New Acquisitions - March 1998
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS. Dept. of Economics.
78 Demopoulos, George D. & Angeletos, George-Marios. In and
out: the European Monetary Union: costs and dynamics of
economic convergence. 46p.
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA. Dept. de Economia et de Emet.
404 Brandts, Jordi & Figueras, Neus. An exploration of
reputation formation in experimental games. 45p.
403 Gonzalez-Maestre, Miguel. Divisionalization and delegation
in oligopoly. 14p.
402 Olivella, Pau & Pastor, Maite. Cost reducing strategies.
38p.
405 Quesada Arana, Antonio. Manipulability, unanimity,
anonymity and assessment aggregation. 19p.
406 Ramos Parreno, Jose Maria. Labour adjustment costs in a
"right to manage" model. 23p.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY. Dept. of Economics-Industry Studies Program.
84 Ma, Ching-to Albert. Cost and quality incentives in health
care: altruistic providers. 22p.
85 Machado, Matilde Pinto. Dollars and performance: cost
effectiveness of substance abuse treatment in Maine. 58p.
BROWN UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9712 Andersen, Torben G., Chung, Hyung-Jin & Sorensen, Bent E.
Efficienct method of moments estimation of a stochastic
volatility model: a Monte Carlo study. 32p.
9713 Buchinsky, Moshe & Leslie, Phillip. Educational attainment
and the changing U.S. wage structure: some dynamic
implications. 61p.
9710 Dagan, Nir, Serrano, Roberto & Volij, Oscar. Remarks on
McLennan & Sonnenschein "Sequential bargaining as a non
cooperative foundation for Walrasian equilibrium. 4p.
9722 Feldman, Allan M. Probabilistic value of life vs.
deterministic value of time. 21p.
9711 Vohra, Rajiv. Incomplete information, incentive
compatibility and the core. 27p.
BANK OF CANADA. Technical Reports.
80 Clinton, Kevin & Zelmer, Mark. Constraints on the conduct
of Canadian monetary policy in the 1990s: dealing with
uncertainty in financial markets. 55p.
CENTRE D'ETUDES PROS. D'ECON MATH APPLIQUEES A LA PLANIFICATION.
9711 Adda, Jerome & Cooper, Russell. Balludurette and Juppette:
a discrete analysis of scrapping subsidies. 48p.
9720 Aghion, Philippe, Banerjee, Abhijit & Piketty, Thomas.
Dualism and macroeconomic volatility. 46p.
9707 Askenazy, Philippe & Van, Cuong Le. A model of optimal
growth strategy. 36p.
9709 Beaudry, Paul & Blackorby, Charles. Taxes and employment
subsidies in an optimal redistribution program. 35p.
9713 Boyer, Robert. En quoi et pourquoi les theories
macro-economiques contemporaines sont-elles nouvelles?.
28p.
9719 Caroli, Eve, Greenan, Nathalie & Guellec, Dominique.
Organisational change and human capital accumulation. 28p.
9706 Clement, E., Gourieroux, C. & Monfort, A. Econometric
specification of the risk neutral valuation model. 37p.
9704 Cohen, Daniel. How will the Euro behave?. 27p.
9715 Cohen, Daniel. Growth and external debt: a new perspective
on the African and Latin American tragedies. 33p.
9705 Cohen, Daniel & Saint-Paul, Gilles. French unemployment: a
transatlantic perspective. 27p.
9717 Collard, Fabrice, Feve, Patrick & Perraudin, Corinne.
Variable labor adjustment costs and aggregate nonlinear
dynamics: simulation based estimation and testing with U.S..
32p.
9721 Deghdak, Messaoud & Florenzano, Monique. Decentralizing
Edgeworth equilibria in economies with many commodities.
15p.
9702 Dumenil, Gerard & Levy, Dominique. Being Keynesian in the
short term and classical in the long term: the traverse to
classical long term equilibrium. 34p.
9710 Duran, Jorge. On dynamic programming with unbounded
returns. 20p.
9716 Gourieroux, C., Tiomo, A. & Trognon, A. Composition des
portefeuilles des manages: une analyse scores sur donnees
Francaises. 53p.
9714 Gourieroux, Christian & Le Fol, Gaelle. Modes de
negociation et caracteristiques de marche. 38p.
9718 Hurlin, Christophe & Portier, Franck. Taux d'actualisation
public, distorsions fiscales et croissance: Modelisation et
application l'econ. francaise. 35p.
9712 Laffargue, Jean-Pierre & Saint-Martin, Anne. Biais de
progres technique, imperfections de marche et inegalites en
France, de 1974 a 1993. 34p.
9701 Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane. Regulatory blackmail in
procurement relationships. 31p.
