Polish budget. 48p.
1766 de Crombrugghe, Alain & de Walque, Gregory. Fiscal norming
of wages to promote employment with monopoly unions. 25p.
1755 de la Fuente, Angel. Fiscal policy and growth in the OECD.
61p.
1756 de la Fuente, Angel & Vives, Xavier. The sources of Irish
growth. 23p.
1736 Earle, John S. & Estrin, Saul. After voucher privatization:
the structure of corporate ownership in Russian
manufacturing industry. 140p.
1761 Entorf, Horst, Gollac, Michel & Kramarz, Francis. New
technologies, wages and worker selection. 35p.
1773 Grafe, Clemens & Wyplosz, Charles. The real exchange rate
in transition economies. 39p.
1774 Hassler, John & Lindbeck, Assar. Intergenerational risk
sharing, stability and optimality of alternative pension
systems. 45p.
1770 Konings, Jozef. Competition & firm performance in
transition economies: evidence from firm surveys in
Slovenia, Hungary & Romania. 30p.
1757 Lizal, Lubomir, Singer, Miroslav & Svejnar, Jan. Enterprise
breakups and performance during the transition. 31p.
1769 Marimon, Ramon & Zilibotti, Fabrizio. Unemployment versus
mismatch of talents: reconsidering unemployment benefits.
43p.
1768 Medrano, Luis Angel & Vives, Xavier. Strategic behaviour
and price discovery. 61p.
1759 Persson, Torsten & Tabellini, Guido. Political economics
and macroeconomic policy. 101p.
1747 Sinn, Hans-Werner & Feist, Holger. Eurowinners and
Eurolosers: the distribution of seigniorage wealth in EMU.
27p.
1758 Smets, Frank & Tsatsaronis, Kostas. Why does the yield
curve predict economic activity?: dissecting the evidence
for Germany and the United States. 34p.
1771 Wall, Howard J. & Zoega, Gylfi. The British Beveridge
curve: a tale of ten regions. 27p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA. Research Department.
9713 Bliss, Robert R. & Smith, David C. The stability of
interest rate processes. 23p.
9715 Burdick, Clark A. A transitional analysis of the welfare
cost of inflation. 42p.
9716 Chang, Roberto & Velasco, Andres. Financial fragility and
the exchange rate regime. 57p.
9717 Feng, Chenyang & Smith, Stephen D. Jump risk, time-varying
risk premia, and technical trading profits. 9p.
9714 Hartley, Peter R. & Whitt, Joseph A. Macroeconomic
fluctuations in Europe: demand or supply, permanent or
temporary? 38p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO. Research Department.
9711 Altonji, Joseph G. & Pierret, Charles R. Employer learning
and statistical discrimination. 55p.
9715 Christiano, Lawrence J. & Fisher, Jonas D.M. Algorithms for
solving dynamic models with occasionally binding
constraints. 64p.
9710 Evans, Charles L. & Marshall, David A. Monetary policy and
the term structure of nominal interest rates: evidence and
theory. 62p.
9716 Jacobson, Louis S., LaLonde, Robert J. & Sullivan, Daniel G.
The return from community college schooling for displaced
workers. 36p.
9713 Sargent, Thomas J. & Velde, Francois R. The evolution of
small change. 76p.
9712 Velde, Francois R., Weber, Warren E. & Wright, Randall. A
model of commodity money, with applications to Gresham's Law
and the debasement puzzle. 37p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS. Research Department.
9712 Koo, Jahyeong & Johnson, Paul A. Decomposition of feedback
between time series in a bivariate error-correction model.
11p.
9713 Koo, Jahyeong, Phillips, Keith & Sigalla, Fiona. Measuring
regional cost of living. 35p.
9711 Ruffin, Roy J. Quasi-specific factors: worker comparative
advantage in the two-sector production model. 31p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS. Financial Industry Studies.
5/97 Clark, Jeffery A. & Siems, Thomas F. Competitive viability
in banking: looking beyond the balance sheet. 46p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY. Research Division.
9711 Filardo, Andrew J. Using near-VARs to examine
phase-dependent monetary and fiscal policy. 40p.
