New Acquisitions - June 2000
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS. Dept. of Economics.
115 Drandakis, Emmanuel. Caratheodory's theorem on constrained
optimization and comparative statics. 30p.
BANCO DE ESPANA. Servicio de Estudios.
2000-4 Andres, J., Ballabriga, F. & Valles, J. Monetary policy and
exchange rate behavior in the fiscal theory of the price
level. 45p.
2000-2 Cabrero, Alberto. Seasonal adjustment in economic time
series: the experience of the Banco de Espana (with the
model-based method). 53p.
BANK OF JAPAN. Institute for Monetary & Economic Studies.
2000-11 Fujiki, Hiroshi, Okina, Kunio & Shiratsuka, Shigenori.
Monetary policy under zero interest rate: viewpoints of
central bank economists. 46p.
2000-10 Ieda, Akira, Marumo, Kohei & Yoshiba, Toshinao. A
simplified method for calculating the credit risk of lending
portfolios. 36p.
2000-13 Mori, Naruki, Shiratsuka, Shigenori & Taguchi, Hiroo.
Policy responses to the post-bubble adjustments in Japan: a
tentative review. 70p.
2000-12 Okina, Kunio, Shirakawa, Masaki & Shiratsuka, Shigenori.
The asset price bubble and monetary policy: Japan's
experience in the late 1980s and the lessons. 69p.
2000-9 Packer, Frank. Credit ratings and the Japanese corporate
bond market. 32p.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA BARBARA. Department of Economics.
7/2000 Foros, Oystein, Kind, Hans J. & Sorgard, Lars. Access
pricing, quality degradation, and foreclosure in the
internet. 30p.
5/2000 Hoel, Michael & Shapiro, Perry. Transboundary environmental
problems with a mobile population: is there a need for
central policy? 20p.
4/2000 Khindanova, Irina N., Rachev, Svetlozar T. & Schwartz,
Eduardo. Stable modeling of value at risk. 51p.
3/2000 Khindanova, Irina N. & Rachev, Svetlozar T. Value at risk:
recent advances. 51p.
2/2000 Mathiesen, Lars & Hakonsen, Lars. Comparing the cost of
emission reductions in first and second-best economies.
14p.
6/2000 Nilssen, Tore & Sorgard, Lars. TV advertising, program
quality, and product-market oligopoly. 44p.
1/2000 Rachev, Svetlozar & Tokat, Yesim. Asset and liability
management: recent advances. 49p.
BANK OF CANADA. Technical Reports.
88 Murray, John, Zelmer, Mark & Antia, Zahir. International
financial crises and flexible exchange rates: some policy
lessons from Canada. 36p.
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY. Department of Economics.
2000-3 Guender, Alfred V. & Tam, Julie. On the performance of
nominal income targeting as a strategy for monetary policy
in a small open economy. 37p.
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III de MADRID. Dept. de Economia.
2000-29 Mora, Ricardo & Siotis, George. External factors in
emerging market recoveries: an empirical investigation.
46p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Institute of Economics.
2000-7 Hougaard, Jens L. & Keiding, Hans. On the welfare economic
foundations of health status measures. 17p.
COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS AT YALE UNIVERSITY.
1255 Dubey, Pradeep & Wu, Chien-Wei. Competitive prices: when
less scrutiny induces more effort. 41p.
1257 Dubey, Pradeep & Geanakoplos, John. Inside and outside
money, gains to trade, and IS-LM. 52p.
1254 Dubey, Pradeep & Haimanko, Ori. Optimal scrutiny in
multi-period promotion tournaments. 26p.
1256 Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Cartoons of the variation of
financial prices and of Brownian motions in multifractal
time. 47p.
1253 Shubik, Martin. The theory of money. 21p.
(ENGLAND) CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH.
2462 Aghion, Philippe & Schankerman, Mark. A model of market
enhancing infrastructure. 28p.
2437 Anderson, Kym. Agriculture, developing countries, and the
WTO millennium round. 37p.
2464 Angeletos, George-Marios & Kollintzas, Tryphon. Rent
seeking/corruption and growth: a simple model. 32p.
2412 Anthony, Myrvin L. & Hughes Hallett, Andrew. Should
Argentina adopt the U.S. dollar? 28p.
2445 Bauer, Thomas K. & Haisken-De New, John P. Employer
learning and the returns to schooling. 26p.
2436 Bayoumi, Tamim. The morning after: explaining the slowdown
in Japanese growth in the 1990s. 39p.
2411 Bayoumi, Tamim, Eichengreen, Barry & Mauro, Paolo. On
regional monetary arrangements for ASEAN. 46p.
2446 Benabou, Roland. Tax and education policy in a
heterogeneous agent economy: what levels of redistribution
maximize growth and effici. 58p.