9703 Laskar, Daniel. Union monetaire a deux vitesses: asymetrie
du systeme de change entre pays membres et non membres.
38p.
9708 Piketty, Thomas. L'elasticite de la transition non-emploi -
emploi: une estimation pour le cas francais. 36p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Institute of Economics.
9718 Juselius, Katarina. Changing monetary transmission
mechanisms within the EU. 32p.
9721 Juselius, Katarina. Do prices move together in the long
run?: An I(2) analysis of six price indices. 20p.
9725 Guinnane, Timothy W. & Henriksen, Ingrid. Why Danish credit
cooperatives were so unimportant. 46p.
9801 McIntosh, James & Sims, William A. Duality theory and the
consistent estimation of technological parameters: why cost
function estimation can be wrong. 11p.
9802 McIntosh, James. Wage determination and employment in
traditional agriculture. 18p.
9723 O'Grada, Cormac. The great Irish famine: witness and
losers. 37p.
9724 O'Grada, Cormac. Immigrants, savers, and runners: the
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in the 1850s. 31p.
COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS AT YALE UNIVERSITY.
1170 Brown, Donald J. & Shannon, Chris. Uniqueness, stability,
and comparative statics in rationalizable Walrasian markets.
16p.
1169 Hall, George J. Non-convex costs and capital utilization: a
study of production scheduling at automobile assembly
plants. 37p.
1171 Shiller, Robert J. Indexed units of account: theory and
assessment of historical experience. 25p.
(ENGLAND) CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH.
1772 Canzoneri, Matthew B., Cumby, Robert E. & Diba, Behzad T.
Is the price level determined by the needs of fiscal
solvency?. 37p.
1779 Danthine, Jean-Pierre, Donaldson, John B. & Johnsen, Thore.
Productivity growth, consumer confidence and the business
cycle. 43p.
1792 De Fraja, Gianni. The design of optimal education policies.
53p.
1790 Degeorge, Francois, Patel, Jayendu & Zeckhauser, Richard.
Earnings management to exceed thresholds. 52p.
1783 De Grauwe, Paul, Dewachter, Hans & Veestraeten, Dirk.
Stochastic process switching and stage III of EMU. 44p.
1794 de la Fuente, Angel. Convergence equations and income
dynamics: the sources of OECD convergence, 1970-95. 18p.
1796 Epstein, Gil S., Hillman, Arye L. & Weiss, Avi. Creating
illegal immigrants. 31p.
1791 Golder, Stefan M. & Straubhaar, Thomas. Migration to
Switzerland: some new evidence. 57p.
1784 Grossman, Gene M. & Maggi, Giovanni. Free trade versus
strategic trade: a peek into Pandora's box. 28p.
1787 Herrendorf, Berthold & Neumann, Manfred J.M. The political
economy of inflation and central bank independence. 27p.
1786 Keuschnigg, Christian & Kohler, Wilhelm. Eastern
enlargement of the EU: how much is it worth for Australia?.
24p.
1795 Lettau, Martin. Idiosyncratic risk and volatility bounds,
or, can models with idiosyncratic risk solve the equity
premium puzzle?. 30p.
1793 Lutz, Stefan, Lyon, Thomas P. & Maxwell, John W. Strategic
quality choice with minimum quality standards. 20p.
1780 Mitchell, Janet. Strategic creditor passivity, regulation
and bank bailouts. 39p.
1782 Puga, Diego & Venables, Anthony J. Agglomeration and
economic development: import substitution versus trade
liberalization. 36p.
1777 Rajan, Raghuram G. & Zingales, Luigi. Power in a theory of
the firm. 44p.
1776 Rodrik, Dani. Democracies pay higher wages. 12p.
1789 Rodrik, Dani. Where did all the growth go?: external
shocks, social conflict and growth collapses. 50p.
1788 Roller, Lars-Hendrik & Sickles, Robin C. Capacity and
product market competition: measuring market power in a
`fat-cat' industry. 26p.
1785 van Rixtel, Adrian A.R.J.M. & Hassink, Wolter H.J.
Monitoring the monitors: Amakudari and the ex-post
monitoring of private banks. 31p.
1778 Zingales, Luigi. Survival of the fittest of the fattest:?
exit and financing in the trucking industry. 48p.
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE. Department of Economics.
9715 Engsted, Tom & Johansen, Soren. Granger's representation
theorem and multicointegration. 13p.
9714 Johansen, Soren. Mathematical and statistical modelling of
cointegration. 16p.
9716 Johansen, Soren & Schaumberg, Ernst. Likelihood analysis of
seasonal cointegration. 39p.
97-8 Labory, Sandrine. Firm structure and market structure: a
case study of the car industry. 41p.
