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Volume 76, issue 5, 1986
- Measuring Racial Discrimination with Fair Housing Audits: Caught in the Act pp. 881-93

- John Yinger
- The Winner's Curse and Public Information in Common Value Auctions pp. 894-920

- John Kagel and Dan Levin
- The Logic of Vertical Restraints pp. 921-39

- Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole
- Installed Base and Compatibility: Innovation, Product Preannouncements, and Predation pp. 940-55

- Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner
- Oligopoly and Financial Structure: The Limited Liability Effect pp. 956-70

- James Brander and Tracy Lewis
- Horizontal vs. Vertical Information Structure of the Firm pp. 971-83

- Masahiko Aoki
- Technological Opportunity and Spillovers of R&D: Evidence from Firms' Patents, Profits, and Market Value pp. 984-1001

- Adam Jaffe
- Explaining the Volume of Trade: An Eclectic Approach pp. 1002-11

- James Markusen
- Nominal Contracts in a Bimetallic Standard pp. 1012-30

- Peter Garber
- Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing? pp. 1031-44

- James Bradford De Long and Lawrence H Summers
- Efficient Contracts with Costly Adjustment: Short-run Employment Determination for Airline Mechanics pp. 1045-71

- David Card
- Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-run Data Show pp. 1072-85

- William Baumol
- Taxation of Investment and Savings in a World Economy pp. 1086-1102

- Roger Gordon
- The Dynamics of Population Growth, Differential Fertility, and Inequality pp. 1103-16

- David Lam
- Estimates of the Direct Effects of Comparable Worth Policy pp. 1117-25

- George Johnson and Gary Solon
- The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Capital Outflows pp. 1126-30

- Roy J Ruffin and Farhad Rassekh
- The Nonequivalence of Tariffs and Import Quotas pp. 1131-34

- James Melvin
- The Welfare Economics of Price Supports in U.S. Agriculture pp. 1135-41

- Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman
- The Persistence of Volatility and Stock Market Fluctuations pp. 1142-51

- James Poterba and Lawrence H Summers
- The Cyclical Flexibility of Wages pp. 1152-53

- Charles L Schultze
- A New View of the Federal Debt and Budget Deficits: Comment pp. 1154-55

- Ross D Milbourne and Daniel Richards
- A New View of the Federal Debt and Budget Deficits: Reply pp. 1156-57

- Robert Eisner and Paul Pieper
- Government Debt, Government Spending, and Private Sector Behavior: Comment pp. 1158-67

- James Barth, George Iden and Frank Russek
- Government Debt, Government Spending and Private Sector Behavior: Comment pp. 1168-79

- Franco Modigliani and Arlie Sterling
- Government Debt, Government Spending, and Private Sector Behavior: Reply pp. 1180-87

- Roger Kormendi and Philip Meguire
- The Economics of Price Scissors: Comment pp. 1188-91

- Ake Blomqvist
- The Economics of Price Scissors: Comment pp. 1192-94

- Michael Carter
- The Economics of Price Scissors: Reply pp. 1195-99

- Raaj Kumar Sah and Joseph Stiglitz
- The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Comment pp. 1200-1202

- Eskander Alvi
- The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Reply pp. 1203-04

- Samuel Bowles
- Tobin's q and the Structure-Performance Relationship: Comment pp. 1205-10

- William G Shepherd
- Tobin's q and the Structure-Performance Relationship: Reply pp. 1211-13

- Michael Smirlock, Thomas Gilligan and William Marshall
- Pechman's Tax Incidence Study: A Note on the Data pp. 1214-18

- Edgar Browning
- Pechman's Tax Incidence Study: A Response pp. 1219-20

- Joseph A Pechman
- Race and Human Capital: Comment pp. 1221-24

- Robert Margo
- Race and Human Capital: Reply pp. 1225-29

- James P Smith
Volume 76, issue 4, 1986
- Replication in Empirical Economics: The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Project pp. 587-603

- William G Dewald, Jerry Thursby and Richard Anderson
- Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data pp. 604-20

- Robert LaLonde
- A Test for Speculative Bubbles in the Sterling-Dollar Exchange Rate: 1981-84 pp. 621-36

- George Evans
- The Rigidity of Prices pp. 637-58

- Dennis Carlton
- A Tax-Based Test for Nominal Rigidities pp. 659-75

- James Poterba, Julio Rotemberg and Lawrence H Summers
- Ricardian Consumers with Keynesian Propensities pp. 676-91

- Robert Barsky, N. Gregory Mankiw and Stephen Zeldes
- In Defense of Base Drift pp. 692-700

