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Volume 17, issue 4, 1985

Expected utility and revelation of subjective probabilities pp. 305-309

Hans Haller

A new formula for the Shapley value pp. 311-315

Norman L. Kleinberg and Jeffrey H. Weiss

Perfect Nash equilibria in finite repeated game and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium in the constituent game pp. 317-320

Michel Moreaux

Time-varying hall consumption function: Some empirical evidence pp. 321-325

Erkki Koskela and Matti Viren

A general measure of inflation tax revenues pp. 327-330

Allan Drazen

Wage indexation and the variability of inflation: An empirical result pp. 331-333

Avia Spivak, J. Weinblatt and B. Z. Zilberfarb

Unbiased estimation of the inflationary effects of relative price disturbances pp. 335-340

David J. Stockton

Estimating the trans-log cost function with insufficient observations pp. 341-345

Adolf Buse and M. A. Taher

A note on the inefficiency of non-linear estimators pp. 347-350

Keith Hylton

A note on the mixed instrumental variables estimator in a stochastic regressors model: Some small sample properties pp. 351-353

Sumio Kakimoto and Kazuhiro Ohtani

Exact maximum likelihood regression estimation with ARMA (n, n - 1) errors pp. 355-358

Hrishikesh Vinod

Prospective monetary policy and the empirical relation between money and output pp. 359-364

John F. Boschen and Leonard O. Mills

A divisia system approach to modelling monetary aggregates pp. 365-368

Tran Van Hoa

The equivalence of the burden of internal and external public debt pp. 369-372

Takahiko Mutoh

Quotas and retaliation: A re-examination pp. 373-377

Rodney Falvey

'News' and the 1920's experience with floating exchange rates pp. 379-383

Ronald MacDonald

On the term structure of the foreign exchange rates and market efficiency pp. 385-388

Soo-Bin Park

Forward implications of a simple stochastic asset market model pp. 389-393

Andrew Rose

Multinational firms and government policy pp. 395-399

Ira N. Gany and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay

An empirical analysis of analysts' forecasts in the capital asset pricing model pp. 401-405

Steve Swidler

Social welfare losses due to a monopoly pp. 407-410

Tom K. Lee

A nested test of the Barten model of equivalence scales pp. 411-412

Ranjan Ray

Volume 17, issue 3, 1985

On the interpretation of income variables in discrete-choice models pp. 203-206

Philip A. Viton

The consumption function and the precautionary demand for savings pp. 207-210

Richard Cantor

Credibility, disinflation and gradualism pp. 211-217

Olivier Blanchard

A note on additive utility and bargaining pp. 219-222

Hans Peters

Divisia moments of U.S. consumption, 1929-1982 pp. 223-226

Renate Finke

Goodness-of-fit for allocation models pp. 227-229

R. A. Bewley

A clarifying note on the effects of linear approximation on hypothesis testing pp. 231-235

D. K. Bhattacharyya

The Lagrange Multiplier test for autocorrelation in the presence of linear restrictions pp. 237-241

G. Evans and K. D. Patterson

Are all asymptotic standard errors awful? pp. 243-245

Walter McManus and Mercedes C. Rosalsky

A linear algebraic procedure for solving linear perfect foresight models pp. 247-252

Gary Anderson and George Moore

A study of economic and financial flows pp. 253-256

Tran Van Hoa

Population intervals and the true cost-of-living index with known price distributions pp. 257-259

Michael Baye

A problem with the negative income tax pp. 261-265

Robert Moffitt

The Rybczynski theorem in the three-factor, two-good model pp. 267-269

Katsuhiko Suzuki

Terms of trade and national saving rates in Asia pp. 271-275

Maxwell J. Fry

Brain drain, illegal migration and capital exports from less developed economies: A neoclassical approach pp. 277-280

Mats Lundahl

Retail margins during recession and growth pp. 281-284

Bart Nooteboom and Roy Thurik

A general model of customer-class pricing pp. 285-289

Catherine Eckel

Bargaining and shift length pp. 291-295

Christopher J. Ellis and John Fender

A note on decentralizability in consumer demand models with quantity rationing pp. 297-301

H. R. Sneessens

Volume 17, issue 1-2, 1985

Perfect competition in strategic market games with interlinked preferences pp. 3-4

Pradeep Dubey and Martin Shubik

Income effects and the marginal utility of income pp. 5-9

Lee E. Edlefsen

A cross-country time-series analysis of the volume and quality of consumption pp. 11-14