9711 Pelloni, Alessandra & Waldman, Robert. Stability properties
in a growth model. 10p.
9724 Rehme, Gunther. Economic growth, (re-)distributive
policies, capital mobility and tax competition in open
economies. 53p.
9719 Versaevel, Bruno. Production and organizational
capabilities. 28p.
9723 Vitale, Paolo. Speculative noise trading and manipulation
in the foreign exchange market. 23p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO. Research Department.
9717 Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin & Evans, Charles
L. Modeling money. 43p.
9718 Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin & Evans, Charles
L. Monetary policy shocks: what have we learned and to what
end?. 93p.
9720 Kouparitsas, Michael A. Would free trade have emerged in
North America without NAFTA?. 39p.
9719 Segal, Lewis M., Mauser, Elizabeth & Weisbrod, Burton A.
Volunteer labor sorting across industries. 23p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS. Research Department.
9801 Haslag, Joseph H. & Young, Eric R. Revenue-maximizing
monetary policy. 39p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY. Research Division.
9709 Clark, Todd E. Do producer prices help predict consumer
prices?. 22p.
9714 Hess, Gregory D. & Orphanides, Athanasios. An investgation
into the magnitude of foreign conflicts. 37p.
9707 Hess, Gregory D. & Shin, Kwanho. Risk sharing by households
within and across regions and industries. 31p.
9708 Kozicki, Sharon & Tinsley, P.A. Shifting endpoints in the
term structure of interest rates. 41p.
9713 Laubach, Thomas. Measuring the NAIRU: evidence from seven
economies. 41p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. Research Department.
244 Kilian, Lutz & Ohanian, Lee E. Is there a trend break in
U.S. GNP?: a macroeconomic perspective. 45p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. Research & Market Analysis Group.
31 Groschen, Erica L. & Schweitzer, Mark E. Identifying
inflation's grease and sand effects in the labor market.
49p.
37 van Wincoop, Eric. How big are potential welfare gains from
international risk sharing?. 26p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA. Economic Research Division.
98-4 Crone, Theodore M. & Voith, Richard P. Risk and return
within the single-family housing market. 22p.
9803 Hughes, Joseph P. Measuring efficiency when market prices
are subject to adverse selection. 28p.
9802 Hughes, Joseph P., et al. Measuring the efficiency of
capital allocation in commercial banking. 22p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. Finance & Economics Discussion Series.
9812 Coronado, Julia Lynn. The effects of social security
privatization on household saving: evidence from the Chilean
experience. 33p.
9806 David, Alexander. Pricing the strategic value of poison put
bonds. 49p.
9809 Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Mankiw, N. Gregory. Government
debt. 71p.
9805 French, Mark W. Cleaning up the errors in the monthly
"Employment Situation" report: a multivariate state space
approach. 16p.
9808 Haller, Hans & Lengwiler, Yvan. A discrete model of
discriminatory price auctions: an alternative to Menezes -
Monteiro. 15p.
9811 Heller, Daniel & Lengwiler, Yvan. The auctions of Swiss
government bonds: should the Treasury price discriminate or
not?. 14p.
9807 Hynes, Richard & Berkowitz, Jeremy. Bankruptcy exemptions
and the market for mortgage loans. 41p.
9810 Kupiec, Paul H. & O'Brien, James M. Deposit insurance, bank
incentives, and the design of regulatory policy. 49p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. International Finance Papers.
603 Kamin, Steven B. A multi-country comparison of the linkages
between inflation and exchange rate competitiveness. 24p.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Bureau of Economics.
216 Simpson, John David & Hosken, Daniel. Are retailing mergers
anticompetitive?: an event study analysis. 35p.
HEBREW UNIV. Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory.
163 Bar-Hillel, Maya, Bar-Natan, Dror & McKay, Brendan. The
Torah codes: puzzle and solution. 18p.
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.
9741 Bizid, A., Jouini, E. & Koehl, P.F. Pricing in incomplete
markets: an equilibrium approach. 18p.
9751 Bizid, A., Jouini, E. & Koehl, P.F. Pricing of
non-redundant derivatives in a complete market. 18p.
9748 Boizot, C., Robin, J.M. & Visser, M. The demand for food
products: an analysis of interpurchase times and purchased
quantities. 31p.
9745 Fougere, D., et al. An econometric analysis of household
portfolio allocation. 35p.
9743 Frachot, A. How to stabilize financial markets before EMU?.
18p.
9746 Ghysels, E., Gourieroux, C. & Jasiak, J. Stochastic
volatility duration models. 37p.
9750 Gourieroux, C. & Scaillet, O. Multiregime term structure
models. 28p.
