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Volume 71, issue 6, 1981
- From Utopian Theory to Practical Applications: The Case of Econometrics pp. 1-16
- Ragnar Frisch
- The Use of Models: Experience and Prospects pp. 17-22
- Jan Tinbergen
- The Mainspring of Economic Growth pp. 23-29
- John Hicks
Volume 71, issue 5, 1981
- Identification and Estimation of Money Demand pp. 825-44

- Thomas Cooley and Stephen LeRoy
- The Economics of Superstars pp. 845-58

- Sherwin Rosen
- A Loanable Funds Theory of Unemployment and Monetary Disequilibrium pp. 859-79

- Meir Kohn
- Rawlsian Justice as the Core of a Game pp. 880-95

- Roger E Howe and John Roemer
- Wage Bargaining and Employment pp. 896-908

- Ian McDonald and Robert Solow
- The Decline in Aggregate Share Values: Taxation, Valuation Errors, Risk and Profitability pp. 909-22

- Patric H Hendershott
- Spatial Nonlinear Pricing pp. 923-33

- Daniel Spulber
- Duopoly Models with Consistent Conjectures pp. 934-45

- Timothy Bresnahan
- A Reexamination of Natural Rate Theory pp. 946-60

- Costas Azariadis
- Perceived and Expected Rates of Inflation in Sweden pp. 961-68

- Lars Jonung
- Unemployment and Real Interest Rates: Econometric Testing of Inflation Neutrality pp. 969-77

- Richard Startz
- The Simple Analytics of Neo-Ricardian Growth and Distribution pp. 978-93

- William Darity
- Productivity Growth, Scale Economies, and Capacity Utilization in U.S. Railroads, 1955-74 pp. 994-1002

- Douglas W Caves, Laurits R Christensen and Joseph A Swanson
- An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations pp. 1003-11

- George Akerlof and Brian G M Main
- William Jaffe, Historian of Economic Thought, 1898-1980 pp. 1012-19

- Donald A Walker
- Sticky Prices and Disequilibrium Adjustment in a Rational Model of the Inflationary Process pp. 1020-27

- Michael Mussa
- The Private and Social Utility of Extortion pp. 1028-30

- John A C Conybeare
- On the Futility of Criticizing the Neoclassical Maximization Hypothesis pp. 1031-36

- Lawrence Boland
- Cross-Section Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem: Comment [Factor Abundance and Comparative Advantage] pp. 1037-39

- James Anderson
- Cross-Section Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem: Comment [Factor Abundance and Comparative Advantage] pp. 1040-43

- Edward Leamer and Harry Bowen
- Cross-Section Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem: Reply [Factor Abundance and Comparative Advantage] pp. 1044-48

- Jon Harkness
- Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials? Note pp. 1049-55

- Duane E Leigh
- An Economic Model of Teaching Effectiveness pp. 1056-59

- Tony Lima
- On the Mark: Comment [On the Mark: A Theory of Floating Exchange Rates Based on Real Interest Differential] pp. 1060-67

- Stephen E Haynes and Joe A Stone
- On the Mark: Comment [On the Mark: A Theory of Floating Exchange Rates Based on Real Interest Differential] pp. 1068-74

- Robert Driskill and Steven M Sheffrin
- On the Mark: Reply [On the Mark: A Theory of Floating Exchange Rates Based on Real Interest Differential] pp. 1075-82

- Jeffrey Frankel
- Subsidy-Free Prices and Anonymous Equity [Cross-Subsidization: Pricing in Public Enterprises] pp. 1083-91

- Gerald R Faulhaber and Stephen B Levinson
- Metzler on Classical Interest Theory: Comment pp. 1092-93

- Syed Ahmad
- Metzler on Classical Interest Theory: Comment pp. 1094-95

- Meir Kohn
- Metzler on Classical Interest Theory: Reply pp. 1096-97

- John H Wood
- Tariffs as a Means of Altering Trade Patterns pp. 1098-99

- William J Rieber
- Engineering and Econometric Interpretations of Energy-Capital Complementarity: Comment pp. 1100-1104

- James M Griffin
- Engineering and Econometric Interpretations of Energy-Capital Complementarity: Reply and Further Results pp. 1105-10

- Ernst R Berndt and David O Wood
- Basic Research and Productivity Increase in Manufacturing: Additional Evidence pp. 1111-12

- Albert Link
Volume 71, issue 4, 1981
- Capital Taxation and Accumulation in a Life Cycle Growth Model pp. 533-44

