New Acquisitions - October-November 1998
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE. Department of Economics.
98-7 Damania, Richard. The scope for exchange rate pass-through
in an oligopoly. 26p.
98-8 Damania, Richard. A value added tax in an oligopolistic
economy. 16p.
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE. Dept. de Fundamentos de Analisis Econ.
9814 Alos-Ferrer, Carlos, Ania, Ana B. & Schenk-Hoppe, Klaus R.
An evolutionary model of Bertrand oligopoly. 29p.
9813 Fauli-Oller, Ramon. Mergers between asymmetric firms:
profitability and welfare. 20p.
9815 Herrero, Carmen. An alternative theory of health care
decision making. 17p.
9817 Herrero, Carmen & Villar, Antonio. Preeminence and
sustainability in bankruptcy problems. 18p.
9816 Peitz, Martin. Consumer heterogeneity and market
imperfections. 22p.
9818 Peitz, Martin. Two-stage models of product differentiation
with unit-elastic demand. 27p.
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS. Dept. of Economics.
94 Baltas, Nicholas C. Greek legislation on competition policy
and its implementation. 9p.
95 Demopoulos, George D., Fratzeskos, Emmnauel K. & Kapopoulos,
Panayotis T. Fiscal imbalances and exchange rate
management: Greece on the track of EMU. 19p.
100 Demopoulos, George D., et cl. Unemployment persistence
mechanisms and stabilisation policies: Greece on the way to
EMU. 24p.
99 Fotopoulos, Georgios & Louri, Helen. Determinants of hazard
confronting new manufacturing firms in Greece, 1982 - 1992.
21p.
BANK OF JAPAN. Institute for Monetary & Economic Studies.
98-6 Doksum, Kjell, Miura, Ryozo & Yamauchi, Hiroaki. On
financial time series decompositions with applications to
volatility. 58p.
98-7 Inoue, Tetsuya. Impact of information technology and
implications for monetary policy. 45p.
98-8 Nakamura, Hisashi & Shiratsuka, Shigenori. Extracting
market expectations from option prices: case studies in
Japanese option markets. 57p.
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA. Dept. de Economia et de Emet.
241 Alvarez, Jose Maria da Rocha & Martinez Giralt, Xavier.
Country size and international trade. 15p.
276 Antolin, Pablo. Labour mobility, unemployment flows,
vacancies, and job search behaviour in the Spanish labour
market. 37p.
368 Chamorro, J.M. & Martinez Giralt, Xavier.
Telecommunications and urban spatial structure. 22p.
273 Creel, M. & Loomis, J. Semi-nonparametric distribution-free
dichotomous choice contingent valuation. 37p.
275 Ghosh, Parikshit & Ray, Debraj. Cooperation in a community
interaction without information flows. 34p.
359 Granero, Luis M. Term structure of loan commitments in
oligopoly. 25p.
264 Kaneko, Mamoru & Wooders, Myrna H. The nonemptiness of the
F-core of a game without side payments. 19p.
244 Mancera Romero, Francisco M. Capital controls in a context
of tax competition. 19p.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY. Dept. of Economics-Industry Studies Program.
91 Berman, Eli & Bui, Linda T.M. Environmental regulation and
productivity: evidence from oil refineries. 35p.
89 Brundin, Ingela & Ma, Ching-to Albert. Moral hazard,
insurance, and some collusion. 32p.
90 Miron, Jeffrey A. Violence and the U.S. prohibition of
drugs and alcohol. 39p.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY. Ctr. for Int'l. & Devel. Econ. Res.
97 Bardhan, Pranab, Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert. Wealth
inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance.
72p.
102 Eichengreen, Barry. International economic policy in the
wake of the Asian crisis. 41p.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA BARBARA. Department of Economics.
14/98 Frech, H.E. & Mobley, Lee Rivers. Efficiency, growth and
concentration: an empirical analysis of hospital markets.
38p.
15/98 Funkhouser, Edward. Individual effects and estimation of
the motives to remit from international migration. 32p.
12/98 Hamermesh, Daniel S. & Trejo, Stephen J. The demand for
hours of labor: direct evidence from California. 26p.
13/98 Mobley, Lee Rivers & Frech, H.E. Managed care, distance
traveled, and hospital market definition. 37p.
16/98 Trejo, Stephen J. Intergenerational progress of
Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market. 34p.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Department of Applied Economics.
9815 Atkinson, A.B. & Sutherland, H. Microsimulation and policy
debate: a case study of the minimum pension guarantee in
Britain. 16p.
9812 Garratt, Anthony, et al. A long-run structural
macroeconometric model of the U.K. 40p.
9811 Pesaran, M. Hashem & Smith, Ron P. Structural analysis of
cointegrating VARs. 33p.
9814 Solomou, Solomos & Catao, Luis. Effective exchange rates,
1879-1913. 24p.
9813 Solomou, Solomos & Wu, Weike. Weather impacts of the
construction sector, 1855-1913. 22p.
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY. Department of Economics.
9807 Barmby, Tim, Nolan, Michael & Winkelmann, Rainer.
Contracted workdays and absence. 8p.
9812 Ericsson, Neil R. & Marquez, Jaime. A framework for
economic forecasting. 48p.
