Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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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

120: Sectoral Measures of Labor Cost for the United States, 1948-1978

Frank Gollop and Dale Jorgenson

119: Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power

Frank Gollop and Mark Roberts

118: International R & D Rivalry and Industrial Strategy

Barbara Spencer and James Brander

117: Simultaneous Equation Modeling in Industrial Organization: A Word or Two of Caution

J.A. Henning and H.M. Mann

116: Modeling Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Importance of Intersectoral Transfer Prices and International Trade

Frank Gollop

115: Evidence for a Sector-Biased or Sector-Neutral Industrial Policy: Analysis of the Productivity Slowdown

Frank Gollop

114: Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth: The Case of Fossil-Fueled Electric Power Generation

Frank Gollop and Mark Roberts

112: The Effect of Pension Plans on the Pattern of Life-Cycle Compensation

Joseph Quinn and Richard Burkhauser

110: An Examination of Postwar U.S Stabilization Policy: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Accelerationist World

Christopher Baum and E. Howrey

109: The Welfare Effects of Quantity Uncertainty: The Dual Distance Function Approach

James Anderson

108: Producer's Surplus, With Apology

James Anderson

107: Growth Accounting in an Open Economy

Frank Gollop

106: Identification of Interactive Behavior in Air Service Markets

James Anderson

94: Uncertainty and Information in Economics

John Riley and Jack Hirshleifer

93: Imported Intermediate Input: Its Impact on Sectoral Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing

Frank Gollop and Mark Roberts

92: Strong Evolutionary Equilibrium and the War of Attrition

John Riley

91: Wage Differentials Among Older Workers in the Public and Private Sectors

Joseph Quinn

90: Job Characteristics and Early Retirement

Joseph Quinn

89: The Pricing of Short-Lived Options When Price Uncertainty

J. Huston McCulloch

88: A Computational Approach to Resource Allocation in Spatial Urban Models

Donald Richter

87: Alternative Signalling Equilibrium Concepts

John Riley

86: Interest Rate Risk and Capital Adequacy for Traditional Banks and Financial Intermediaries

J. Huston McCulloch

85: A Theoretical Foundation for the Gravity Model of Factor Flows

James Anderson

73: Efficiency in the Market for Airline Service

James Anderson

72: The Microeconomics of Early Retirement: A Cross-Sectional View

Joseph Quinn

70: An Austrian Proof of Quasi-Concave Preferences

J. Huston McCulloch and Jeffrey Smith

68: Regulation and The U.S. Financial System

J. Huston McCulloch

67: A model of Optimal Human Capital Accumulation and the Wages of Young High School Graduates

Charles Brown

61: The Markoff Cycle in Business Activity

J. Huston McCulloch

59: Capital Taxation in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Setting

Ann Friedlaender and Adolf Vandendorpe