Economics Letters

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1979

Consumption externalities and stability pp. 301-306

Richard Cornes and Masaaki Homma

Club participation under uncertainty pp. 307-312

A. L. Hillman and Peter Swan

A note on monetary policy effectiveness, the correspondence principle, and the positively sloped is curve pp. 313-317

George Tavlas

Computation of search duration probabilities and the integral of the normal distribution function pp. 319-321

Andrew D. Chesner and Tony Lancaster

Antithetic variates to estimate the simulation bias in non-linear models pp. 323-328

Giorgio Calzolari

Misspecified polynomial detrending pp. 329-331

Esfandiar Maasoumi and Yash P. Gupta

A simulation study of the maximum entropy moment matrix pp. 333-336

James F. Meisner

Measurement error and the demand for money in Australia pp. 337-340

Kenneth Clements and James F. Meisner

Estimation in multimarket disequilibrium models pp. 341-347

Stephen M. Goldfeld and Richard E. Quandt

A Filippov solution of a system of differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides pp. 349-354

Takatoshi Ito

Rebased and revised data -- their effects on econometric estimates pp. 355-359

F. R. Oliver

A note on the Tobit likelihood function pp. 361-362

Richard E. Quandt

Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for mean elasticities calculated from linear regression equations pp. 363-367

T. J. Valentine

Effects of exogenous changes in foreign exchange rates and income growth rates on the geographic pattern of exports: The case of Israel pp. 369-372

Mario I. Blejer and Nadav Halevi

Revenue and cost constraints in efficient multi-division firms pp. 373-377

Norman J. Ireland

The cost minimizing number of firms and the discipline of competition pp. 379-384

J. H. Hatch

Freedom, affluence, growth and inequality pp. 385-388

Rati Ram

The measurement and trend of inequality: An amendment to a basic revision pp. 389-393

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

Volume 4, issue 3, 1979

Private markets and production decisions pp. 201-209

Frank Milne

Willingness to pay and the compensation threshold pp. 211-214

Joel A. Appelbaum and Kenneth Laitinen

Signalling: Efficiency and equilibrium pp. 215-220

Keith Leffler, John Long and Thomas Russell

Non-cooperative equilibrium with price discriminating firms pp. 221-227

Daniel Spulber

The classical supply hypothesis and the observational equivalence of Classical and Keynesian models pp. 229-233

A. Patrick Minford and David Peel

Education as a signal pp. 235-237

Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg

Divisia moments of U.S. industry, 1947-1978 pp. 239-242

James F. Meisner

On the generalized Berkson's estimator in the general qualitative response model pp. 243-249

Lung-Fei Lee

A simple lagrange multiplier test for lognormal regression pp. 251-255

Dale J. Poirier and Paul Ruud

The precision gain from adding an equation in joint linear estimation pp. 257-259

Henri Theil and Denzil Fiebig

A note on the use of elasticity identities as empirical devices pp. 261-266

Joe A. Stone

International reserves: Adjustment dynamics pp. 267-270

John Bilson and Jacob A. Frenkel

The effect of forward markets on exporting firms pp. 271-274

Eliakim Katz and Jacob Paroush

The cost of adjustment and inventory accumulation studies pp. 275-277

G. J. Schinasi

Price-cost margins and foreign trade in U.S. textile and apparel industries: An analysis of pooled cross-section and time-series data pp. 279-282

Shujiro Urata

The response of fertility to the expectation of death: Implications for the demographic transition pp. 283-288

Stephen Haynes, Llad Phillips and Harold Votey

The effect of the shape of the income distribution on two inequality measures pp. 289-291

Esfandiar Maasoumi and Henri Theil

Temporal risks and the tenure decision in housing markets pp. 293-297

Yannis Ioannides

Volume 4, issue 2, 1979

A note on the global stability in dynamical economic systems pp. 95-98

Kiyohiko Giichi Nishimura

Uniqueness of general economic equilibrium pp. 99-102

I. W. Sandberg

The demand function with quality pp. 103-105

David Levhari and Jacob Paroush

Competitive price adjustment pp. 107-110

Edward Zabel

Equilibrium business cycle theory with centralized trading in some assets pp. 111-115

Edi Karni

Terminal conditions as a means of ensuring unique solutions for rational expectations models with forward expectations pp. 117-120

A. Patrick Minford, Kent Matthews and Satwant Marwaha

Utilitarian versus egalitarian redistributions pp. 121-124

Avinash Dixit and Jesus Seade

On aversion to positive risks and preference for negative risks pp. 125-129

Benjamin Eden

A direct characterization of Black's first borda count pp. 131-133

Peter Coughlin

Capital accumulation and welfare: a note pp. 135-139

Guillermo Calvo

Biological capital theory: a question and a conjecture pp. 141-144

Murray Kemp and Elvin J. Moore

On the interpretation of the cox test in econometrics pp. 145-150

Gordon Fisher and Michael McAleer

On comparisons of normal and logistic models in the bivariate dichotomous analysis pp. 151-155

Lung-Fei Lee

Exact aggregation and estimation pp. 157-162

J. M. Heineke

Portfolio and wealth effects of bond finance and the stability of the monetarist policy rule pp. 163-168

David Currie

A many-good Corlett-Hague tax rule pp. 169-172

Thomas R. Dalton and Efraim Sadka

A note on the neutrality of the cash flow corporation tax pp. 173-176

Agnar Sandmo

A general asset pricing model pp. 177-180

Uri Dothan and Joseph Williams

On the weak versus the strong version of the screening hypothesis pp. 181-185

George Psacharopoulos

International income inequality: 1970 and 1978 pp. 187-190

Rati Ram

Components of the change in regional inequality pp. 191-193

Henri Theil and Cyrus Sorooshian

Forecasts of construction activity for states pp. 195-199

R. William Thomas and H. O. Stekler

Volume 4, issue 1, 1979

Demand estimation, risk-aversion and sticky prices pp. 1-6

Jacques Dreze

A note on the duty of disclosure pp. 7-11

Ariel Rubinstein

Substitution and scale effects with and without homotheticity: An application to the intertemporal consumption decision pp. 13-18

Moshe Syrquin

The consistent application of boundary conditions in rational expectations models pp. 19-22

Matthew Canzoneri and Kenneth Rogoff

Monetary non-neutrality with anticipatory price setting and rational expectations pp. 23-27

Seppo Honkapohja

Fair rights pp. 29-32

David Austen-Smith

On the stability of the Klein-I model pp. 33-35

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paolo Corsi

Variations across households in the rate of inflation pp. 37-39

Henri Theil

A new estimation procedure under rational expectations pp. 41-43

Fumio Hayashi

Data revisions in the U.S. international transactions statistics pp. 45-49

L. E. Stekler and H. O. Stekler

The velocity behavior and information content of Divisia monetary aggregates pp. 51-57

William Barnett and Paul A. Spindt

Public good provision with optimal and non-optimal commodity taxation: The single-consumer case pp. 59-64

David Wildasin

Measuring the rate of protection with index numbers pp. 65-68

Ernest H. Oksanen and James R. Williams

A note on exchange rate dynamics pp. 69-73

D. L. Clements

Agricultural research and biological productivity: Some Australian results pp. 75-79

Trevor Hastings

Short-run employment functions for public utilities in the United States pp. 81-82

David J. Smyth

A cross-cross-section analysis of consumption patterns pp. 83-86

Haji Y. Izan and Kenneth Clements

Determinants of cross-country consumption differences other than the real income difference pp. 87-91

Frederick E. Suhm