2443 Besanko, David, Regibeau, Pierre & Rockett, Katharine. A
multi-task principal-agent approach to organizational form.
55p.
2415 Bloom, Nick, Griffith, Rachel & van Reenen, John. Do R & D
tax credits work?: evidence from a panel of countries
1979-97. 56p.
2420 Boeri, Tito, Nicoletti, Guiseppe & Scarpetta, Stefano.
Regulation and labour market performance. 45p.
2444 Brown, J. David & Earle, John S. Competition and firm
performance: lessons from Russia. 33p.
2425 Caner, Mehmet & Kilian, Lutz. Size distortions of tests of
the null hypothesis of stationarity: evidence and
implications for the PPP debate. 29p.
2438 Coakley, Jerry, Fuertes, Ana-Maria & Zoega, Gylfi.
Evaluating the persistence and structuralist theories of
unemployment. 33p.
2434 Compte, Olivier, Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane & Verdier,
Thierry. Corruption and competition in public market
auctions. 28p.
2453 Corbett, Jenny & Mitchell, Janet. Banking crises and bank
rescues: the role of reputation. 48p.
2413 Danthine, Jean-Pierre, Giavazzi, Francesco & von Thadden,
Ernst-Ludwig. European financial markets after EMU: a first
assessment. 53p.
2465 de la Fuente, Angel. Convergence across countries and
regions: theory and empirics. 34p.
2466 de la Fuente, Angel & Domenech, Rafael. Human capital in
growth regressions: how much difference does data quality
make? 58p.
2460 Dehejia, Vivek H. & Rowe, Nicholas. Macroeconomic
stabilization: fixed exchange rates vs. inflation targeting
vs. price level targeting. 14p.
2450 Dehejia, Vivek H. & Dwyer, Douglas W. Output and
unemployment dynamics in transition. 32p.
2461 Detken, Carsten & Hartmann, Philipp. The Euro and
international capital markets. 59p.
2454 Devereux, Michael B. & Engel, Charles. Monetary policy in
the open economy revisited: price-setting rules and exchange
rate flexibility. 43p.
2424 Diebold, Francis X. & Kilian, Lutz. Measuring
predictability: theory and macroeconomic applications. 32p.
2418 DiNardo, John, Hallock, Kevin F. & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen.
Unions and the labour market for managers. 44p.
2463 Disney, Richard, Haskel, Jonathan & Heden, Yiva.
Restructuring and productivity growth in U.K. manufacturing.
31p.
2441 Dolado, Juan J., Mariz-Dolores, Ramon & Naveira, Manuel.
Asymmetries in monetary policy: evidence for four central
banks. 32p.
2452 Dolado, Juan J., Felgueroso, Florentino & Jimeno, Juan F.
The role of the minimum wage in the welfare state: an
appraisal. 33p.
2427 Eichengreen, Barry & Ruehl, Christof. The bail-in problem:
systematic goals, ad hoc means. 47p.
2414 Epstein, Gil S. & Hillman, Arye L. Social harmony at the
boundaries of the welfare state: immigrants and social
transfers. 30p.
2419 Euwals, Rob. Female labour supply, flexibility of working
hours, and job mobility. 21p.
2426 Farmer, Roger E.A. Natural rate doubts. 29p.
2429 Friebel, Guido & Raith, Michael. Strategic recruiting and
the chain of command. 32p.
2456 Galasso, Vincenzo. The U.S. social security: a financial
appraisal for the median voter. 19p.
2457 Griffith, Rachel, Redding, Stephan & Van Reenen, John.
Mapping the two faces of R & D: productivity growth in a
panel of OECD industries. 74p.
2440 Gruber, Harald & Verboven, Frank. The evolution of markets
under entry and standards regulation: the case of global
mobile telecommunications. 56p.
2449 Guriev, Sergei & Kvassov, Dmitry. Barter for price
discrimination? 34p.
2430 Hansen, Jorgen & Lofstrom, Magnus. Immigrant assimilation
and welfare participation: do assimilate into or out of
welfare? 53p.
2417 Hege, Ulrich & Mella-Barral, Pierre. Collateral,
renegotiation and the value of diffusely held debt. 44p.
2416 Hong, Harrison G. & Rady, Sven. Strategic trading and
learning about liquidity. 37p.
2459 Horn, Henrik & Levinsohn, James. Merger policies and trade
liberalization. 37p.
2431 Hunt, Jennifer. Why do people still live in East Germany?
47p.
2421 Kaplan, Steven N. & Stromberg, Per. Financial contracting
theory meets the real world: an empirical analysis of
venture capital contracts. 73p.
2467 Knarvik, Karen H.M. & Steen, Frode. Vertical industry
linkages: sources of productivity gains and cumulative
causation? 22p.
