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Volume 21, issue 4, 1986

Do consumers benefit from quantity discounts? pp. 307-310

David de Mesa

Experience rating and premium risk pp. 311-314

Joseph Farrell

Speculative commodity holdings pp. 315-319

Da-Hsiang Donald Lien

On an implication of a theorem due to Gorman pp. 321-323

J. M. Heineke and H. M. Shefrin

Preliminary-test estimation in mis-specified regressions pp. 325-328

David Giles

A test of the independence of subsets of instrumental variables and regressors pp. 329-331

Mark S. McNulty

Minimum mean square error of a generalized Stein estimator pp. 333-335

Lawrence C. Marsh and Michael J. Radzicki

The inadmissibility of the 2SLS estimator in linear structural equations pp. 337-341

Tran Van Hoa

Assessing the relative efficiency of Hausman's test under Bahadur efficiency considerations pp. 343-347

William Wascher

Dynamic properties of error correction models with a stochastic target series pp. 349-352

Hubert Kempf and A. Wolanowski

Gross substitutes and immiserizing growth pp. 353-356

D. Wade Hands

Is the interest differential exogenous in interest rate parity?: The Japanese experience, 1979-1983 pp. 357-363

Chikara Komura and Takahiko Mutoh

Government expenditure, real exchange rate and the 'decline' of the manufacturing sector: Some empirical evidence pp. 365-370

Alessandro Penati

On the convexity of the portfolio choice set pp. 371-373

Thomas Russell

Strategic commitment with R&D: The case of Bertrand competition pp. 375-378

Tom K. Lee

Unemployment insurance and labor supply and demand: A time series analysis for the United States pp. 379-383

David J. Smyth

Forecasting the German population with Monte Carlo methods pp. 385-390

Peter Pflaumer

Evidence on the weak and the strong versions of the screening hypothesis in the United States pp. 391-394

Irvin Tucker

Volume 21, issue 3, 1986

The costs of using Frisch demand functions that are additive in the marginal utility of expenditure pp. 205-207

Martin Browning

Fair prices exist always in production networks pp. 209-213

M. Kok and C. Roos

Disequilibrium models with rational expectations: An application to the UK labour market pp. 215-220

S. G. Hall, S. G. B. Henry, Anil Markandya and M. Pemberton

On the stability of non-Walrasian equilibria pp. 221-226

Demetrius Yannelis

Reversal of asymmetries of allocation mechanisms under manipulation pp. 227-230

William Thomson

Lexicographic arbitration pp. 231-234

Jose Encarnacion

Optimal consumption, the interest rate and wage uncertainty pp. 235-239

David S. Sibley and David Levhari

A note on the variability of inflation and the cross-sectional dispersion of stock returns pp. 241-244

Eric C. Chang

Some new estimators in spatial econometrics pp. 245-249

J. -P. Ancot, Jean Paelinck and J. Prins

Estimation of covariance components for random-walk regression parameters pp. 251-255

Larry J. Lockwood

A distribution function of the F-ratio when the Stein-rule estimator is used in place of the OLS estimator pp. 257-260

Kazuhiro Ohtani

Wald, likelihood ratio, and infinite induced test statistics for joint one-sided hypothesis pp. 261-264

Alan J. Rogers

Moments of OLS estimators in an autoregressive moving average model with explanatory variables pp. 265-269

Aman Ullah and Esfandiar Maasoumi

International policy coordination in an uncertain world pp. 271-276

Atish Ghosh

Are foreign exchange forecasts rational?: New evidence from survey data pp. 277-281

Kathryn Dominguez

Imperfect information, specificity of schooling and rate of return-migration pp. 283-289

Kit-Chun Lam

Selectivity bias and earnings differences by gender and race pp. 291-296

Mark Berger and Darrell E. Glenn

Union effects on wages and wage growth pp. 297-303

Solomon Polachek, Phanindra Wunnava and Michael T. Hutchins

Volume 21, issue 2, 1986

On the generic existence of Radner equilibria when there are as many securities as states of nature pp. 101-105