- Carl Walsh
- Prizes and Incentives in Elimination Tournaments pp. 701-15

- Sherwin Rosen
- The Architecture of Economic Systems: Hierarchies and Polyarchies pp. 716-27

- Raaj Kumar Sah and Joseph Stiglitz
- Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market pp. 728-41

- Daniel Kahneman, Jack Knetsch and Richard Thaler
- Measuring the Spillovers from Technical Advance: Mainframe Computers inFinancial Services pp. 742-55

- Timothy Bresnahan
- Price Leadership and Welfare Losses in U.S. Manufacturing pp. 756-67

- Micha Gisser
- Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Poverty pp. 768-88

- Philip Robins
- On the Voluntary and Involuntary Provision of Public Goods pp. 789-93

- B. Douglas Bernheim
- Educational Achievement in Segregated School Systems: The Effects of "Separate-but-Equal." pp. 794-801

- Robert Margo
- Is Price Flexibility Destabilizing? pp. 802-07

- Robert Driskill and Steven M Sheffrin
- On the Limitations of Government Borrowing: A Framework for EmpiricalTesting pp. 808-19

- James D Hamilton and Marjorie A Flavin
- Tax Holidays as Signals pp. 820-26

- Eric Bond and Larry Samuelson
- On the Profitability of Interruptible Supply pp. 827-32

- Glenn Loury and Tracy Lewis
- Final Voting in Legislatures pp. 833-41

- W. Crain, Donald R Leavens and Robert Tollison
- Product Line Rivalry: Note pp. 842-44

- Birger Wernerfelt
- An Unpublished Letter from Malthus to Jane Marcet, January 22, 1833 pp. 845-47

- Bette A Polkinghorn
- Competitive Payments Systems: Comment pp. 848-49

- Robert L Greenfield and Leland B Yeager
- Competitive Payments Systems: Reply pp. 850-53

- Lawrence White
- The Evans and Heckman Subadditivity Test: Comment pp. 854-55

- Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Peter C Anselmo
- A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System: Erratum pp. 856-58

- David Evans and James J Heckman
- New Estimates of the Value of Federal Mineral Rights and Land: Erratum pp. 859
- Boskin, Michael J, et al
Volume 76, issue 3, 1986
- Life Cycle, Individual Thrift, and the Wealth of Nations pp. 297-313

- Franco Modigliani
- Is the Stabilization of the Postwar Economy a Figment of the Data? pp. 314-34

- Christina Romer
- The Distributional Welfare Effects of Rising Prices in the United States: The 1970's Experience pp. 335-49

- Thomas M Stoker
- Terminating Hyperinflation in the Dismembered Habsburg Monarchy pp. 350-64

- Elmus R Wicker
- Unemployment Insurance and Labor Contracts under Asymmetric Information: Theory and Facts pp. 365-77

- Andrew Oswald
- The Design of Procurement Contracts pp. 378-89
- Rafael Rob
- A Supergame-Theoretic Model of Price Wars during Booms pp. 390-407

- Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner
- An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators pp. 408-22

- David Bloom and Christopher L Cavanagh
- An Investigation into the Determinants of U.S. Strike Activity pp. 423-36
- Joseph Tracy
- Marriage and Divorce: Informational Constraints and Private Contracting pp. 437-54
- Elizabeth Peters
- Labor Supply and Marital Separation pp. 455-69

- William Johnson and Jonathan Skinner
- Evaluating the Effects of Optimally Distributed Public Programs: ChildHealth and Family Planning Interventions pp. 470-82

- Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth I Wolpin
- Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality ofStock Market Prices pp. 483-98

- Terry A Marsh and Robert Merton
- The Marsh-Merton Model of Managers' Smoothing of Dividends pp. 499-503

- Robert J Shiller
- What Will Take the Con Out of Econometrics? A Reply Identification andEstimation of Money Demand pp. 504-07

- Thomas Cooley and Stephen LeRoy
- Preference Reversals and the Independence Axiom pp. 508-15

- Charles Holt
- Shifting Comparative Advantage and Senescent Industry Collapse pp. 516-23

- James Cassing and Arye L Hillman
- Measures of Risk Aversion and Comparative Statics of Industry Equilibrium pp. 524-29

- Elie Appelbaum and Eliakim Katz
- Organizational Structure and Productivity pp. 530-38

- Ronald Wintrobe and Albert Breton
- Robert Giffen and the Irish Potato: Note pp. 539-42

