Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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385: Retirement Trends and Patterns in the 1990s: The End of an Era?

Joseph Quinn

384: Reexamining the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Interwar Demand for Money

Christopher Baum and Clifford Thies

383: Anarchy and Autarky: Endogenous Predation as a Barrier to Trade

James Anderson and Douglas Marcouiller

382: Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality

Peter Gottschalk and Susan Mayer

381: Threshold Autoregressions with a Unit Root

Bruce Hansen and Mehmet Caner

380: Long memory or structural breaks: Can either explain nonstationary real exchange rates under the current float?

Christopher Baum, John Barkoulas and Mustafa Caglayan

379: Analysis of Vector Autoregressions in the Presence of Shifts in Mean

Serena Ng and Timothy Vogelsang

378: Implementing Pro-Work Policies for Older Americans in the Twenty-First Century

Richard Burkhauser and Joseph Quinn

377: Persistent Dependence in Foreign Exchange Rates? A Reexamination

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Atreya Chakraborty

376: Parametric and non-parametric approaches to price and tax reform

Angus Deaton and Serena Ng

375: Credible Disinflation Policy in a Dynamic Setting

Christopher Baum and Meral Karasulu

374: Explaining the Persistence of Commodity Prices

Serena Ng and Francisco Ruge-Murcia

373: Estimating the Rational Expectations Model of Speculative Storage: A Monte Carlo Comparison of Three Simulation Estimators

Alexander Michaelides and Serena Ng

372: The Ex Ante Predictive Accuracy of Alternative Models of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Basma Bekdache and Christopher Baum

371: Cross-National Patterns of Labor Force Withdrawal

Joseph Quinn and Timothy Smeeding

370: Testing for ARCH in the Presence of a Possibly Misspecified Conditional Mean

Robin Lumsdaine and Serena Ng

369: Lag Length Selection and the Construction of Unit Root Tests with Good Size and Power

Serena Ng and Pierre Perron

368: Accounting for Trends in the Almost Ideal Demand System

Serena Ng

367: Criteria for Social Security Reform

Joseph Quinn

366: Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors

Peter Gottschalk and Mary Joyce

365: Threshold effects in non-dynamic panels: Estimation, testing and inference

Bruce Hansen

364: Mathematica as an Environment for doing Economics and Econometrics

David Belsley

363: Monetary Policy in the Transition to a Zero Federal Deficit

Christopher Baum and Meral Karasulu

362: Social Security Reform: Marginal or Fundamental Change?

Joseph Quinn

361: Long Memory and Forecasting in Euroyen Deposit Rates

John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum

360: The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

James Anderson

359: Will Legislated Early Intervention Prevent the Next Banking Crisis?

Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren

358: Derivatives Activity at Troubled Banks

Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren

357: The International Transmission of Financial Shocks: The Case of Japan

Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren

356: Long Memory in the Greek Stock Market

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Nickolas Travlos

355: Information and Time-of-Usage Decisions in the Bottleneck Model with Stochastic Capacity and Demand

Richard Arnott, André de Palma and Charles Lindsey

354: When are Anonymous Congestion Charges Consistent with Marginal Cost Pricing?

Richard Arnott and Marvin Kraus

353: Latent Policies: An Extended Example

Richard Arnott, Chong-En Bai and Brian Sack

351: Takeover Defenses and Dilution: A Welfare Analysis

Atreya Chakraborty and Richard Arnott

350: Modeling Parking

Richard Arnott and John Rowse

349: Stochastic Long Memory in Traded Goods Prices

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Gurkan Oguz

348: Trade Reform with a Government Budget Constraint

James Anderson

347: Agency in Project Screening and Termination Decisions: Why is Good Money Thrown after Bad?

Chong-En Bai and Yijang Wang

346: Visibility and Credibility in the Political Economy of Reform

Chris Canavan and Mariano Tommasi

345: Contract Mix and Ownership

Chong-En Bai and Zhigang Tao

344: Why Is the Productivity Analysis Misleading for Gauging State Enterprise Performance?

Chong-En Bai, David Li and Yijiang Wang

343: Territorial Bargaining

Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley Macleod

342: Complexity, Contract and the Employment Relationship

W. Bentley Macleod

341: How Responsive are Private Transfers to Income? Evidence from a Laissez-Faire Economy

Donald Cox, Bruce Hansen and Emmanuel Jimenez

340: Supply Side Hysteresis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System

Thomas Lemieux and W. Bentley Macleod

339: Motivation and Markets

W. Bentley Macleod and James Malcomson

338: Gift Giving and the Evolution of Cooperation

Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley Macleod

337: Zeroes and Lumps in Investment: Empirical Evidence on Irreversibilities and Non-Convexities

Øivind Nilsen and Fabio Schiantarelli

336: Decision, Contract and Emotion: Some Economics for a Complex and Confusing World

W. Bentley Macleod

335: Modelling Federal Reserve Discount Policy

Christopher Baum and Meral Karasulu