Economic Inquiry

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Volume 23, issue 4, 1985

Environmental Regulation: Whose Self-interests Are Being Protected? pp. 551-84

B Peter Pashigian

Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change pp. 585-99

William Shughart and Robert Tollison

A Country Risk Index: Econometric Formulation and an Application to Mexico pp. 601-19

Michael Melvin and Don Schlagenhauf

The Reaction of Exchange Rates to Economic News pp. 621-36

Craig Hakkio and Douglas Pearce

Trading Uncertainty, Enforcement and Labor Unions pp. 637-50

Benjamin Eden

Discrimination on Nonwage Margins: Safety in the West Virginia Coal Industry, 1906-1925 pp. 651-69

Price Fishback

Evaluating Alternative Job Creation Strategies pp. 671-90

Laurie J Bassi

Risk Preference and the Work-Leisure Trade-off pp. 691-701

Richard Dowell

Scarcity and Ricardian Rents for Crude Oil pp. 703-24

Michael J Mueller

Nominal Costs and the Demand for Real Transactions Balances pp. 725-40

James L Swofford and Gerald A Whitney

Volume 23, issue 3, 1985

Extensive Search, Intensive Search, and Hiring Costs: New Evidence on Employer Hiring Activity pp. 363-82

John Barron and John Bishop

Quit Behavior under Imperfect Information: Searching, Moving, Learning pp. 383-93

Bertil Holmlund and Harald Lang

Favorite Sons: Intergenerational Wealth Transfers among Politicians pp. 395-414

David Laband and Bernard F Lentz

Money, Income, and Prices in the United Kingdom: 1870-1913 pp. 415-35

Gerald Dwyer

Domestic Content Legislation: House Voting and the Economic Theory of Regulation pp. 437-48

Cletus Coughlin

The Effect of Provider Control of Blue Shield Plans on Health Care Markets pp. 449-74

Richard J Arnould and Lawrence M DeBrock

Aggregate Consumption and Deficit Financing: An Attempt to Separate Permanent from Transitory Effects pp. 475-86

Bradford G Reid

Demand for National Public Goods: Estimates from Surveys pp. 487-506

Daniel Hewitt

Factor Substitution, Rational Expectations, and the Effects of Commodity Price Shocks on Employment and Investment pp. 507-24

Knut Anton Mork

Taxes and Expenditures in the U.S.: Public Opinion Surveys and Incidence Analysis Compared pp. 525-50

Ronald Fisher

Volume 23, issue 2, 1985

Economical Writing pp. 187-222

Deirdre McCloskey

The Effects of State Automobile Dealer Entry Regulation on New Car Prices pp. 223-42

Edwin Eckard

The Welfare Cost of the Underground Economy pp. 243-63

James Alm

The Excess Capacity Controversy: A Critique of Recent Criticism pp. 265-75

Stephen E Margolis

The Influence of Risk Variable Definition on Value-of-Life Estimates pp. 277-94

Alan E Dillingham

Two-Part Pricing for a Multi-product Monopolist pp. 295-307

Frank Scott and Stephen O Morrell

Simultaneous Determination of Church Contributions and Church Attendance pp. 309-20

Dennis Sullivan

Joint Ventures and Offshore Oil Lease Sales pp. 321-39

Otis W Gilley, Gordon V Karels and Randolph M Lyon

The Effect of Unit Fees on the Consumption of Quality pp. 341-48

William Kaempfer and Raymond T Brastow

The Use of Collateral to Enforce Debt: Profit Maximization pp. 349-56

James Hess

Monitoring and Budget Maximization in the Control of Pollution: Comment pp. 357-60

Jon D Harford

Free Market Congestion Tolls: A Correction [Spatial Price Theory and an Efficient Congestion Toll Established by the Free Market] pp. 361-62

Bruce Benson

Volume 23, issue 1, 1985

The Moral Dimension of Debt Financing pp. 1-6

James Buchanan

The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test pp. 7-19

Amacher, Ryan, et al

Hospital Ownership and Performance pp. 21-36

Edmund R Becker and Frank Sloan

Contracting Problems and the Adoption of Regulatory Cartels pp. 37-56

William Hallagan

A Theory of Ex Post versus Ex Ante Price Determination pp. 57-67

Janet Smith and Richard Smith

Mandatory Retirement as a Clause in an Employment Insurance Contract pp. 69-92

John S Lapp

College Football Telecasts: Where Are They Going? pp. 93-113

Patricia L Pacey and Elizabeth D Wickham

Pricing and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health pp. 115-33

Richard G Frank

Geographic Differences in U.S. Unemployment Rates: A Variance Decomposition Approach pp. 135-58

Kevin J Murphy

Non-pecuniary Benefits in Commercial Fishing: Empirical Findings from the Alaska Salmon Fisheries pp. 159-74

Jonathan Karpoff

Protectionist Pressures and Aggregate Economic Conditions: Comment [Pressures for Protectionism: An Empirical Analysis] pp. 175-82

Susan Feigenbaum, Henry Ortiz and Thomas D Willett

More on Protectionist Pressure and Aggregate Economic Conditions: A Reply [Pressures for Protectionism: An Empirical Analysis] pp. 183-84

Wendy Takacs

Volume 22, issue 4, 1984

Innovation: Its Public and Private Aspects and Some of Their Empirical Implications for Mergers pp. 334-59

Lester G Telser

Electoral Cycles and the Earnings of Federal Bureaucrats pp. 447-59

George Borjas

Compensating Wage Differentials for Mandatory Overtime? pp. 460-78

Ronald Ehrenberg and Paul L Schumann

The Effects of Market Practices in Oligopolistic Markets: An Experimental Examination of the Ethyl Case pp. 479-507