9749 Guegan, D. & Lisi, F. Predictive dimension: an alternative
definition of the embedding dimension. 16p.
9742 Guerre, E. Design adapative pointwise nearest neighbor
regression. 19p.
9753 Henry, M. Semiparametric frequency domain estimation for
time series with conditional heteroscedasticity. 34p.
9744 Jouini, E., Koehl, P.F. & Touzi, N. Optimal investment with
taxes: an optimal control problem with endogenous delay.
36p.
9752 Koehl, P.F. & Pham, H. Sublinear price functionals under
portfolio constraints. 11p.
9747 Magnac, T. State dependence and heterogeneity in youth
employment histories. 45p.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Department of Economics.
9803 Camera, Gabriele & Corbae, Dean. Money and price
dispersion. 33p.
BANCA DE ITALIA. Research Department.
322 Angeloni, Ignazio & Violi, Roberto. Long-term interest rate
convergence in Europe and the probability of EMU. 48p.
323 Fabiani, Silvia & Pellegrini, Guido. Education,
infrastructure, geography and growth: an empirical analysis
of the development of Italian provinces. 61p.
321 Ferri, Giovanni & Mattesini, Fabrizio. Finance, human
capital and infrastructure: an empirical investigation of
post war Italian growth. 54p.
324 Grande, Guiseppe. Properties of the monetary conditions
index. 55p.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Department of Political Economy.
395 Hamilton, Bruce W. The true cost of living: 1974-1991.
44p.
396 Karni, Edi & Mongin, Philippe. On the determination of
subjective probability by choices. 28p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Financial Markets Group.
282 Huddart, Steven, Hughes, John S. & Brunnermeier, Markus.
Disclosure requirements and stock exchange listing choice in
an international context. 40p.
281 Lotz, Christopher. Locally minimizing the credit risk.
39p.
280 Vitale, Paolo. Co-ordinated monetary and foreign exchange
intervention. 36p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Int'l. Centre for Econ & Related Disc.
346 Hart, Oliver & Moore, John. Cooperatives vs. outside
ownership. 52p.
341 Polak, Ben. Epistemic conditions for Bayesian Nash
equilibrium, and common knowledge of rationality. 26p.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
24/97 Dobbie, Michael. Hysteresis and unemployment. 52p.
1/98 Ip, Pui Chi. The role of monetary policy thirty years on.
14p.
2/98 Sharir, Shmuel. Compensating for damages with the
"dedicated-portfolio approach" and comparison with the
"discount-rate approach". 18p.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Department of Economics.
9633 Acemoglu, Daron. Good jobs versus bad jobs: theory and some
evidence. 50p.
9626 Acemoglu, Daron. Technology, unemployment and efficiency.
11p.
9632 Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James A. Why did the West
extend the franchise?: democracy, inequality and growth in
historical perspective. 46p.
9627 Angrist, Joshus D. Conditional independence in sample
selection models. 14p.
9622 Athey, Susan. Comparative statics under uncertainty: single
crossing properties and log supermodularity. 57p.
9630 Blanchard, Olivier & Kremer, Michael. Disorganization.
36p.
9629 Blanchard, Olivier & Katz, Lawrence F. What we know and do
not know about the natural rate of unemployment. 37p.
9625 Caballero, Ricardo J. & Hammour, Mohamad L. The
macroeconomics of specificity. 46p.
9624 Ellison, Sara F., et al. Characteristics of demand for
pharmaceutical products: an examination of four
cephalosporins. 38p.
9621 Holmstrom, Bengt & Tirole, Jean. Private and public supply
of liquidity. 42p.
9623 Kremer, Michael & Maskin, Eric. Wage inequality and
segregation by skill. 61p.
9634 Moscarini, Guiseppe, Ottaviani, Marco & Smith, Lones.
Social learning in a changing world. 11p.
9628 Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. Continuous training in Germany.
34p.
9620 Smith, Lones. Do rational traders frenzy?. 41p.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Department of Economics.
611 Creedy, John & Martin, Cameron. How large are Australia's
greenhouse gas emissions?. 11p.
609 Crosby, Mark & Olekalns, Nilss. Some long run evidence on
tax smoothing. 27p.
608 Hirokawa, Midori & Sasaki, Dan. Endogenously asynchronous
entries into an uncertain industry. 23p.
610 Sherstyuk, Katerina. Collusion without conspiracy: an
experimental study of one-sided auctions. 28p.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9702 Linz, Susan J. Depreciation and Russian corporate finance:
a pragmatic approach to surviving the transition. 27p.
9703 Neumark, David & Wascher, William. The New
Jersey-Pennsylvania minimum wage experiment: a reevaluation
using payroll records. 67p.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Center for Political Economy.