Rafael Repullo

Value allocation with economies of scale pp. 107-111

Daniel Spulber

Rationing rules and Bertrand-Edgeworth equilibria in large markets pp. 113-116

Xavier Vives

Asymmetric fluctuations in consumption pp. 117-120

Mark Dynarski and Steven Sheffrin

On Hotelling's competition with non-uniform customer distributions pp. 121-126

Damien Neven

A new model for decisions under uncertainty pp. 127-130

Peter C. Fishburn

The bargaining problem: axioms concerning changes in the conflict point pp. 131-134

Zvi Livne

A note on job matching with budget constraints pp. 135-138

Susan J. Mongell and Alvin Roth

Production and hedging decisions in futures and forward markets pp. 139-143

Jacob Paroush and Avner Wolf

Firm's hedging behavior without the expected utility hypothesis pp. 145-148

Zvi Safra and Itzhak Zilcha

International evidence on output-inflation tradeoffs: A bootstrap analysis pp. 149-153

Michael Williams and Michael G. Baumann

Weighted trace minimisation estimation of demand systems pp. 155-158

Ronald Bewley

A simplified method of calculating the score test for serial correlation in multivariate models pp. 159-161

Alastair Hall

On the asymptotic bias and mean squared error of an improved estimator for coefficients in linear regression pp. 163-167

Balakrishna S. Hosmane

A gradual switching regression model with autocorrelated errors pp. 169-172

Kazuhiro Ohtani and Sei-ichi Katayama

Asymptotic distribution of least squares estimator and a test statistic in linear regression models pp. 173-176

M. S. Srivastava and V. K. Srivastava

Comparative statics of degenerate critical points pp. 177-181

Peter McCabe

Targeting rules for monetary policy pp. 183-187

Joshua Aizenman and Jacob A. Frenkel

The sensitivity of effective marginal tax rate calculations to alternative arbitrage assumptions pp. 189-193

Michael Daly, Jack Jung, Pierre Mercier and Thomas Schweitzer

On the theory of international trade between capitalist and labour-managed countries pp. 195-198

Yasunori Ishii

Earnings differentials and occupational segregation by gender: A simultaneous equations approach pp. 199-201

Donald E. Lewis and Brett Shorten

Volume 21, issue 1, 1986

A new class of sufficient conditions for the first-order approach to the principal-agent problem pp. 1-6

Murray Brown, Shin-Hwan Chiang, Satyajit Ghosh and Elmar Wolfstetter

An experimental test for risk aversion pp. 7-11

Glenn Harrison

Enterprise purchases and the expectation of rationing pp. 13-15

Richard E. Quandt

Small sample properties in a heterogenous Weibull model pp. 17-20

Kurt Brännäs

On using Durbin's h-test to validate the partial-adjustment model pp. 21-25

H. E. Doran

Mixed regression estimator under misspecification pp. 27-30

Krishna Kadiyala

Alternative specification tests for Tobit and related models pp. 31-33

Peter Kooreman

Obtaining any Wald statistic you want pp. 35-40

Francine Lafontaine and Kenneth J. White

Bootstrapping regression estimators under first-order serial correlation pp. 41-44

Michael Veall

Biased predictors, rationality and the evaluation of forecasts pp. 45-48

Arnold Zellner

Asset price bubbles from poorly aggregated information: A parametric example pp. 49-52

Daniel Friedman and Masanao Aoki

Sterilization and stability pp. 53-56

Joan O'Connell

Tests of expected real profits in the forward foreign exchange market pp. 57-60

Christina Y. Liu

Alternative specifications of the errors in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and various implied-variance formulas pp. 61-65

Abdul Rahman and Lawrence Kryzanowski

Minimal and maximal product differentiation in Hotelling's duopoly pp. 67-71

Nicholas Economides

A note on inertia in market share pp. 73-75

Joseph Farrell

Market share inertia with more than two firms: An existence problem pp. 77-79

Suzanne Scotchmer

A note on the taxation of exhaustible resources under oligopoly pp. 81-84

Mohammed Dore and Geoffrey Harcourt

A theory of scar unemployment pp. 85-88

Tara Vishwanath

Labor mobility under asymmetric information with moving and signalling costs pp. 89-94

Eliakim Katz and Oded Stark

Addiction and satiation pp. 95-99

Laurence Iannaccone