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Volume 8, issue 4, 1981

Unique non-boundary equilibria in the Morishima system pp. 303-309

Douglas W. Hands

An axiomatic characterization of skew-symmetric bilinear functionals, with applications to utility theory pp. 311-313

P. C. Fishburn

The number of preference preorderings pp. 315-319

Jerry S. Kelly

The signs of the co-state variables and sufficiency conditions in a class of optimal control problems pp. 321-325

Daniel Leonard

Systematic search, belated information, and the gittins' index pp. 327-333

Brian McCall and John J. McCall

Should capitalists be taxed or subsidized in the long run? pp. 335-339

Alan Woodfield

Measuring the importance of stochastic control in the design of economic policies pp. 341-347

A. J. Hughes Hallett

Unemployment and the replacement ratio: Some reduced form estimates for the UK pp. 349-354

K. Holden and David Peel

Estimation of a system of linear dynamic asset demand equations: Computational considerations pp. 355-360

B. F. Hunt

Wald, likelihood ratio, and Lagrange multiplier tests as an F test pp. 361-365

Walter Vandaele

Testing the shift adjustment in the federal reserve's new shift adjusted M1-B pp. 367-372

James M. Johannes

Inter-market efficiency and the foreign exchange market pp. 373-377

Jack G. Selody and Andrew Rose

A note on the international transmission of inflation: The impact of U.S. inflation on Mexico pp. 379-384

Mario I. Blejer

Consumer discrimination and the firm's demand for black labor pp. 385-391

George Borjas

Volume 8, issue 3, 1981

Some empirical evidence on dynamic inconsistency pp. 201-207

Richard Thaler

Arrow-Debreu preferences and the reopening of contingent claims markets pp. 209-216

John B. Donaldson and Larry Selden

Cournot equilibrium in large markets under increasing returns pp. 217-220

Jean Frayssé and Michel Moreaux

A note on global Hicksian stability conditions pp. 221-226

Douglas W. Hands

The aggregate production function of an industry with generalized-Leontief cost functions at the micro level pp. 227-233

Rajiv Vohra

Recursions for instrumental variables estimators pp. 235-238

David Giles

A generalized specification test pp. 239-245

Jerry A. Hausman and William Taylor

A portfolio model estimator pp. 247-253

Guay Lim

A note on Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction formulas for rational expectations models pp. 255-260

Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent

Elasticity rules for the expenditure effects of matching grants: The case of goods with user charges pp. 261-266

J. G. Gibson

Covered interest arbitrage in the 1970's pp. 267-274

Jacob A. Frenkel and Richard M. Levich

On optimal unemployment pp. 275-280

Felix FitzRoy

Variation of wage rates with size of establishment pp. 281-286

Edward Miller

Do relative price changes affect the general equivalence scale? pp. 287-291

Ranjan Ray

Rising marginal cost and concavity of the production function pp. 293-299

Anthony Marino, Yoshihiko Otani and Joseph Sicilian

Volume 8, issue 2, 1981

Further evidence on asymptotic tests for homogeneity and symmetry in large demand systems pp. 101-105

A. K. Bera, R. P. Byron and C. M. Jarque

Incomplete insurance and absolute risk aversion pp. 107-112

Haruo Imai, John Geanakoplos and Takatoshi Ito

A note on the interpretation of the Cox procedure for non-nested hypotheses pp. 113-119

Noxy Dastoor

Exact sampling distribution of the omitted variable estimator pp. 121-127

Terrence Kinal and Kajal Lahiri

A characterization of Granger-Sims exogeneity pp. 129-133

R. Khon

Posterior odds analysis when all competing models are false pp. 135-140

Dale J. Poirier

A more general class of biased estimators of the co-efficients in linear regression pp. 141-145

Muhammad Rashid

Another look at the maximum entropy correlation coefficient pp. 147-152

Henri Theil and Sartaj A. Kidwai

The maximum entropy median in the presence of an outlier pp. 153-157

Henri Theil, Sartaj A. Kidwai and Murat A. Yalnizolu

Marginal and conditional probabilities of excess demand pp. 159-162

John Burkett

Estimation of demand and supply functions from univariate sample with known separation pp. 163-168

Wojciech Charemza and Joachim Domsta

The incidence of tariffs: Simulation results pp. 169-175

Kenneth Clements and H. Y. Izan

Welfare implications of growth under quotas pp. 177-180

M. Shahid Alam

On employment, wage and risk sharing in labor contracts pp. 181-186

Leif Danziger

Monitoring cost, disutility of effort and the forcing employment contract pp. 187-192

Pak-wai Liu

An empirical analysis of rural-urban migration in less developed economies pp. 193-199

Ijaz Nabi

Volume 8, issue 1, 1981

Probabilities proportional to time-state prices pp. 1-6

Oyvind Boohren and Steinar Ekern

Residential land use: The continous case pp. 7-12

Javier Ruiz-Castillo

On the rate of convergence of oligopoly equilibria in large markets: An example pp. 13-17

Partha Dasgupta and Yoshiaki Ushio

Rational rationing and increasing returns an example pp. 19-27

Geoffrey Heal

A note on multiproduct economies of scale and economies of scope pp. 29-33

Jack Mintz

Shadow prices in intertemporal plans under constant returns to scale pp. 35-37

Hugh Rose

Hotelling's competition with general customer distributions pp. 39-45

Yuval Shilony

Insurance as a Giffen good pp. 47-51

Michael Hoy and Arthur Robson

When are two-stage and three-stage least squares estimators identical? pp. 53-57

Arie Kapteyn and Denzil Fiebig

Simulation evidence on the ridge and the shrinkage of the maximum entropy variance pp. 59-61

Sartaj A. Kidwai and Henri Theil

Stock and flow sampling pp. 63-65

Tony Lancaster and Andrew Chesher

The positive maximum entropy distribution pp. 67-72

Henri Theil and Richard O. Lightburn

Efficient estimation of tail-area probabilities in sampling experiments pp. 73-77

Russell Davidson and James MacKinnon

An example of multiple minima in a Cochrane-Orcutt procedure with multiple autocorrelation pp. 79-87

Robert Lafrance and Michel Belanger

The golden rule and the Ramsey rule at a second best solution pp. 89-93

Toshihiro Ihori

Progression under the benefit approach to the theory of taxation pp. 95-99

Dan Kovenock and Efraim Sadka