Economics Letters

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Volume 5, issue 4, 1980

Input substitution, aggregation, and engineering descriptions of production activities pp. 289-296

Raymond Kopp and V. Kerry Smith

Is the expected utility maximization hypothesis refutable by finite market data: The case of two observations pp. 297-300

Lawrence J. Lau

Exogeneity in a small open economy: Canada pp. 301-304

Jack Selody

Optimal incentive schemes: Existence and characterization pp. 305-310

Frank H. Clarke and Masako N. Darrough

Flows of direct investment and their effects on U.S. domestic investment pp. 311-317

M. S. Noorzoy

The maximum entropy moment matrix with missing values pp. 319-322

Delores Conway and Henri Theil

Specification and estimation of a dynamic disequilibrium model pp. 323-328

Marcel G. Dagenais

A risk evaluation of the maximum entropy moment matrix pp. 329-333

James F. Meisner

A risk evaluation of the maximum entropy correlation coefficients pp. 335-338

James F. Meisner

Simultaneous equation estimation based on maximum entropy moments pp. 339-344

Henri Theil and James F. Meisner

The median of the maximum entropy distribution pp. 345-347

Henri Theil and Patricia C. O'Brien

Qualitative asymptotic synthesis in simple optimal control problems pp. 349-352

Richard Schmalensee

The basic functions of money: An Application of the Input Independence Transformation pp. 353-357

Edward K. Offenbacher

Individual contribution to public goods pp. 359-361

David Austen-Smith

Clubs as a case of competitive industry with goods of variable quality pp. 363-366

Eitan Berglas and David Pines

LDC policy towards multinational companies: A Case for Payroll Taxes and Capital Subsidies pp. 367-370

David de Meza

Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case pp. 371-375

David Sappington

Patents and R&D at the firm level: A first report pp. 377-381

Ariel Pakes and Zvi Griliches

Statistical inference in cross-country demand systems pp. 383-387

Henri Theil, Frederick E. Suhm and James F. Meisner

Volume 5, issue 3, 1980

Continua of Hahn-unsatisfactory equilibria: Some examples pp. 201-208

Joaquin Silvestre

An existence criterion for models of resource allocation over an infinite horizon pp. 209-213

Michael Magill

On the backward-forward procedure pp. 215-217

Christian Gourieroux, Jean-Jacques Laffont and A. Montfort

Fiscal policy with direct effects pp. 219-224

Nicolaas Groenewold

Treasury bill financing in a dynamic macroeconomic model with a government budget constraint pp. 225-229

David J. Smyth

Optimal output and the theory of the firm under uncertainty pp. 231-233

Francisco Rivera-Batiz

A note on the shadow wage in LCDs with migration and formal and informal urban sectors pp. 235-240

Oded Stark

The expected ridge and shrinkage of the maximum entropy variance under normality pp. 241-244

Nadeem ul Haque and James F. Meisner

A generalized hazard rate pp. 245-249

Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L. Schwartz

Maximum entropy regressions pp. 251-255

James F. Meisner

Optimal linear income taxation with partial information pp. 257-263

Motty Perry

Lerner symmetry and trilateral relations in international monetary economics pp. 265-269

Richard K. Anderson and Akira Takayama

Resource extraction and anticipated demand shifts pp. 271-274

Michael S. Knoll, John D. Martin and Robert A. Miller

The intertemporal externality in the dynamic common property renewable resource problem pp. 275-280

John M. Hartwick

The independence transformation under almost additivity pp. 281-284

Henri Theil

Jurisdictional fragmentation equalizes housing consumption pp. 285-288

Sam Bucovetsky

Volume 5, issue 2, 1980

The effect of product differentiation on dynamic Cournot and Stackelberg stability pp. 101-107

A. M. Russell and J. A. Rickard

Interpreting [alpha]-rationality in hierarchical games pp. 109-113

H. M. Shefrin and Richard Thaler

Oligopoly and derived demand pp. 115-118

Michael Waterson

Ignorance and manipulation pp. 119-123

Lucian Bebchuk

Comparative statics and risk aversion pp. 125-128

Steinar Ekern

Optimal consumption under income uncertainty: An example and a conjecture pp. 129-133

John D. Hey

A sequential stochastic tree problem pp. 135-140

Robert A. Miller and Karl Voltaire

A lagrange multiplier test for skewness in binary logit models pp. 141-143

Dale J. Poirier

The entropy of the maximum entropy distribution pp. 145-148

Henri Theil

Testing for heteroscedasticity in a model of seemingly unrelated regression equations with variance components (SUREVC) pp. 149-153

H. A. A. Verbon

Approximate variance formulas for the elasticities of substitution obtained from translog production functions pp. 155-160

Alden L. Toevs

The application of transformations to non-linear models pp. 161-164

James R. Blaylock

Temporal aggregation and the estimation of the market price of risk pp. 165-170

Gabriel A. Hawawini and Ashok Vora

Structural policy with increasing returns and product substitutability: A numerical note pp. 171-175

Philip A. Viton

Phelps' technical progress model generalized pp. 177-182

Gunter Steinmann and Julian L. Simon

A model of employment discrimination at labor market disequilibrium pp. 183-188

Kenneth Chan

Screening, ability, and the productivity of education in Malaysia pp. 189-193

Kiong-Hock Lee

Physical quality of life index and inter-country inequality pp. 195-199

Rati Ram

Volume 5, issue 1, 1980

A factor price and public input equalization theorem pp. 1-5

M. Khan

An alternative to steady-state comparisons pp. 7-9

Peter Diamond

On the recoverability of intertemporal preferences pp. 11-14

Larry Epstein

Multiple variable factors, demand uncertainty, and the cooperative firm pp. 15-19

Gabriel A. Hawawini

The 'flexible accelerator' and optimization with a finite horizon pp. 21-27

Peter von zur Muehlen

On equity and efficiency pp. 29-31

Steven Goldman and Chal Sussangkarn

A golden rule for uncertain monopolists pp. 33-37

Roger A. Bowles

Testing the permanent income hypothesis using a general rational lag formulation pp. 39-43

Richard Baillie, Patrick C. McMahon and David J. Smyth

On a simple procedure for testing non-nested regression models pp. 45-48

Russell Davidson and James MacKinnon

Disequilibrium econometrics and non-linear budget constraints pp. 49-52

Robert Moffitt

A simple form of the maximum entropy moment matrix and its inverse pp. 53-57

Henri Theil

The precision gain from additional predictions pp. 59-61

Henri Theil and Denzil Fiebig

An empirical note on bond-yield uncertainty and the demand for money pp. 63-69

Yakov Amihud

A note on the dynamic adjustment of the demand for international reserves by LDC's pp. 71-74

Sebastian Edwards

Country-specific and time-specific factors in the demand for international reserves pp. 75-80

Jacob A. Frenkel and Craig S. Hakkio

Monopoly and product selection pp. 81-83

J. Luis Guasch and Joel Sobel

Variable output elasticities and technique-specific technical progress: A method of measurement pp. 85-91

Edward L. Lynk

The maximal degree of dependence among inputs, outputs, and consumer goods pp. 93-96

Fwu-Rang Chang

A divisia version of the country-product-dummy method pp. 97-99

Karl Voltaire and Edward J. Stack