- Lawrence H Summers
- Stock Returns, Real Activity, Inflation, and Money pp. 545-65

- Eugene Fama
- Partial Adjustment in the Demand for Money: Theory and Empirics pp. 566-78

- Anthony M Santomero and John J Seater
- Bargaining under Uncertainty pp. 579-90

- W. Craig Riddell
- A Search Model of Real Estate Broker Behavior pp. 591-605

- John Yinger
- Agency, Earnings Profiles, Productivity, and Hours Restrictions pp. 606-20

- Edward Lazear
- Income-Leisure Tradeoffs of Animal Workers pp. 621-32

- Raymond Battalio, Leonard Green and John Kagel
- Retail Inventory Investment and the Cost of Capital pp. 633-48

- Irvine, F Owen,
- Dynamic Programming Models of Fishing: Competition pp. 649-61

- David Levhari, Ron Michener and Leonard Mirman
- Exact Consumer's Surplus and Deadweight Loss pp. 662-76

- Jerry A Hausman
- Corporate Tax Integration in the United States: A General Equilibrium Approach pp. 677-91

- Fullerton, Don, et al
- Income Maintenance Schemes under Wage-Rate Uncertainty pp. 692-703

- Frank Cowell
- Is Unilateral Tariff Reduction Preferable to a Customs Union? The Curious Case of the Missing Foreign Tariffs pp. 704-14

- Paul Wonnacott and Ronald Wonnacott
- Cost-Benefit Analysis under Uncertainty pp. 715-25

- Daniel A Graham
- The Optimal Tariff in the Antebellum United States pp. 726-34

- John James
- A Theory and Test of Credit Rationing: Some Further Results pp. 735-37

- Enrique Arzac, Robert A Schwartz and David K Whitcomb
- The Welfare Effects of Market Shapes in the Loschian Location Model: Squares vs. Hexagons [The Non-Uniqueness of Equilibrium in the Loschian Location Model] pp. 738-46

- William L Holahan and Richard E Schuler
- Job Search and Vacancy Contacts: Note pp. 747-52

- John Barron and Otis W Gilley
- Hedging and the Competitive Labor-Managed Firm under Price Uncertainty [Hedging and the Competitive Firm under Price Uncertainty] pp. 753-57

- John D Hey
- Competitive Equilibria in Uniform Delivered Pricing Models pp. 758-63

- Timothy Gronberg and Jack Meyer
- A Note on Estimating Treatment Effects [The Estimation of Labor Supply Models Using Experimental Data] pp. 764-69

- Peter Gottschalk
- The General Nonneutrality of Income and Consumption Taxes: Comment [A Simple Neutrality Result for Movements between Income and Consumption Taxes] pp. 770-72

- J Gregory Ballentine
- The General Nonneutrality of Income and Consumption Taxes: Reply [A Simple Neutrality Result for Movements between Income and Consumption Taxes] pp. 773
- John Whalley
- Keynesian Balance of Payments Models: Comment [On the Almost Total Inadequacy of Keynesian Balance-of-Payments Theory] pp. 774-77

- Alan Deardorff
- Keynesian Balance of Payments Models: Comment [On the Almost Total Inadequacy of Keynesian Balance-of-Payments Theory] pp. 778-83

- Norman C Miller
- Keynesian Balance of Payments Models: Comment [On the Almost Total Inadequacy of Keynesian Balance-of-Payments Theory] pp. 784-95

- Willem Buiter and Jonathan Eaton
- The Output Distribution Frontier: Comment pp. 796-99

- Donald Keenan and Paul Rubin
- The Output Distribution Frontier: Reply pp. 800
- William Baumol and Dietrich Fischer
- Estimation with Correctly Interpreted Dummy Variables in Semilogarithmic Equations [The Interpretation of Dummy Variables in Semilogarithmic Equations] pp. 801
- Peter Kennedy
Volume 71, issue 3, 1981
- A Modigliani-Miller Theorem for Open-Market Operations pp. 267-74

- Neil Wallace
- Self-Selection in the Labor Market pp. 275-84

- J Luis Guasch and Andrew Weiss
- The Effect of Changes in the Population on Several Measures of Income Distribution pp. 285-94

- Samuel A Morley
- Are Market Forecasts Rational? pp. 295-306
- Frederic Mishkin
- On the Usefulness of Controlling Individuals: An Economic Analysis of Rehabilitation, Incapacitation, and Deterrence pp. 307-22