96-1 Freeman, John R. A computable equilibrium model for the
study of political economy. 59p.
97-1 Mohtadi, Hamid & Roe, Terry L. Democracy, rent seeking, and
growth: is there a U curve?. 39p.
MONASH UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
24/97 Aoki, Koji. Japan's manufacturing foreign direct investment
towards East Asian countries: an empirical analysis. 41p.
20/97 Bingley, Paul & Walker, Ian. Household unemployment and the
labour supply of married women. 28p.
22/97 Krueger, Anne O. Lessons for policy reform in light of the
Mexican experience. 29p.
21/97 Ng, Yew-Kwang. A case for happiness, cardinalism and
interpersonal comparability. 13p.
23/97 Prentice, David. Estimating a short run cost function for a
heterogeneous industry. 40p.
19/97 Rich, Judith. Gender, race and promotion in the U.S. civil
service: a comparative study of two cohorts of employees
entering the . 34p.
18/97 Yang, Xiaokai & Cheng, Wenli. An inframarginal analysis of
the Heckscher-Ohlin model. 23p.
UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. Center for Economic Studies.
144 Alvarez, Luis H.R. & Kanniainen, Vesa. Valuation of
irreversible entry options under uncertainty and taxation.
18p.
147 Apps, Patricia F. & Rees, Ray. Individual vs. joint
taxation in models with household production. 12p.
146 Apps, Patricia F. & Rees, Ray. On the taxation of trade
within and between households. 24p.
145 Apps, Patricis F. & Rees, Ray. The optimal taxation of
couples. 23p.
139 Dixit, Avinash & Olson, Mancur. Does voluntary
participation undermine the Coase Theorem?. 31p.
143 Koskela, Erkki & Schob, Ronnie. Payroll taxes vs. wage
taxes: non-equivalence results. 10p.
140 Lichtenberg, Frank R. The allocation of publicy-funded
biomedical research. 27p.
142 Sandmo, Agnar. Redistribution and the marginal cost of
public funds. 19p.
141 Sinn, Hans-Werner. The value of children & immigrants in a
pay-as-you-go pension system: a proposal for a partial
transition to a fund. 23p.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Working Papers.
6357 Acemoglu, Daron & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. The structure of
wages and investment in general training. 25p.
6383 Altshuler, Rosanne, Grubert, Harry & Newlon, T. Scott. Has
U.S. investment abroad become more sensitive to tax rates?.
36p.
6372 Arreaza, Adriana, Sorensen, Bent E. & Yosha, Oved.
Consumption smoothing through fiscal policy in OECD and EU
countries. 34p.
6379 Backus, David, et al. Predictable changes in yields and
forward rates. 43p.
6376 Baldwin, Robert E. & Magee, Christopher S. Is trade policy
for sale?: congressional voting on recent trade bills. 36p.
6317 Barro, Robert J. Myopia and inconsistency in the
neoclassical growth model. 31p.
6355 Beaudry, Paul & Blackorby, Charles. Taxes and employment
subsidies in optimal redistribution programs. 49p.
6365 Berger, Tommy, et al. Another look at the capitalization of
interest subsidies: evidence from Sweden. 24p.
6393 Bils, Mark & Klenow, Peter J. Does schooling cause growth
or the other way around?. 41p.
6343 Blank, Rebecca M. What causes public assistance caseloads
to grow?. 67p.
6347 Brown, Stephen J., et al. The Japanese open-end fund
puzzle. 43p.
6385 Cameron, Stephen V. & Heckman, James J. Life cycle
schooling and dynamic selection bias: models and evidence
for five cohorts of American males. 91p.
6374 Carroll, Robert, et al. Entrepreneurs, income taxes, and
investment. 46p.
6388 Cawley, John, Heckman, James & Vytlacil, Edward. Cognitive
ability and the rising return to education. 42p.
6354 Cecchetti, Stephen G., Lam, Pok-sang & Mark, Nelson C.
Asset pricing with distorted beliefs: are equity returns too
good to be true?. 23p.
6371 Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin & Evans, Charles
L. Modeling money. 43p.
6362 Currie, Janet & Thomas, Duncan. School quality and the
longer-term effects of Head Start. 29p.
6363 DiPasquale, Denise & Glaeser, Edward L. Incentives and
social capital: are homeowners better citizens?. 42p.
6373 Dixit, Avinash K. & Pindyck, Robert S. Expandability,
reversibility, and optimal capacity choice. 28p.
6369 Dornbusch, Rudiger, Favero, Carlo A. & Giavazzi, Francesco.
The immediate challenges for the European Central Bank.
50p.
6334 Edwards, Sebastian. The Mexican peso crisis: how much did
we know? When did we know it?. 38p.
