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Volume 19, issue 4, 1985

Owner-consumers and efficiency pp. 303-306

Joseph Farrell

On Weitzman's 'recession resistant' employee compensation arrangements pp. 307-309

Karl Ove Moene and Tone Ognedal

A note on capital markets and bankruptcy constraints in contracting pp. 311-314

Ben Lockwood and Alan Manning

A small-sample correction for the likelihood ratio test pp. 315-317

Alexander Italianer

Incorporating contemporaneous residual relationships: A new approach pp. 319-321

Abolhassan Jalilvand and Lawrence Kryzanowski

A Hausman test with trending data pp. 323-325

Walter Krämer

A size-corrected Wald test for Slutsky symmetry in systems of demand equations pp. 327-330

Timothy G. Taylor and J. S. Shonkwiler

A Monte Carlo test of Slutsky symmetry pp. 331-332

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

An alternative to the box-cox transformation in model discrimination pp. 333-337

Bong Yoon

Using bootstrap to obtain standard errors of system tobit coefficients pp. 339-342

Lennart Flood

An even simpler differential demand system pp. 343-347

E. Antony Selvanathan

Saving out of different income categories in Greece pp. 349-353

Ioannis S. Vavouras

On calculating the optimal commodity tax rate: An alternative to social welfare maximisation pp. 355-358

Ranjan Ray

Import-export elasticities and exchange rate dynamics pp. 359-361

Chau-nan Chen and Ching-chong Lai

Currency substitution and economic monetary aggregates: The U.S. Case pp. 363-367

Jaime Marquez

Trade reform, aggregate investment and capital flight: On credibility and the value of information pp. 369-372

Sweder van Wijnbergen

Multiple partial adjustment of portfolios under rational expectations pp. 373-376

Klaus Neusser

Index bonds: An empirical examination using the CAPM pp. 377-380

Joseph Yagil

Wage aggregation in labor market models pp. 381-385

Susan Vroman

Monopoly unions versus efficient bargaining with free entry pp. 387-390

Jon Strand

Human capital and voluntary unemployment pp. 391-394

Christopher J. Ellis

Imperfect capital markets in empirical life-cycle models pp. 395-397

Martin Browning and A. Robb

Volume 19, issue 3, 1985

Equilibrium and quasi-equilibrium existence theorems for a general model without ordered preferences pp. 205-210

Rosa Barbolla

Calibration in applied general equilibrium modelling: The case of rationed households pp. 211-215

O. J. C. Cornielje

Social decisions and public investment pp. 217-219

Karl Borch

Investment in information acquisition pp. 221-225

Jean-Pierre Danthine and Michael Magill

Bounded complexity justifies cooperation in the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma pp. 227-229

Abraham Neyman

A note on enough money in a strategic market game with complete or fewer markets pp. 231-235

Martin Shubik

The monetarist versus the neo-Keynesian views on inflation: Some Italian evidence pp. 237-241

Ali F. Darrat

Moments of truncated bivariate log-normal distributions pp. 243-247

Da-Hsiang Donald Lien

A note on a posterior approximation in a heteroscedastic model pp. 249-252

K. Surekha and William Griffiths

Some information on the sampling performance of Stein's new estimator pp. 253-256

George Judge, S. Miyazaki and T. A. Yancey

Why do expectations models of the term structure fail? pp. 257-260

Robert Murphy

Multinational involvement and risk pp. 261-265

Mark Hirschey

Overshooting in the foreign exchange market: Evidence from the 1970s pp. 267-270

John Doukas and Melhem Melhem

Two estimators for the apt model when factors are measured pp. 271-275

Marjorie B. McElroy, Edwin Burmeister and Kent D. Wall

Absenteeism and wages pp. 277-279

Andrew Weiss

Earnings functions: Testing for the demand side pp. 281-285

Joop Hartog

Female labour supply in Australia: Another example of a backward-bending labour supply curve pp. 287-290

Paul Miller

Functional forms and educational production functions pp. 291-294

Claude Montmarquette and Sophie Mahseredjian

The trend and the measurement of world inequality over extended periods of accounting pp. 295-301

Esfandiar Maasoumi and Jin Ho Jeong

Volume 19, issue 2, 1985

Existence of equilibria based on continuity and boundary behaviour pp. 101-103

Norbert Schulz

A test of market clearing pp. 105-108

Christopher Martin

Nash implementation of the Lindahl performance in economies with just two consumers: An impossibility result pp. 109-112