- Ulrich Kohli
- Marx and Malthusianism: Comment pp. 543-47

- Miguel Ramirez
- Marx and Malthusianism: Reply pp. 548-50

- Samuel Hollander
- Labor Supply and Tax Rates: Comment pp. 551-56

- David M Betson and David Greenberg
- Labor Supply and Tax Rates: Reply pp. 557-58

- James Gwartney and Richard L Stroup
- The Disinterest in Deregulation: Comment pp. 559-63

- Martin Cherkes, Joseph Friedman and Avia Spivak
- The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply pp. 564-65

- Robert McCormick, Shughart, William F, and Robert Tollison
- Internal Migration and Urban Employment: Comment pp. 566-69

- Michael P Todaro
- Internal Migration and Urban Employment: Reply pp. 570-72

- William E Cole and Richard D Sanders
Volume 76, issue 2, 1986
- The Washington Economics Industry pp. 1-9
- Herbert Stein
- Unnatural Value: Or Art Investment as Floating Crap Game pp. 10-14

- William Baumol
- Dance in New York: Market and Subsidy Changes pp. 15-19

- Dick Netzer
- The Lively Arts as Substitutes for the Lively Arts pp. 20-25

- James H Gapinski
- Supply Side Economics: Old Truths and New Claims pp. 26-30

- Martin Feldstein
- Economic Surprises and Messages of the 1980's pp. 31-36

- Lawrence Chimerine and Richard M Young
- Supply-Side Modeling from Bits and Pieces pp. 37-42

- George von Furstenberg and R Jeffrey Green
- Sex Segregation within Occupations pp. 43-47
- William T Bielby and James N Baron
- Internal Labor Markets and Noncompeting Groups pp. 48-52

- Peter Doeringer
- Work Power and Earnings of Women and Men pp. 53-56

- Marianne A Ferber, Carole A Green and Joe L Spaeth
- Party Strategies, World Demand, and Unemployment: The Political Economy of Economic Activity in Western Industrial Nations pp. 57-61

- James E Alt
- What Can Economics Learn from Political Science, and Vice Versa? pp. 62-65

- K Alec Chrystal and David Peel
- Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policies and Outcomes in the United States pp. 66-70

- Hibbs, Douglas A,
- Party Differences in Macroeconomic Policies and Outcomes pp. 71-74

- Henry Chappell and William R Keech
- Policy Responses to Exogenous Shocks in Developing Countries pp. 75-78

- Bela Balassa
- Monetary Policy Responses to Exogenous Shocks pp. 79-83

- Maxwell J Fry and David M Lilien
- Developing Country Exchange Rate Policy Responses to Exogenous Shocks pp. 84-87

- Mohsin Khan
- Fiscal Policy Responses to Exogenous Shocks in Developing Countries pp. 88-91

- Vito Tanzi
- The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success pp. 92-96

- Richard Freeman
- Union-Nonunion Earnings Differentials and the Decline of Private-Sector Unionism pp. 97-102

- Richard Edwards and Paul Swaim
- Rising Union Premiums and the Declining Boundaries among Noncompeting Groups pp. 103-08

- Peter Linneman and Michael L Wachter
- Competition and Cooperation in the Market for Exclusionary Rights pp. 109-13

- Thomas G Krattenmaker and Steven C Salop
- Transforming Merger Policy: The Pound of New Perspectives pp. 114-19

- Oliver Williamson
- Toward a More General Theory of Governmental Structure pp. 120-25

- Mancur Olson
- The Interaction of State and Federal Tax Systems: The Impact of State and Local Tax Deductibility pp. 126-31

- Daniel Feenberg and Harvey Rosen
- Budget Reform and the Theory of Fiscal Federalism pp. 132-37

- John Quigley and Daniel L Rubinfeld
- The Marketplace of Economic Ideas pp. 138-40

- Albert Rees
- Communicating Economic Ideas and Controversies pp. 141-44
- Leonard Silk
- Increasing the Public's Understanding of Economics: What Can We Expect from the Schools? pp. 145-48

- Michael A MacDowell
- What Knowledge Is Most Worth Knowing-For Economics Majors? pp. 149-52

- W Lee Hansen
- Public Policy and Productivity in the Trucking Industry: Some Evidence on the Effects of Highway Investments, Deregulation, and the 55 MPH Speed Limit pp. 153-58

- Theodore E Keeler
- Urban Road Reinvestment: The Effects of External Aid pp. 159-64

- George E Peterson
- Efficient Pricing and Investment Solutions to Highway Infrastructure Needs pp. 165-69