9813 Mark, Nelson C. & Sul, Donggyu. Nominal exchange rates and
monetary fundamentals: evidence from a seventeen country
panel. 26p.
9806 Winkelmann, Liliana & Winkelmann, Rainer. The labour market
outcomes of New Zealand's old and new immigrants. 39p.
9810 Winkelmann, Rainer. The economic benefits of schooling in
New Zealand: comment and update. 8p.
9809 Winkelmann, Rainer. The labor market performance of
European immigrants in New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s.
33p.
9811 Winkelmann, Rainer. Random effects models for panel count
data. 19p.
9808 Winkelmann, Rainer & Zimmermann, Klaus F. Is job stability
declining in Germany?: evidence from count data models.
18p.
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Institute of Economics.
9813 Araki, Huzihiro & Hansen, Frank. Jensen's operator
inequality for functions of several variables. 12p.
9812 Beyer, Andreas. Encompassing the VAR: a formalization of
seasonal encompassing with an application of a German
macromodel. 22p.
9804 Ejarque, Joao & Tranaes, Torben. Skill-neutral shocks and
institutional changes: implications for productivity growth
and wage dispersion. 39p.
9811 Menezes, Flavio M., Monteiro, Paulo K. & Temimi, Akram.
Discrete public goods with incomplete information. 17p.
(ENGLAND) CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH.
1974 Audretsch, David B. Agglomeration and the location of
innovative activity. 28p.
1962 Bacchetta, Philippe & van Wincoop, Eric. Does exchange rate
stability increase trade and capital flows? 40p.
1970 Bayoumi, Tamim. Estimating trade equations from aggregate
bilateral data. 36p.
1982 Bayoumi, Tamim & Eichengreen, Barry. Exchange rate
volatility and intervention: implications of the theory of
optimum currency areas. 23p.
1975 Beetsma, Roel M.W.J & Bovenberg, A. Lans. The optimality of
a monetary union without a fiscal union. 43p.
1956 Begg, David. Pegging out: lessons from the Czech exchange
crisis. 29p.
1958 Bentolila, Samuel & Saint-Paul, Gilles. Explaining
movements in the labour share. 58p.
1965 Booth, Alison L., Francesconi, Marco & Frank, Jeff. Glass
ceilings or sticky floors? 34p.
1983 Bovenberg, A. Lans, Graafland, Johan J. & de Mooij, Rudd A.
Tax reform and the Dutch labour market: an applied general
equilibrium approach. 100p.
1971 Cornelli, Francesca & Schankerman, Mark. Patent renewals
and R & D incentives. 28p.
1967 Faure-Grimaud, Antoine, Laffont, Jean-Jacques & Martimort,
David. A theory of supervision with endogenous transactions
costs. 40p.
1980 Feldman, Maryann P. & Audretsch, David B. Innovation in
cities: science-based diversity, specialization and
localized competition. 31p.
1964 Fischer, Andreas & Zurlinden, Mathias. Are interventions
self-exciting? 24p.
1966 Flabbi, Luca & Ichino, Andrea. Productivity, seniority and
wages: new evidence from personnel data. 24p.
1959 Fontagne, Lionel, Freudenberg, Michael & Peridy, Nicholas.
Intra-industry trade and the single market: quality matters.
40p.
1972 Galor, Oded & Moav, Omer. Ability based technological
transition, wage inequality and growth. 47p.
1981 Galor, Oded & Weil, David N. Population, technology and
growth: from the Malthusian regime to the demographic
transition. 50p.
1973 Gehrig, Thomas. Screening, cross-border banking and the
allocation of credit. 20p.
1979 Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria & Roubini, Nouriel. Growth
effects of income and consumption taxes. 35p.
1977 Mitchell, Janet. The problem of bad debts: cleaning banks'
balance sheets in economies in transition. 36p.
1968 Neary, J. Peter & Leahy, Dermot. Strategic trade and
industrial policy towards dynamic oligopolies. 54p.
1963 Orszag, Mike & Snower, Dennis J. Anatomy of policy
complementarities. 54p.
1978 Rauch, James E. & Casella, Alessandra. Overcoming
informational barriers to international resource allocation:
prices and group ties. 46p.
1976 Sullivan, Ryan, Timmermann, Allan & White, Halbert.
Data-snooping, technical trading rules performance and the
bootstrap. 64p.
THE MAURICE FALK INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN ISRAEL.
9805 Ahituv, Avner & Kimhl, Ayal. Off-farm work and capital
accumulation over the farmer's life-cycle. 26p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA. Research Department.
9816 Becsi, Zsolt, Wang, Ping & Wynne, Mark A. Costly
intermediation and the big push. 27p.
9811 Chang, Roberto & Velasco, Andres. The Asian liquidity
crisis. 59p.
9814 Racine, Marie D. & Ackert, Lucy F. Time-varying volatility
in Canadian and U.S. stock index futures markets: a
multivariate analysis. 23p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO. Research Department.
98-9 Barrow, Lisa. An analysis of women's return-to-work
decisions following first birth. 32p.
98-5 Burnside, Craig, Eichenbaum, Martin & Rebelo, Sergio.
Prospective deficits and the Asian currency crisis. 52p.
98-6 Christiano, Lawrence J. & Fisher, Jonas D.M. Stock market
and investment good prices: implications for macroeconomics.