- Isaac Ehrlich
- The Future Price of Houses, Mortgage Market Conditions, and the Returns to Homeownership pp. 323-33

- Susan I Ranney
- Vertical Integration: Does Product Price Rise or Fall? pp. 334-46

- Fred M Westfield
- A Theory of Monopoly Pricing Schemes with Demand Uncertainty pp. 347-65
- Milton Harris and Artur Raviv
- A Pure Theory of Strategic Behavior and Social Institutions pp. 366-80

- Earl A Thompson and Roger L Faith
- Optimal Auctions pp. 381-92

- John Riley and William F Samuelson
- Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information pp. 393-410

- Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Weiss
- The Generational Optimum Economy: Extracting Monopoly Gains from Posterity through Taxation of Capital pp. 411-20

- Lawrence D Krohn
- Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends? pp. 421-36

- Robert J Shiller
- Adoption of Cost-Saving Innovations by a Regulated Firm pp. 437-47

- George Sweeney
- Price Controls and the Behavior of Auction Markets: An Experimental Examination pp. 448-59
- R. Isaac and Charles Plott
- A Monetary Approach to the Balance of Trade pp. 460-66

- Gary A Craig
- On Nonbinding Price Controls in a Competitive Market pp. 467-74

- Vernon L Smith and Arlington Williams
- Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment pp. 475-82

- Masanori Hashimoto
- Fixed Wages, Layoffs, Unemployment Compensation, and Welfare: Note pp. 483-84

- Herschel Grossman and Kenneth Happy
- The Technology of Risk and Return: Comment pp. 485-90

- Christopher James
- The Technology of Risk and Return: Reply pp. 491-92

- Edward Greenberg, William J Marshall and Jess B Yawitz
- Ownership Arrangements and Congestion-Prone Facilities pp. 493-502

- David Mills
- Capacity, Output, and Sequential Entry pp. 503-14

- Daniel Spulber
- Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade and Investment: A Correction and a Stronger Conclusion pp. 515-16

- A Wahhab Khandker
- A Model of Sales: Errata pp. 517
- Hal Varian
Volume 71, issue 2, 1981
- Economics and Political Economy pp. 1-10
- Robbins, Lionel [Lord]
- Inventories and the Structure of Macro Models pp. 11-16

- Alan Blinder
- Investment in Finished Goods Inventories: An Analysis of Adjustment Speeds pp. 17-22
- Louis Maccini and Robert Rossana
- Merchant Wholesaler Inventory Investment and the Cost of Capital pp. 23-29
- Irvine, F Owen,
- Capital-Labor Conflict and the Productivity Slowdown pp. 30-35

- David M Gordon
- Industrial Conflict and Its Implications for Productivity Growth pp. 36-41

- Michele I Naples
- A Conflict Theory Approach to Inflation in the Postwar U.S. Economy pp. 42-47

- Sam Rosenberg and Thomas E Weisskopf
- Capacity Utilization Measures: Underlying Economic Theory and an Alternative Approach pp. 48-52

- Ernst R Berndt and Catherine Morrison Paul
- Stochastic Equilibrium and Capacity Utilization pp. 53-57

- Arthur De Vany and N G Frey
- Long-Run Changes in the Workweek of Fixed Capital pp. 58-63

- Murray F Foss
- Slack Capacity: Productive or Wasteful? pp. 64-69

- Walter Oi
- Female Labor Supply in the Context of Inflation pp. 70-75

- Beth T Niemi and Cynthia B Lloyd
- A Time-Series Analysis of Women's Labor Force Participation pp. 76-80

- June O'Neill
- The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife pp. 81-86

- Barbara Bergmann
- The Roles of Jurisdictional Competition and of Collective Choice Institutions in the Market for Local Public Goods pp. 87-92

- Dennis Epple and Allan Zelenitz
- On Local Finance and the Tiebout Model pp. 93-98

- Wallace Oates
- Capitalization and the Median Voter pp. 99-103

- John Yinger
- Antitrust Standards and Railway Freight Pricing: New Round in an Old Debate pp. 104-09

- John C Spychalski
- The Nature, Effectiveness, and Importance of Motor Common Carrier Service Obligations pp. 110-15

- Benjamin J Allen
- The Role of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the 1980's pp. 116-21

- John Guandolo
- Is Equal Opportunity Enough? pp. 122-26

- Glenn Loury
- Affirmative Action and Its Enforcement pp. 127-33

- Finis Welch
- Monetarist Principles and the Money Stock Growth Rule pp. 134-38

- Bennett McCallum
- Monetarist, Keynesian, and New Classical Economics pp. 139-44