- Kenneth A Small and Clifford Winston
- Soviet Growth Slowdown: Duality, Maturity, and Innovation pp. 170-74

- Stanislaw Gomulka
- Soviet Growth Retardation pp. 175-80

- Padma Desai
- Soviet Growth Slowdown: Econometric vs. Direct Evidence pp. 181-85

- Vladimir Kontorovich
- Institutions Supporting Technical Advance in Industry pp. 186-89

- Richard Nelson
- The R&D Tax Credit and Other Technology Policy Issues pp. 190-94

- Edwin Mansfield
- Longer Patents for Lower Imitation Barriers: The 1984 Drug Act pp. 195-98

- Henry Grabowski and John Vernon
- A New Look at the Patent System pp. 199-202

- Richard C Levin
- The Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix: Implications for the Short Run pp. 203-08

- Andrew F Brimmer and Allen Sinai
- The Monetary-Fiscal Mix and Long-run Growth in an Open Economy pp. 209-12

- Frederick C Ribe and William J Beeman
- The Monetary-Fiscal Mix: Long-run Implications pp. 213-18

- James Tobin
- Work Incentives in the AFDC System: An Analysis of the 1981 Reforms pp. 219-23

- Robert Moffitt
- Initial Findings from the Demonstration of State Work-Welfare Initiatives pp. 224-29

- Friedlander, Daniel, et al
- An Evaluation of the Effect of Cashing Out Food Stamps on Food Expenditures pp. 230-34

- Thomas Fraker, Barbara Devaney and Edward Cavin
- Wage Setting, Unemployment, and Insider-Outsider Relations pp. 235-39
- Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J Snower
- Union Wage Rigidity: The Default Settings of Labor Law pp. 240-44

- Michael L Wachter
- Shifting Wage Norms and Their Implications pp. 245-48

- George Perry
- Union vs. Nonunion Wage Norm Shifts pp. 249-52

- Daniel J B Mitchell
- Illegal Aliens: A Preliminary Report on an Employee-Employer Survey pp. 253-57

- Barry Chiswick
- Illegal Immigration pp. 258-62

- Wilfred Ethier
- Can Border Industries Be a Substitute for Immigration? pp. 263-68

- Francisco Rivera-Batiz
- Government R&D Programs for Commercializing Space pp. 269-73

- Linda R Cohen and Roger Noll
- Incentive Compatible Space Station Pricing pp. 274-79

- John Ledyard
- Out of Space? Regulation and Technical Change in Communications Satellites pp. 280-84
- Molly Macauley
- Property Rights, Protest, and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities pp. 285-90

- Robert Cameron Mitchell and Richard Carson
- Asymmetries in the Valuation of Risk and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities pp. 291-94
- V Kerry Smith and William H Desvousges
- A Sealed-Bid Auction Mechanism for Siting Noxious Facilities pp. 295-99

- Howard Kunreuther and Paul R Kleindorfer
- The Regional Transformation of the American Economy pp. 300-303

- Benjamin Chinitz
- A Multiregional Model Forecast for the United States through 1995 pp. 304-07

- Benjamin H Stevens and George I Treyz
- Analysis and Policy Implications of Regional Decline pp. 308-12

- Charles L Leven
- Corporate Control, Insider Trading, and Rates of Return pp. 313-16

- Harold Demsetz
- Mergers, Buyouts and Fakeouts pp. 317-22

- Mark Hirschey
- Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers pp. 323-29

- Michael Jensen
- The International Transmission and Effects of Fiscal Policies pp. 330-35

- Jacob A Frenkel and Assaf Razin
- The Uneasy Case for Greater Exchange Rate Coordination pp. 336-41

- Jeffrey Sachs
- U.S. Budget Deficits and the European Economies: Resolving the Political Economy Puzzle pp. 342-46

- Martin Feldstein
- The Black Underclass Concept: Self-Help vs. Government Intervention pp. 347-50

- Emmett D Carson
- Transfer Payments, Sample Selection, and Male Black-White Earnings Differences pp. 351-54

- Wayne Vroman
- Federal Courts and the Enforcement of Title VII pp. 355-58

- Culp, Jerome McCristal,
- What Was Affirmative Action? pp. 359-63

- Jonathan Leonard
- Implementing Comparable Worth: A Survey of Recent Job Evaluation Studies pp. 364-67

- Elaine Sorensen
- Sex Differences in Urban Commuting Patterns pp. 368-72

- Michelle J White
- Employment and Wage Effects of Involuntary Job Separation: Male-Female Differences pp. 373-77