9712 Golob, John E. & Bishop, David G. Inflation and relative
price variability: durables vs. nondurables and services.
23p.
9710 Lamb, Russell L. Inverse productivity: land quality, labor
markets, and risk. 30p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. Research Department.
243 Diebold, Francis X., Ohanian, Lee E. & Berkowitz, Jeremy.
Dynamic equilibrium economies: a framework for comparing
models and data. 35p.
FED RESERVE BANK OF MPLS-UNIV OF MINN. Inst. for Empirical Macro.
124 Lam, Pok-sang. A Markov switching model of GNP growth with
duration dependence. 43p.
125 Mulligan, Casey B. The demand for money by firms: some
additional empirical results. 50p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. Research & Market Analysis Group.
35 Davis, Donald R. The home market, trade, and industrial
structure. 27p.
36 Harrigan, James. Estimation of cross-country differences in
industry production functions. 47p.
34 Higgins, Matthew. Demography, national savings and
international capital flows. 39p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA. Economic Research Division.
9727 Eudey, Gwen. Diagnostic evaluation of the real business
cycle model with factor hoarding. 23p.
9728 Sill, Keith. Regional employment dynamics. 26p.
98-1 Westley, Glenn D. & Shaffer, Sherrill. Credit union
policies and performance in Latin America. 30p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. Finance & Economics Discussion Series.
9801 Bomfin, Antulio N. & Rudebusch, Glenn D. Opportunistic and
deliberate disinflation under imperfect credibility. 23p.
9804 Fenn, George W. & Liang, Nellie. Good news and bad news
about share repurchases. 27p.
9802 Kim, Jinill. Monetary policy in a stochastic equilibrium
model with real and nominal rigidities. 59p.
9803 Orphanides, Athanasios. Monetary policy rules based on
real-time data. 40p.
9759 Whitesell, William. Interest rates and M2 in an error
correction macro model. 35p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. International Finance Papers.
602 Freund, Caroline L. Regionalism and permanent division.
41p.
600 Gibson, Michael S. & Boyer, Brian H. Evaluating forecasts
of correlation using option pricing. 45p.
601 Henderson, Dale W. & Kim, Jinill. The choice of a monetary
policy reaction function in a simple optimizing model. 43p.
599 Robitaille, Patrice. Private payments sytems in historical
perspective: the Banco Central system of Mexico. 42p.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Bureau of Economics.
217 Ashenfelter, Orley, et al. Identifying the firm-specific
cost pass-through rate. 21p.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Institute of Economic Research.
1813 Baliga, Sandeep & Sjostrom, Tomas. Durable cheap talk
equilibria. 16p.
1815 DiPasquale, Denise & Glaeser, Edward L. Incentives and
social capital: are homeowners better citizens?. 42p.
1812 Ghatak, Maitreesh, Morelli, Massimo & Sjostrom, Tomas.
General equilibrium incentives and the American dream. 37p.
1814 Glaeser, Edward L. Learning in cities. 23p.
1810 Lee, Tung-Jean & Caves, Richard E. Uncertain outcomes of
foreign investment: determinants of the dispersion of
profits after large acquisitions. 30p.
1801 Maskin, Eric, Qian, Yingyi & Xu, Chenggang. Incentives,
scale economies, and organizational form. 38p.
1811 Schultz, Christian & Sjostrom, Tomas. Elections, public
debt and migration. 23p.
HEBREW UNIV. Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory.
162 Neyman, Abraham. Cooperation in repeated games when the
number of stages is not commonly known. 26p.
161 Neyman, Abraham. Finitely repeated games with finite
automata. 69p.
160 Solan, Eilon. Stochastic games with 2 non-absorbing states.
26p.
159 Winter, Eyal & Zamir, Shmuel. An experiment with ultimatum
bargaining in a changing environment. 39p.
UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND. Faculty of Economics & Business Admin.
9710 Arnason, Ragnar. Developments in ocean fisheries
management: implications for the volume and quality of fish
supply. 19p.
9711 Gylfason, Thorvaldur. Prospects for liberalization of trade
in agriculture. 19p.
