Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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180: Material Gains from Marriage Reconsidered

John Fitzgerald and Peter Gottschalk

179: Information Acquisition and Revelation in an Oligopolistic Exhaustible Resource Market

Stephen Polasky

178: The Private Cost of Cigarette Smoking

Frank Lewis, Richard Arnott and Nancy Olewiler

177: The Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Demand for Money During the Great Depression

Christopher Baum and Clifford Thies

176: Knowledge-Based Growth

Scott Freeman and Stephen Polasky

175: Stock Prices, Real Exchange Rates and Optimal Capital Accumulation

Robert Murphy

174: The Coefficient of Trade Utilization: Back to the Baldwin Envelope

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

173: Pitfalls in Fisher Model Building: Interest Rates and Inflation in the Interwar Period

Joe Peek and James Wilcox

171: A New Approach to Evaluating Trade Reform

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

170: Optimal Taxation and Debt in an Open Economy

James Anderson and Leslie Young

169: A Random Effects Logit Model of Work-Welfare Transitions

John Engberg, Peter Gottschalk and Doug Wolf

168: Consistent Estimation for Linear Regressions with Mismeasured Deflators

Tim Erickson

163: Bounded-Influence Estimation Techniques for the Analysis of Structural Macroeconometric Models

Marilena Furno and Christopher Baum

162: Bounded-Influence Instrumental Variable Estimation Techniques for the Diagnosis of Time-Series Regression Equations

Christopher Baum and Marilena Furno

161: Strategic Incentives for Exploration

Stephen Polasky

160: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Inter Vivos Transfers and Human Capital Investment

Barry Chiswick and Donald Cox

159: Credit Rationing and Private Transfers

Donald Cox

158: Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France

Donald Cox and John Nye

157: Intergenerational Transfers and Liquidity Constraints

Donald Cox

156: The Connection Between Public Transfers and Private Interfamily Transfers

Donald Cox

155: The Relative Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools: Evidence from two Developing Countries

Donald Cox and Emmanuel Jimenez

154: Proper Posteriors from Diffuse Priors for an Unidentified Errors-in-Variables Model

Tim Erickson

153: The Private and Social Incentive to Explore for Stocks of an Exhaustible Natural Resource

Stephen Polasky

152: Dynamic Adjustment of Firms' Capital Structures in a Varying-Risk Environment

Christopher Baum and Joanne Doyle

151: Inside Money and the Open Economy

Scott Freeman and Robert Murphy

150: Aggregate Inventory Movements: A Dynamic Adjustment Model

Bruce Mizrach

149: Structural Change, Bayesian Learning, and the Volatility of Asset Prices

Bruce Mizrach

148: Can Work Disincentives Shorten the Duration of Job Search?

Peter Gottschalk

147: Fiscal Insurance and the Mitigation of Generational Risk

Bruce Mizrach

146: Portfolio and Transactions Demand for Money Under Price Uncertainty

Bruce Mizrach and Anthony Santomero

145: Fiat Money as a Medium of Exchange

Scott Freeman

144: An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings

Steven Berry, Peter Gottschalk and Doug Wissoker

143: Oligopoly and Exploration Incentives for Exhaustible Natural Resources

Stephen Polasky

142: The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas (V)

James Anderson

141: The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas (I)

James Anderson

140: Tariffs vs Quotas in Imperfect Competition

James Anderson

139: Modelling Energy Consumption: Using and Abusing Regression Diagnostics

David Belsley and Roy Welsch

138: Sector-Specific Capital and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Robert Murphy

137: Macroeconomic Adjustment Under Alternative Lending Arrangements

Robert Murphy

136: The Welfare Gains from Pricing Road congestion Using Automatic Vehicle Identification and On-Vehicle Meters

Marvin Kraus

135: Inside Money, Output, and Causality

Scott Freeman and Gregory Huffman

134: Private Saving in the United States: 1950-85

Patric Hendershott and Joe Peek

133: Bounded-Influence Instrumental Variables Estimator: an Extension

Marilena Furno

132: Well-Conditioned Collinearity Indices?

David Belsley

129: From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification

James Monahan and Frank Gollop

128: Evaluating SIC Boundaries and Industry Change over Time: An Index of Establishment Heterogeity

Frank Gollop

126: Optimal Commercial Policy with Price Supports

James Anderson

125: Quotas as Options: Optimality and Quota License Pricing Under Certainty

James Anderson

124: The Effect of Warranty on Used Car Prices

James Anderson and Frank Gollop

123: Optimal Buffering Policy on Fixprice Markets: General Equilibrium

James Anderson