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Volume 54, issue 3, 1997

On the calculation of marginal effects in the bivariate probit model pp. 203-208

Louis Christofides, Thanasis Stengos and Robert Swidinsky

Semi-nonparametric estimates of substitution elasticities pp. 209-215

Adrian R. Fleissig, Terry Kastens and Dek Terrell

Unobservables in count data models for on-site samples pp. 217-220

João Santos Silva

A limited dependent variable model under median rationality pp. 221-225

Myoung-jae Lee

Expo-power: A flexible hazard function for duration data models pp. 227-233

Atanu Saha and Lynette Hilton

On the existence of a unique correlated equilibrium in Cournot oligopoly pp. 235-239

Sang-Seung Yi

Seeking a comprehensive measure of economic well-being: Annuitisation versus capitalisation pp. 241-244

Simon Parker and Fazley K. Siddiq

Government procurement and asymmetric rebate auctions pp. 245-250

In-Gyu Kim

Monopoly welfare losses and elasticity pp. 251-252

Tim James and Jolian McHardy

Why good economic news depressed stock and bond prices in 1996 pp. 253-257

Willem Thorbecke and Lee Coppock

An empirical test of the effect of board size on firm efficiency pp. 259-264

Jeff Huther

Corporate risk management to reduce borrowing costs pp. 265-269

Gur Huberman

Some evidence on the signalling role of research in academia pp. 271-276

Aloysius Siow

Has the wage curve nullified the Harris-Todaro model? Further US evidence pp. 277-282

Mark Partridge and Dan Rickman

Performing large spatial regressions and autoregressions pp. 283-291

Kelley Pace

Volume 54, issue 2, 1997

Conditional independence in sample selection models pp. 103-112

Joshua Angrist

Chaos and the compass rose pp. 113-118

Walter Krämer and Ralf Runde

Generated regressors in linear and nonlinear models pp. 119-126

Kishore Gawande

An optimal control solution to the liquidity constraint problem pp. 127-134

John J. Seater

The timing and division of parental transfers to children pp. 135-137

Thomas A. Dunn and John W. Phillips

Consumption and wage taxes when household size matters pp. 139-142

Berthold Wigger

A representation of acyclic preferences pp. 143-146

Carlos Rodriguez-Palmero

Models a la Lancaster and a la Hotelling: when they are the same pp. 147-154

Martin Peitz

Cournot equilibrium with convex demand pp. 155-158

Serge Svizzero

Sequential auctions with synergies: An example pp. 159-163

Fernando Branco

Resource misallocation and mark-up ratios: an alternative estimation technique for Harberger triangles pp. 165-167

Mathijs A. van Dijks and Peter Bergeijk

Dividend effects in Israel: a puzzle pp. 169-174

Oded Sarig and Efrat Tolkowsky

Collusion under financial constraints: Collusion or predation when the discount factor is near one? pp. 175-178

Toshikazu Kawakami and Yoshida Yoshihiro

Mark-up pricing and bilateral monopoly pp. 179-184

Andreas Irmen

A note on innovation and patent protection: Intertemporal imitation-risk smoothing pp. 185-189

Walter Park

Sequential location when transportation costs are asymmetric pp. 191-201

Tore Nilssen

Volume 54, issue 1, 1997

Cointegration of long span saving and investment pp. 1-6

Jerry Coakley and Farida Kulasi

Level shifts, unit roots and misspecification of the breaking date pp. 7-13

Antonio Montañés

Strategic wage bargaining with destructive power: the role of commitment pp. 15-22

Paola Manzini

Optimal provision of public goods with altruistic individuals pp. 23-27

Eduardo Ley

An alternative model of pro-cyclical absenteeism pp. 29-34

Kim Kaivanto

Recounting winners and losers in the 1980s: A critique of income distribution measurement methodology pp. 35-40

Richard Burkhauser, Amy D. Crews and Mary Daly

Why are so many goods priced to end in nine? And why this practice hurts the producers pp. 41-44

Kaushik Basu

The diffusion of a durable embodied capital innovation pp. 45-50

Ana I. Saracho

The asymptotic distribution of linear indices of inequality, progressivity and redistribution pp. 51-57

Jean-Yves Duclos

Efficient search and recruiting: Choosing sides in matching games pp. 59-63

John Kennes

High and variable inflation: Further evidence on the Friedman hypothesis pp. 65-68

Tony Caporale and Barbara McKiernan

Forecasting the exchange rate PPP versus a random walk pp. 69-74

Charmaine Pereira Fritsche and Myles Wallace

On merger profitability in a Cournot setting pp. 75-79

Ramon Fauli-Oller

The Kuznets hypothesis: An indirect test pp. 81-85

Zaki Eusufzai

On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth pp. 87-92

Giacomo Corneo and Olivier Jeanne

Catching-up and innovation in high- and low-income countries pp. 93-100

Fatma Taşkın and Osman Zaim

Volume 53, issue 3, 1996

Mononic saddle-path dynamics pp. 235-238

Alan Isaac

SUR estimation of multiple time-series models with heteroscedasticity and serial correlation of unknown form pp. 239-245