53p.
98-7 Edelberg, Wendy, Eichenbaum, Martin & Fisher, Jonas D.M.
Understanding the effects of a shock to government
purchases. 46p.
98-8 Velde, Francois R. & Weber, Warren E. A model of
bimetallism. 45p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY. Research Division.
9802 Kozicki, Sharon. Predicting inflation with the term
structure spread. 39p.
9803 Kozicki, Sharon & Tinsley, P.A. Vector rational error
correction. 33p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. Research Department.
255 Azariadis, Costas, Bullard, James & Ohanian, Lee E. Complex
eigenvalues and trend-reverting fluctuations. 39p.
254 Cole, Harold L. & Kocherlakota, Narayana. Dynamic games
with hidden actions and hidden states. 14p.
253 Cole, Harold L., Mailath, George J. & Postlewaite, Andrew.
Efficient non-contractible investments. 46p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. Research & Market Analysis Group.
44 Connolly, Michelle P. The dual nature of trade: measuring
its impact on imitation and growth. 26p.
46 Harrigan, James. International trade and American wages in
general equilibrium, 1967-1995. 31p.
47 Kahn, James A. & Lim, Jong-Soo. Skilled labor-augmenting
technical progress in U.S. manufacturing. 35p.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA. Economic Research Division.
9818 Cummins, J. David, Tennyson, Sharon & Weiss, Mary A.
Consolidation and efficiency in the U.S. life insurance
industry. 41p.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Bureau of Economics.
220 Thomas, Charles J. The competitive effects of mergers
between asymmetric firms. 27p.
HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY. Institute for Economic Research.
353 Hosono, Kaoru. R & D expenditure and the choice between
private and public debt: do Japanese main banks extract
firms' rents? 37p.
350 Kariya, Takeaki & Kurata, Hiroshi. A maximal extension of
the Gauss-Markov theorem and its nonlinear version. 13p.
354 Mako, Csaba. Foreign direct investment and restructuring
business organisations in Central Eastern Europe. 37p.
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DES ETUDES ECONOMIQUES.
9827 Degenne, A., Lebeaux, M.O. & Lemel, Y. Social capital in
everyday life. 28p.
9826 Forse, M. & Lemel, Y. Occupational, educational and
economic position status consistency trends in France,
Germany and the USA. 19p.
9829 Jouni, E. & Napp, C. Arbitrage and investment
opportunities. 45p.
9828 Jouini, E., Kallal, H. & Napp, C. Arbitrage pricing of
derivatives with bounds on the underlying securities. 22p.
9830 Jouini, E. & Napp, C. Continuous time equilibrium pricing
of nonredundant assets. 33p.
9831 Jouini, E. & Kallal, H. Efficient trading strategies in the
presence of market frictions. 44p.
9832 Melitz, J. English-language dominance, literature and
welfare. 41p.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Department of Economics.
9809 Williamson, Stephen D. Private money. 33p.
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
45 Tesfatsion, Leigh. Teaching agent-based computational
economics to graduate students. 38p.
47 Wohlgemuth, Darin, et al. The pork industry: environmental
regulations and competitiveness. 24p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Financial Markets Group.
301 Board, John, Vila, Anne & Wells, Stephen. Liquidity in
second tier equity markets: evidence from London's
alternative investment market (AIM). 38p.
305 Bolton, Patrick & Freixas, Xavier. A dilution cost approach
to financial intermediation and securities markets. 43p.
302 Lunde, Asger, Timmermann, Allan & Blake, David. The hazards
of mutual fund underperformance: a Cox regression analysis.
39p.
304 Sullivan, Ryan, Timmerman, ALlan & White, Halbert. Dangers
of data-driven inference: the case of calendar effects in
stock returns. 53p.
303 Sullivan, Ryan, Timmermann, Allan & White, Halbert.
Data-snooping, technical trading rule performance, and the
bootstrap. 64p.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Int'l. Centre for Econ & Related Disc.
358 Hart, Oliver & Moore, John. Foundations of incomplete
contracts. 48p.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON-BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Department of Economics.
9/98 Coakley, Jerry & Fuertes, Ana Maria. Nonparametric
cointegration analysis of real exchange rates. 16p.
8/98 Davies, Hugh, Joshi, Heather & Peronaci, Romana. Dual and
zero earner couples in Britain: longitudinal evidence on
polarization and persistence. 34p.
6/98 Davies, Hugh, Peronaci, Romana & Joshi, Heather. The gender
wage gap and partnership. 45p.
7/98 Davies, Hugh, Joshi, Heather & Peronaci, Romana. Mrs.
Typical II: the foregone earnings of Britain's mothers in
the 1990s. 24p.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Department of Economics.
9807 Chick, Victoria. Banks, competition, small business and the
regions in the European Union. 26p.
9804 Kruiniger, Hugo. Conditional maximum likelihood estimation
of dynamic panel data models. 42p.
9803 Pistaferri, Luigi. Superior information, income shocks and
the permanent income hypothesis. 31p.
9805 Szroeter, Jerzy. Gross non-normality & the quality of
simple approximation to the p-value of a routine test of
non-nested regression. 76p.