6370 Eichengreen, Barry & Rose, Andrew K. Staying afloat when
the wind shifts: external factors and emerging market
banking crises. 45p.
6380 Flood, Robert & Marion, Nancy. Perspectives on the recent
currency crisis literature. 63p.
6331 Galenson, David W. The careers of modern artists: evidence
from auctions of contemporary paintings. 53p.
6344 Goldberg, Linda S. & Klein, Michael W. Foreign direct
investment, trade and real exchange rate linkages in
Southeast Asia and Latin America. 41p.
6392 Goolsbee, Austan. The business cycle, financial
performance, and the retirement of capital goods. 34p.
6333 Goolsbee, Austan. What happens when you tax the rich?:
evidence from executive compensation. 35p.
6342 Goolsbee, Austan & Cross, David B. Estimating adjustment
costs with data on heterogeneous capital goods. 45p.
6353 Grogger, Jeff & Willis, Mike. The introduction of crack
cocaine and the rise in urban crime rates. 36p.
6341 Hellerberg, Mark & von Hagen, Jurgen. Electoral
institutions, cabinet negotiations, and budget deficits in
the European Union. 39p.
6384 Heckman, James J., Lochner, Lance & Taber, Christopher.
Explaining rising wage inequality: explorations with a
dynamic general equilibrium model of labor earnings... 82p.
6321 Hellerstein, Judith K., Neumark, David & Troske, Kenneth R.
Market forces and sex discrimination. 36p.
6324 Hong, Harrison & Stein, Jeremy C. A unified theory of
underreaction, momemtum trading and overreaction in asset
markets. 56p.
6323 Hoxby, Caroline M. How the changing market structure of
U.S. higher education explains college tuition. 77p.
6382 Jermann, Urban J. International portfolio diversification
and labor/leisure choice. 28p.
6340 Kaplow, Louis. Transfer motives and tax policy. 12p.
6346 Kessler, Daniel P. & McClellan, Mark. The effects of
malpractice pressure and liability reforms on physicians
perceptions of medical care. 36p.
6335 Kim, Sukkoo. Economic integration and convergence: U.S.
regions 1840-1987. 63p.
6322 Kim, Sukkoo. Regions, resources, and economic geography:
sources of U.S. regional comparative advantage, 1880-1987.
51p.
6327 Krueger, Anne O. Whither the World Bank and the IMF?. 93p.
6377 Lakdawalla, Darius & Philipson, Tomas. Nonprofit production
and competition. 54p.
6366 Lanjouw, Jean O. The introduction of pharmaceutical product
patents in India: "heartless exploitation of the poor &
suffering"?. 53p.
6351 Lewis, Karen K. International home bias in international
finance and business cycles. 67p.
6345 McGarry, Kathleen. Inter vivos transfers and intended
bequests. 47p.
6359 Markowitz, Sara & Grossman, Michael. Alcohol regulation and
violence towards children. 33p.
6361 Meade, Jose & Waldfogel, Joel. Do sentencing guidelines
raise the cost of punishment?. 24p.
6390 Mishkin, Frederic S. International capital movements,
financial volatility and financial instability. 33p.
6316 Mitchell, Olivia S. & Barreto, Flavio Ataliba. After Chile,
what?: second-round pension reforms in Latin America. 40p.
6328 Mocan, H. Naci & Viola, Deborah. The determinants of child
care workers' wages and compensation: sectoral difference,
human capital, race... 52p.
6326 Mulligan, Casey B. Pecuniary incentives to work in the U.S.
during World War II. 55p.
6378 Neal, Derek & Rosen, Sherwin. Theories of the distribution
of labor earnings. 54p.
6330 Neumark, David, Polsky, Daniel & Hansen, Daniel. Has job
stability declined yet?: new evidence for the 1990s. 48p.
6348 Pacula, Rosalie L. Adolescent alcohol and marijuana
consumption: is there really a gateway effect?. 43p.
6329 Persson, Torsten & Tabellini, Guido. Political economics
and macroeconomic policy. 100p.
6349 Piggott, John & Whalley, John. Value added tax base
broadening, self supply, and the informal sector. 30p.
6337 Poterba, James. The estate tax and after-tax investment
returns. 43p.
6368 Rajan, Raghuram, Servaes, Henri & Zingales, Luigi. The cost
of diversity: the diversification discount and inefficient
investment. 50p.
6338 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Channeling
domestic savings into productive investment under asymmetric
information. 29p.
6339 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Quantitative
implications of the home bias: foreign underinvestment,
domestic oversaving and corrective taxation. 23p.