Michael Creel and Montserrat Farell

On the correct use of omnibus tests for normality pp. 247-251

Carlos Urzúa

Long-term dependence in stock returns pp. 253-259

John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum

Common cycles in seasonally cointegrated time series pp. 261-264

Sung K. Ahn

Dagum vs. Singh-Maddala income distributions pp. 265-268

Christian Kleiber

On two definitions of productivity pp. 269-274

Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and Pontus Roos

Partial equilibrium analysis in a noisy chaotic market pp. 275-282

Cars Hommes and Arno van Eekelen

Optimal tax schemes and the environmental externality pp. 283-289

Tetsuo Ono

Pay-performance sensitivity and production uncertainty pp. 291-296

Jan Zabojnik

Falling behind the Joneses: relative consumption and the growth-savings paradox pp. 297-304

Richmond Harbaugh

Sunspot equilibria in a monetary real business cycle model pp. 305-310

Maik Heinemann and Gilbert Marchlewitz

Protection and the gainful effects of foreign capital pp. 311-316

Sugata Marjit and Hamid Beladi

A simple long-memory equilibrium interest rate model pp. 317-321

Jin-Chuan Duan and Kris Jacobs

Tax competition under the threat of capital flight pp. 323-329

Yong Yang

Public education expenditure and private investment in developing countries pp. 331-336

Joaquim V. Levy and Benedict Clements

The Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to olden men pp. 337-339

Eric Rasmusen

Wages ahead of demand pp. 341-347

J. Michael Orszag and Gylfi Zoega

On the relationship between aggregate merger activity and the stock market: some further empirical evidence pp. 349-356

Roger Clarke and Christos Ioannidis

Volume 53, issue 2, 1996

Parsimonious autocorrelation corrections for singular demand systems pp. 115-121

Keith McLaren

Feasibility and transversality conditions for models of portfolio choice with non-expected utility in continuous time pp. 123-131

William T. Smith

Modified Wald tests for non-linear restrictions: A cautionary tale pp. 133-138

Kim-Leng Goh and Maxwell King

Bootstrapping Hausman's exogeneity test pp. 139-143

Ka-fu Wong

An application and comparison of some flexible parametric and semi-parametric qualitative response models pp. 145-152

James McDonald

Should stochastic or non-stochastic exogenous variables be used in Monte Carlo experiments? pp. 153-159

David Edgerton

The bias of the ordinary least squares estimator in simultaneous equation models pp. 161-167

Jan Kiviet and Garry Phillips

Infinite-dimensional utility representation theorems pp. 169-173

Ghanshyam B. Mehta and Paulo Monteiro

Optimal price policy and the futures markets pp. 175-182

Harvey Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini

Asymmetric adjustment in symmetric duopoly pp. 183-188

Per Svejstrup Hansen, Peter Møllgaard, Per Overgaard and Jan Rose Sorensen

Mixed oligopoly, privatization and subsidization pp. 189-195

Mark White

Least squares learning with heterogeneous expectations pp. 197-201

George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja

A reconsideration of the interindustry employment dispersion pp. 203-208

Jing Lu

Contrarian MacParity pp. 209-212

Reid W. Click

The relation between firm-specific intangibles and exports pp. 213-219

Pontus Braunerhjelm

Glass ceilings or dead ends: Job promotion of men and women compared pp. 221-226

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Growth divergence due to spatial externalities pp. 227-232

Martin Ravallion and Jyotsna Jalan

Volume 53, issue 1, 1996

Sustainability and investment rules pp. 1-6

Cees Withagen

Bootstrap confidence intervals in a switching regressions model pp. 7-15

Stratford Douglas

On the existence of optimal truth-dominant mechanisms pp. 17-24

Guoqiang Tian

Partners and strangers revisited pp. 25-32

Rachel Croson

Ownership and input prices: A comparison of public and private enterprises pp. 33-38

Henry Ohlsson

Paretian aggregation of asymmetric utility functionals pp. 39-45

Arja H. Turunen-Red and John Weymark

Portfolio choice under noisy asset returns pp. 47-51

Christian Gollier and Harris Schlesinger

Stabilization policy in a currency union pp. 53-60

Philip Lane

Growth, inflation and the exchange rate regime pp. 61-65

Javier Andrés, Ignacio Hernando and Malte Kruger

Inflation and asset prices in a monetary economy pp. 67-74

Pierluigi Balduzzi

U.S. international air route awards and shareholder wealth pp. 75-81

George E. Hoffer, Stephen Pruitt and K. S. Maurice Tse

Holdouts and wage bargaining in The Netherlands pp. 83-88

Jan van Ours and Rob F. van de Wijngaert

The dynamics of bequeathed tastes pp. 89-96

David de la Croix

What shapes are overtime premium schedules? Some evidence from Japan, the UK, and the US pp. 97-102

Robert A. Hart, Jim Malley and Robin J. Ruffell

Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the century America: A 'natural experiment' approach pp. 103-110

Robert Margo and T. Aldrich Finegan

Erratum to "Note on cyclical employment in the consumption goods sector" [Economics Letters 51 (1996) 213] pp. 113-113

Milton Marquis and Tor Einarsson