Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

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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

147: The Wage-Price Productivity Nexus

Ronald Bodkin

146: Welfare Economics and the Theory of Second Best

Otto A. Davis and Andrew B. Whinston

145: Non-Existence of Consistent Estimator Sequences and Unbiased Estimates: A Practical Example

H.S. Konijn

144: On a Theorem of Halmos Concerning Unbiased Estimation of Moments

H.S. Konijn

143: On the Existence of a Subinvariant Measure

Tjalling Koopmans and Richard E. Williamson

142: Stationary Utility and Time Preference

Peter Diamond, Tjalling Koopmans and Richard E. Williamson

141: Price Guides in Decentralized Organization

Andrew B. Whinston

140: Models of the Joint Demand for Cash and for an Interest-Bearing Asset. Part One

Tore Johansen

139: On a Two Sector Model of Growth

T. Srinivasan

138: Part I: Price-Quantity Markets

George J. Feeney

137: Size of Firm, Market Structure, and Innovation

Edwin Mansfield

136: The Expenditures of the Firm on Research and Development

Edwin Mansfield

135: An Empirical Evaluation of Theories of Saving

Harold W. Guthrie

134: The Speed of Response of Firms to New Techniques

Edwin Mansfield

133: Substitution, Fixed Proportions, Growth and Distribution

Edmund Phelps

132: Intrafirm Rates of Diffusion of an Innovation

Edwin Mansfield

131: Inventory Investment

Michael Lovell

130: On a Theorem of Scarf

Gerard Debreu

129: New Concepts and Techniques for Equilibrium Analysis

Gerard Debreu

128: An Inter-City Consumption Function

Harold W. Watts

127: Corporate Cash and Security Holdings: An Empirical Study of Cash, Securities and Other Current Accounts of Large Corporations

Alan Heston

126: Entry, Gibrat's Law, Innovation, and the Growth of Firms

Edwin Mansfield

125: Monetary Policy, Debt Management and Interest Rates: A Quantitative Appraisal

Arthur M. Okun

124: A Note on Uncertainty, Bayesian Inference and Competitive Behavior

Phoebus J. Dhrymes

123: Some Empirical Estimates of Short Run Price and Output Policies

Edwin S. Mills

122: On Devising Unbiased Estimators for the Parameters of a Cobb Douglas Production Function

Phoebus J. Dhrymes

121: Spatial Distribution of Industry

H.C. Bos

120: Economic Growth and Wicksell's Cumulative Process

Martin J. Beckmann

119: Administered Prices and Imports: The Steel Industry

Lawrence B. Krause

118: Input-Output and Activity Analysis in Industrial Concerns

Alan Manne

117: Investment Criteria and Choice of Techniques of Production

T. Srinivasan

116: The Growth of Television Ownership in the United Kingdom

Andrew D. Bain

115: A Business Game for Teaching and Research Purposes

Martin Shubik

115: A Business Game for Teaching and Research Purposes

Martin Shubik

115: A Business Game for Teaching and Research Purposes

Martin Shubik

114: Output, Sales and Inventory Policy in the Competitive Firm and the Stability of a Competitive Market

Edwin S. Mills

113: Some Informal Comments on Models of Decision Processes Under Uncertainty

Martin Shubik

112: Incentives, Decentralized Control, the Assignment of Joint Costs and Internal Pricing

Martin Shubik

111: An Empirical Examination of a Commercial Bank Loan Offer Function

Donald D. Hester

110: An Analysis of the New View of Investment

Edmund Phelps

109: The Accumulation of Risky Capital: A Discrete-Time Sequential Utility Analysis

Edmund Phelps

108: Estimation in the Linear Decision Model

Walter D. Fisher

107: Extended Edgeworth Bargaining Games and Competitive Equilibrium

Martin Shubik

106: Comparative Advantage and Development Policy

Hollis B. Chenery

105: Some Experimental Non-Zero Sum Games With Lack of Information about the Rules

Martin Shubik

104: Objective Functions and Models of Corporate Optimization

Martin Shubik

103: Factors Affecting the Occupational Migration of Labor from Agriculture

Charles H. Berry

102: Patterns of United States Imports, 1947-1958

Lawrence B. Krause

101: Capital Risk and Household Consumption: A Sequential Utility Analysis

Edmund Phelps

100: Approaches to the Study of Decision-Making Relevant to the Firm

Martin Shubik

99: An Objective Permanent Income Concept for the Household

Harold W. Watts

98: Inter-Generation Transfers of Wealth and the Theory of Saving

James Tobin and Harold W. Guthrie

97: Partial Trace Correlation Theory

John W. Hooper

96: Programming of Economic Development

Alan Manne

95: Product-Mix Alternatives: Flood Control, Electric Power, and Irrigation

Alan Manne

94: Corporation Dividend Payout Ratios and Target Ratios -- Their Significance and Determination

Guy Stevens

93: Demand for Tourists' Goods and Services in a World Market

Harold W. Guthrie

92: A New Technique in Equilibrium Analysis

Gerard Debreu

91: A Keynesian Model Extended by Explicit Demand and Supply Functions for Investment-Goods

Bjorn Thalberg

90: Forced Saving in a Keynesian Economy: An Analysis of Demand-Pull Inflation

Michael Lovell

89: Buffer Stocks, Sales Expectations, and Stability: A Multi-Sector Theory of the Inventory Cycle

Michael Lovell

88: A Model of Bank Portfolio Selection

Richard C. Porter

87: On the Appraisal of Cyclical Turning Point Predictors

Arthur M. Okun

86: Manufacturers' Inventories, Sales Expectations, and the Acceleration Principle

Michael Lovell

85: Investment, Replacement, and an Index of Technology

Benton F. Massell

84: Comment on 'Interindustry Economics' by Chenery and Clark

Alan Manne

83: Analysis of a Production Problem by Dynamic Programming

Martin J. Beckmann

82: Theory of an Efficient Several-Person Firm

Jacob Marschak

81: Stationary Ordinal Utility and Impatience

Tjalling Koopmans

80: Lagrange Multipliers Revisited

Morton Slater

79: Some Examples of Global Instability of the Competitive Equilibrium

Herbert Scarf

78: Consumers' Propensities to Hold Liquid Assets

Harold W. Guthrie

77: The Error of Forecast for Multivariate Regression Models

John W. Hooper and Arnold Zellner

76: Topological Methods in Cardinal Utility Theory

Gerard Debreu

75: Some Team Models of a Sales Organization

C.B. McGuire

74: Binary Choice Constraints on Random Utility Indicators

Jacob Marschak

73: On the Job Shop Scheduling Problem

Alan Manne

72: On 'An Identity in Arithmetic'

Gerard Debreu

71: Comparisons of Information Structures

C.B. McGuire

70: Remarks on the Economics of Information

Jacob Marschak

69: Consumer Expenditures and the Capital Account

James Tobin and Harold W. Watts

68: A Dynamic Programming Model of the Consumption Function

Martin J. Beckmann

67: A Few Remarks on the Assortment Problem

Wieslaw Sadowski

66: Random Orderings and Stochastic Theories of Response

H.D. Block and Jacob Marschak