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230: A Zero-Sum Stochastic Game Model of Duopoly

S. D. Deshmukh and Wayne Winston

229: A Modified Conjugate Gradient Algorithm

Avinoam Perry

228: A Self Correcting Conjugate Gradient Algorithm

Avinoam Perry

227: The Incentives for Price-Taking Behavior When Consumers Have Incomplete Information

John Ledyard

226: Intergenerational Transfers and the Equilibrium Distribution of Earnings

Glenn Cartman Loury

225: A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences

Glenn Cartman Loury

224: Social Decision, Strategic Behavior and Best Outcomes: An Impossibility Result

Allan Gibbard

223: Self-Financing of an R & D Project

Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L. Schwartz

222: On The Desirability of Equalizing Welfare and Potential Income

Elisha A. Pazner

221: Optimality Conditions in Generalized Geometric Programming

Elmor L. Peterson

220: The Constrained Least-Squares Paradox

Avinoam Perry

219: Some Limitations of Demand Revealing Processes

Theodore Groves and John O. Ledyard

218: Optimal Sampling and the Right-Hand-Side of A Linear Program: Sensitivity Analysis Revisited

Andrew F Daughety

217: A Unified Approach to R & D Management

S. D. Deshmukh and S. D. Chikte

216: Existence and Optimality of Equilibrium in Labor-Managed Economies

Joseph Greenberg

215: Arbitration of Two-Party Disputes Under Ignorance

Ehud Kalai and Robert W. Rosenthal

214: Optimal Control of Some Markov Processes with Applications to Batch Queueing and Continuous Review Inventory Systems

Howard J. Weiss and Stanley R. Pliska

213: Optimal Exhaustible Resource Depletion with Endogenous Technical Change

Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L. Schwartz

212: On Preferences, Beliefs and Manipulation Within Voting Situations

Jean-Marie Blin and Mark A. Satterthwaite

211: Environmental Management in General Equilibrium: A New Incentive Compatible Approach

Ruediger Pethig

210: Optimal Tax Schemes for Financing Local Public Goods

Joseph Greenberg

210: Quasi Equilibrium in Abstract Economies Without Ordered Preferences

Joseph Greenberg

209: A Multiple Criteria Response Surface Optimization Procedure

Avinoam Perry

208: Equilibrium in an Economy With Changeable Preferences

Bengt-Arne Wickstrom

207: The Conical Duality and Complementarity of Price and Quality for Multicommodity Spatial and Temporal Network Allocation Problems

Elmor L. Peterson

206: Duality in Unconstrained Optimization

Avinoam Perry

205: Stochastic Control of Competition Through Prices

S. D. Deshmukh and Wayne Winston

204: A Model of Regulation Under Uncertainty and a Test of Regulatory Bias

David P. Baron and Robert A. Taggart

203: Straightforwardness of Game Forms with Lotteries as Outcomes

Allan Gibbard

202: Aggregation Procedure for Cardinal Preferences: A Formulation and Proof of Samuelson's Conjecture that Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Carries Over to Cardinal Preferences

Ehud Kalai and David Schmeidler

201: The Demand for and Supply of Inflation

Robert J. Gordon

200: The Global Asyrnptotic Stability of Optimal Control: A Survey of Recent Results

William A. Brock

199: Recent Developments in the Theory of Inflation and Unemployment

Robert J. Gordon

198: Dynamic Investment Strategies for a Risky R&D Project

S. D. Deshmukh and S. D. Chikte

197: Stochastic Evolution and Control of an Economic Activity

S. D. Deshmukh and S. D. Chikte

196: On Expected Present Value Vs. Expected Future Value: Further Remarks

Elisha A. Pazner and Assaf Razin

195: An Impossibility Theorem for Voting With a Different Interpretation

Eitan Muller and Mark Satterthwaite

194: Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility

Allan Gibbard and William L Harper

193: The Manipulation of Social Choice Mechanisms That Do Not Leave 'Too Much' to Chance

Salvador Barberà

192: Conversion of Semimarkov Processes to Chung Processes

Erhan Cinlar

191: An Admissible Set Occurring in Various Bargaining Situations

Ehud Kalai and David Schmeidler

190: Equity Foundations of Welfare Economics

Elisha A. Pazner

189: A Modified Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization

Avinoam Perry

188: Strategy-Proofness and Single-Peakedness

Jean-Marie Blin and Mark Satterthwaite

187: A Note on the Core of a Game Without Side-Payrnents

Tatsuro Ichiishi

186: On Strict Regeneration

Erhan Cinlar

185: Asymptotic Efficiency of Bechhofer's Single-Stage Procedure Relative to a Two- Stage Procedure for Selecting the Largest Normal Mean

Ajit Tamhane

184: Coase's Theorem and the Choice of Liability Rules

Shmuel Amir and Joseph Greenberg

183: Individual Decisions and Group Decisions: The Fundamental Differences

Jean-Marie Blin and Mark A. Satterthwaite

182: Models of New Product Diffusion Through Advertising and Word-of-Mouth

Joe A. Dodson