9712 Gylfason, Thorvaldur, Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor & Zoega,
Gylfi. A mixed blessing: natural resources and economic
growth. 33p.
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.
9735 Abowd, J.M., Crepon, B. & Kramarz, F. Moment estimation
with attrition. 27p.
9733 Clement, E., Gourieroux, C. & Monfort, A. Econometric
specification of the risk neutral valuation model. 35p.
9738 Combes, P.P. Economic structure and local growth: an
econometric study of France, 1984-1993. 29p.
9736 Darolles, S. & Gourieroux, C. Truncated dynamics and
estimation of diffusion equations. 34p.
9740 Francq, C. & Zakoian, J.M. Estimating weak GARCH
representations. 39p.
9739 Jullien, B. & Salanie, B. Estimating preferences under
risk: the case of racetrack bettors. 36p.
9731 Lambert, S. & Magnac, T. Implicit prices and recursivity of
agricultural households' decisions. 32p.
9737 Souam, S. Optimal antitrust policy under different regimes
of fines. 25p.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Department of Economics.
9719 Aiyagari, S. Rao & Williamson, Stephen D. Money and dynamic
credit arrangements with private information. 44p.
9720 Aiyagari, S. Rao & Williamson, Stephen D. Money, credit,
and allocation under complete dynamic contracts and
incomplete markets. 43p.
9718 Blume, Andreas, et al. Evolution of communication with
partial common interest. 35p.
9802 Blume, Andreas, et al. Learning in sender-receiver games.
29p.
9717 Cavalcanti, Ricardo de O., Erosa, Andres & Temzelides, Ted.
Private money and reserve management in a random matching
model. 34p.
9716 Horowitz, Joel L. & Manski, Charles F. Nonparametric
analysis of randomized experiments with missing covariate
and outcome data. 34p.
9801 Ray, Surajit, Ravikumar, B. & Savin, N. Eugene. Robust Wald
tests in SUR systems with adding up restrictions: an
algebraic approach to proofs of invariance. 22p.
9721 Williamson, Stephen D. Payments systems with random
matching and private information. 36p.
BANCA DE ITALIA. Research Department.
317 Drudi, F., Generale, A. & Majnoni, G. Sensitivity of value
at risk measures to different risk models. 50p.
320 Samuelson, Paul A. Wherein do the European and American
models differ?. 20p.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Department of Political Economy.
394 Khan, M. Ali & Sun, Yeneng. Non-cooperative games on
hyperinfinite Loeb spaces. 39p.
393 Khan, M. Ali, Rath, Kali P. & Sun, Yeneng. Pure-strategy
Nash equilibrium points in large non-anonymous games. 16p.
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9717 Banik, Shipra & Silvapulle, Param. Testing for seasonal
stabilty in unemployment series: international evidence.
24p.
9715 Prentice, David & Sibly, Hugh. The non-robustness of the
Nash-Stackelberg equilibrium. 9p.
9716 Sharma, Kishor, Jayasuriya, Sisira & Oczkowski, Edward.
Liberalization and productivity growth: the case of
manufacturing industry in Nepal. 30p.
9713 Wilson, Stuart. The determinants of inter-regional
migration in Australia. 19p.
9714 Wilson, Stuart. A model of inter-regional household
migration. 27p.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON-BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Department of Economics.
4/97 Atkins, Fiona & Boyd, Derick. Convergence and the
Caribbean. 23p.
6/97 Bianchi, Marco & Zoega, Gylfi. Challenges facing natural
rate theory. 15p.
20/97 Coakley, Jerry & Fuertes, Ana Maria. Threshold
autoregressive (TAR) models of European real exchange rates
1973-97. 38p.
5/97 Davies, Hugh & Peronaci, Romana. Male wages and living
arrangements: recent evidence for Britain. 33p.
7/97 Gylfason, Thorvaldur, Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor & Zoega,
Gylfi. A mixed blessing: natural resources and economic
growth. 31p.
8/97 Hall, Stephen, Psaradakis, Zacharis & Sola, Martin.