- Jerome L Stein
- Stabilization, Accommodation, and Monetary Rules pp. 145-49

- John Taylor
- What Is Left of the Multiplier Accelerator? pp. 150-54

- Olivier Blanchard
- Bankruptcy, Liquidity, and Recession pp. 155-59
- Ben Bernanke
- Estimated Effects of the Oct. 1979 Change in Monetary Policy on the 1980 Economy pp. 160-65

- Ray Fair
- The Allocation of Landing Rights by Unanimity among Competitors pp. 166-71

- David Grether, R. Isaac and Charles Plott
- Investment Decisions with Economies of Scale and Learning pp. 172-77

- Richard Gilbert and Richard G Harris
- Contestability and the Design of Regulatory and Antitrust Policy pp. 178-83

- Elizabeth Bailey
- Potential Competition May Reduce Welfare pp. 184-89

- Joseph Stiglitz
- The Revised Test of Understanding College Economics pp. 190-94

- Phillip Saunders, Rendigs Fels and Arthur L Welsh
- Specification and Development of New Pre-College Tests: BET and TEL pp. 195-99

- John F Chizmar and John C Soper
- Social Welfare Dominance pp. 200-204

- Robert Willig
- Arbitration and Conflict Resolution in Labor-Management Bargaining pp. 205-10

- Vincent Crawford
- Estimation and Control of Rational Expectations Models pp. 211-16

- Gregory Chow
- Capital Mobility and Devaluation in an Optimizing Model with Rational Expectations pp. 217-21

- Maurice Obstfeld
- The Determinants of the Variability of Stock Market Prices pp. 222-27

- Sanford Grossman and Robert J Shiller
- What Do We Know about Benefits of Reduced Mortality from Air Pollution Control? pp. 228-34

- Shelby Gerking and William Schulze
- Measuring the Benefits from Reduced Morbidity pp. 235-40

- Maureen Cropper
- Valuing Health Risk pp. 241-45

- Sherwin Rosen
- Federal Reserve System Implementation of Monetary Policy: Analytical Foundations of the New Approach pp. 246-52

- Stephen H Axilrod and David E Lindsey
- Monetary and Fiscal Policies in an Open Economy pp. 253-58

- Jacob A Frenkel and Michael Mussa
- Rational Expectations and the Conduct of Monetary Policy pp. 259-67

- Andrew F Brimmer and Allen Sinai
- Economies of Scope pp. 268-72

- John C Panzar and Robert Willig
- Sustainability and the Entry Process pp. 273-77

- Kenneth C Baseman
- On the Political Sustainability of Taxes pp. 278-82

- Janusz A Ordover and Andrew Schotter
- U.S. Incomes Policies in the 1970's-Underlying Assumptions, Objectives, Results pp. 283-87

- D Quinn Mills
- Government Intervention in the Inflation Process: The Econometrics of "Self-Inflicted Wounds" pp. 288-94

- Jon Frye and Robert Gordon
- Equity and Tradeoffs in a Tax-Based Incomes Policy pp. 295-300
- Laurence S Seidman
- Implicit Contracts, Moral Hazard, and Unemployment pp. 301-07

- Sanford Grossman and Oliver D Hart
- Contractual Models of the Labor Market pp. 308-13

- Bengt Holmstrom
- Technical Change, Returns to Scale, and the Productivity Slowdown pp. 314-19

- M Ishaq Nadiri and M A Schankerman
- Public Regulations and the Slowdown in Productivity Growth pp. 320-25

- Gregory B Christainsen and Robert H Haveman
- The Productivity Growth Slowdown and Capital Accumulation pp. 326-31

- Martin Neil Baily
- Cultivation of Taste, Catastrophe Theory, and the Demand for Works of Art pp. 332-34

- Roger McCain
- Economic Theory and the Positive Economics of Arts Financing pp. 335-40

- Bruce A Seaman
- Supply Decisions of Professional Artists pp. 341-46

- Leslie P Singer
- Revenue Implications of Money Creation under Leviathan pp. 347-51
- Geoffrey Brennan and James Buchanan
- Inflation, Bank Profits, and Government Seigniorage pp. 352-55

- Jeremy J Siegel
- Who Should Control the Money Supply? pp. 356-61

- Earl A Thompson
- The Inflation Process: Where Conventional Theory Falters pp. 362-67