2433 La Ferrara, Eliana. Inequality and group participation:
theory and evidence from rural Tanzania. 46p.
2451 Lalive, Rafael, van Ours, Jan C. & Zweimuller, Josef. The
impact of active labour market policies and benefit
entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment. 45p.
2439 Manove, Michael, Padilla, A. Jorge & Pagano, Marco.
Collateral vs. project screening: a model of lazy banks.
26p.
2432 Marin, Dalia, Kaufman, Daniel & Gorochowskij, Bogdan.
Barter in transition economies: competing explanations
confront Ukranian data. 35p.
2442 Marin, Pedro L., Siotis, Georges & Hernan, Roberto. An
empirical evaluation of the determinants of research joint
venture formation. 35p.
2435 Morsink, James & Bayoumi, Tamim. A peek inside the black
box: the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. 40p.
2428 Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. Continuous training in Germany.
38p.
2458 Povel, Paul & Raith, Michael. Liquidity constraints,
production costs and output decisions. 35p.
2422 Richter, Kaspar. Government case transfers, household
consumption and poverty alleviation: the case of Russia.
47p.
2423 Saint-Paul, Gilles & Bentolila, Samuel. Will EMU increase
Eurosclerosis. 48p.
2447 van den Berg, Gerald J., van der Klaauw, Bas & van Ours, Jan
C. Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare
to work. 32p.
2448 Vassalou, Maria. Exchange rate and foreign inflation risk
premiums in global equity returns. 54p.
2455 Verdier, Thierry & Zenou, Yves. Racial beliefs, location
and the causes of crime. 41p.
FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI.
5/2000 Pindyck, Robert S. Irreversibilities and the timing of
environmental policy. 31p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA. Research Department.
2000-5 Ackert, Lucy F. & Athanassakos, George. A simultaneous
equations analysis of analysts' forecast bias and
institutional ownership. 31p.
2000-4 Bitler, Marianne & Zavodny, Madeline. The effect of
Medicaid eligibility expansions on births. 29p.
2000-3 Waggoner, Daniel F. & Zha, Tao. A Gibbs simulator for
restricted VAR models. 23p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO. Research Department.
2000-2 French, Eric. The effects of health, wealth, and wages on
labor supply and retirement behavior. 46p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CLEVELAND. Research Department.
1 Hess, Gregory D. & Schweitzer, Mark E. Does wage inflation
cause price inflation? 14p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS. Research Department.
2000-2 Haslag, Joseph H. On Fed watching and central bank
transparency. 39p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. Research Department.
269 Mitchell, Matthew F. The scale of production in
technological revolutions. 29p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. Finance & Economics Discussion Series.
2000-26 Bertaut, Carol & Starr-McCluer, Martha. Household
portfolios in the United States. 41p.
2000-27 Cannon, Sandra A., et al. Has compensation become more
flexible? 31p.
2000-21 Click, Reid W. & Harrison, Paul. Does multinationality
matter?: evidence of value destruction in U.S. multinational
corporations. 36p.
2000-30 Downing, Chris & Wallace, Nancy. A real options approach to
housing investment. 36p.
2000-25 Gibson, Michael S. & Pritsker, Matthew. Improving
grid-based methods for estimating value at risk of
fixed-income portfolios. 29p.
2000-22 Higgins, Matthew & Zakrajsek, Egon. Purchasing power
parity: three stakes through the heart of the unit root
null. 44p.
2000-24 McCarthy, Jonathan & Zakrajsek, Egon. Microeconomic
inventory adjustment: evidence from U.S. firm-level data.
37p.
2000-20 Oliner, Stephen D. & Sichel, Daniel E. The resurgence of
growth in the late 1990s: is information technology the
story? 48p.
2000-23 Rudd, Jeremy B. Assessing the productivity of public
capital with a locational equilibrium model. 35p.
2000-28 Tetlow, Robert J. & von zur Muehlen, Peter. Robust monetary
policy with misspecified models: does model uncertainty
always call for attenuated policy? 46p.
2000-29 Weisbenner, Scott J. Corporate share repurchases in the
1990s: what role fo stock options play? 42p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. International Finance Papers.
668 Ammer, John & Packer, Frank. How consistent are credit
ratings?: a geographic and sectoral analysis of default
risk. 20p.
666 Engel, Charles & Rogers, John H. Deviations from purchasing
power parity: causes and welfare costs. 26p.
667 Warnock, Francis E. Exchange rate dynamics and the welfare
effects of monetary policy in a two country model with
home-product bias. 32p.
HEBREW UNIV. Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory.
216 Cahn, Amotz. General procedures leading to correlated
equilibria. 47p.
218 Granot, Daniel, Maschler, Michael & Shalev, Jonathan.
Voting for voters: the unanimity case. 56p.