Switching error-correction models of house prices in the
United Kingdom. 17p.
16/97 Karanassou, Marika & Snower, Dennis J. How labour market
flexibility affects unemployment: long-term implications of
the chain reaction theory. 23p.
18/97 Lindbeck, Assar & Snower, Dennis J. The division of labour
within firms. 11p.
19/97 Orszag, J. Michael & Snower, Dennis J. Incapacity benefits
and employment policy. 16p.
17/97 Snower, Dennis J. The organizational revolution and its
implications for job creation. 24p.
9/97 Vitale, Giovanni. The European Monetary System: a flexible
disciplinary device. 35p.
UNIV. OF LONDON-BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Inst. for Financial Research.
37 Daripa, Arupratan. Lenders who must borrow: underinvestment
in aggregate equilibrium and the role of trade credit. 43p.
38 Hansch, Oliver, Naik, Narayan Y. & Viswanathan, S.
Preferencing internalization, best execution and dealer
profits. 46p.
36 Instefjord, Norvald, Jackson, Patricia & Perraudin, William.
Securities fraud. 41p.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Department of Economics.
9708 Araki, Kasunori & Low, Hamish. Long run equilibria:
expected waiting times with noisy selection and local
interaction. 36p.
9710 Blow, Laura & Crawford, Ian. A GARP method for overcoming
new goods bias in price indices with an application to the
U.K. national lottery. 31p.
9709 Blundell, Richard & Robin, Jean-Marc. Latent separability:
grouping goods without weak separability. 41p.
9711 Chick, Victoria. Deflation and distribution: austerity
policies in Britain in the 1920s. 31p.
UNIVERSITE CATH. DE LOUVAIN. Ctr. for Op. Research & Econometrics.
9777 Alboth, Dirk, Lerner, Anat & Shalev, Jonathan. Auctioning
public goods to groups of agents. 32p.
9780 Bauwens, Luc, Deprins, Dominique & Vandeuren, Jean-Pierre.
Modeling interest rates with a cointegrated VAR-GARCH model.
28p.
9771 Boadway, Robin, Marchand, Maurice & Sato, Motohiro.
Subsidies versus public provision of private goods as
instruments for redistribution. 24p.
9782 Boccard, Nicolas & Wauthy, Xavier. Export restraints and
horizontal product differentiation. 17p.
9783 Boccard, Nicolas & Wauthy, Xavier. The Hotelling model with
capacity precommitment. 32p.
9778 Cordier, Cecilia, et al. bc - opt: a branch-and-cut code
for mixed integer programs. 25p.
9773 d'Aspremont, Claude, Dos Santos Ferreira, Rodolphe &
Gerard-Varet, Louis Andre. Contestability and the
indeterminacy of free entry equilibria. 22p.
9775 Ghysels, Eric, et al. Nonparametric methods and option
pricing. 24p.
9779 Lejeune, Bernard. Second order pseudo-maximum likelihood
estimation and conditional variance misspecification. 39p.
9776 Patilea, Valentin & Renault, Eric. Continuously updated
extremum estimators. 46p.
9774 Shalev, Jonathan. Loss aversion equilibrium. 26p.
9772 Wauthy, Xavier & Zenou, Yves. Efficiency wages, labor
heterogeneity and the financing of the training cost. 26p.
9781 Wei, Steven X. A Bayesian approach to dynamic Tobit models.
30p.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
22/97 Bryant, W.D.A. On the Aliprantis-Brown-Burkinshaw
equilibrium theorem. 10p.
19/97 Horne, Jocelyn. IMF programs in European transition
economies. 37p.
23/97 Ip, Pui Chi. Full employment policy: a macroeconomic
perspective. 17p.
20/97 O'Donnell, Rod. Keynes's socialism: conception, strategy
and espousal. 23p.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Department of Economics.
9715 Acemoglu, Daron. Why do new technologies complement
skills?: directed technical change and wage inequality.
40p.
97-9 Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert. Efficient unemployment
insurance. 37p.
97-7 Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert. Efficient wage
dispersion. 46p.
97-8 Acemoglu, Daron & Newman, Andrew F. The labor market and
corporate structure. 38p.
