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Volume 98, issue 4, 1983

The Information Content of the Interest Rate and Optimal Monetary Policy pp. 545-566

Matthew Canzoneri, Dale W. Henderson and Kenneth Rogoff

An Optimal Taxation Approach to Fiscal Federalism pp. 567-586

Roger Gordon

Taxation, Portfolio Choice, and Debt-Equity Ratios: A General Equilibrium Model pp. 587-609

Alan Auerbach and Mervyn A. King

Commodity Bundling and Agenda Control in the Public Sector pp. 611-635

Robert J. Mackay and Carolyn L. Weaver

Random Job Prospects and the Distribution of Income pp. 637-657

Anthony Venables

Premiums for High Quality Products as Returns to Reputations pp. 659-679

Carl Shapiro

Noncooperative Oligopoly and Preemptive Innovation without Winner-Take-All pp. 681-694

Marion B. Stewart

The Limits of Market-Oriented Regulatory Techniques: The Case of Automotive Fuel Economy pp. 695-704

John E. Kwoka

Tax Neutrality in the Presence of Adjustment Costs pp. 705-712

Andrew B. Abel

Steady State Growth of the Long-Run Sales-Maximizing Firm: Comment pp. 713-719

Yoshihiko Seoka

Hicks and Hollander on Ricardo: A Mathematical Note pp. 721-726

Kenneth Gordon

Volume 98, issue 3, 1983

A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence pp. 371-400

Gary Becker

Domestic Determinants of the Current Account Balance of the United States pp. 401-425

George von Furstenberg

Rational Expectations, Endogenous Currency Substitution, and Exchange Rate Determination pp. 427-439

Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders

Efficiency Loss from Resource Misallocation in Soviet Industry pp. 441-456

Padma Desai and Ricardo Martin

Shadow Prices for Project Evaluation Under Alternative Macroeconomic Specifications pp. 457-477

Clive Bell and Shantayanan Devarajan

Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves: New Orleans, 1830–1860 pp. 479-499

Bruce C. Greenwald and Robert R. Glasspiegel

Labor-tying in a Poor Agrarian Economy: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis pp. 501-514

Pranab Bardhan

Import Objective, Distortions, and Optimal Tax Structure: A Generalization pp. 515-524

Arvind Panagariya

A Simple Rational Expectations Keynes-type Model pp. 525-528

John Bryant

The Impact of Monopoly Pricing on the Lerner Symmetry Theorem: A Comment pp. 529-533

Jonathan Eaton, Gene M. Grossman, William Kaempfer and Edward Tower

The Impact of Monopoly Pricing on the Lerner Symmetry Theorem: Reply pp. 535-537

Edward John Ray

A Growth Model for a Tenured-labor-managed Firm: Comment pp. 539-542

David de Meza

A Growth Model for a Tenured-labor-managed Firm: Reply pp. 543

André Sapir

Volume 98, issue 2, 1983

Losses From Horizontal Merger: The Effects of an Exogenous Change in Industry Structure on Cournot-Nash Equilibrium pp. 185-199

Stephen W. Salant, Sheldon Switzer and Robert J. Reynolds

The Emergence of Chaos from Classical Economic Growth pp. 201-213

Richard H. Day

Pricing and Depletion of an Exhaustible Resource When There is Anticipation of Trade Disruption pp. 215-233

Arye L. Hillman and Ngo Long

Spot and Futures Prices of Nonstorable Commodities Under Rational Expectations pp. 235-254

Masahiro Kawai

Competition and Interest Rate Ceilings in Commercial Banking pp. 255-265

Richard Startz

Optimal Selling Strategies: When to Haggle, When to Hold Firm pp. 267-289

John Riley and Richard Zeckhauser

Spatial Pricing with Differentiated Products pp. 291-310

George Norman

The Impact of Income Components on the Distribution of Family Incomes pp. 311-326

Anthony F. Shorrocks

Theories of Capitalist Transformation: Critical Notes on the Comparison of Marx And Schumpeter pp. 327-331

John Bellamy Foster

Schumpeter and Marx on Capitalist Transformation pp. 333-336

John E. Elliott

An Alternative Theory of Exchange Rate Dynamics pp. 337-348

Jagdeep S. Bhandari

Transport Costs in International Trade Theory: A Comparison with the Analysis of Nontraded Goodsâ€âA Note pp. 349-351

Chao-cheng Mai and Jeong-wen Chiang

The Importance of Being First: Learning Price and Strategy pp. 353-362

Robert H. Smiley and S. Abraham Ravid

Homotheticity and the Aggregation of Consumer Demands pp. 363-369

Heraklis M. Polemarchakis

Volume 98, issue 1, 1983

International Liquidity: A Welfare Analysis pp. 1-23

Michael Jones

The Black Market for Dollars in Brazil pp. 25-40

Rüdiger Dornbusch, Daniel Valente Dantas, Clarice Pechman, Roberto de Rezende Rocha and Demetrio SimÅes

Optimal Financial and Foreign-Exchange Liberalization of Less Developed Economies pp. 41-62

Basant Kapur

Product Diversity, Economies of Scale, and International Trade pp. 63-83

Colin Lawrence and Pablo T. Spiller

Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment pp. 85-106

Ben Bernanke

Transition Losses of Partially Mobile Industry-Specific Capital pp. 107-125

Don Fullerton

Heterogeneous Users and the Peak Load Pricing Model pp. 127-138

W. John Jordan

Annual Inequality and Lifetime Inequality pp. 139-155

Peter H. Friesen and Danny Miller

Estimating the Economic Model of Crime: Employment Versus Punishment Effects pp. 157-166

