Economics Letters

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Volume 2, issue 4, 1979

Unanticipated money, 'disequilibrium' modelling and rational expectations pp. 303-308

Kenneth Clements and Peter D. Jonson

The cost structure of a simple general equilibrium system: A graphical characterization and its application to the question of monopsony distortions pp. 309-312

Motoshige Itoh

A progress report on Kelly's majority conjectures pp. 313-314

Peter C. Fishburn, William V. Gehrlein and Eric Maskin

Stochastic dominance without risk aversion pp. 315-320

Benjamin Eden

Money, inflation and maximizing behaviour pp. 321-326

Murray Kemp and Ngo Long

On the political theory of the business cycle pp. 327-332

D. Chappell and David Peel

Inventory investment in United States manufacturing pp. 333-336

David J. Smyth

Inflation variability in Latin America: A note on the time series evidence pp. 337-341

Mario I. Blejer

A pre-topological analysis of the input-output model pp. 343-347

Jean-Paul Auray, Gerard Duru and Michel Mougeot

Alternative transactions variables and the empirical evidence of economies of scale in money holdings pp. 349-355

Torsten Persson

Optimally uniform commodity taxes pp. 357-361

Angus Deaton

Shadow prices, market prices and project losses pp. 363-367

Peter Warr

A multisectoral model of a small, open economy with non-shiftable capital and imperfect labor mobility pp. 369-375

M. Khan

The measurement of inter-industrial specialization in international trade pp. 377-379

Henri Theil

The optimal parole period pp. 381-386

Donald E. Lewis

Equilibrium in a system of communities with local public goods: A diagrammatic exposition pp. 387-393

Jan Brueckner

Volume 2, issue 3, 1979

New results on rational random behavior pp. 201-204

John P. Bowman, Kenneth Laitinen and Henri Theil

A model of profits and market adjustment pp. 205-208

Peter Englund

Dynamic Stackelberg stability pp. 209-213

Neville J. Hathaway, John A. Rickard and Terence D. Howroyd

Attitudes to risk pp. 215-218

Peter J. Lambert and John D. Hey

A distributed lag estimator derived from Shiller's smoothness priors: An extension pp. 219-223

Aman Ullah and Baldev Raj

Heteroscedasticity and the use of Box-Cox transformations pp. 225-229

Marc J. I. Gaudry and Marcel G. Dagenais

The sad fate of the asymptotic Slutsky symmetry test for large systems pp. 231-233

James F. Meisner

The time-covariance function: Properties and application pp. 235-238

Gabriel A. Hawawini

Maximum likelihood estimation of the Rotterdam model under two different conditions pp. 239-244

Henri Theil and Kenneth Laitinen

Estimating changes in real size of the public sector pp. 245-249

Morris Beck

Quotas and equilibrium relative prices in the trade restricting country pp. 251-255

Werner A. De Haan and Patrice E. Visser

Flows of direct investment and their effects on investment in Canada pp. 257-261

M. S. Noorzoy

Spectral analysis as a tool for model discrimination: An application to international capital movements pp. 263-267

Stephen Haynes

Managerial incentives in the financial sector pp. 269-274

Mark John Hirschey and Gregory Werden

Depreciation and the conservation of energy pp. 275-279

Gary Yohe

On temporary layoffs and job search theory pp. 281-285

Yannis Ioannides

The impact of motivation and socioeconomic background on earnings pp. 287-294

B. F. Kiker and C. M. Condon

The positive correlation of affluence and freedom pp. 295-297

Henri Theil

The independence transformation of specific substitutes and specific complements pp. 299-301

Peter Rossi

Volume 2, issue 2, 1979

A new expenditure function pp. 103-110

Robert Cooter

Optimal taxation theory and excess demand functions pp. 111-113

John Weymark

A simple generalised stopping rule pp. 115-120

John D. Hey

Pareto vs. Wicksell on adjustment costs in consumption: A reformulation pp. 121-124

Jess Benhabib

Unanticipated movements in aggregate demand and the business cycle: Results from variance decompositions pp. 125-129

Leonardo Leiderman

On dynamic stability in monetary models which incorporate short- and long-run expectations of inflation in the demand for the money function pp. 131-136

David Peel

Are labor-managers really perverse? pp. 137-142

A. Steinherr and Jacques Thisse

Population growth and the pattern of trade: A Neo-Ricardian approach pp. 143-144

Murray Kemp

The cost of consumption and wealth in models with habit formation pp. 145-148

Frans Spinnewyn

Some practical and conceptual difficulties with parameter constrained regression procedures pp. 149-153

S. A. Conrad and J. S. Baron

On maximum likelihood estimation of functional form and heteroskedasticity pp. 155-159

Daniel Egy and Kajal Lahiri

A Monte Carlo approach to compute the asymptotic standard errors of dynamic multipliers pp. 161-164

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paolo Corsi

International comparisons of GDP and data revisions pp. 165-167

A. D. Owen

Quantitative versus qualitative measures of price expectations: The evidence from Australian consumer surveys pp. 169-173

L. V. Defris and Ross Williams

Equilibrium in capital markets pp. 175-179

Karl Borch

Stagflation and expansionary economic policies under flexible exchange rates pp. 181-185

Horst Herberg

The time to adoption pp. 187-190

R. Lindner, A. Fischer and Philip Pardey

The upper tail of the earnings distribution: Pareto or lognormal? pp. 191-195

Alan Harrison

The measurement of inequality by components of income pp. 197-199

Henri Theil

Volume 2, issue 1, 1979

Taxing consumption to finance reduced emissions: An alternative pollution control pp. 1-4

Gary Yohe

An intergenerational cake eating game pp. 5-7

Morton I. Kamien and Nimrod Megiddo

The elasticity of demand for an imperfectly competitive firm: A shortcut technique pp. 9-12

Stephen T. Mennemeyer

An example of a non-Walrasian equilibrium with stochastic rationing at the Walrasian equilibrium prices pp. 13-19

Takatoshi Ito

On the robustness of the Arrow-Pratt risk aversion measure pp. 21-26

J. G. Kallberg and W. T. Ziemba

Computing revealed preferences and limits to the validity of quadratic objective functions for policy optimization pp. 27-32

A. J. Hughes Hallett

Some spectral definitions for disequilibrium analysis pp. 33-35

Wojciech Charemza

Alternative computing formulas for the generalized inverse and the evaluation of their performances pp. 37-43

Kern O. Kymn, John Norsworthy and Tatsuo Okamoto

The stability of the U.S. long run demand for money re-examined pp. 45-49

I. Sharpe and P. Volker

Tariff reductions and gains in efficiency: Some evidence from Canadian data pp. 51-57

M. S. Noorzoy

Do national variables converge to world averages? pp. 59-65

Masanao Aoki

A theory of multinationals' choice of technique and locational decisions pp. 67-71

David de Meza

On the theory of the firm under uncertainty and the cost of capital pp. 73-78

Lemma W. Senbet

Monopoly and the choice of product characteristics pp. 79-84

Marion B. Stewart

Market structure and the search for exhaustible resources pp. 85-90

Marion B. Stewart

A general equilibrium approach to aggregate capital-energy complementarity pp. 91-94

John Solow

The impossibility of IQ pp. 95-97

Peter J. W. N. Bird

World income inequality and its components pp. 99-102

Henri Theil and Henri Theil