9724 Acemoglu, Daron & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. The structure of
wages and investment in general training. 25p.
97-6 Acemoglu, Daron & Zilibotti, Fabrizio. Setting standards:
information accumulation in development. 42p.
9723 Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James. Why did the west extend
the franchise?: democracy, inequality and growth in
historical perspective. 33p.
9711 Athey, Susan. Single crossing properties and the existence
of pure strategy equilibria in games of incomplete
information. 51p.
97-4 Banerjee, Abhijit V. A theory of misgovernance. 62p.
9721 Bernard, Andrew & Jensen, J. Bradford. Exceptional exporter
performance: cause, effect, or both?. 31p.
9726 Bernard, Andrew & Jensen, J. Bradford. Why some firms
export. 39p.
9720 Caballero, Ricardo J. Aggregate investment. 58p.
9718 Caballero, Ricardo J. & Hammour, Mohamad L.. Jobless
growth: appropriability, factor-substitution, and
unemployment. 31p.
9717 Diamond, Peter. Efficiency effects of punitive damages.
38p.
9719 Diamond, Peter A. Integrating punishment and efficiency
concerns in punitive damages for reckless disregard of risks
to others. 40p.
9710 Diamond, Peter. Rationing medical care: an economist's
perspective. 26p.
9714 Ellison, Sara F. & Mullin, Walter P. Gradual incorporation
of information into stock prices: empirical strategies.
24p.
97-3 Genesove, David & Mullin, Wallace P. The Sugar Institute
learns to organize information exchange. 38p.
9712 Kraay, Aart & Ventura, Jaume. Current accounts in debtor
and creditor countries. 54p.
9716 Krueger, Alan & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. Observations and
conjectures on the U.S. employment miracle. 40p.
9713 Repetto, Andrea & Ventura, Jaume. The Leontief-Trefler
hypothesis and factor price insensitivity. 33p.
97-2 Shimer, Robert & Smith, Lones. Assortative matching and
search. 44p.
97-1 Smith, Lones. A graphical depiction of the Rubinstein-Stahl
bargaining solution. 4p.
97-5 Smith, Lones. Time consistent optimal stopping. 3p.
9722 Smith, Lones & Sorensen, Peter. Informational herding and
optimal experimentation. 24p.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Department of Economics.
602 Bakker, Alex & Creedy, John. Income distribution modelling
using conditional mixture distributions: New Zealand incomes
1985-1994. 17p.
603 Bakker, Alex & Creedy, John. Time-varying inequality
measurement with the generalised exponential distribution.
18p.
598 Bennetton, Julia, et al. An economic evaluation of bushfire
prevention and suppression. 27p.
599 Cardak, Buly A. The importance of ability. 35p.
605 Creedy, John. The development of the theory of exchange.
45p.
601 Creedy, John. The welfare effects of indirect taxes in
Australia: some alternative reforms. 30p.
604 Creedy, John & Martin, Cameron. Carbon taxation, fuel
substitution and welfare in Australia. 27p.
597 Dowling, J. Malcolm & Worswick, Christopher. Labor market
participation of urban women in Southeast Asia by migration
status: evidence from microdata. 35p.
600 Hirokawa, Midori & Sasaki, Dan. Reexamination of
Stackelberg leadership: fixed supply contracts under demand
uncertainty. 17p.
607 Lambertini, Luca & Sasaki, Dan. Optimal punishment in
supergames with product differentiation. 15p.
606 Wu, Ping X. & Zhang, Siqi. An analysis of Chinese company
performance using EVA. 14p.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Economic Development Center.
98-1 Diao, X., Roe, T.L. & Yeldan, A.E. How fiscal
(mis)management may impede trade reform: lessons from
intertemporal, multi-sector g.e. model for Turkey. 31p.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Working Papers.
6320 Aizenman, Joshua & Powell, Andrew. Volatility and financial
intermediation. 35p.
6325 Balduzzi, Pierluigi, Das, Sanjiv Ranjan & Foresi, Silverio.
The central tendency: a second factor in bond yields. 25p.
