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Volume 20, issue 4, 1986

Insurance and Giffen's paradox pp. 303-306

Karl Borch

Pareto optimal chains of reinsurance pp. 307-310

Laurent D'Ursel and Marc Lauwers

Stochastic rationing by waiting list pp. 311-314

Barbara Katz and Joel Owen

Symmetric bidding in second-price, common-value auctions pp. 315-319

Dan Levin and Ronald Harstad

Asymptotic inference in regression models with autoregressive errors having roots on the unit circle pp. 321-324

Juha Ahtola

Maximum likelihood estimation of sum-constrained linear models with insufficient observations pp. 325-329

Paul de Boer and R. Harkema

The bias of the least squares estimator over interval constraints pp. 331-335

Luis A. Escobar and Bradley Skarpness

The bias of [sigma] in dynamic models pp. 337-339

Ignacio Mauleón

On studentizing a test for structural change pp. 341-344

Werner Ploberger and Walter Krämer

A necessary and sufficient condition for the dominance of an improved family of estimators in linear regression models pp. 345-349

V. K. Srivastava and Anoop Chaturvedi

A simple and efficient estimation method for a non-linear demand system pp. 351-353

Henri Theil, Baldev Raj and Eric M. Diamond

Improved estimators in some linear errors-in-variables models in finite samples pp. 355-358

Tran Van Hoa

The causes of bank failures: deflationary spells pp. 359-362

Ernst Weber

Time-aggregated information and stock price volatility pp. 363-365

Shin-ichi Fukuda

Foreign ownership, non-traded goods and the effects of terms of trade changes on national welfare pp. 367-371

Francisco Rivera-Batiz

Exchange rate models and innovations: A derivation pp. 373-376

Christian Wolff

Testing the relationship between work and health: A bivariate hazard model pp. 383-386

J. Butler, Kathryn Anderson and Richard Burkhauser

Inflation, relative prices and welfare redistribution in Spain, 1976-1984 pp. 387-390

Antonio Abadia

Advertising bans, tobacco and cigarette consumption pp. 391-396

Paul B. McLeod

Volume 20, issue 3, 1986

On the uniqueness of Nash equilibria pp. 203-205

Larry A. Chenault

Rent seeking and entry pp. 207-212

Elie Appelbaum and Eliakim Katz

Collusive behaviour in finite repeated games with bonding pp. 213-216

Mukesh Eswaran and Tracy Lewis

Relative price changes and the real distribution of income: The case of Brazil pp. 217-220

Linus Yamane

Matrix scaling of subjective probabilities of economic forecasts pp. 221-225

Robert E. Jensen and Roger W. Spencer

Ideal Divisia moments, price dispersion and inflation pp. 227-232

Klaus Gerhaeusser

Monte Carlo studies on the effectiveness of the bootstrap bias reduction method on 2SLS estimates pp. 233-239

Yu-Sheng Hsu, Kin-Nam Lau, Hung-Gay Fung and Edwin F. Ulveling

Utility correlations in probabilistic choice modelling pp. 241-245

Dilip B. Madan

Multiple minima and the Cochrane-Orcutt technique: Some initial Monte Carlo results pp. 247-250

Les Oxley and Colin Roberts

A conditional least squares estimation procedure for a disequilibrium market model with autocorrelated errors pp. 251-254

Sunil K. Sapra

The statistical precision of a numerical methods estimator as applied to welfare loss pp. 255-257

Susan Porter-Hudak and Kathy Hayes

Comparing evidence on Wagner's hypothesis from conventional and 'real' data pp. 259-262

Rati Ram

Optimally uniform commodity taxes, taste differences and lump-sum grants pp. 263-266

Angus Deaton and Nicholas Stern

On the desirability of input taxes pp. 267-270

David M Newbery

On the presence and absence of free entry in oligopoly equilibria pp. 271-275

Yoshiaki Ushio

The sensitivity of partially regulated second-best prices to intercommodity cross elasticities of demand pp. 277-281

Russell A. Janis

Has deregulation decreased the risk of NYSE seat ownership? pp. 283-289

Devra Golbe

Averting behavior: Does it exist? pp. 291-296

V. Kerry Smith and William H. Desvousges

The heterogeneity of the consumer's preferences over time: A system-wide analysis of discrete panel data pp. 297-300

Tran Van Hoa

The behaviour of the cost of living at different levels of real income: A correction pp. 301-302