9806 Verry, Donald. Some economic aspects of early childhood
education and care. 52p.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
12/98 Abelson, Peter. Determining poverty. 16p.
9/98 Bryant, W.D.A. Wages, unemployment and conditions for the
existence of competitive equilibrium: socially useful
economics? 46p.
11/98 Turnell, Sean. A clearing union or a stabilising fund?:
Australian economists and the creation of the IMF. 27p.
13/98 Turnell, Sean. Eminence grise: the political economy of
F.L. McDougall. 26p.
10/98 Turnell, Sean. The quest for commodity price stability:
Australian economists and `buffer stocks'. 17p.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Center for International Economics.
41 Panagariya, Arvind. Evaluating the factor-content approach
to measuring the effect of trade on wage inequality. 43p.
40 Panagariya, Arvind. The regionalism debate: an overview.
61p.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Department of Economics.
9812 Acemoglu, Daron & Pischke, Jorn-Steffen. Beyond Becker:
training in imperfect labor markets. 37p.
9813 Acemoglu, Daron & Angrist, Joshua. Consequences of
employment protection?: the case of the Americans with
Disabilities Act. 47p.
9814 Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert. Holdups and efficiency
with search frictions. 26p.
98-5 Angrist, Joshua. The Palestinian labor market between the
Gulf War and autonomy. 30p.
98-7 Angrist, Joshua D. & Krueger, Alan B. Empirical strategies
in labor economics. 117p.
9802 Athey, Susan, Avery, Christopher & Zensky, Peter. Mentoring
and diversity. 38p.
9811 Caballero, Ricardo J. & Hammour, Mohamad L. Improper churn:
social costs and macroeconomic consequences. 40p.
98-1 Caballero, Ricardo J. & Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. Nonlinear
aggregate investment dynamics: theory and evidence. 55p.
9810 Ellison, Sara F. What prices can tell us about the market
for antibiotics. 28p.
98-8 Holmstrom, Bengt R. & Tirole, Jean. LAPM: a liquidity based
asset pricing model. 35p.
98-9 Kraay, Aart & Ventura, Jaume. Comparative advantage and the
cross-section of business cycles. 43p.
98-4 Moscarini, Giuseppe & Smith, Lones. Wald revisited: the
optimal level of experimentation. 36p.
98-6 Newey, Whitney K., Powell, James L. & Vella, Francis.
Nonparametric estimation of triangular simultaneous
equations models. 58p.
98-3 Wells, Robin. Information, authority and internal
governance of the firm. 42p.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Department of Economics.
656 Cashin, Paul, Olekalns, Nilss & Sahay, Ratna. Tax smoothing
in a financially repressed economy: evidence from India.
43p.
651 Creedy, John & Dixon, Robert. The distributional effects of
monopoly in New Zealand. 14p.
655 Henry, Olan T., Olekalns, Nilss & Summers, Peter M.
Identifying a currency crisis using threshold
autoregressions: Australia and the East Asian "meltdown".
19p.
654 Hirschberg, Joseph G. & Massoumi, Esfandiar. The
environment and the quality of life in the United States
over time. 18p.
652 Tourky, Rabee & Yannelis, Nicholas C. Markets with many
more agents than commodities. 25p.
653 Wen, Mei & King, Stephen P. Push or pull?: the relationship
between development, trade and resource endowment. 37p.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Center for Economic Research.
302 Huang, Kevin Xiaodong. Valuation and asset pricing in
infinite horizon sequential markets with portfolio
constraints. 39p.
UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. Center for Economic Studies.
163 Ahsan, Syed M. & Tsigaris, Peter. The design of a
consumption tax under capital risk. 22p.
156 Asheim, Geir B. Green national accounting: why and how?
26p.
161 Cooter, Robert. Expressive law and economics. 32p.
159 Holler, Manfred J. & Wickstrom, Bengt-Arne. The scandal
matrix: the use of scandals in the progress of society.
12p.
157 Kunst, Robert M. Unit roots, change, and decision bounds.
36p.
162 Lambert, Peter J. Horizontal inequity: some new
perspectives. 25p.
160 Noldeke, Georg & Schmidt, Klaus M. Sequential investments
and options to own. 32p.
158 Wickstrom, Bengt-Arne. Can billingualism be dynamically
stable?: a simple model of language choice. 12p.
UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN. Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultat.
9808 Battermann, Harald L. & Broll, Udo. Futures markets and
hedging real profit risk. 10p.
9802 Broll, Udo & Eckwert, Bernhard. Export and hedging decision
with state-dependent utility. 9p.
9806 Langefeld, Willi & Spree, Richard. The general hospital St.
Georg in Hamburg during the 19th century: organization,
patients, financing. 63p.
9811 Riphahn, Regina T. Immigrant participation in social
assistance programs. 34p.
9804 Riphahn, Regina T. Income and employment effects of health
shocks: a test case for the German welfare state. 39p.
9810 Rotte, Ralph. Sorties from the fortress: the current system
of anti-immigration policies in Germany. 34p.
9809 Rotte, Ralph & Vogler, Michael. Determinants of
international migration: empirical evidence for migration
from developing countries to Germany. 40p.
9807 Thiele, Henrik & Wambach, Achim. Agency costs and wealth
effects in the principal agent model. 28p.
