Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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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

334: Fractional Dynamics in Japanese Financial Time Series

John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum

333: Persistence in International Inflation Rates

Christopher Baum, John Barkoulas and Mustafa Caglayan

332: Q, Cash Flow and Investment: An Econometric Critique

Christopher Baum and Clifford Thies

331: A Small-Sample Correction for Testing for gth-Order Serial Correlation with Artificial Regressions

David Belsley

330: Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam

Donald Cox, John Fetzer and Emmanuel Jiminez

329: Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect

Donald Cox and Oded Stark

328: Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland

Donald Cox, Emmanuel Jimenez and Wlodzimierz Okrasa

327: Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru

Donald Cox, Zekeriya Eser and Emmanuel Jimenez

325: Estimation of TAR Models

Bruce Hansen

324: The Role of Bridge Jobs in the Retirement Patterns of Older Americans in the 1990s

Joseph Quinn

323: Entitlements and the Federal Budget

Joseph Quinn

322: Does Social Security Discourage Work?

Jill Quadagno and Joseph Quinn

321: Fractional Monetary Dynamics

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Mustafa Caglayan

320: Nonlinear Nonparametric Prediction of the 90-Day T-Bill Rate

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Joseph Onochie

319: Sample Splitting and Threshold Estimation

Bruce Hansen

318: Is OPEC a Cartel? Evidence from Cointegration and Causality Tests

Gurcan Gulen

317: Fractional Differencing Modeling and Forecasting of Eurocurrency Deposit Rates

John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum

316: The Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Policy: A Simple Unified Account

James Anderson and Will Martin

315: Fractional Cointegration Analysis of Long Term International Interest Rates

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Gurkan Oguz

314: Long Term Dependence in Stock Returns

Christopher Baum and John Barkoulas

313: Nearest-Neighbor Forecasts of U.S. Interest Rates

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Atreya Chakraborty

312: Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices and the Allocation of Investment: An Empirical Investigation Using UK Panel Data

Paul Beaudry, Mustafa Caglayan and Fabio Schiantarelli

311: A Re-examination of the Fragility of Evidence from Cointegration- Based Tests of Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency

John Barkoulas and Christopher Baum

310: Testing for Structural Change in Conditional Models

Bruce Hansen

309: Taxes and Allowances in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Urban Housing with a Size-Quality Hierarchy

Richard Arnott and Alex Anas

308: Effective Protection Redux

James Anderson

307: A General Equilibrium Spatial Model of Housing Quality and Quantity

Richard Arnott, Ralph Braid, Russell Davidson and David Pines

306: Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising in Other Industrialized Countries? -- the Role of Institutional Constraints

Peter Gottschalk and Mary Joyce

305: Recent Developments in the Bottleneck Model

Richard Arnott, André de Palma and Charles Lindsey

304: Self-Financing of Congestible Facilities in a Growing Economy

Richard Arnott and Marvin Kraus

303: Does Employee Ownership Improve Incentives for Efforts

Chong-En Bai and Chenggang Xu

302: Are Brokers' Commission Rates on Home Sales Too High? A Conceptual Analysis

Richard Arnott and Paul Anglin