215 Nirel, Ronit & Gorfine, Malka. Analysing data of intergroup
prisoner's dilemma game. 35p.
217 Sunstein, Cass R. & Ullmann-Margalit, Edna. Solidarity in
consumption. 24p.
HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY. Institute for Economic Research.
389 Gotoh, Reiko & Yoshihara, Naoki. A class of fair
distribution rules a la Rawls and Sen. 32p.
388 Kato, Ryo, Ui, Takashi & Watanabe, Tsutomu. Asymmetric
effects of monetary policy: Japanese experience in the
1990s. 23p.
386 Saito, Osamu. The frequency of famines as demographic
correctives in the Japanese past. 32p.
390 Tsubouchi, Hiroshi. Do imperfect capital markets
dynamically stabilize households' asset holding? 43p.
385 Tsuru, Tsuyoshi & Isa, Katsuhide. Organizational
innovations in Japanese firms: workplace innovations, IT
adoption, and performance based HR systems. 18p.
387 Yoshihara, Naoki. A characterization of natural and double
implementation in production economies. 33p.
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.
2000-3 Casella, George, Robert, Christian P. & Wells, Martin T.
Mixture models, latent variables and partitioned importance
sampling. 19p.
2000-9 Fermanian, J.D. Lower bounds in hazard estimation. 31p.
2000-6 Fevrier, Philippe & Kramarz, Francis. Coordination in
sender-receiver games with no common language. 25p.
2000-5 Gourieroux, C., Laurent, J.P. & Scaillet, O. Sensitivity
analysis of values at risk. 27p.
2000-4 Kaiser, Mark S., Cressie, Noel & Lee, Jaehyung. Spatial
mixture models based on exponential family conditional
distributions. 35p.
2000-10 Kramarz, Francis & Philippon, Thomas. The impact of
differential payroll tax subsidies on minimum wage
employment. 28p.
2000-1 Margolis, D.N. Worker displacement in France. 59p.
2000-2 Mas, Andre. The central limit theorem in the space of
nuclear operators. 6p.
2000-7 Maurin, E. The European paradox: do flexible contracts
create rigid labor markets? 47p.
2000-11 Menneteau, Ludovic. Large deviations for local empirical
measures. 19p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Financial Markets Group.
350 Benhamou, Eric. A generalisation of Malliavin weighted
scheme for fast computation of the Greeks. 26p.
351 Benhamou, Eric. Pricing convexity adjustment with Wiener
chaos. 22p.
346 Connor, Gregory & Linton, Oliver. Semiparametric estimation
of a characteristic-based factor model of stock returns.
40p.
348 Decamps, Jean-Paul & Faure-Grimaud, Antoine. Excessive
continuation and dynamic agency costs of debt. 43p.
347 Faure-Grimaud, Antoine & Gromb, Denis. Public trading and
private incentives. 32p.
349 Hellwig, Christian. Money, intermediaries and
cash-in-advance constraints. 40p.
UNIVERSITE CATH. DE LOUVAIN. Ctr. for Op. Research & Econometrics.
2000-24 Chiaporri, Pierre-Andre, et al. The identification of
preferences from equilibrium prices. 20p.
2000-18 DeMichelis, Stefano. On the index and asymptotic stability
of dynamics. 5p.
2000-17 De Michelis, Stefano & Germano, Fabrizio. On the indices of
zeros of Nash fields. 26p.
2000-15 Dreze, Jacques H. Economic and social security in the
twenty-first century, with attention to Europe. 33p.
2000-16 Giraud, Gael. An algebraic index theorem for non-smooth
economies. 15p.
2000-14 Goemans, Michel X. & Skutella, Martin. Cooperative facility
location games. 21p.
2000-22 Laslier, Jean-Francois & Picard, Nathalie. Distributive
politics: does electoral competition promote inequality?
29p.
2000-20 Mutuswami, Suresh & Winter, Eyal. Subscription mechanisms
for network formation. 19p.
2000-13 Nesterov, Y & Vial, Jean-Philippe. Confidence level
solutions for stochastic programming. 17p.
2000-21 Page, Frank H. Competitive selling mechanisms: the
delegation principle and farsighted stability. 29p.
2000-23 Pereira, Olivier & Wolsey, Laurence. On the Wagner-Whitin
lot-sizing polyhedron. 11p.
2000-19 Tirelli, Mario. Constrained suboptimality and financial
innovation in GEI with a single commodity. 30p.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
1/2000 Abelson, Peter & Deodhar, Vinita. The growth of urban areas
in Australia. 19p.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Department of Economics.
2000-2 Binder, Michael, Hsiao, Cheng & Pesaran, M. Hashem.