Renate Finke and Henri Theil

Consistent conjecture and free entry oligopoly: A general analysis pp. 15-18

Yasuhito Tanaka

A note on wage indexation in a model with staggered wage setting pp. 19-22

Felipe Morandé

Investigating the probability of a voting cycle when the electorate is large pp. 23-25

T. Nicolaus Tideman

Repeated principal-agent relationships with lending and borrowing pp. 27-31

Franklin Allen

Multi-period contracts between principal and agent with adverse selection pp. 33-37

David Besanko

Self-insurance, self-protection and increased risk aversion pp. 39-42

Georges Dionne and Louis Eeckhoudt

Risk, discounts and the pricing of indivisible goods pp. 43-46

J. Luis Guasch and Robert C. Marshall

Asymptotic stability of Bayesian updating for Spencian examples pp. 47-51

Peter H. Huang

Competitive bidding with entry costs pp. 53-57

William F. Samuelson

A Bayesian perspective on biases in risk perception pp. 59-62

W Viscusi

Saving behavior in retirement when life horizon is uncertain pp. 63-66

Itzhak Zilcha and Joseph Friedman

How to eat a cake of unknown size: The case of a growing cake pp. 67-69

Murray Kemp and Ngo Long

Aggregate economic activity and the variance of inflation: Another look pp. 71-75

N. Edward Coulson and Russell P. Robins

Anticipated versus 'surprise' inflation in household consumption behaviour pp. 77-81

Erkki Koskela and Matti Viren

The equivalence of Hausman and Lagrange Multiplier tests of independence between disturbance and a subset of stochastic regressors pp. 83-86

Hae-shin Hwang

Wald tests for the independence of stochastic variables and disturbance of a single linear stochastic simultaneous equation pp. 87-90

Richard J. Smith

An em algorithm for the heteroscedastic regression models with censored data pp. 91-96

Chihwa Kao

On the distribution function of various model selection criteria with stochastic regressors pp. 97-101

Terrence Kinal and Kajal Lahiri

The joint asymptotic distribution of multistep prediction errors of estimated vector autoregressions pp. 103-106

Helmut Lütkepohl

A note on the use of a proxy variable in testing hypothesis pp. 107-110

Kazuhiro Ohtani

Testing linear hypothesis on regression coefficients after a pre-test for disturbance variance pp. 111-114

Kazuhiro Ohtani and Toshihisa Toyoda

Positive definite maximum likelihood covariance estimators pp. 115-117

Daniel P. Schwallie

Least squares and maximum likelihood estimation of non-linear systems pp. 119-122

Henri Theil and Mercedes C. Rosalsky

Lp-norm estimation of non-linear systems pp. 123-125

Henri Theil, Mercedes C. Rosalsky and Walter McManus

Estimation and testing in a regression model with spherically symmetric errors pp. 127-132

Aman Ullah and Victoria Zinde-Walsh

Maximal elements over non-compact subsets of linear topological spaces pp. 133-136

Nicholas C. Yannelis

The positiveness and the uniqueness of a solution pp. 137-139

Takao Fujimoto and Carmen Herrero

The rates of turnover of money goods under efficient monetary trade: Implications for monetary aggregation pp. 141-143

Paul A. Spindt

Excess burden and the marginal cost of public spending pp. 145-148

Neville Topham

Active pegging, rational expectations, and autonomy of monetary policy pp. 149-152

Esko Aurikko

Public utility pricing under risk: A generalization pp. 153-156

David S. Sibley

Wage prospects and the existence of job queues when the wage is a sorting device pp. 157-159

Tim Perri

Aggregate consumption and allocation of time pp. 161-165

Marsha Courchane

Sticky wages and adjustment in the Australian labour market pp. 167-170

Philip E. T. Lewis and Gerald Makepeace

A non-stationary hazard function of leaving unemployment for employment pp. 171-175

Bong Yoon

Conventional arbitration, final offer arbitration and the chilling effect pp. 177-181

John G. Treble

Human capital and the time-profile of human fertility: Revisited pp. 183-187

Nigel Tomes

Divisia moments of Indian consumption pp. 189-191

G. V. N. S. Murty

Notes on a new functional form for the Lorenz curve pp. 193-197

Jose W. Rossi

On the optimal resource rent tax: Erratum pp. 199-200

Harry Campbell and R. K. Lindner