9805 Thum, Marcel. Controlling migration in an open labor
market. 20p.
9803 Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf & Zimmermann, Klaus F. East-West trade
and migration: the Austro-German case. 38p.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Working Papers.
6683 Abel, Andrew B. Risk premia and term premia in general
equilibrium. 44p.
6670 Acemoglu, Daron & Angrist, Joshua. Consequences of
employment protection?: the case of the Americans with
Disabilities Act. 48p.
6686 Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert. Efficiency unemployment
insurance. 32p.
6708 Agell, Jonas & Persson, Mats. Tax arbitrage and labor
supply. 34p.
6703 Aizenman, Joshua. Capital mobility in a second best world:
moral hazard with costly financial intermediation. 30p.
6700 Albuquerque, Rui & Rebelo, Sergio. On the dynamics of trade
reform. 43p.
6679 Angrist, Joshua D. & Johnson, John H. Effects of
work-related absences on families: evidence from the Gulf
War. 29p.
6707 Antweiler, Werner, Copeland, Brian R. & Taylor, M. Scott.
Is free trade good for the environment? 66p.
6704 Bacchetta, Philippe & van Wincoop, Eric. Does exchange rate
stability increase trade and capital flows? 40p.
6697 Backus, David K. & Crucini, Mario J. Oil prices and the
terms of trade. 42p.
6660 Bakhshi, Hasan, Haldane, Andrew G. & Hatch, Neal. Some
costs and benefits of price stability in the United Kingdom.
103p.
6669 Bekaert, Geert & Harvey, Campbell R. Capital flows and the
behavior of emerging market equity returns. 76p.
6678 Berk, Jonathan B. A simple approach for deciding when to
invest. 18p.
6667 Besley, Timothy J. & Rosen, Harvey S. Sales tax and prices:
an empirical analysis. 33p.
6712 Bhattarai, Keshab & Whalley, John. The division and size of
gains from liberalization in service networks. 22p.
6716 Blau, Francine D., Simpson, Patricia & Anderson, Deborah.
Continuing progress?: trends in occupational segregation in
the United States over the 1970s and 1980s. 51p.
6705 Bodnar, Gordon M. & Gebhardt, Gunther. Derivatives usage in
risk management by U.S. and German non-financial firms: a
comparative survey. 27p.
6721 Bound, John & Solon, Gary. Double trouble: on the value of
twins-based estimation of the return to schooling. 32p.
6693 Bovenberg, A. Lans, Graafland, Johan J. & de Mooij, Ruud A.
Tax reform and the Dutch labor market: an applied general
equilibrium approach. 51p.
6717 Caballero, Ricardo J. & Hammour, Mohamad L. Improper churn:
social costs and macroeconomic consequences. 40p.
6714 Card, David & Levine, Phillip B. Extended benefits and the
duration of unemployment insurance spells: evidence from the
New Jersey extended benefits. 46p.
6671 Chinn, Menzie D. On the won and other East Asian
currencies. 29p.
6661 Choe, Hyuk, Kho, Bong-Chan & Stulz, Rene M. Do foreign
investors destabilize stock markets?: the Korean experience
in 1997. 38p.
6688 Clausing, Kimberly A. The impact of transfer pricing on
intrafirm trade. 38p.
6646 Cochrane, John H. A frictionless view of U.S. inflation.
59p.
6696 Crepon, Bruno, Duguet, Emmanuel & Mairesse, Jacques.
Research, innovation, and productivity: an econometric
analysis at the firm level. 43p.
6677 Cutler, David M., McClellan, Mark & Newhouse, Joseph P.
Prices and productivity in managed care insurance. 50p.
6644 Das, Sanjiv Ranjan & Sundaram, Rangarajan K. Fee speech:
adverse selection and the regulation of mutual fund fees.
30p.
6639 Das, Sanjiv Ranjan & Sundaram, Rangarajan K. On the
regulation of fee structures in mutual funds. 43p.
6719 Diamond, Peter. The economics of social security reform.
28p.
6689 Engel, Eduardo M.R.A, Fischer, Ronald D. & Galetovic,
Alexander. Least-present-value of revenue auctions and
highway franchising. 43p.
6709 Farber, Henry S. & Levy, Helen. Recent trends in
employer-sponsored health insurance coverage: are bad jobs
getting worse? 46p.
6687 Froot, Kenneth A., O'Connell, Paul G.J. & Seasholes, Mark.
The portfolio flows of international investors. 37p.
6710 Fuchs, Victor R. Health, government, and Irving Fisher.
17p.
6642 Fuchs, Victor R. Provide, provide: the economics of aging.
32p.
6685 Fuest, Clemens & Huber, Bernd. Why do countries subsidize
investment and not employment? 25p.
6701 Gaynor, Martin & Haas-Wilson, Deborah. Change,
consolidation, and competition in health care markets. 48p.
6695 Gibbons, Robert. Incentives in organizations. 26p.
6647 Greenwood, Jeremy & Jovanovic, Boyan. Accounting for
growth. 55p.
6681 Gustman, Alan L. & Steinmeier, Thomas L. Effects of
pensions on savings: analysis with data from the Health and
Retirement Study. 69p.
6674 Hall, Brian J. The pay to performance incentives of
executive stock options. 47p.