Samuel L. Myers

Estimating the Economic Model of Crime: Reply pp. 167-175

Ann Dryden Witte

Currency Substitution and Foreign Inflation pp. 177-184

Chau-nan Chen and Tien-wang Tsaur

Volume 97, issue 4, 1982

Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange pp. 543-569

George Akerlof

Union Contracts and Money Wage Changes in U. S. Manufacturing Industries pp. 571-594

Wayne Vroman

Job Search and the Duration of Layoff Unemployment pp. 595-612

Christopher Pissarides

Permanent versus Transitory Tax Effects and the Realization of Capital Gains pp. 613-632

Gerald E. Auten and Charles T. Clotfelter

Spatial Pricing, Spatial Rents, and Spatial Welfare pp. 633-644

Timothy Gronberg and Jack Meyer

The Effect of Federal Debt-Management Policy on Corporate Bond and Equity Yields pp. 645-668

V. Vance Roley

The Existence of Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibria with Increasing Returns pp. 669-688

Paulina Beato

Price Regulation Under Uncertainty in an Asymmetric Decision Environment pp. 689-698

Stavros B. Thomadakis

Externalities as a Necessary Condition for Cyclical Social Preferences pp. 699-705

Peter Bernholz

Joint Products and Multijurisdictional Spillovers pp. 707-716

Todd Sandler and Anthony Culyer

Incentive Compatibility in Bargaining Under Uncertainty pp. 717-726

Kalyan Chatterjee

Volume 97, issue 3, 1982

The Harvard Department of Economics from the Beginning to World War II pp. 383-433

Edward S. Mason

What are Corporate Pension Liabilities? pp. 435-452

Jeremy I. Bulow

The Role of Knowledge in R&D Efficiency pp. 453-470

Richard Nelson

The Relative Impact of Inheritance and Other Factors on Economic Inequality pp. 471-498

James Davies

Competitive Price Adjustment to Changes in the Money Supply pp. 499-517

Benjamin Eden

Work and Welfare as Determinants of Female Poverty and Household Headship pp. 519-534

Sheldon Danziger, George Jakubson, Saul Schwartz and Eugene Smolensky

Favorable Selection with Asymmetric Information pp. 535-539

Boyan Jovanovic

A Note on the Stability Limitations in “A Stable Price Adjustment Process†pp. 541-542

Conway L. Lackman

Volume 97, issue 2, 1982

Charitable Giving and “Excessive†Fundraising pp. 193-212

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Layoff Unemployment, Risk Shifting, and Productivity pp. 213-229

Kenneth Chan and Yannis Ioannides

The Interaction of Taxes and Inflation in a Macroeconomic Model pp. 231-250

Liam P. Ebrill and Uri M. Possen

Aggregate Spending and the Terms of Trade: Is There a Laursen-Metzler Effect? pp. 251-270

Maurice Obstfeld

A General Equilibrium Model of Congressional Voting pp. 271-293

James B. Kau, Donald Keenan and Paul Rubin

Tariffs, Quotas, and Market Structure pp. 295-305

Motoshige Itoh and Yoshiyasu Ono

Discrimination, Nepotism, and Long-Run Wage Differentials pp. 307-319

Matthew S. Goldberg

Categorizing Risks in the Insurance Industry pp. 321-336

Michael Hoy

Social Aggregation Rules and Continuity pp. 337-352

Graciela Chichilnisky

Social Opportunity Costs and Immiserizing Growth: Some Observations on the Long Run Versus the Short pp. 353-362

M. Khan

Consumption Versus Wage Taxation pp. 363-372

Elhanan Helpman and Efraim Sadka

The Optimal Taxation of International Investment Income: A Comment pp. 373-380

John Dutton

The Optimal Taxation of International Investment Income: Reply pp. 381

Thomas Horst

Volume 97, issue 1, 1982

Risk Aversion, Supply Response, and the Optimality of Random Prices: A Diagrammatic Analysis pp. 1-26

David M Newbery and Joseph Stiglitz

Rate-of-Return Regulation and Two-Part Tariffs pp. 27-42

Roger Sherman and Michael Visscher

The Transmission of Disturbances under Alternative Exchange-Rate Regimes with Optimal Indexing pp. 43-66

Robert P. Flood and Nancy Peregrim Marion

Educational Subsidy, Agricultural Development, and Fertility Change pp. 67-88

Mark Rosenzweig

Underemployment Equilibrium with Rational Expectations pp. 89-107

Geoffrey Woglom

A Model of Imperfect Competition with Keynesian Features pp. 109-138

Oliver Hart

Gottfried Haberler: Contributions upon Entering his Ninth Decade pp. 139-140

Stephen Gillis

Gottfried Haberler's Contributions to International Trade Theory and Policy pp. 141-148

Robert Baldwin

Prosperity and Depressionâ€âand Beyond pp. 149-159

Lawrence H. Officer

Gottfried Haberler on Inflation, Unemployment, and International Monetary Economics: An Appreciation pp. 161-169

Thomas D. Willett

Pecuniary Externalities Do Matter When Contingent Claims Markets are Incomplete pp. 171-179

Lee Hsien Loong and Richard Zeckhauser

Immiserizing Investment from Abroad: The Singer-Prebisch Thesis Reconsidered pp. 181-189

Richard Brecher and Ehsan Choudhri

Erratum: Social Security and the Retirement Decision pp. 191

Vincent Crawford and David M. Lilien