6312 Bakaert, Geert & Harvey, Campbell R. Foreign speculators
and emerging equity markets. 54p.
6299 Berman, Eli & Bui, Linda T. Environmental regulation and
labor demand: evidence from the South Coast Air Basin. 39p.
6280 Bhattarai, Keshab & Whalley, John. Discreteness and the
welfare cost of labor supply tax distortions. 40p.
6293 Borenstein, Severin, Bushnell, James & Stoft, Steven. The
competitive effects of transmission capacity in a
deregulated electricity industry. 58p.
6292 Buiter, Willem H. & Sibert, Anne C. Transition issues for
the European Monetary Union. 26p.
6298 Carroll, Christopher D. Death to the log-linearized
consumption Euler equation! (and very poor health to the
second order approximation). 35p.
6306 Cecchetti, Stephen G. Central bank policy rules: conceptual
issues and practical considerations. 19p.
6307 Corsetti, Giancarlo & Pesenti, Paolo. Welfare and
macroeconomic interdependence. 46p.
6313 Costa, Dora L. Unequal at birth: a long-term comparison of
income and birth weight. 29p.
6305 Currie, Janet & Yelowitz, Aaron. Are public housing
projects good for kids?. 36p.
6290 Diebold, Francis X. The past, present, and future of
macroeconomic forecasting. 32p.
6318 DiNardo, John, Hallock, Kevin & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen.
Unions and managerial pay. 40p.
6300 Dooley, Michael P. A model of crises in emerging markets.
32p.
6287 Glied, Sherry & Brooks, Tama. The market and the
estimators: forecasting the cost of Medicare catastrophic
coverage. 21p.
6289 Grossman, Herschel I. "Make us a king": anarchy, predation,
and the state. 21p.
6301 Grossman, Herschel I. & Kim, Minseong. Predation,
efficiency, and inequality. 17p.
6308 Gruber, Jonathan. Social security and retirement in Canada.
30p.
6294 Ju, Jiandong & Krishna, Kala. Welfare and market access
effects of piecemeal tariff reform. 16p.
6304 Kremer, Michael. Patent buy-outs: a mechanism for
encouraging innovation. 54p.
6296 Lanjouw, Jean O. & Lerner, Josh. The enforcement of
intellectual property rights: a survey of the empirical
literature. 29p.
6297 Lanjouw, Jean O. & Schankerman, Mark. Stylized facts of
patent litigation: value, scope and ownership. 40p.
6314 Levinson, Arik. NIMBY taxes matter: state taxes and
interstate hazardous waste shipments. 38p.
6291 McCallum, Bennett T. The alleged instability of nominal
income targeting. 15p.
6310 Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria & Razin, Assaf. Sharp
reductions in current account deficits: an empirical
analysis. 20p.
6311 Missale, Alessandro, Giavazzi, Francesco & Benigno,
Pierpaolo. Managing the public debt in fiscal
stabilizations: the evidence. 29p.
6303 Neumark, David & Powers, Elizabeth. The effect of
means-tested income support for the elderly on
pre-retirement saving: evidence from SSI. 29p.
6319 Obstfeld, Maurice. Open-economy macroeconomics:
developments in theory and policy. 35p.
6295 Poterba, James M., Venti, Steven F. & Wise, David A.
Implications of rising personal retirement saving. 64p.
6315 Ramey, Valerie A. & West, Kenneth D. Inventories. 94p.
6288 Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Sundstrom, William A. The sources
of regional variation in the severity of the Great
Depression: evidence from U.S. mfgr, 1919-37. 40p.
6302 Taylor, Alan M. Argentina and the world capital market:
saving, investment, and international capital mobility in
the 20th century. 39p.
6286 Velasco, Andres. Debts and deficits with fragmented fiscal
policymaking. 23p.
6309 Zingales, Luigi. Corporate governance. 20p.
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
18/97 Bjerksund, Petter & Schjelderup, Guttorm. The political
economy of capital controls and tax policy in a small open
economy. 23p.
19/97 Salvanes, Kjell G., Steen, Frode & Sorgard, Lars. Hotelling
in the air?: flight departures in Norway. 31p.
