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Volume 29, issue 4, 1989

A simple model of product quality with elastic demand pp. 281-283

Eric Rasmusen

A measure of the U.S. output gap pp. 285-289

George Evans

Stable implementation of Lindahl allocations pp. 291-294

Pierre de Trenqualye

An information inequality for agency problems pp. 295-298

Ian Jewitt

Fixed cost of work and the demand for lotteries pp. 299-302

Aloysius Siow

Tacit collusion in differentiated cournot games pp. 303-306

Birger Wernerfelt

Relative uncertainty pp. 307-310

George Davis

Some evidence on the performance of size correction factors in testing consumer demand models pp. 311-315

Paul de Boer and R. Harkema

Model selection criteria and granger causality tests: An empirical note pp. 317-320

Jean-Pierre Urbain

Competition in the U.S. banking industry pp. 321-323

Sherrill Shaffer

The dividend ratio model and small sample bias: A Monte Carlo study pp. 325-331

John Campbell and Robert J. Shiller

Bank failures as Poisson variates pp. 333-338

Nurhan Davutyan

Are survey forecasts trusted?: American trade account deficit and yen/dollar rate pp. 339-344

Shigeru Wakita

Theoretical foundations of constant-proportion portfolio insurance pp. 345-347

Geoffrey Kingston

A causality-effect between bid premium and outcome of tender offer pp. 349-351

Anne-Marie Zissu and Charles Austin Stone

Manufacturing margins: Differences between small and large firms pp. 353-359

Roy Thurik and W. H. M. Van Der Hoeven

The wiles test revisited pp. 361-364

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani

The structure of adjustment costs for labour in the Dutch manufacturing sector pp. 365-371

Gerard Pfann and Bart Verspagen

Migration and job search in a dualistic economy: A Todaro-Stigler synthesis pp. 373-378

Hamid Mohtadi

A note on mechanization and wage bargaining pp. 379-381

Karl Ove Moene

Volume 29, issue 3, 1989

Uncertain monopoly rent and the social cost of rent seeking pp. 199-203

Raul Fabella

Competition between and within teams: The Lifeboat Principle pp. 205-208

Joseph Farrell and Eric Lander

The demand theory of the weak axioms of revealed preference pp. 209-213

Werner Hildenbrand and Michael Jerison

The max-min solution for variable threat games pp. 215-220

Somdeb Lahiri

Testing for the length of a distributed lag with a differencing transformation pp. 221-223

Oscar R. Burt

A note on the distribution of the least squares estimator of a random walk with drift pp. 225-230

Svend Hylleberg and Grayham Mizon

Ranking mobility matrices pp. 231-235

John Conlisk

Contagion effect on sovereign interest rate spreads pp. 237-241

John Doukas

Perfect option hedging and the hedge ratio pp. 243-248

Sigrid M. Muller

Volatility-invariant hedging pp. 249-251

Sherrill Shaffer

The information content of post tender offer movement in the price of target shares pp. 253-255

Anne-Marie Zissu

Individual versus social discount rates in allocating depletable natural resources over time pp. 257-264

C. Pope and Gregory Perry

Insiders and outsiders and efficient asymmetric information contracts pp. 265-269

J. M. Black and George Bulkley

The statistical structure of real-income changes pp. 271-273

Henri Theil and Susan A. Narduzzi

On the estimation of localization economies pp. 275-277

John McDonald

Volume 29, issue 2, 1989

Quick responses in duopoly ensure monopoly pricing pp. 103-107

V Bhaskar

On controlling the maintenance of durable goods when contractual enforcement is costly pp. 109-113

A. Michael Heimert

Public debt, voluntary intergenerational transfers and overlapping generations pp. 115-120

Miguel-Angel Lopez-Garcia

Manipulation of the Pareto semi-optimal rule pp. 121-125

Michael Treglia

Equivalent variation with uncertain prices pp. 127-128

Suzanne Scotchmer

A simulation model of saving, residential choice, and bequests of the Japanese elderly pp. 129-133

Robert Dekle

Inflation and relative price variability in Yugoslavia pp. 135-139

Lidija Jurkovic

Four tests for the random walk hypothesis: Power versus robustness pp. 141-145

Jagdish Handa and Barry K. Ma

Small sample properties of modified Prais-Winston estimators in hypothesis testing in a linear model with ar(1) errors pp. 147-152

Noriko Hashimoto

On approximating the minimum risk estimator in linear regression models pp. 153-156

A. K. Srivastava and D. S. Tracy

A many good, many person, Corlett-Hague tax rule pp. 157-161

James P. F. Gordon

An empirical study of optimal taxation on Australian financial institutions pp. 163-166

Tran Van Hoa and B. F. Reece

Central bank intervention with sample selection: Japan 1977-1979 pp. 167-171

Nurhan Davutyan

Endogenous monitoring intensity, the period of contractual precommitment, and the slope of the wage-earnings profile pp. 173-177

Lanny Arvan

Market structures, price-cost margins, and unionism: An empirical note pp. 179-182

Vivek Ghosal

A new approach to the economic inequality based upon the permanent income hypothesis pp. 183-187

Mototsugu Fukushige

The distribution of lifetime earnings pp. 189-193

Jan Nelissen

Imprecise testing and endogenous limits to bonds pp. 195-197

Tim Perri

Volume 29, issue 1, 1989

Zero time preference with discounting pp. 1-6

P. Buckholtz and J. Hartwick

Is there a conflict between authors and publishers over royalty terms? pp. 7-11

Norman Gemmell

Multivariate decisions with unknown price vector pp. 13-19

Pietro Muliere and Marco Scarsini

Simple games of market manipulation pp. 21-26

Jean-Luc Vila

An arbitrariness-free method of detecting structural changes pp. 27-30

Hiroya Akiba and Tomoki Waragai

On the calculation of the information matrix test in the normal linear regression model pp. 31-35

Alastair Hall

Repeated lending and business fluctuations: A note pp. 37-41

Sarah B. Kendall

Debt neutrality, Professor Vickrey and Henry George's 'single tax' pp. 43-47

Willem Buiter

Who profits from taxpayer confusion? pp. 49-55

Suzanne Scotchmer

Is greater exchange rate flexibility stabilizing?: Some evidence from US data pp. 57-62

Yoonbai Kim

Foreign exchange market efficiency and cointegration: Some evidence from the recent float pp. 63-68

Ronald MacDonald and Mark Taylor

Firms' fiscal years, size and industry pp. 69-75

Gur Huberman and Shmuel Kandel

Vertical integration in a spatial setting: Inplications of the successive monopoly distortion pp. 77-81

David Reiffen and David T. Levy

Predatory entrapment pp. 83-86

Sherrill Shaffer

Individual overtime functions with double correction for selectivity bias pp. 87-90

Olaf Hubler

On-the-job leisure-income tradeoffs: A test of rational behavior pp. 91-94

Harinder Singh and Jim Gerber

Establishment size, public administration and government wage differentials pp. 95-98

Dale Belman and John Heywood

Wage discrimination by race and gender in the public and private sectors pp. 99-102

John Heywood