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424: The Ecological Fallacy Revisited: Aggregate Versus Individual Level-Findings on Economics and Elections, and Sociotropic Voting

Gerald H. Kramer

423: The Enforceability of Security Interests in Consumer Goods

Alan Schwartz

422: Bureaucratic (?) Failures: Causes and Cures

Morris P. Fiorina

420: Critical Elections in Historical Perspective

Allan J. Lichtman

419: Decentralization of Truthful Revelation and Other Decision Rules

Edward Green

418: Continuum and Finite-Player Noncooperative Models of Competition

Edward Green

417: Log-Linear Analysis of Contingency Tables: An Introduction for Historians with an Application to Thernstrom on the 'Floating Proletariat.'

Gary W. Cox, David Galenson and J. Morgan Kousser

416: Food Supply and Population Growth in Southwest China, 1250-1850

James. Lee

415: Existence, Local Uniqueness, and Optimality of a Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibrium in an Economy with Increasing Returns

Donald Brown and Geoffrey Heal

414: The Social Consequence of Rural-Urban Migration in Imperial Germany: The 'Floating Proletariat' Thesis Reconsidered

Walter D. Kamphoefner

413: Nash Equilibrium Search for the Best Alternative

Jennifer Reinganum

412: Rousseau's General Will, The Pareto Principle, and the Problem of Consent

W. T. Jones

411: A Noncooperative Equilibrium Concept with an Endogenously Determined Dominant Player: The Case of Cournot versus Stackelberg

Venkatraman. Sadanand

410: Public Roles, Private Roles, and the Question of South African Investments

W. T. Jones

409: Incentive Compatibility in Risk Assessment Mechanisms

Talbot. Page

408: Quasitransitive Social Choice Without the Pareto Principle

John M. Williamson

407: Technology Adoption Under Imperfect Information

Jennifer Reinganum

406: Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France

Philip Hoffman

405: Industrial Organization Theory and Experimental Economics

Charles Plott

404: The Effects of Market Practices in Oligopolistic Markets: An Experimental Examination of the Ethyl Case

David Grether and Charles Plott

403: Imperfect Information and Monopolistic Competition

Alan Schwartz and Louis L. Wilde

402: Market Power and Transferable Property Rights

Robert Hahn

401: Financial Incentive Effects and Individual Decision-making

David Grether

400: The Centralization of African Tribal Societies

Robert Bates

399: Some Core Assumptions in Development Economics

Robert Bates

398: Designing a Market for Tradable Emissions Permits

Robert Hahn and Roger Noll

397: The Feasibility of Marketable Emissions Permits in the United States

Roger Noll

396: Non-Cooperative Games, Abstract Economies, and Walrasian Equilibria

Kim C. Border

395: Methods for Comparison of Markov Processes by Stochastic Dominance

Richard D. McKelvey and Edward. Packel

394: Limiting Distributions for Continuous State Markov Voting Models

John A. Ferejohn, Richard D. McKelvey and Edward. Packel

393: Pious Bequests in Wills: A Statistical Analysis

Philip Hoffman

392: A Theoretical Analysis of the Demand for Emission Licenses

Robert Hahn

391: Admissibility in Four But Not in Five Dimensions of the Diffuse Prior Bayes Rule for the Control Problem

Asad Zaman and Charles. Stein

390: Consistency of Generalized M-Estimators

Asad Zaman

389: Intergenerational Justice as Opportunity

Talbot. Page

388: Theories of Industrial Organization as Explanations of Experimental Market Behavior

Charles Plott

387: Legislative Choice of Regulatory Forms: Legal Process or Administrative Process?

Morris P. Fiorina

386: A Generalized Model of Pricing for Homogeneous Goods Under Imperfect Information

Asha Sadanand and Louis. Wilde

385: Elasticities of Substitution and Firm Behavior

Euisoon. Shin

384: Congressmen and Their Constitutencies: 1958 and 1978

Morris P. Fiorina

383: Incentives and the Optimally Imperfect Information Structure

Ross Miller

382: The British and American Genetics Communities, 1900-1930: A Quantitative Comparison

Daniel J. Kevles and Susan. Kolden-Dimotakis

381: Competitive Equilibria in Markets for Heterogeneous Goods Under Imperfect Information: A Theoretical Analysis with Policy Implications

Alan Schwartz and Louis L. Wilde

380: Marketable Permits: What's All the Fuss About?

Robert Hahn

379: Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and the Draft Treaty: The Question of Ratification

Manjula. Shyam

378: The New International Economic Order and the New Regime for Fisheries Management

Manjula. Shyam

377: Oligopoly Extraction of a Nonrenewable Common Property Resource: The Importance of the Period of Commitment in Dynamic Games

Jennifer Reinganum and Nancy Stokey

376: Straightforward Elections, Unanimity, and Phantom Voters

Kim C. Border and James Jordan

375: The Regulation of Surface Freight Transportation: The Welfare Effects Revisited

Ronald R. Braeutigam and Roger Noll

374: The Mathematics of Growth Against Limits

David I. Feinstein