6690 Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F. & Rivkin, Steven O. Does
special education raise academic achievement for students
with disabilities? 40p.
6691 Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F. & Rivkin, Steven G.
Teachers, schools, and academic achievement. 39p.
6676 Hassett, Kevin A. & Hubbard, R. Glenn. Are investment
incentives blunted by changes in prices of capital goods?
32p.
6699 Heckman, James, et al. Characterizing selection bias using
experimental data. 99p.
6673 Holmstrom, Bengt & Tirole, Jean. LAPM: a liquidity-based
asset pricing model. 72p.
6650 Jaeger, David A. & Stevens, Ann Huff. Is job stability in
the United States falling?: reconciling trends in the
Current Population Surveys and Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
42p.
6698 Jensen, Richard & Thursby, Marie. Proofs and prototypes for
sale: the tale of university licensing. 38p.
6684 Kotlikoff, Laurence J. The Auerbach-Kotlikoff model: its
past, present, and future. 30p.
6718 Lemieux, Thomas & Card, David. Education, earnings and the
"Canadian G.I. Bill". 56p.
6675 McCallum, Bennett T. & Nelson, Edward. Nominal income
targeting in an open-economy optimizing market. 36p.
6648 Metrick, Andrew. Performance evaluation with transactions
data: the stock selection of investment newsletters. 50p.
6720 Nagaoka, Sadao. International trade aspects of competition
policy. 28p.
6662 Neal, Derek. The complexitiy of job mobility among young
men. 42p.
6682 Obstfeld, Maurice. EMU: ready, or not? 37p.
6659 Poterba, James M. & Rueben, Kim S. Fiscal institutions and
public sector labor markets. 37p.
6680 Radelet, Steven & Sachs, Jeffrey. The onset of the East
Asian financial crisis. 80p.
6640 Samwick, Andrew A. Tax reform and target saving. 25p.
6645 Samwick, Andrew A. & Skinner, Jonathan. How will defined
contribution pension plans affect retirement income? 42p.
6641 Shiller, Robert J. Social security and institutions for
intergenerational, intragenerational, and international risk
sharing. 56p.
6706 Sloan, Frank A., et al. Hospital ownership and cost and
quality of care: is there a dime's worth of difference?
37p.
6702 Stock, James H. & Watson, Mark W. Diffusion indexes. 65p.
6692 Temin, Peter. The causes of American business cycles: an
essay in economic historiography. 38p.
6657 Young, Alwyn. Alternative estimates of productivity growth
in the NICs: a comment on the findings of Chang-Tai Hsieh.
61p.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Stern School of Business-Dept. of Economics.
9814 Antzoulatos, Angelos A. Arbitrage opportunities on the road
to stabilization and reform. 29p.
9816 Diebold, Francis X. & Kilian, Lutz. Measuring
predictability: theory and macroeconomic applications. 32p.
9815 Diebold, Francis X., Tay, Anthony S. & Wallis, Kenneth F.
Evaluating density forecasts of inflation: the Survey of
Professional Forecasters. 24p.
9813 Lopomo, Guiseppe & Ok, Efe A. Bargaining, interdependence,
and the rationality of fair division. 33p.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. Center for Math Studies in Econ & Mgmt Sci
1223 Al-Najjar, Nabil I. A reputational model of authority.
37p.
1222 Anand, Krishnan S. & Mendelson, Haim. Postponement and
information in a supply chain. 35p.
1221 Baliga, Sandeep & Polak, Ben. Banks versus bonds: the
emergence and persistence of two financial systems. 34p.
1220 Bergemann, Dirk & Valimaki, Juuso. Experimentation in
markets. 43p.
1218 Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Klibanoff, Peter & Ozdenoren,
Emre. Maximin expected utility over Savage acts with a set
of priors. 49p.
1219 Ciccone, Antonio & Matsuyama, Kiminori. Efficiency and
equilibrium with dynamic increasing aggregate returns due to
demand complementarities. 31p.
1225 Ma, Jinpeng. Strategic formation of coalitions. 24p.
1224 Miller, Nolan H. & Pazgal, Amit. The equivalence of price
and quantity competition with incentive scheme commitment.
21p.
1216 Myerson, Roger B. Political economics and the Weimar
disaster. 34p.
1217 Reiter, Stanley. Interdependent preferences and groups of
agents. 35p.
1226 Solan, Eilon & Vieille, Nicholas. Correlated equilibrium in
stochastic games. 28p.
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
15/98 Brunstad, Rolf Jens, Gaasland, Ivar & Vardal, Erling.
Deregulation of the Norwegian market for milk products.
17p.
16/98 Fehr, Hans & Wiegard, Wolfgang. The incidence of an
extended ACE corporation tax. 31p.
14/98 Haaland, Jan I. & Wooton, Ian. International competition
for multinational investment. 28p.
17/98 Konrad, Kai A. & Schjelderup, Guttorm. Fortress building in
global tax competition. 16p.
13/98 Nilssen, Tore & Sorgard, Lars. A public firm challenged by
entry: duplication or diversity? 32p.
12/98 Osmundsen, Petter. Learning-by-doing: consequences for
incentive design. 8p.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. Department of Economics.
9808 Carrasco, Marine. Chi-square test when a nuissance
parameter is present only under the alternative. 27p.