17/97 Thogersen, Oystein. Reforming social security: assessing
the effects of alternative funding strategies in a small
open economy. 22p.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Center for Analytic Research in Econ.
9715 Anderlini, Luca & Sabourian, Hamid. Cooperation and
computability in n-player games. 54p.
9716 Calem, Paul & Rob, Rafael. The impact of capital-based
regulation on bank risk-taking: a dynamic model. 39p.
9717 Felli, Leonardo & Ortalo-Magne, Francois. Technological
innovations: slumps and booms. 25p.
9801 Mailath, George J. Do people play Nash equilibrium?:
lessons from evolutionary game theory. 41p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Industrial Relations Section.
394 Farber, Henry S. Has the rate of job loss increased in the
nineties?. 13p.
395 Krueger, Alan B. Reassessing the view that American schools
are broken. 34p.
396 Rouse, Cecilia E. Schools and student achievement: more
evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. 31p.
UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND. Department of Economics.
9703 Cieslik, Andrzej, Haucap, Justus & Wey, Christian. Location
choice and product quality under incomplete information:
empirical evidence from German-Polish trade... 31p.
9702 Haucap, Justus. Institutions, development, and the human
factor: the German "miracle". 23p.
9704 Schmidt, Gunter. Case-based reasoning for production
scheduling. 17p.
SANTA FE INSTITUTE. Economics Research Program.
9780 Durlauf, Steven N. What should policymakers know about
economic complexity?. 19p.
9794 Epstein, Joshua M. Zones of cooperation in demographic
prisoner's dilemma. 20p.
9793 Karatzas, I., Shubik, M. & Sudderth, W. A stochastic
infinite horizon economy with secured lending or unsecured
lending and bankruptcy. 34p.
9772 Morris, Stephen. Interaction games: a unified analysis of
incomplete information, local interaction, and random
matching. 33p.
9791 Quint, Tom & Shubik, Martin. Games of status part I:
modeling considerations. 13p.
9792 Quint, Tom & Shubik, Martin. Games of status and wealth and
status part II: a game theoretic approach. 15p.
UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM. Institute for Int'l. Economic Studies.
631 Hassler, John & Lindbeck, Assar. Intergenerational risk
sharing, stability and optimality of alternative pensions
systems. 37p.
628 Lindbeck, Assar & Snower, Dennis J. The diversion of labor
within firms. 11p.
633 Persson, Torsten, Roland, Gerard & Tabellini, Guido.
Comparative politics and public finance. 55p.
630 Persson, Torsten & Tabellini, Guido. Political economics
and macroeconomic policy. 100p.
629 Wasmer, Etienne. Can labour supply explain the rise in
unemployment and inter-group wage inequality in the OECD?.
64p.
632 Woodford, Michael. Doing without money: controlling
inflation in a post-monetary world. 61p.
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. Eitan Berglas School of Economics.
30/97 Cukierman, Alex & Tommasi, Mariano. When does it take a
Nixon to go to China?. 40p.
29/97 Fershtman, Chaim, Gandal, Neil & Markovich, Sarit.
Estimating the effect of tax reform in differentiated
product oligopolistic markets. 30p.
28/97 Rubinstein, Ariel & Zhou, Lin. Choice problems with a
"reference point". 6p.
31/97 Viaene, Jean-Marie & Zilcha, Itzhak. Capital markets
integration, growth and income distribution: a dynamic
analysis. 32p.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. Faculty of Economics.
9727 Chen, Jin, Lee, Chunli & Fujimoto, Takahiro. Adaption of
lean production in China: the impact of the Japanese
management practice. 30p.
9738 Ihori, Toshihiro. Protection against national emergency?:
international public goods and insurance. 23p.
9737 Iwai, Katsuhito. Evolution of money. 55p.
9739 Kaneko, Mamoru & Matsui, Akihiko. Inductive game theory:
discrimination and prejudices. 34p.
9736 Kiyono, Kazuharu & Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro. Global
environmental management: incentives for abatement
investment anticipating international bargaining. 44p.
