The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Volume 100, issue Supplement, 1985

A Near-Rational Model of the Business Cycle, with Wage and Price Inertia pp. 823-838

George Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen

Learning Curve Spillovers and Market Performance pp. 839-852

Pankaj Ghemawat and A. Spence

Producer Surplus and Risk pp. 853-869

Rulon D. Pope and Jean-Paul Chavas

A Minsky Crisis pp. 871-885

Lance Taylor and Stephen O'Connell

Optimal Price and Inventory Adjustment in an Open-Economy Model of the Business Cycle pp. 887-914

Robert P. Flood and Robert J. Hodrick

A Method for Identifying the Public Good Allocation Process Within a Group pp. 915-934

Martin McGuire and Carl H. Groth

Staggered Contracts and the Frequency of Price Adjustment pp. 935-959

Stephen Cecchetti

Specific Experience, Household Structure, and Intergenerational Transfers: Farm Family Land and Labor Arrangements in Developing Countries pp. 961-987

Mark Rosenzweig and Kenneth I. Wolpin

An Equilibrium Analysis of Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Taxation pp. 989-1010

David Easley, Nicholas Kiefer and Uri Possen

Monetary Policy Regimes, Expected Inflation, and the Response of Interest Rates to Money Announcements pp. 1011-1039

V. Vance Roley and Carl Walsh

Portfolio Crowding-Out, Empirically Estimated pp. 1041-1065

Jeffrey Frankel

A Note on Optimal Policies in Dual Economies pp. 1067-1071

Ira Gang and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay

Adam Smith and the Prisoners' Dilemma pp. 1073-1081

Gordon Tullock

Volume 100, issue 4, 1985

The Permanent Income Hypothesis and Consumption Durability: Analysis Based on Japanese Panel Data pp. 1083-1113

Fumio Hayashi

Wages and Employment in a Segmented Labor Market pp. 1115-1141

Ian McDonald and Robert Solow

Market Power in a Securities Market with Endogenous Information pp. 1143-1167

Mark Grinblatt and Stephen Ross

The Optimal Degree of Commitment to an Intermediate Monetary Target pp. 1169-1189

Kenneth Rogoff

A History of Mechanization in the Cotton South: The Institutional Hypothesis pp. 1191-1215

Warren Whatley

Expectational Stability and the Multiple Equilibria Problem in Linear Rational Expectations Models pp. 1217-1233

George Evans

Comparative Dynamics in Aggregate Models of Optimal Capital Accumulation pp. 1235-1256

Robert Becker

Competitive Value when Only Labor is Scarce pp. 1257-1292

Robert L. Bishop

Resale Price Maintenance and Forward Integration into a Monopolistically Competitive Industry pp. 1293-1311

Martin K. Perry and Robert H. Groff

The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model with Implicit Contracts pp. 1313-1329

Steven Matusz

The Fallacy of Using Long-Run Cost for Peak-Load Pricing pp. 1331-1334

William Vickrey

Capacity Costs, Heterogeneous Users, and Peak-Load Pricing pp. 1335-1337

W. John Jordan

Uncertainty in Future Government Spending and Investment pp. 1339-1347

Richard Hartman

Volume 100, issue 3, 1985

International Factor Mobility, Minimum Wage Rates, and Factor-Price Equalization: A Synthesis pp. 551-570

J. Peter Neary

Disequilibrium Dynamics and the Stability of Quasi Equilibria pp. 571-596

Israel German

Monopolistic Recycling of Oil Revenue and Intertemporal Bias in Oil Depletion and Trade pp. 597-624

Arye L. Hillman and Ngo Long

Wage Bargaining in a Macroeconomic Model with Rationing pp. 625-650

Christopher J. Ellis and John Fender

The Contribution of Changing Energy and Import Prices to Changing Average Labor Productivity: A Profit Formulation for Canada pp. 651-675

Dean C. Mountain

Inflation, Interest Rates, and Welfare pp. 677-695

Paul R. Krugman, Torsten Persson and Lars E. O. Svensson

The Generalized Theory of Transfers and Welfare: Exogenous (policy-Imposed) and Endogenous (Transfer-Induced) Distortion pp. 697-714

Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Richard Brecher and Tatsuo Hatta

