Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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451: The Endogenous Formation of a City: Population Agglomeration and Marketplaces in a Location-Specific Production Economy

Marcus Berliant and Hideo Konishi

450: Existence of Stationary Equilibrium in the Markets for New and Used Durable Goods

Hideo Konishi and Michael Sandfort

449: Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game

Suryapratim Banerjee, Hideo Konishi and Tayfun Sönmez

448: Formation of Hub Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and Population Agglomeration

Hideo Konishi

447: Concentration of Competing Retail Stores

Hideo Konishi

446: Liquid Assets in Banks: Theory and Practice

Guillermo Alger and Ingela Alger

445: Forecasting Dynamic Time Series in the Presence of Deterministic Components

Serena Ng and Timothy Vogelsang

444: Trends in the Variances of Permanent and Transitory Earnings in the U.S. and Their Relation to Earnings Mobility

Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk

443: The Corridor Problem

Richard Arnott

442: Estimating Features of a Distribution from Binomial Data

Arthur Lewbel, Daniel McFadden and Oliver Linton

441: Demand Systems With Nonstationary Prices

Arthur Lewbel and Serena Ng

440: Determining the Number of Factors in Approximate Factor Models

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

439: Nonparametric Censored and Truncated Regression

Arthur Lewbel and Oliver Linton

438: Optimal Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Volatility in a Small Open Economy

Jordi Galí and Tommaso Monacelli

437: Into the Mussa Puzzle: Monetary Policy Regimes and the Real Exchange Rate in a Small Open Economy

Tommaso Monacelli

436: Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans

Gary Burtless and Joseph Quinn

435: What's Behind the Decline in the NAIRU?

Robert Murphy

434: Uncertainty in Executive Compensation and Capital Investment: A Panel Study

Atreya Chakraborty, Mark Kazarosian and Emery Trahan

433: Product Differentiation and the Use of Information Technology: New Evidence from the Trucking Industry

Atreya Chakraborty and Mark Kazarosian

432: Portfolio Allocation of Precautionary Assets: Panel Evidence for the United States

Atreya Chakraborty and Mark Kazarosian

431: Effects of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement

Robert Clark and Joseph Quinn

430: Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992

Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger

429: Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing?

Peter Gottschalk and Michael Hansen

428: Why Do Nations Trade (So Little)?

James Anderson

427: Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk

426: Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle: Specification and Stability

Peter Ireland

425: Expectations, Credibility, and Time-Consistent Monetary Policy

Peter Ireland

424: Has the Early Retirement Trend Reversed?

Joseph Quinn

423: Reform of Retirement Programs and the Future Well-Being of the Elderly in America

Robert Clark and Joseph Quinn

422: Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Firm Profitability

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and John Barkoulas

421: A Method for Taking Models to the Data

Peter Ireland

420: The Labour Market, Retirement, and Disability

Joseph Quinn

419: Interest Rates, Inflation, and Federal Reserve Policy Since 1980

Peter Ireland

418: Insecurity and the Pattern of Trade: An Empirical Investigation

James Anderson and Douglas Marcouiller

417: Trade Reform Diagnostics with Many Households, Quotas, and Tariffs

James Anderson

416: The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

415: Does the Time-Consistency Problem Explain the Behavior of Inflation in the United States?

Peter Ireland

414: Accounting for the Recent Decline in the NAIRU

Robert Murphy

413: Does Financial Reform Raise or Reduce Savings?

Oriana Bandiera, Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan and Fabio Schiantarelli

412: Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions?

Peter Gottschalk and Michael Hansen

411: Neutral Property Taxation

Richard Arnott

410: A Test for Conditional Symmetry in Time Series Models

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

409: Modeling fixed income excess returns

Basma Bekdache and Christopher Baum

408: Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s

Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

407: On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

Peter Gottschalk and Enrico Spolaore

406: New Paths to Retirement

Joseph Quinn

405: Exchange Rate Effects on the Volume and Variability of Trade Flows

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Mustafa Caglayan

404: Nonlinear Adjustment to Purchasing Power Parity in the post-Bretton Woods Era

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and John Barkoulas

403: A Semi-Parametric Factor Model of Interest Rates and Tests of the Affine Term Structure

Eric Ghysels and Serena Ng

402: The Boston Longshoremen's Strike of 1931: A Conflict Over the Weight of the Sling Load

Francis McLaughlin