9731 Kunitomo, Naoto. On estimation of the simultaneous
switching autoregressive models. 18p.
9725 Kunitomo, Naoto & Sato, Seisho. Estimation of asymmetrical
volatility for asset prices: the simultaneous switching
ARIMA approach. 32p.
9726 Matsui, Akihiko & Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro. Evolution and
interaction of social norms. 30p.
9728 Miyajima, Hiroshi. Restructuring the social security system
in Japan: an overview. 39p.
9730 Nishimura, Kiyohiko G. Expectation heterogeneity and price
sensitivity. 18p.
9729 Takemura, Akimichi. Some superpopulation models for
estimating the number of population uniques. 18p.
9733 Tsukahara, Hideatsu. Convergence in law of measurable
processes with applications to the prediction process. 45p.
9734 Tsukahara, Hideatsu. A limit theorem for the prediction
process under absolute continuity. 8p.
9735 Tsukahara, Hideatsu. A note on the prediction process. 7p.
9732 Tsukahara, Hideatsu. Two transformation models and rank
estimation. 37p.
98-1 Yajima, Yoshihiro & Nishino, Haruhisa. Estimation of the
autocorrelation function of a stationary time series with
missing observations. 41p.
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VENEZIA. Dipartimento di Scienze Econ.
9711 Freixas, Xavier & Parigi, Bruno. Contagion and efficiency
in gross and net interbank payment systems. 38p.
9712 Parigi, Bruno M. Competition in banking: a survey of the
literature. 34p.
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. Department of Economics.
9714 Bhatia, Kul. Specific inputs, value-added, and production
linkages in tax-incidence theory. 29p.
9709 Bilodeau, Marc & Slivinski, Al. Rational nonprofit
entrepreneurship. 33p.
9705 Blomqvist, Ake. Monopolistic competition and supply-side
cost sharing in the physician services market. 22p.
9717 Border, Kim C. & Segal, Uzi. Coherent odds and subjective
probability. 14p.
9715 Cavalcanti, Ricardo de O., Erosa, Andres & Temzelides, Ted.
Private money and reserve management in a random matching
model. 42p.
9707 Daniel, Kermit, Black, Dan & Smith, Jeffrey. College
quality and the wages of young men. 49p.
9710 Huggett, Mark & Ventura, Gustavo. On the distributional
effects of social security reform. 42p.
9708 Laidler, David. The Wicksell connection, the quantity
theory and Keynes. 32p.
9712 Liu, Haoming. Labor quality and the cyclicality of real
wages. 41p.
9716 Safra, Zvi & Segal, Uzi. Constant risk aversion, the dual
theory, and the Gini inequality index. 33p.
9706 Ventura, Gustavo. Flat tax reform: a quantitative
exploration. 47p.
9713 Yang, Jian. Semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation of
nonlinear regression models and Monte Carlo evidence. 59p.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. Social Systems Research Institute.
9726 Andreoni, James, Brown, Paul M. & Vesterlund, Lise.
Fairness, selfishness and selfish fairness: experiments on
games with unequal equilibrium payoffs. 35p.
9725 Arthur, W. Brian, LeBaron, Blake & Palmer, Richard. Time
series properties of an artificial stock market. 33p.
9719 Domowitz, Ian & El-Gamal, Mahmoud. Financial market
structure and the ergodicity of prices. 19p.
9709r Durlauf, Steven N. Rational choice and the study of
science. 27p.
9721 Durlauf, Steven N. What should policymakers know about
economic complexity?. 19p.
9722 Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier & Parker, Jonathan A.
Consumption over the life cycle. 66p.
9718 LeBaron, Blake. An evolutionary bootstrap approach to
neural network pruning and generalization. 15p.
9724 Parker, Jonathan A. The reaction of household consumption
to predictable changes in payroll tax rates. 30p.
9723 Parker, Jonathan A. The timing of purchases, market power,
and economic fluctuations. 35p.
9720 Tripathi, Gautam. Semiparametric efficiency bounds under
shape restrictions. 33p.
9717 West, Kenneth D. On optimal instrumental variables
estimation of time series models. 8p.