Bert Balk

Volume 20, issue 2, 1986

Usage-dependent peak-load pricing pp. 101-105

André de Palma and Richard Arnott

Some normative aspects of Akerlof's problem: An example pp. 107-110

Bernard Belloc

An axiomatization of the core of a cooperative game pp. 111-115

Hans Keiding

Repeated stochastic tree problems pp. 117-119

Meng-Hua Ye

On some estimates of an asian savings function pp. 121-124

Martin Ravallion and Abhijit Sen

Inflation and rates of return on long-term bonds pp. 125-127

Eric Chang and J. Michael Pinegar

Divisia moments of Greek consumption pp. 129-131

John Papadakis

On the use of better measured proxies in regression analysis pp. 133-137

Steven Klepper

Do we reject too often?: Small sample properties of tests of rational expectations models pp. 139-145

N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew D. Shapiro

Stein-rule least squares estimation: A heuristic for fallible data pp. 147-150

T. D. Stanley

A note on the asymptotic lower bound for the covariance matrix of the GMM estimator of the parameters of agents' utility functions pp. 151-155

George Tauchen

Monte Carlo tests of autocorrelation pp. 157-160

Henri Theil and J. S. Shonkwiler

The jackknife and heteroskedasticity: Consistent variance estimation for regression models pp. 161-163

N. C. Weber

An aspect of the wald test for linear restrictions in the seemingly unrelated regressions model pp. 165-169

Alan Woodland

A minimax approach to the implicit programming problem pp. 171-175

Robert Becker and Ciprian Foias

Finite state markov-chain approximations to univariate and vector autoregressions pp. 177-181

George Tauchen

Tax rate effects on interest rates pp. 183-186

Joe Peek and James A. Wilcox

Sticky prices and purchasing power parity deviations: Empirical implications pp. 187-190

Betty Daniel

Interpreting the wage gap estimate from selectivity correction techniques using micro data pp. 191-195

Pradeep Kumar and Thanasis Stengos

An elegant price flexibility modification to the widely used linear expenditure system pp. 197-200

John C. Larson

Volume 20, issue 1, 1986

A comparison of bribery and bidding in thin markets pp. 1-5

Paul J. Beck and Michael W. Maher

A counterexample to the folk theorem with discounting pp. 7-7

Francoise Forges, Jean-François Mertens and Abraham Neyman

A non-cooperative bargaining game with risk averse players and an uncertain finite horizon pp. 9-13

Joseph Harrington

Vickrey auctions in the theory of expected utility with rank-dependent probabilities pp. 15-18

Edi Karni and Zvi Safra

Relative risk aversion around the world pp. 19-21

George G. Szpiro

The relationship between interest rates and inflation during the prewar period: Some empirical evidence pp. 23-27

Matti Viren

Testing for parameter stability in a regression model with ar(1) errors pp. 29-32

Charles Cadsby and Thanasis Stengos

The use of prior regressions in the estimation of error correction models pp. 33-37

S. G. Hall and S. J. Brooks

Some useful equivalence properties of Hausman's test pp. 39-43

Alberto Holly and Alain Monfort

Moments of ordered bivariate log-normal distributions pp. 45-47

Da-Hsiang Donald Lien

Predicted and actual frequencies in binomial response models pp. 49-51

Da-Hsiang Donald Lien

Some evidence on the power of Monte Carlo tests in systems of equations pp. 53-54

J. S. Shonkwiler and Henri Theil

Monte Carlo and bootstrap testing of demand homogeneity pp. 55-57

Timothy G. Taylor, J. S. Shonkwiler and Henri Theil

The continuous selection theorem in n: A proof by induction pp. 59-61

Wolfgang Leininger

The velocity of money and the random walk hypothesis pp. 63-66

Ronald MacDonald and David Peel

How effective is potential competition? pp. 67-70

Joseph Farrell

Standardization and variety pp. 71-74

Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner

Dynamic collusion in an open economy pp. 75-78

Joseph G. Haubrich and Val Lambson

Industrial sector fuel price elasticities following the first and second major oil price shocks pp. 79-82

V. B. Hall

Efficiency and sharing of investment in specific human capital under risk aversion pp. 83-87

Kit-Chun Lam and Pak-Wai Liu

An axiomatic basis for the three objective social welfare function within a poverty context pp. 89-94

Robert Brent

Measuring equivalence scales: A new system-wide method pp. 95-99

Tran Van Hoa