David Grether and Charles Plott

Distributive Consequences of a Property Tax Revolt pp. 508-28

Nile Eatmon and David Kiefer

Is Land Leasing a Solution to Unaffordable Housing? An Answer from Fee Simple versus Leasehold Property Price Differentials in Hawaii pp. 529-49

Maxwell J Fry and James Mak

Economic Response to a Crime Deterrence Program: Mandatory Sentencing for Robbery with a Firearm pp. 550-70

Lee R McPheters, Robert Mann and Don Schlagenhauf

Macroeconomic Stability and the Short Run Federal Reserve Reaction Function, 1969-1979 pp. 571-78

Willard E Witte

In Search of the Winner's Curse pp. 579-92

James Cox and R. Isaac

Deficits and Inflation: A Comment pp. 593-96

Roger W Garrison

Inflation and Government Deficits: A Reply pp. 597-601

Gerald Dwyer

On Economists' Belief in the Law of Small Numbers pp. 602-03

Kelly Busche and Peter Kennedy

On Economists' Belief in the Law of Small Numbers: A Reply [The Administration Costs of Non-profit Health Insurers] pp. 604-06

David I Kass and Paul A Pautler

Diffusion of Knowledge-based Products: Applications to Developing Economies pp. 612-33

M L Burstein

A Contractual Remedy to Premature Innovation: The Vertical Integration of Brand-Name Specific Research pp. 660-67

Ben T Yu

The Effect of Technical Change on Market Structure pp. 668-75

Michael Gort and Richard A Wall

Patents, Licensing and Restrictions on Competition pp. 676-83

John P Palmer

Discussion of Innovation Papers pp. 684-85

Yoram Barzel

Volume 22, issue 3, 1984

Beyond Keynesianism and Monetarism pp. 297-322

Mancur Olson

Has the Median Voter Found a Ballot Box That He Can Control? pp. 323-36

Vincent G Munley

Substitution in Public Spending: Who Pays for Canadian National Health Insurance? pp. 337-59

Cotton M Lindsay and Benjamin Zycher

A Life-Cycle Analysis of Family Income Distribution pp. 360-74

Evelyn Lehrer and Marc Nerlove

Automobile Fuel Efficiency: Measurement and Explanation pp. 375-85

James A Wilcox

Panel Estimates of the Effects of Career Interruptions on the Earnings of Women pp. 386-403

Donald Cox

Real versus Nominal Specification of the Demand for Money Function pp. 404-13

Ming-Yih Liang

An Analysis of the Laffer Curve pp. 414-20

Bruce Bender

Minimum Wage Effects on Part-time Employment pp. 421-28

Michael McKee and Edwin G West

Information and Coordination: A Review Article pp. 429-46

Peter Howitt

Volume 22, issue 2, 1984

The Effects of Non-clearing Labor Markets on the Demand for Public Spending pp. 151-70

Leonard Dudley and Claude Montmarquette

On Some Recent Explanations of Why Capital Hires Labor pp. 171-87

Louis Putterman

Arm-breaking, Consumer Credit and Personal Bankruptcy pp. 188-208

Samuel Rea

The Impact of Improved Mileage on Gasoline Consumption pp. 209-17

Roger D Blair, David L Kaserman and Richard C Tepel

A Classroom Production Function pp. 218-26

James Mulligan

On Public Good Provision with Distortionary Taxation pp. 227-43

David Wildasin

Spatial Price Theory and an Efficient Congestion Toll Established by the Free Market pp. 244-52

Bruce Benson

A Simple Test for Regression Parameter Instability pp. 253-68

Richard Ashley

The Durability of Human Capital: Some New Evidence pp. 269-81

B F Kiker and R Blaine Roberts

Output and Allocative Efficiency under Second-Degree Price Discrimination pp. 282-86

Kwoka, John E,

On an Unfair Appraisal of Vertical Equity in Real Estate Assessment pp. 287-90

Peter Kennedy

Vertical Equity in Real Estate Assessment: Reply pp. 291-96

Levis A Kochin and Richard W Parks

Volume 22, issue 1, 1984

Employee Evaluation of Pension Claims and the Impact of Indexing Initiatives pp. 1-17

James Pesando

The Effect of the Utilization Rate on the Division of Labor pp. 18-27

Yoram Barzel and Ben T Yu

Anticipate Counter-cyclical Monetary Policy pp. 28-36

R J Sweeney

Information Asymmetries in Baseball's Free Agent Market pp. 37-44

Kenneth Lehn

How Consistent Was Keynes' Theory of Effective Demand? pp. 45-56

David L Roberts

Medical Insurance, Technological Change, and Welfare pp. 56-67

John Goddeeris

Social Security and Aggregate Capital Accumulation Revisited: Dynamic Simultaneous Estimates in a Wealth-Generation Model pp. 68-79

Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Jack O Gibbons

Speculative Storage, Futures Markets, and the Stability of Commodity Prices pp. 80-97

Alexander H Sarris

Stochastic Inflation and the Optimal Policy of Price Adjustment pp. 98-108

Leif Danziger

The Effect of Education on Wages-Hedonic Makes Selectivity Bias (Sort of) Simpler pp. 109-20

Richard J Butler

The Screening Hypothesis: An Application of the Wiles Test pp. 121-27

Paul Miller and Paul A Volker

The Economics of Carpools pp. 128-35

Li Way Lee

The Allocative Effect of Non-binding Price Controls pp. 136-41

Thomas S Zorn

Further Results on Equilibrium Patterns of Competition in OCS Lease Sales pp. 142-46

James Smith

The Trouble with Tournaments pp. 147-49

Ronald A Dye