- Nan L Maxwell and Ronald J D'Amico
- Generational Differences in Female Occupational Attainment-Have the 1970's Changed Women's Opportunities? pp. 378-81
- Nadja Zalokar
- The Existence of Equilibrium with Price-Setting Firms pp. 382-86

- Eric Maskin
- Price-Setting Firms and the Oligopolistic Foundations of Perfect Competition pp. 387-92

- Beth Allen and Martin Hellwig
- Vertical Product Differentiation: Some Basic Themes pp. 393-98

- John Sutton
- Work for Welfare: How Much Good Will It Do? pp. 399-404

- Frank Levy and Richard C Michel
- Do Rising Tides Lift All Boats? The Impact of Secular and Cyclical Changes on Poverty pp. 405-10

- Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk
- An Economic Accountant's Audit pp. 411-17

- George Jaszi
Volume 76, issue 1, 1986
- International Public Good without International Government pp. 1-13
- Charles P Kindleberger
- Retail Pricing and Clearance Sales pp. 14-32

- Edward Lazear
- Informational Implications of Interest Rate Rules pp. 33-42

- Michael Dotsey and Robert King
- An Operational Measure of Liquidity pp. 43-55
- Steven A Lippman and John J McCall
- Illegal Immigration: The Host-Country Problem pp. 56-71

- Wilfred Ethier
- Rational and Self-fulfilling Balance-of-Payments Crises pp. 72-81

- Maurice Obstfeld
- Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression: An Analysis of EightManufacturing Industries pp. 82-109

- Ben Bernanke
- Tests of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis pp. 110-24

- Michael Lovell
- Financial Panics, the Seasonality of the Nominal Interest Rate, and theFounding of the Fed pp. 125-40

- Jeffrey Miron
- Productivity, R&D, and the Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970's pp. 141-54
- Zvi Griliches
- Golden Parachutes, Shark Repellents, and Hostile Tender Offers pp. 155-67

- Charles R Knoeber
- Inventories and Interest Rates: A Critique of the Buffer Stock Model pp. 168-76

- David Bivin
- Technological Innovations, Capital Mobility, and the Product Cycle inNorth-South Trade pp. 177-90

- David Dollar
- Government Size and Economic Growth: A New Framework and Some Evidencefrom Cross-Section and Time-Series Data pp. 191-203

- Rati Ram
- A Macroeconomic Model with Auction Markets and Nominal Contracts pp. 204-11

- Richard Cantor
- Predictable Behavior in Financial Markets: Some Evidence in Support ofHeiner's Hypothesis pp. 212-20

- Fred R Kaen and Robert Rosenman
- The Choice among Medical Insurance Plans pp. 221-27

- Yael Benjamini and Yoav Benjamini
- Is Statistical Discrimination Efficient? pp. 228-34

- Stewart Schwab
- Wage Indexation and the Effect of Inflation Uncertainty on Employment:An Empirical Analysis pp. 235-43
- A Steven Holland
- Accounting Rates of Return: Note On the Misuse of Accounting Rates ofReturn to Infer Monopoly Profits pp. 244-46

- Robert N Anthony
- The Inverted Fisher Hypothesis: Additional Evidence Fisher's Paradoxand the Theory of Interest pp. 247-49

- Martin Gallagher
- Rationing by Waiting Lists: An Implication pp. 250-56

- John G Cullis and Philip R Jones
- Implicit Contracts in the Absence of Enforcement: Note pp. 257-58

- Steven Plaut
- Efficient Contracts in Credit Markets Subject to Interest Rate Risk: AnApplication of Raviv's Insurance Model pp. 259-63

- Lanny Arvan and Jan Brueckner
- Faculty Ratings of Major Economics Departments by Citations: An Extension pp. 264-67

- Dudley W Blair, Rex L Cottle and Myles S Wallace
- Structural/Frictional vs. Deficient Demand Unemployment: Comment pp. 268-72

- Arthur R Schwartz, Malcolm Cohen and Donald R Grimes
- Structural/Frictional vs. Deficient Demand Unemployment: Reply pp. 273-76

- Katharine Abraham
- Labor Supply and Tax Rates: Comment pp. 277-79

- Cecil Bohanon and T Norman Van Cott
- Labor Supply and Tax Rates: Comment pp. 280-83
- Firouz Gahvari
- Labor Supply and Tax Rates: Reply pp. 284-85

- James Gwartney and Richard L Stroup
- Social Security and Household Savings: Comment pp. 286-88

- George Briden and John Zedella
- Social Security and Household Saving: Reply pp. 289-90

- Erkki Koskela and Matti Viren
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