- James W Dean
- The Inflation Process: A Micro-Behavioral Analysis pp. 368-73

- Harvey Leibenstein
- Increasing Unemployment and Changing Labor Market Expectations among Black Male Teenagers pp. 374-78

- Laurence C Morse
- Federal Minimum Wage Laws and the Employment of Minority Youth pp. 379-84

- Charles L Betsey and Bruce H Dunson
- Market Structure and Concentration in the Regulated Trucking Industry pp. 385-88

- Russell C Cherry and Carl Backman
- Price Distortions and Second Best Investment Rules in the Transportation Industries pp. 389-93

- Ann F Friedlaender
- Railroad Regulation, Deregulation, and Workable Competition pp. 394-98

- Richard C Levin
- Information and the Law: Evaluating Legal Restrictions on Competitive Contracts pp. 399-404

- Janusz Ordover and Andrew Weiss
- The Economics of Privacy pp. 405-09

- Richard Posner
- Information Remedies for Consumer Protection pp. 410-13

- Howard Beales, Richard Craswell and Steven Salop
- A Note on Efficiency vs. Distributional Equity in Legal Rulemaking: Should Distributional Equity Matter Given Optimal Income Taxation? pp. 414-18

- Steven Shavell
- Inflation and the Tax Treatment of Firm Behavior pp. 419-23

- Alan Auerbach
- Private Pensions and Inflation pp. 424-28

- Martin Feldstein
- Inflation, the Stock Market, and Owner-Occupied Housing pp. 429-34

- Lawrence H Summers
Volume 71, issue 1, 1981
- Welfare Quandaries and Productivity Concerns pp. 1-17
- Moses Abramovitz
- Competition and Unanimity pp. 18-27

- Harry DeAngelo
- The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs pp. 28-38

- James Buchanan and Robert Tollison
- Bank Regulation and Macro-Economic Stability pp. 39-53

- Anthony M Santomero and Jeremy J Siegel
- The Economics of Risks to Life pp. 54-64

- W B Arthur
- Two-Part Tariffs and Optimum Taxation: The Case of Railway Rates pp. 65-79

- Sylvester Damus
- Workmen's Compensation and Occupational Safety under Imperfect Information pp. 80-93

- Samuel Rea
- Black-White Human Capital Differences: Impact on Agricultural Productivity in the U.S. South pp. 94-107

- Wallace E Huffman
- Control and Decontrol of Wages in the United States: An Empirical Analysis pp. 108-20

- Frank Reid
- The Duration of Unemployment and Unexpected Inflation: An Empirical Analysis pp. 121-31

- Anders Bjorklund and Bertil Holmlund
- Output, the Stock Market, and Interest Rates pp. 132-43

- Olivier Blanchard
- Deregulation and Oligopolistic Price-Quality Rivalry pp. 144-54

- James H Vander Weide and Julie H Zalkind
- Bankruptcy, Limited Liability, and the Modigliani-Miller Theorem pp. 155-70
- Martin F Hellwig
- The Treatment of Rents in Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 171-78

- Edward Foster
- Cartel Problems: Note pp. 179-81

- Robert Rothschild
- A Risk-Return Model with Risk and Return Measured as Deviations from a Target Return pp. 182-88

- Duncan M Holthausen
- Sweepstakes Contests: Analysis, Strategies, and Survey pp. 189-95

- Selby, Edward B, and William Beranek
- A Monopoly Model of Public Goods Provision: The Uniform Pricing Case pp. 196-206

- Geoffrey Brennan and Cliff Walsh
- Competitive Production and Increases in Risk pp. 207-11

- Steven A Lippman and John J McCall
- Price Regulation, Product Quality, and Asymmetric Information pp. 212-20

- David P Baron
- Variable Returns to Scale in Production and Patterns of Specialization pp. 221-30

- Arvind Panagariya
- Dynamic Models of Portfolio Behavior: A General Integrated Model Incorporating Sequencing Effects [Dynamic Models of Portfolio Behavior: More on Pitfalls in Financial Model Building] pp. 231-38

- Dorian Owen
- The Choice of Discount Rates for Public Projects pp. 239-41

- Robert Mendelsohn
- Output and Welfare Implications of Monopolistic Third-Degree Price Discrimination pp. 242-47

- Richard Schmalensee
- An Explanation for the Correlation of Stocks of Nonhuman Capital with Investment in Human Capital pp. 248-55

- John Graham
- Managed Float: An Evaluation of Alternative Rules in the Presence of Speculative Capital Flows pp. 256-60

- Carlos Rodríguez
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