9813 Clower, Robert & Howitt, Peter. Keynes and the classics: an
end of century view. 15p.
9809 Evans, Paul. Income dynamics in regions and countries.
29p.
9811 Gould, Eric D., Weinberg, Bruce A. & Mustard, David. Crime
rates and local labor market opportunities in the United
States: 1979 - 1995. 54p.
9817 Light, Audrey & Strayer, Wayne. Determinants of college
completion: school quality or student ability? 34p.
9816 Light, Audrey & Strayer, Wayne. From Bakke to Hopwood: does
race affect college attendance and completion? 29p.
9815 Light, Audrey & Omori, Yoshiaki. Unemployment insurance and
job quits. 52p.
9814 Mark, Nelson C. Fundamentals of the real dollar-pound rate,
1871-1994. 22p.
9812 McCulloch, J. Huston & Kochin, Levis A. The inflation
premium implicit in the U.S. real and nominal term
structures of interest rates. 27p.
9810 Weinberg, Bruce A. Testing the spatial mismatch hypothesis
using inter-city variations in industrial composition. 53p.
OSAKA UNIVERSITY. Institute of Social and Economic Research.
462 Kidokoro, Yukihiro. Regulating a monopoly with quality
choice under asymmetric information. 24p.
463 Ogawa, Kazuo & Abe, Kazutomo. Trends and determinants of
Japanese saving rates. 72p.
461 Ono, Yoshiyasu, Ogawa, Kazuo & Yoshida, Atsushi. Liquidity
preference and persistent unemployment with dynamic
optimizing agents. 18p.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Nuffield College.
145 Bliss, Christopher. The ergodic distribution of wealth with
random shocks. 31p.
146 Elerian, Ola, Chib, Siddhartha & Shephard, Neil. Likelihood
inference for discretely observed non-linear diffusions.
43p.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Center for Analytic Research in Econ.
9810 Corradi, Valentina & Ianni, Antonella. Ergodicity and
clustering in opinion formation. 33p.
9812 Mailath, George J. & Samuelson, Larry. Who wants a good
reputation? 26p.
9811 Mailath, George J. & Samuelson, Larry. Your reputation is
who you're not, not who you'd like to be. 39p.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Institute for Economic Research.
9808 Cole, Harold L., Mailath, George J. & Postlewaite, Andrew.
Efficient non-contractible investments. 45p.
9810 Ethier, Wilfred J. Regionalism in a multilateral world.
35p.
9811 Ethier, Wilfred J. Unilateralism in a multilateral world.
38p.
9809 Mailath, George J & Samuelson, Larry. Who wants a good
reputation? 26p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Industrial Relations Section.
404 Bertrand, Marianne & Mullainathan, Sendhil. Executive
compensation and incentives: the impact of takeover
legislation. 39p.
406 Bertrand, Marianne & Mullainathan, Sendhil. Is there
discretion in wage setting?: a test using takeover
legislation. 38p.
405 Bertrand, Marianne, Luttmer, Erzo F.P. & Mullainathan,
Sendhil. Network effects and welfare cultures. 50p.
403 Krueger, Alan B. & Wu, Stephen. Forecasting successful
economics graduate students. 22p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. International Finance Section-Essays.
209 Obstfeld, Maurice. EMU: ready, or not? 31p.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Woodrow Wilson School-Papers in Economics.
195 Baye, Michael R. & Morgan, John. Information gatekeepers
and the competitiveness of homogeneous product markets.
30p.
191 Dixit, Avinash, Grossman, Gene M. & Gul, Faruk. A theory of
political compromise. 45p.
192 Grossman, Gene M. & Maggi, Giovanni. Diversity and trade.
40p.
197 Hsieh, Chang-Tai. Bargaining over reform. 18p.
198 Hsieh, Chang-Tai. Measuring biased technological change.
22p.
196 Hsieh, Chang-Tai. What explains the Industrial Revolution
in East Asia?: evidence from factor markets. 42p.
199 Moran, John & Morgan, John. Lake Wobegon revisited:
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30p.
194 Morgan, John. Is timing everything?: a model of endogenous
sequential contests. 21p.
200 Morgan, John & Sefton, Martin. An experimental
investigation of unprofitable games. 36p.
193 Obstfeld, Maurice & Rogoff, Kenneth. Risk and exchange
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY. Inst. for Research in Behav, Econ & Mgmt Sci.
1118 Brush, Thomas H., James, Constance R. & Bromiley, Philip.
Comparing alternative methods to estimate corporate and
industry effects. 29p.
1117 Brush, Thomas H., Bromiley, Philip & Hendrickx, Margaretha.
The free cash flow hypothesis for sales growth and firm
performance. 36p.
1116 Hendrickx, Margaretha. What can management researchers
learn from Donald Campbell, the philosopher?: An exercise in
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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Center for Economic Research.
454 Albuquerque, Rui & Rebelo, Sergio. On the dynamics of trade
reform. 43p.
450 Chun, Youngsub, Schummer, James & Thomson, William.
Constrained egalitarianism: a new solution for claims
problems. 30p.
453 Epstein, Larry G. A definition of uncertainty aversion.
45p.
452 Epstein, Larry G. & Peters, Michael. A revelation principle
for competing mechanisms. 49p.