Estimation and inference in short panel vector
autoregressions with unit roots and cointegration. 63p.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Department of Economics.
741 Dixon, Robert & Thomson, James. Okun's law and movements
over time in the unemployment rate in Australia. 22p.
742 Gangadharan, Lata & Maitra, Pushkar. The effect of
education on the timing of marriage and first conception in
Pakistan. 29p.
745 Henry, Olan T. & Olekalns, Nilss. The effect of recessions
on the relationship between output variability and growth.
18p.
743 Hyde, Charles E. The value of monitoring risk averse agents
in teams. 9p.
744 Ironmonger, D.S., Lloyd-Smith, C.W. & Soupourmas, F. New
products of the 80s and 90s: the diffusion of household
technology in the decade 1985-1995. 21p.
MONASH UNIVERSITY. Department of Econometrics & Bus. Statistics.
3/2000 Anderson, Heather M. & Vahid, Farshid. Predicting the
probability of a recession with nonlinear autoregressive
leading indicator models. 29p.
4/2000 Forbes, Catherine S. & Kofman, Paul. Bayesian soft target
zones. 23p.
2/2000 Grose, Simone & McLaren, Keith. An EM algorithm for
modeling variably-aggregated demand. 26p.
1/2000 Grose, Sharon & McLaren, Keith. Estimating demand with
varied levels of aggregation. 29p.
UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. Center for Economic Studies.
254 Anderson, Simon P. & Schmitt, Nicolas. Non-tariff barriers
and trade liberalization. 34p.
255 Berger, Helge, de Haan, Jakob & Eijffinger, Sylvester C.W.
Central bank independence: an update of theory and evidence.
56p.
263 Berger, Helge, Sturm, Jan-Egbert & de Haan, Jakob. An
empirical investigation into exchange rate regime choice and
exchange rate volatility. 31p.
244 Bos, Dieter. Privatization under asymmetric information.
30p.
259 Casamatta, Georges, Cremer, Helmuth & Pestieau, Pierre. The
political economy of social security. 27p.
251 Cheung, Yin-Wong & Chinn, Menzie D. Currency traders and
exchange rate dynamics: a survey of the U.S. market. 42p.
243 Chirinko, Robert S. Investment tax credits. 16p.
260 Dehejia, Vivek H. & Weichenrieder, Alfons J. Tariff jumping
foreign investment and capital taxation. 10p.
264 Flaig, Gebhard & Rottman, Horst. Input demand and the
short- and long-run employment thresholds: an empirical
analysis for the German manufacturing . 18p.
246 Frey, Bruno S. & Stutzer, Alois. Happiness, economy and
institutions. 34p.
245 Frey, Bruno S. & Jegen, Reto. Motivation crowding theory: a
survey of empirical evidence. 25p.
250 Funke, Michael & Ruhwedel, Ralf. Product variety and
economic growth: empirical evidence for the OECD countries.
23p.
261 Gradstein, Mark & Milanovic, Branko. Does liberte =
egalite?: a survey of the empirical evidence on the links
between political democracy and income inequality. 34p.
269 Grimm, Veronika, Riedel, Frank & Wolfstetter, Elmar.
Implementing efficient market structure. 22p.
248 Hecq, Alain, Palm, Franz C. & Urbain, Jean-Pierre. Testing
for common cyclical features in nonstationary panel data
models. 31p.
270 Hefeker, Carsten. Structural reforms and the enlargement of
monetary union. 29p.
266 Herbert, Ric D. & Stemp, Peter J. Exploiting model
structure to solve the dynamics of a macro model. 24p.
241 Huck, Steffen, Konrad, Kai A. & Muller, Wieland. Merger in
contests. 15p.
268 Inklaar, Robert & de Haan, Jakob. Is there really a
European business cycle? 15p.
258 Jeitschko, Thomas D. & Wolfstetter, Elmar. Auctions when
bidders prepare by investing in ideas. 7p.
252 Kind, Hans J., Knarvik, Karen H.M. & Schjelderup, Guttorm.
Competing for capital in a "lumpy" world. 29p.
253 Kose, M. Ayhan & Riezman, Raymond. Small countries and
preferential trade agreements: how severe is the innocent
bystander problem? 28p.
267 Lindbeck, Assar & Snower, Dennis J. The division of labor
and the market for organizations. 29p.
242 Mintz, Jack & Smart, Michael. Tax-exempt investors and the
asset allocation puzzle. 17p.
256 Peeters, Jolanda & Garretsen, Harry. Globalisation, wages
and unemployment: an economic geography perspective. 29p.
249 Perry, Motty, Wolfstetter, Elmar & Zamir, Shmuel. A
sealed-bid auction that matches the English auction. 10p.
240 Reutter, Michael. Hysteresis in West German unemployment
reconsidered. 20p.