Government Expenditures, Deficits, and Inflation: On the Impossibility of a Balanced Budget pp. 715-745

Bruce D. Smith

Unemployment Through the Filter of Memory pp. 747-773

George Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen

A Simple Durable Goods Model pp. 775-788

David Levine

The Distribution of Wealth and Welfare in the Presence of Incomplete Annuity Markets pp. 789-806

Zvi Eckstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Dan Peled

Income Inequality Indices and Deprivation: A Generalization pp. 807-810

Z. M. Berrebi and Jacques Silber

Private Markets in (Excludable) Public Goods: A Reexamination pp. 811-819

Geoffrey Brennan and Cliff Walsh

Volume 100, issue 2, 1985

The Optimal Level of Social Security Benefits pp. 303-320

Martin Feldstein

Population Size: Individual Choice and Social Optima pp. 321-334

Marc Nerlove, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

Efficient Tax Reform in a Dynamic Model of General Equilibrium pp. 335-356

Christophe Chamley

State Dependence in Optimal Factor Accumulation pp. 357-372

Allan Drazen

The Inefficiency of Unemployment: The Supervision Perspective pp. 373-387

Guillermo Calvo

Expectations, Life Expectancy, and Economic Behavior pp. 389-408

Daniel S. Hamermesh

Occupational Choice: An Application to the Market for Public School Teachers pp. 409-446

Gary A. Zarkin

Flexibility in Intercommodity Substitution May Sharpen Price Fluctuations pp. 447-463

Knut Anton Mork

A Theory of Price-Fixing Rings pp. 465-478

E. Kwan Choi, Carmen F. Menezes and John Tressler

Indirect Methods for Regulating Externalities Under Uncertainty pp. 479-493

Evan Koenig

Predetermined Prices and the Allocation of Social Risks pp. 495-518

Costas Azariadis and Russell Cooper

Quantity Competition in Spatial Markets with Incomplete Information pp. 519-528

John M. Clapp

Small Menu Costs and Large Business Cycles: A Macroeconomic Model of Monopoly pp. 529-538

N. Gregory Mankiw

Wage Flexibility and Openness pp. 539-550

Joshua Aizenman

Volume 100, issue 1, 1985

Manifesto pp. iii

Olivier Blanchard, Eric Maskin and Lawrence H. Summers

Taxation of Corporate Capital Income: Tax Revenues Versus Tax Distortions pp. 1-27

Roger Gordon

Permanent Differences in Unemployment and Permanent Wage Differentials pp. 29-56

James Adams

Two Views of the Geographic Distribution of Unemployment pp. 57-79

Stephen T. Marston

Innovation and Industry Evolution pp. 81-99

Jennifer Reinganum

The Social Efficiency of Fixed Wages pp. 101-118

William Johnson

Multiplicity of Equilibria and Comparative Statics pp. 119-147

Timothy Kehoe

The "Patman Effect" and Stabilization Policy pp. 149-163

Robert Driskill and Steven M. Sheffrin

The Taxation of Exhaustible Resources pp. 165-181

Villamor Gamponia and Robert Mendelsohn

The Effect of Liquidity Constraints on Consumption: A Cross-Sectional Analysis pp. 183-206

Fumio Hayashi

Incidence Analysis of a Sector-Specific Minimum Wage in a Two-Sector Harris-Todaro Model pp. 207-224

M. Hasan Imam and John Whalley

Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics pp. 225-251

N. Gregory Mankiw, Julio Rotemberg and Lawrence H. Summers

The Free Rider Problem and a Social Custom Model of Trade Union Membership pp. 253-261

Alison Booth

Strategic Management Behavior Under Reward Structures in a Planned Economy pp. 263-269

Jörg Finsinger and Ingo Vogelsang

Reward Structures in a Planned Economy: Some Difficulties pp. 271-278

Hugh Gravelle

Reward Structures in a Planned Economy: Some Further Thoughts pp. 279-289

Mo-Yin S. Tam

Option Value: Empirical Evidence from a Case Study of Recreation and Water Quality: Comment pp. 291-294

Robert Cameron Mitchell and Richard Carson

Option Value: Empirical Evidence from a Case Study of Recreation and Water Quality: Reply pp. 295-299

Douglas A. Greenley, Richard G. Walsh and Robert A. Young