Working Papers

From C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University
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80-09: Individually Rational Expectations and Market Behavior

Roman Frydman

80-08: The Myth of Continuous Inflation: United States Experience, 1700-1980

Walter W. Haines

80-07: Discrimination and Market Structure

Reuven Brenner

80-06: Economics and Game Theory: A Survey

Andrew Schotter and Gerhard Schwodiauer

80-05: On the Consequences of Costly Litigation in the Model of Single Activity Accidents: Some New Results

Janusz A. Ordover

80-04: Informationally Efficient Breach Rules

Andrew Schotter

80-03: On the Theory of Productivity and Unbalanced Growth

William Baumol and Edward Wolff

80-02: An Exploration Into the Determinants of Research Intensity

Ariel Pakes and Mark Schankerman

80-01: A Theory of Development, or Markets and Human Capital in Primitive Societies

Reuven Brenner

79-34: Law Amid Flux: The Economics of Negligence and Strict Liability in Tort

Mario J. Rizzo

79-33: Sectoral Productivity Slowdown

M. Ishaq Nadiri

79-32: A "Textbook" Model of Inflation and Unemployment

Franz Hof and Helmut Prisch

79-31: Causal Apportionment in Tort Law

Frank S. Arnold and Mario J. Rizzo

79-30: The Effects of 'Double-Counting' on the Measured Contribution of Research and Development

Mark A. Schankerman

79-29: Pareto Optimal Bidding Mechanisms Under Asymmetric Information

John Kambhu

79-28: Incompetents and Charlatans in Markets With Asymmetric Information: The Endogenous Evolution of Industry Ethics

Andrew Schotter

79-27: Explaining Changes in Balances of Payments and Foreign-Exchange Rates: A Polemic Without Graphs, Algebra and Citations

Fritz Machlup

79-26: Long-Term Contracts, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and X-Efficiency

Reuven Brenner

79-25: Why Do People Discriminate?

Reuven Brenner

79-24: Why Do People Leave Inheritance?

Reuven Brenner

79-23: Human Capital and Changing Circumstances

Reuven Brenner

79-22: Optimal Economic Search and Labor Market Policy: An Experimental Study

Yale Braunstein and Andrew Schotter

79-21: Redistributing Incomes: Ex Ante or Ex Post

Janusz A. Ordover

79-20: Optimal Economic Search: An Experimental Study

Yale Braunstein and Andrew Schotter

79-19: The Economics of Tipping and Gratuities: An Essay in Institution Assisted Micro-Economics

Andrew Schotter

79-18: Forms for Empirical Cost Functions to Evaluate Efficiency of Industry Structure

William Baumol, Dietrich Fischer and M. Ishaq Nadiri

79-17: Price Expectations, Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates and Demand for Money in an Open Economy

M. Ishaq Nadiri

79-16: Contributions and Determinants of Research and Development Expenditures in the US Manufacturing Industries

M. Ishaq Nadiri

79-15: Life-Cycle Patterns in the Household Accumulation of Wealth

Edward Wolff

79-14: The Structure of Production, Technological Change and the Rate of Growth of Total Factor Productivity in the Bell System

M. Ishaq Nadiri and Mark A. Schankerman

79-13: Human Motivation and Economic Growth

Haines, Walter, W.

79-12: The Role of Information in Designing Social Policy Towards Externalities

Janusz A. Ordover and Robert D. Wellig

79-11: Economic Costs, Moral Costs or Retributive Justice: The Rationale of Criminal Law

Mario J. Rizzo

79-10: The Tendency Toward Efficiency in the Common Law

Frank S. Arnold and Mario J. Rizzo

79-09: On the Concept of Optimal Taxation in an Overlapping-Generations Model of Efficient Growth

Janusz A. Ordover and Edmund Phelps

79-08: Evolutionary Stable Market Equilibria

Andrew Schotter

79-07: Sluggish Price Adjustments and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Under Rational Expectations

Roman Frydman

79-05: Products Liability in Markets With Heterogenous Consumers

Janusz A. Ordover

79-04: Efficient Estimation of Nonlinear Regression Models With Autocorrelated Errors

Roman Frydman

79-03: I Waive My Right To Read This Recommendation: A Theoretical Analysis of the Buckley Amendment

Michael Manove and Janusz A. Ordover

79-02: On the Nonexistence of Pareto Superior Outlay Schedules

Janusz A. Ordover and John C. Panzar

79-01: Supergames and Diffusion Processes: A Theory of Norm and Institution Assisted Supergames

Simeon M. Berman and Andrew Schotter

78-18: Income Support and the Poverty Trap

N.A. Barr and B. Stein

78-13: The Rate of Obsolescence of Knowledge, Research Gestation Labs, and the Private Rate of Return to Research Resources

Ariel Pakes and Mark A. Schankerman

78-12: Inflation, Tax Deductibility of Depreciation at Historical Costs, the Longevity of Capital and the Real Economy

Alex Cukierman

78-11: The Relationship Between Relative Prices and the General Price Level: A Suggested Interpretation

Alex Cukierman

78-10: Regulatory Reform in Banking, or Taking the Bull By the Horns

Jonas Prager

78-09: OPEC Pricing and Output Decisions: A Partition Function Approach to OPEC Stability

Dermot Gately

78-08: Federal Off-Shore Lease Sales and a Theoretical Analysis of Alternative Bidding Procedures

James B. Ramsey

78-07: The Possibility of Major, Abrupt Increases in World Oil Prices by 1990

Dermot Gately