247 Sinn, Hans-Werner. Germany's economic unification: an
assessment after ten years. 25p.
265 Tabellini, Guido. Constitutional determinants of government
spending. 22p.
262 van Aarle, Bas, et al. Monetary and fiscal policy design
under EMU: a dynamic game approach. 21p.
272 van Dijk, Frans, Sonnemans, Joep & van Winden, Frans.
Incentive systems in a real effort experiment. 28p.
273 van Dijk, Frans, Sonnemans, Joep & van Winden, Frans.
Social ties in a public good experiment. 22p.
257 Weichenrieder, Alfons J. Public procurement in the presence
of capital taxation. 18p.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Working Papers.
7674 Abrego, Lisandro & Whalley, John. Demand side
considerations and the trade and wages debate. 13p.
7702 Anderson, James E. & Young, Leslie. Trade implies law: the
power of the weak. 30p.
7694 Attanasio, Orazio, Goldberg, Pinelopi K. & Kyriazidou,
Ekaterini. Credit constraints in the market for consumer
durables: evidence from micro data on car loans. 41p.
7662 Auerbach, Alan J. & Feenberg, Daniel. The significance of
federal taxes as automatic stabilizers. 31p.
7675 Barth, Marvin J. & Ramey, Valerie A. The cost channel of
monetary transmission. 48p.
7697 Beaudry, Paul & Green, David. The changing structure of
wages in the U.S. and Germany: what explains the
difference? 47p.
7710 Benkard, C. Lanier. A dynamic analysis of the market for
wide-bodied commercial aircraft. 54p.
7689 Berger, Allen N., Kyle, Margaret K. & Scalise, Joseph M.
Did U.S. bank supervisors get tougher during the credit
crunch? Did they get easier during the banking boom? Did
it matter to bank lending? 53p.
7693 Blomstrom, Magnus, Konan, Denise & Lipsey, Robert E.
Foreign direct investment in the restructuring of the
Japanese economy. 32p.
7688 Bernard, Andrew B., Jensen, J. Bradford & Kortum, Samuel.
Plants and productivity in international trade. 51p.
7686 Bhattacharya, Jay & Currie, Janet. Youths at nutritional
risk: malnourished or misnourished? 54p.
7695 Bils, Mark & Klenow, Peter J. Quantifying quality growth.
43p.
7701 Bordo, Michael & Schwartz, Anna J. Measuring real economic
effects of bailouts: historical perspectives on how
countries in financial distress have fared with and without
bailouts. 96p.
7681 Case, Anne & Paxson, Christina. Mother and others: who
invests in children's health? 39p.
7681 Cecchetti, Stephen G., Mark, Nelson C. & Sonora, Robert J.
Price level convergence among United States cities: lessons
for the European Central Bank. 26p.
7692 Chatterji, Pinka & Markowitz, Sara. The impact of material
alcohol and illicit drug use on children's behavior
problems: evidence from children of the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth . 33p.
7687 Chen, Joseph, Hong, Harrison & Stein, Jeremy C. Forecasting
crashes: trading volume, past returns and conditional
skewness in stock prices. 47p.
7668 Christiano, Lawrence J. & Fitzgerald, Terry J.
Understanding the fiscal theory of the price level. 65p.
7657 Copeland, Brian R. & Taylor, M. Scott. Free trade and
global warming: a trade theory view of the Kyoto Protocol.
48p.
7667 Currie, Janet & Grogger, Jeffrey. Medicaid expansions and
welfare contractions: offsetting effects on prenatal care
and infant health? 38p.
7683 Degeorge, Francois, et al. Selling company shares to
reluctant employees: France Telecom's experience. 52p.
7665 Devereux, Michael B. & Engel, Charles. Monetary policy in
the open economy revisited: price setting and exchange rate
flexibility. 43p.
7669 Dickson, Joel M., Shoven, John B. & Sialm, Clemens. Tax
externalities of equity mutual funds. 45p.
7653 Eichengreen, Barry & Ruhl, Christof. The bail-in problem:
systematic goals, ad hoc means. 47p.
7696 Ghosh, Madanmohan & Whalley, John. State-owned enterprises,
shirking and trade liberalization. 31p.
7676 Glaeser, Edward L. & Sacerdote, Bruce. The determinants of
punishment: deterrence, incapacitiation and vengeance. 30p.
7690 Greenstein, Shane. Building and delivering the virtual
world: commercializing services for internet access. 39p.
7709 Grogger, Jeff. Time limits and welfare use. 43p.
7678 Han, SOng & Mulligan, Casey B. Human capital,
heterogeneity, and estimated degrees of intergenerational
mobility. 42p.
7670 Hao, Lingxin, Hotz, V. Joseph & Jin, Ginger Zhe. Games
daughters and parents play: teenage childbearing, parental
reputation, and strategic transfers. 56p.