455 Thomson, William. Economies with public goods: an
elementary geometric exposition. 43p.
451 Thomson, William. Guidelines on writing referee reports.
13p.
SANTA FE INSTITUTE. Economics Research Program.
9873 Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert. The evolution of strong
reciprocity. 37p.
9874 Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert. Mutual monitoring in
teams: the effects of residual claimancy and reciprocity.
21p.
9877 Hong, Lu & Page, Scott E. Diversity and optimality. 27p.
9875 Page, Scott E. On the emergence of cities. 28p.
9876 Page, Scott E. Uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity.
32p.
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY. Eitan Berglas School of Economics.
13/98 Eckwert, Bernhard & Zilcha, Itzhak. The value of
information in some general equlibrium models. 20p.
9/98 Grossman, Gene M. & Helpman, Elhanan. Competing for
endorsements. 50p.
10/98 Helpman, Elhanan. R & D and productivity: the international
connection. 22p.
18/98 Helpman, Elhanan. The structure of foreign trade. 39p.
11/98 Jaffe, Adam B. & Trajtenberg, Manuel. International
knowledge flows: evidence from patent citations. 38p.
17/98 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Yuen, Chi-Wa. Do debt flows
crowd out equity flows or the other way round? 17p.
16/98 Razin, Assaf & Sadka, Efraim. Migration and pension. 20p.
15/98 Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim & Swagel, Philip. Tax burden
and migration: a political economy theory and evidence.
26p.
14/98 Rubinstein, Ariel. Economics and language: The Schwartz
Lecture, May 1998. 20p.
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. Ctr. for Int'l. Research on the Japanese Econ.
10 Chen, Jin & Fujimoto, Takahiro. Different behaviors of
Chinese auto makers in technology introduction and
assimilation. 33p.
17 Dinc, I. Serdar. The shareholding structure of Japanese
banks and their real estate lending in the 1980s. 43p.
16 Fukuda, Shin-ichi. Extraneous shocks and international
linkage of business cycles in a two-country monetary model.
25p.
8 Fukuda, Shin-ichi. Seasonal cycles and endogenous business
cycles in a monetary economy. 24p.
5 Horiuchi, Akiyoshi. Financial fragility in Japan: a
governance issue. 38p.
18 Ihori, Yoshihiro. An economic analysis of public transfers.
28p.
15 Kamiya, Hidehiko & Takamura, Akimichi. Rankings generated
by spherical discriminant analysis. 8p.
19 Kubokawa, Tatsuya, Saleh, A.K.M. Ehsanes & Konno, Yoshihiko.
Bayes, minimax and nonnegative estimators of variance
components under Kullback Leibler loss. 25p.
6 Kubokawa, Tatsuya. Shrinkage and modification technique in
estimation of variance and the related problems: a review.
31p.
4 Kuriki, Satoshi & Takemura, Akimichi. Tail probabilities of
the maxima of multilinear forms and their applications.
40p.
14 Matsui, Akihiko. Strong currency and weak currency. 33p.
13 Matsushima, Hitoshi. Efficienct entrepreneurship. 27p.
7 Matsushima, Hitoshi. Leaning about stochastic payoff
structures. 33p.
9 Matsushima, Hitoshi. Towards a theory of subjective games.
24p.
1 Miwa, Yoshiro. `Market' and `marketization': from the
Japanese experience. 43p.
20 Sussman, Nathan & Yafeh, Yishay. Institutions, reforms, and
country risk: lessons from Japanese government debt in the
Meiji Period. 42p.
3 Tabuchi, Takatoshi. Measuring urban agglomeration
economies. 15p.
2 Takahashi, Nobuo, Goto, Toshio & Fujita, Hideki. Culture's
consequences in Japanese multinationals and lifetime
commitment. 20p.
11 Thomke, Stefan & Fujimoto, Takahiro. Shortening product
development time through "front-loading" problem solving.
33p.
21 Yafeh, Yishay & Yosha, Oved. Large shareholders and banks:
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Center for Studies in Political Economy.
311 Brien, Michael J., Loya, Gregory E. & Pepper, John V.
Teenage childbearing and cognitive development. 45p.
313 Elzinga, Kenneth G. & Mills, David E. PC software. 57p.
312 Manski, Charles F., Newman, John & Pepper, John V. Using
performance standards to evaluate social programs with
incomplete outcome data: general issues & application to a
higher education block grant program. 31p.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-ST. LOUIS. Center in Political Economy.
203 Berliant, Marcus & Rothstein, Paul. On models with an
uncongestible public good and a continuum of consumers.
10p.
198 Boylan, Richard T. Corruption and staff expenditures in the
U.S. Congress. 42p.
197 Boylan, Richard T. Private bills: a theoretical and
empirical study of lobbying. 57p.
204 Nachbar, John H. Rational Bayesian learning in repeated
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201 Schofield, Norman. America, Britain, France and Spain,
1763-1804: `core' beliefs in America at the War of
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199 Schofield, Norman. The heart and the uncovered set. 66p.
200 Schofield, Norman. The heart of the Atlantic Constitution:
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202 Schofield, Norman & Sened, Itai. Political equilibrium in
multiparty democracies. 45p.
205 Shvetsova, Olga. Assessing the extent of the endogeneity
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