Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

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244: Pitfalls in Financial Model-Building

William C. Brainard and James Tobin

243: Quiz Show Problems

Joseph B. Kadane

242: A Re-Examination of the Modigliani Miller Theorem

Joseph Stiglitz

241: The Optimal Life of a Patent

William Nordhaus

240: Some Experimental Non-Constant-Sum Games Revisited. Part II

Martin Shubik and David H. Stern

239: Iterative Multi-Level Planning with Production Targets

Martin Weitzman

238: Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals

Joseph Stiglitz

237: A Note on Taxation, Increasing Returns Due to Set-up Costs and Competitive Equilibrium

Martin Shubik

236: Some Experimental Non-Constant-Sum Games Revisited. Part I

Martin Shubik and David H. Stern

235: An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade Before 1860

Gavin Wright

234: A Noncooperative View of Oligopoly

James Friedman

233: Price Strategy Oligopoly with Product Variation

Lloyd Shapley and Martin Shubik

232: On the Computation of Equilibrium Prices

Herbert Scarf

231: Cross-Section Analysis and Bank Dynamics

Donald D. Hester and James L. Pierce

230: Welfare, Static and Dynamic Solution Concepts

Martin Shubik

229: Maximizing Stationary Utility in a Constant Technology

Richard Beals and Tjalling Koopmans

228: Intertemporal Distribution and 'Optimal' Aggregate Economic Growth

Tjalling Koopmans

227: Part VII: The Nonsymmetric Game: The Generalized Beat-the-Average Solution

Richard E. Levitan and Martin Shubik

226: Spectral Analysis of the Relation between Employment Changes and Output Changes

Daniel S. Hammermesh

225: Part V: The Nonsymmetric Game: Joint Maximum, Efficient Solution and Measures of Collusion and Welfare

Richard E. Levitan and Martin Shubik

224: The Cournot Equilibrium in a Nonsymmetric Oligopolistic Market (A Business Game for Teaching and Research Purposes: Part VI)

Richard E. Levitan and Martin Shubik

223: An Empirical Analysis of the Postwar Savings and Loan Industry

John E. Spencer

222: A Note on the Limit of the Core of an Exchange Economy

Terje Rein Hansen

221: Distributed Lags and Unobserved Components in Economic Time Series

Marc Nerlove

220: The Role of the Neyman Pearson Lemma in the Theory of Discrete Search

Joseph B. Kadane

219: Part IV: Mathematical Structure and Analysis of the Nonsymmetric Game

Richard E. Levitan and Martin Shubik

218: An Impossibility Result Concerning the Theory of Decision-Making

Gerald H. Kramer

217: A Further Comparison of Some Models of Duopoly

Martin Shubik

216: The Approximation of Fixed Points of a Continuous Mapping

Herbert Scarf

215: A Note on the Role of Money in Providing Sufficient Intermediation

David Cass and Menahem E. Yaari

214: Optimal Employment and Inflation over Time

Edmund Phelps

213: Structural Restrictions and Estimation Efficiency in Linear Econometric Models

Thomas J. Rothenberg

212: Objectives, Constraints and Outcomes in Optimal Growth Models

Tjalling Koopmans

211: An Algorithm for a Class of Nonconvex Programming Problems

Herbert Scarf

210: Estimation of A Fixed Coefficients Vintage Model of Production

Richard Attiyeh

209: Some Econometric Problems in the Analysis of Inventory Cycles

Kenneth Wallis

208: Notes on the Taxonomy of Problems Concerning Public Goods

Martin Shubik

207: Equal Profits as a Fair Division

James Friedman

206: Structure of Preference over Time

Tjalling Koopmans

205: Efficient Estimation with a priori Information: A Classical Approach

Thomas J. Rothenberg

204: Game Theory and Economic Behavior

Martin Shubik

203: Simulation of Socio-Economic Systems. Part II: An Aggregative Socio-Economic Simulation of a Latin American Country

Martin Shubik

203: Simulation of Socio-Economic Systems. Part I: General Considerations

Martin Shubik

202: Application of Signal Extraction Techniques in the Study of Economic Time Series

David Grether

201: An Empirical Analysis of Risk Taking by Firms in the Savings and Loan Industry