6364 Rodrik, Dani. Democracies pay higher wages. 12p.
6350 Rodrik, Dani. Where did all the growth go?: external
shocks, social conflict, and growth collapses. 50p.
6352 Scharfstein, David S. The dark side of internal capital
markets II: evidence from diversified conglomerates. 35p.
6381 Schwert, G. William. Stock market volatility: ten years
after the crash. 43p.
6375 Shiller, Robert J. Human behavior and the efficiency of the
financial system. 56p.
6356 Shiller, Robert J. Indexed units of account: theory and
assessment of historical experience. 40p.
6358 Stein, Ernesto, Talvi, Ernesto & Grisanti, Alejandro.
Institutional arrangements and fiscal performance: the Latin
American experience. 49p.
6336 Velasco, Andres. A model of endogenous fiscal deficits and
delayed fiscal reforms. 33p.
6332 Wu, Changqi & Cheng, Leonard K. Hong Kong's business
regulation in transition. 34p.
6367 Zarnowitz, Victor. Has the business cycle been abolished?.
16p.
6360 Zucker, Lynne G. & Darby, Michael R. Capturing
technological opportunity vis Japan's star scientists:
evidence from Japanese firms' biotech patents & pr. 47p.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. School of Economics.
98-7 Harcourt, Geoff C. & Monadjemi, Mehdi S. The vital
contributions of John Cornwall to economic theory and
policy. 22p.
98-3 Lim, Jaekyu. Domestic environmental policies and trade
competitiveness: some empirical evidence from South Korea.
28p.
98-2 Lim, Jaekyu. Economic growth and environment: some
empirical evidence from South Korea. 20p.
98-1 Meagher, Kieron & Rogers, Mark. Networks, spillovers and
models of economic growth. 34p.
98-5 Monadjemi, Mehdi S. Money, prices and the exchange rate:
evidence from four OECD countries. 17p.
98-4 Stegman, Trevor. On the role of regulation in
union-employer bargaining. 19p.
98-6 YeungLamKo, Louis. The economic development of Mauritius
since independence. 65p.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Stern School of Business.
9803 Economides, Nicholas. Raising rivals' costs in
complementary goods markets: LECs entering into long
distance & Microsoft bundling IE. 25p.
9801 Economides, Nicholas. The tragic inefficiency of the M-ECPR
(market determined efficient component pricing rule). 17p.
9804 Economides, Nicholas. U.S. telecommunications today. 10p.
9802 Economides, Nicholas & Flyer, Fredrick. Compatability and
market structure for network goods. 40p.
9709 Ghosh, Atish R., et al. Does the nominal exchange rate
regime matter?. 29p.
9710 Sato, Ryuzo, Ramachandran, Rama & Kim, Youngduk. Estimation
of biased technical progress. 19p.
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
4/98 Klovland, Jan Tore. Monetary policy and business cycles in
the interwar years: the Scandinavian experience. 37p.
1/98 Lommerud, Kjell Erik & Sorgard, Lars. Trade liberalization
and cartel stability. 24p.
6/98 Osmundsen, Petter. Corporate taxation under endogenous
mobility. 26p.
3/98 Sandmo, Agnar. The welfare state: a theoretical framework
for justification and criticism. 30p.
5/98 Schjelderup, Guttorm & Weichenrieder, Alfons J. Trade,
multinationals, and transfer pricing regulations. 24p.
2/98 Tungodden, Bertil. Social choices with independent norm
levels. 27p.
OSAKA UNIVERSITY. Institute of Social and Economic Research.
451 Choi, Jay Pil. Brand extension as informational leverage.
27p.
453 Gotoh, Reiko & Yoshihara, Naoki. A game form approach to
theories of distributive justice: formalizing needs
principle. 36p.
447 Horioka, Charles Y. Japan's public pension system: what's
wrong with it and how to fix it. 13p.
449 Kidokoro, Yukihiro. Rate of return and price cap
regulations for urban railways. 50p.
452 Kiyono, Kazuharu & Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro. Global
environmental management: incentives for abatement
investment anticipating an international bargaining. 44p.
450 Matsui, Akihiko & Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro. Evolution and
interaction of social norms. 29p.
448 Sjostrom, Tomas. Undominated Nash implementation with
collusion and renegotiation. 14p.
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA. Department of Economics.
9710 Coulombe, Serge & Day, Kathleen M. Regional convergence in
Canada and the United States: does the border matter?. 41p.
9708 Day, Kathleen M. & Devlin, Rose Anne. The nonprofit sector
and public policy in Canada. 24p.
9711 Grafton, R. Quentin & Barham, Vicky. Rewriting Rio: what's
wrong with the convention on climate change?. 33p.