7684 Hobijn, Bart & Jovanovic, Boyan. The information technology
revolution and the stock market: evidence. 38p.
7672 Leahy, John V. & Zeira, Joseph. The timing of purchases and
aggregate fluctuations. 31p.
7699 Lewellen, Jonathan & Shanken, Jay. Estimation risk, market
efficiency, and the predictability of returns. 51p.
7677 McCallum, Bennett T. Theoretical analysis regarding a zero
lower bound on nominal interest rates. 54p.
7682 Madrian, Brigitte C. & Shea, Dennis F. The power of
suggestion: inertia in 401(K) participation and savings
behavior. 68p.
7700 Markusen, James, Rutherford, Thomas F. & Tarr, David.
Foreign direct investment in services and the domestic
market for expertise. 37p.
7707 Mitrusi, Andrew & Poterba, James. The distribution of
payroll and income tax burdens, 1979-1999. 46p.
7673 Mocan, H. Naci, Tekin, Erdal & Zax, Jeffrey S. The demand
for medical care in urban China. 41p.
7680 Mulligan, Casey B. Can monopoly unionism explain publicly
induced retirement? 26p.
7679 Mulligan, Casey B. Induced retirement, social security, and
the pyramid mirage. 46p.
7698 Mulligan, Casey B. & Philipson, Tomas J. Merit motives and
government motivation: public finance in reverse. 55p.
7685 Petersen, Mitchell A. & Rajan, Raghuran G. Does distance
still matter?: the information revolution in small business
lending. 61p.
7671 Rauch, James E. & Trindade, Vitor. Information and
globalization: wage co-movements, labor demand elasticity,
and conventional trade liberalization. 41p.
7708 Saez, Emmanuel. Optimal income transfer programs: intensive
versus extensive labor supply responses. 45p.
7709 Sigman, Hilary. The pace of progress at Superfund sites:
policy goals and interest group influence. 36p.
7705 Stein, Jeremy C. Information production and capital
allocation: decentralized vs. hierarchical firms. 47p.
7706 Zingales, Luigi. In search of new foundations. 52p.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. School of Economics.
9915 Emhjellen, Magne & Alaouze, Chris M. A comparison of oil
project net present values in the North Sea obtained using
the weighted average cost of capital discounting method and
a modern asset pricing method. 25p.
9914 Halevi, Joseph & Kriesler, Peter. On the limitations of
fiscal policy: a radical Kaleckian view. 18p.
9913 Kupchak, R. & Monadjemi, M. Changes in international
capital flows and monetary dominance: a study of small and
large economies. 28p.
9912 Landon-Lane, John S. & Quinn, J. Arnold. A Bayesian
exploration of growth and convergence. 42p.
9916 Stegman, A. & Stegman, T. Labour market flexibility, the
Beveridge Curve, and the output-employment ratio in
Australia. 47p.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Salomon Center (Stern School of Business).
2000-29 Acharya, Viral V. Banks, systemic risk, and design of
prudential regulation. 52p.
2000-28 Acharya, Viral V. Is the international convergence of
capital adequacy regulation desirable? 51p.
2000-30 Goldberg, Lawrence G. & White, Lawrence J. The role of
banks in the transition economies. 35p.
2000-27 Li, Kai, Deo, Rohit & Hurvich, Clifford. On estimation,
diagnostic testing and smoothing of long memory stochastic
volatility models. 19p.
2000-26 Taylor, Scott T. An assessment of the factors affecting the
credit quality of private power developers. 18p.
2000-26 Tumarkin, Robert M. Internet message board activity and
market efficiency: a case study of the internet service
sector using Raging.Bull.com. 23p.
2000-32 White, Lawrence J. Bank regulation in the United States:
understanding the lessons of the 1980s and 1990s. 35p.
2000-31 White, Lawrence J. Reducing the barriers to international
trade in accounting services: why it matters, and the road
ahead. 48p.
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
4/2000 Bratberg, Espen, Holmas, Tor Helge & Thogerson, Oystein.
Assessing the effects of early retirement programs. 18p.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Nuffield College.
2000-4 Cameron, Gavin. R & D and growth at the industry level.
22p.
2000-7 Myatt, David P. Strategic voting under the qualified
majority rule. 29p.
2000-5 Myatt, David P. & Wallace, Chris. Dominated strategies and
equilibrium selection. 24p.
2000-6 Quah, John K.H. An elementary equilibrium existence
theorem. 11p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Industrial Relations Section.
441 Katz, Lawrence F., Kling, Jeffrey R. & Liebman, Jeffrey B.
Moving to opportunity in Boston: early results of a
randomized mobility experiment. 50p.