Donald D. Hester

200: Measurable, Transferable, Comparable Utility and Money

Martin Shubik

199: Quasi and Generalized Golden Rule Paths: A Study of Commanding Growth Paths

Edmund Phelps

198: Individual Saving, Aggregate Capital Accumulation, and Efficient Growth

David Cass and Menahem E. Yaari

197: Uncertainty and Diversification in International Trade

William C. Brainard and Richard N. Cooper

196: Axioms for Factor Augmenting Technical Progress

Edmund Phelps

195: A Re-Examination of the Pure Consumption Loans Model

David Cass and Menahem E. Yaari

194: The Ramsey Problem and the Golden Rule of Accumulation

Edmund Phelps

193: Random Measure Preserving Transformations

Robert Aumann

192: An Experimental Study of Cooperative Duopoly

James Friedman

191: Absorptive Capacity and the Golden Rule of Accumulation

Edmund Phelps

190: Investment in Humans, Technological Diffusion and the Golden Rule of Education

Edmund Phelps

189: Investment in Humans, Technological Diffusion and Economic Growth

Richard Nelson and Edmund Phelps

188: A Model of Fixed Capital without Substitution

Robert Solow, James Tobin, C.C. Von Weisazacker and Menahem E. Yaari

187: A Dynamic Model of the Competitive Firm

Edward Zabel

186: A Model of Induced Invention, Growth and Distribution

Emmanuel M. Drandakis and Edmund Phelps

185: Factor-Price-Frontier Estimation of a 'Vintage' Production Model of the Post-war U.S. Nonfarm Business Sector

Edmond S. Phelps and Charlotte Phelps

184: The Relation Between Bank Portfolios and Earnings: An Econometric Analysis

Donald D. Hester and John F. Zoellner

183: Optimal Output and Price Policies for General Distributed Lag Demand Equations

Robert L. Graves and Lester G. Telser

182: The Core of an N Person Game

Herbert Scarf

181: A Time Series Analysis of Interest Rates

David I. Fand

180: A Business Game for Teaching and Research Purposes. Part III. Discussion and Manual for Users

Martin Shubik

179: A Parametric Simplicial Formulation of Houthakker's Capacity Method

C. Van De Panne and Andrew B. Whinston

178: Optimum Economic Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation: A Turnpike Theorem

David Cass

177: The Construction of Utility Functions from Expenditure Data

S.N. Afriat

176: Models of Technical Progress and the Golden Rule of Research

Edmund Phelps

175: Stock Market Indices: A Principal Components Analysis

George J. Feeney and Donald D. Hester

174: An Experimental Study in Oligopoly

James Friedman

173: Second Essay on the Golden Rule of Accumulation

Edmund Phelps

172: A Decomposition Algorithm for Quadratic Programming

Andrew B. Whinston

171: Convexity in the Theory of Choice under Risk

Menahem E. Yaari

170: An Informal Aggregative Socio-Economic Simulation of a Latin American Country

James Friedman and Martin Shubik

169: The Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium in a Monetary Economy

Emmanuel M. Drandakis

168: The Monetary Mechanism: Some Partial Relationships

James L. Pierce

167: Ownership and the Production Function

Lloyd Shapley and Martin Shubik

166: On Prices, Fiat Money, Credit and Transferable Utility. Part I

Martin Shubik

165: On an Asymptotic Non-Substitution Theorem in the Two-Sector Closed Production Model

Emmanuel M. Drandakis

164: A Two-Country, Three Commodity, Dynamic Model of International Trade

T. Srinivasan

163: Appendix to 'On the Concept of Optimal Economic Growth'

Tjalling Koopmans

163: On the Concept of Optimal Economic Growth

Tjalling Koopmans

162: Conjugate Functions and Symmetric Duality

Andrew B. Whinston

161: Anticipated Inflation and Economic Welfare in a Neoclassical Model

Edmund Phelps

160: Alternative Fiscal Policies for Targeted Growth

T. Srinivasan

160: On the Feasibility of Targeted Growth Through Taxation and the Social Virtue of Private Thrift

Edmund Phelps

159: Commercial Banks as Creators of 'Money'

James Tobin

158: On the Existence of an Optimal Plan in a Continuous-Time Allocation Process

Menahem Yaari

157: A Test of the Specification of the Aggregate Production Function

Ronald Bodkin

156: Consumption-Saving Decisions When the Horizon is Random

Menahem E. Yaari

155: On the Consumer's Lifetime Allocation Process

Menahem E. Yaari

154: Factor Substitution in the Two-Sector Growth Model

Emmanuel M. Drandakis

153: Properties of Efficient Accumulation Paths in a Closed Production Model

Emmanuel M. Drandakis

152: Proportional Growth and Turnpike Theorems

Tjalling Koopmans

151: Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series and Multiple Regression

Michael Lovell

150: On Flexibility of Future Preference

Tjalling Koopmans

149: An Analysis of the Effects of Transitory Income on Expenditure of Norwegian Households

Harold W. Watts

148: The Demand for Cash and Working Balances of Corporations

Alan Heston