9713 White, Graham. Increasing flexibility in relative labour
costs as a means of reducing unemployment: do theoretical
foundations exi. 33p.
9712 White, Graham. Macroeconomics and the choice of technique:
long-period coherence and the "Keynes effect". 50p.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Nuffield College.
140 Redding, Stephen. Dynamic comparative advantage and the
welfare effects of trade. 35p.
139 Smith, Lones & Sorensen, Peter. Informational herding and
optimal experimentation. 24p.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Institute for Economic Research.
9744 Coate, Stephen. Welfare economics and the evaluation of
policy changes. 26p.
9801 Mailath, George J. Do people play Nash equilibrium?:
lessons from evolutionary game theory. 42p.
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA. Economics Working Papers.
224 Courty, Pascal & Hao, Li. Sequential screening. 33p.
234 Fuster, Luisa. Is altruism important for understanding the
long-run effects of social security?. 32p.
233 Hauk, Esther & Hurkens, Sjaak. Secret information
acquisition in Cournot markets. 27p.
227 Marianov, Vladimir, Serra, Daniel & Revelle, Charles.
Location of hubs in a competitive environment. 21p.
225 Marin, Jose M. & Olivier, Jacques. Constraints and
non-existence of rational expectations equilibria. 22p.
223 Marin, Jose M. & Rahi, Rohit. Speculative securities. 21p.
229 Mulligan, Casey B. & Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. The optimum
quantity of money: theory and evidence. 51p.
230 Nagel, Rosemarie & Vriend, Nicholaas J. An experimental
study of adaptive behavior in an oligopolistic market game.
37p.
231 Oliva, Maria-Angels & Rivera-Batiz, Luis A. Multinationals,
technology networks and international takeovers. 43p.
235 Shioji, Etsuro. Convergence in panel data: evidence from
the skipping estimation. 20p.
236 Shioji, Etsuro. It's still 2%: evidence on convergence from
116 years of the U.S. states panel data. 15p.
226 Viader, Pelegri, Paradis, Jaume & Bibiloni, Lluis. A new
light on Minkowski's ? (x) function. 19p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. International Finance Section-Essays.
205 McCauley, Robert N. The Euro and the dollar. 83p.
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY. Institute for Economic Research.
963 Boadway, Robin, Marchand, Maurice & Vigneault, Marianne.
The consequences of overlapping tax bases for redistribution
and public spending in a federation. 32p.
962 Boadway, Robin & Sato, Motohiro. Information acquisition
and government intervention in credit markets. 34p.
966 Shi, Shouyong. Search for a monetary propagation mechanism.
48p.
967 Shi, Shouyong. Tariffs, unemployment, and the current
account: an intertemporal equilibrium model. 39p.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Wallis Inst. of Political Economy.
12 Bird, Edward J. Does the welfare state induce risk taking?.
53p.
13 Bird, Edward J. Politics, altruism, and the definition of
poverty. 36p.
11 Bird, Edward J. Welfare policy and endogenous selective
norms. 32p.
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. Eitan Berglas School of Economics.
35/97 Artstein, Yael. Wage rigidity in Israel: institutions vs.
market forces. 32p.
34/97 Hochman, Oded & Pines, David. On the agglomeration of
non-residential activities in an urban area. 33p.
36/97 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Channelling
domestic savings into productive investment under asymmetric
information: the role of foreign direct in. 30p.
32/97 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Implications of
the home bias: a pecking order of capital inflows and
corrective taxation. 32p.
33/97 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Quantitative
implications of the home bias: foreign underinvestment,
domestic oversaving and corrective taxation. 25p.
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VENEZIA. Dipartimento di Scienze Econ.
9802 Chattopadhyay, Subir & Gottardi, Piero. Stochastic
overlapping generations models, market structure, and
optimality. 40p.
9714 Giacomin, Alberto. Cantillon's monetary theory of
production. 23p.
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA. Department of Economics.
9801 Alos-Ferrer, Carlos. Dynamical systems with a continuum of
randomly matched agents. 60p.
9710 Kaufman, Sylvia. Measuring business cycles with a dynamic
Markov switching factor model. 23p.
9711 Neeman, Zvika & Orosel, Gerhard O. Herding and the winner's
curse in markets with sequential bids. 35p.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Center for Studies in Political Economy.
305 Goeree, Jacob K. & Holt, Charles A. Classroom games: rent
seeking and the inefficiency of non-market allocations.
13p.
306 Holt, Charles A. & Sherman, Roger. Classroom games: a
market for lemons. 12p.
307 Levine, Ross. The legal environment, banks, and long-run
economic growth. 33p.
308 Manski, Charles F. & Pepper, John V. Monotone instrumental
variables with an application to the returns to schooling.
39p.