439 Krashinsky, Harry A. Do marital status and computer usage
really change the wage structure?: evidence from a sample of
twins. 28p.
440 Rouse, Cecilia E. School reform in the 21st century: a look
at the effect of class size and school vouchers on the
academic achievement of minority students. 39p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. International Finance Section-Essays.
218 Willett, Thomas D. International financial markets as
sources of crises or discipline: the too much, too late
hypothesis. 39p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. International Finance Section-Special Papers
20 Jeanne, Olivier. Currency crises: a perspective on recent
theoretical developments. 48p.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY. Inst. for Research in Behav, Econ & Mgmt Sci.
1132 Healy, Paul & Noussair, Charles. Bidding behavior in the
Price is Right game: an experimental study. 31p.
1131 Lei, Vivian & Noussair, Charles. An experimental test of an
optimal growth model. 47p.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Center for Economic Research.
468 Burnside, Craig, Eichenbaum, Martin & Rebelo, Sergio. On
the fundamentals of self-fulfilling speculative attacks.
46p.
473 Burstein, Ariel T., Neves, Joan C. & Rebelo, Sergio.
Distribution costs and real exchange rate dynamics during
exchange-rate based stabilizations. 50p.
472 Caucutt, Elizabeth M. & Kumar, Krishna B. Higher education
subsidies and heterogeneity: a dynamic analysis. 45p.
469 Epstein, Larry G. & Marinacci, Massimo. The core of large
differentiable TU games. 40p.
466 Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih & Knowles, John A. Women on
welfare: a macroeconomic analysis. 14p.
467 King, Robert G. & Rebelo, Sergio T. Resuscitating real
business cycles. 100p.
471 Lee, John-Wha & Rhee, Changyong. Macroeconomic impacts of
the Korean financial crisis: comparison with the
cross-country patterns. 37p.
470 Park, Daekeun & Rhee, Changyong. Measuring the degree of
currency misalignment using offshort forward exchange rates:
the case of the Korean financi. 41p.
UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM. Department of Economics.
2000-5 Andersson, Frederik & Forslid, Rikard. Tax competition and
economic geography. 21p.
2000-6 Asheim, Geir B. & Dufwenberg, Martin. Admissibility and
common belief. 28p.
2000-7 Asheim, Geir B. & Dufwenberg, Martin. Deductive reasoning
in extensive games. 20p.
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. Eitan Berglas School of Economics.
8/2000 Ben-Porath, Elchanan. Cheap talk in games with incomplete
information. 44p.
9/2000 Fershtman, Chaim & Gneezy, Uri. Discrimination in a
segmented society: an experimental approach. 35p.
10/2000 Rubinstein, Ariel. A, A, A, A, A, or A, A, B, C, D?:
over-diversification in repeated decision problems. 12p.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. Ctr. for Int'l. Research on the Japanese Econ.
68 Ihori, Toshihiro. Defense expeditures and allied
cooperation. 23p.
71 Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu. Global warming and transport
policies. 28p.
72 Kobayashi, Takao & Yamada, Hiroyuki. Publicly listed
parent/subidiary pairs: benchmarking to TOPIX and market
distortion. 16p.
67 Kunitomo, Naoto & Kim, Yong-Jin. Effects of stochastic
interest rates and volatility on contingent claims. 46p.
70 Miwa, Yoshiro & Ramseyer, J. Mark. Rethinking
relationship-specific investments: subcontracting in the
Japanese automobile industry. 28p.
66 Nakamura, Tsuyoshi. The role of R & D diversification in
exploiting knowledge spillover: evidence from major Japanese
chemical and phar. 37p.
69 Okazaki, Tetsuji. Government-firm relationship in postwar
Japan: success and failure of the bureau-pluralism. 26p.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Economic Analysis Group.
2000-1 Helfat, Constance E. & Raubitschek, Ruth S. Product
sequencing: co-evolution of knowledge, capabilities and
products. 34p.
2000-3 Nye, William W. Fable in another key path dependence and
the licensing of music performance rights. 35p.
2000-4 Schwartz, Marius. The economic logic for conditioning Bell
entry into long distance on the prior opening of local
markets. 49p.
2000-2 Sullivan, Mary W. The effect of the Big Eight accounting
firm mergers on the market for audit services. 20p.
COWLES FOUNDATION AT YALE UNIVERSITY. Reprint Series.
992 Chao, John C. & Phillips, Peter C.B. Model selection in
partially nonstationary vector autoregressive processes with
reduced rank struture.
990 Coate, Stephen & Morris, Stephen. Policy persistence.
991 Mandelbrot, Benoit. Multifractal structure of financial
prices and its implications.
993 Shiller, Robert J. Social security and institutions for
intergenerational, intragenerational, and international
risk-bearing.