Fernando Vega-Redondo

Third-degree stochastic dominance and random variables pp. 113-117

Peter C. Fishburn

Bargaining and separation costs in two-sided markets pp. 119-123

Robert I. Gerber

Individual bidder behavior in first-price private value auctions pp. 125-128

John Kagel and Dan Levin

A note on bimatrix games with an unknown payoff matrix pp. 129-132

Da-Hsiang Donald Lien

The approximate purification of mixed strategies with finite observation sets pp. 133-135

Salim Rashid

A simple proof for the Kleinberg-Weiss representation of the shapley value pp. 137-139

Uriel G. Rothblum

Multiperiod forecasts and the variability of predicted and actual changes pp. 141-143

David J. Smyth and J. C. K. Ash

Public debt, monetization and inflation: Evidence from the U.S. time series pp. 145-148

Bong Soo Lee

Indexed and non-indexed insurance and the growth of group life insurance pp. 149-153

J. Francois Outreville

A Monte Carlo comparison of the maximum likelihood and the corrected ols estimators for Tobit models pp. 155-163

Lennart Flood

Econometric models with normal polychotomous selectivity pp. 165-170

Joseph Terza

Using the directional shadow elasticity of substitution to measure the concavity of the cost function pp. 171-175

Petter Frenger

A note on the statistical properties of aggregate q measures pp. 177-181

Robert Connolly and C. J. Lacivita

A note on Peltzman's theory of offsetting consumer behavior pp. 183-187

Christopher Garbacz

The quality of consumption: Some Australian evidence pp. 189-192

Tran Van Hoa

Is there chronic excess supply of labor?: Designing a statistical test pp. 193-197

Richard E. Quandt and Harvey Rosen

Trade union growth in Ireland and the interdependence of the Irish and United Kingdom labor markets pp. 199-202

David J. Smyth

Volume 19, issue 1, 1985

Existence of competitive equilibria via Smith's non-linear complementarity result pp. 1-4

Patrick T. Harker

Two remarks on Cournot equilibria pp. 5-8

Ted Bergstrom and Hal Varian

Independent social choice correspondences are dictatorial pp. 9-12

Vincenzo Denicolo'

Condorcet efficiency of constant scoring rules for large electorates pp. 13-15

William V. Gehrlein

Multi-dimensional signalling pp. 17-21

Robert Wilson

Some empirical evidence on the determinants of incomes policies in the UK pp. 23-26

K. Holden and David Peel

Inflation variability and relative-price change variability in The Netherlands 1951-1981 pp. 27-30

Bert Balk

Estimating transition probabilities from panel data pp. 31-34

Marcel G. Dagenais, Alice Nakamura and Masao Nakamura

Independent or uncorrelated disturbances in linear regression: An illustration of the difference pp. 35-38

Harry H. Kelejian and Ingmar Prucha

The inadmissibility of the Stein estimator in normal multiple regression equations pp. 39-42

Tran Van Hoa

The constant preferences assumption as a specification error in demand analysis pp. 43-46

Erik Schokkaert

Relative prices and real factor rewards: A reinterpretation pp. 47-49

Ronald Jones

Transport costs, factor intensities and the Rybczynski theorem pp. 51-55

Shigemi Yabuuchi

A look at 'overshooting' in a two-tier float exchange rate system pp. 57-61

Jagdeep S. Bhandari

Dynamic inconsistency and the optimal choice of the exchange rate regime pp. 63-66

Harris Dellas

A test of the incrementally efficient market hypothesis for the London gold market pp. 67-70

Yan-Ki Ho

Investment and financing decisions by Spanish industrial firms pp. 71-72

Angel Berges and Fernando Maravall

Industry margins and the business cycle: Some new microeconomic evidence pp. 73-77

Ian Domowitz, R. Glenn Hubbard and Bruce Petersen

Optimal production in the presence of learning pp. 79-83

A. Dotan, M. Gross and Z. Lieber

Preference for output price uncertainty by the non-renewable resource extracting firm pp. 85-89

John M. Hartwick and David Yeung

Manufacturing wages by size of firm pp. 91-93

Edward M. Miller

Unionization and distribution of income under variable returns to scale pp. 95-98

Amar K. Parai