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96-14: Structural Analysis of Labor Market Transitions Using Indirect Inference

Mark An and Ming Liu

96-13: The Optimum Minimum Wage When Labor Services are Taxed

Mark Grimes and Edward Tower

96-12: Growth, Market Structure, and the Welfare Effects of Economic Integration

Pietro Peretto

96-10: On the Informational Role of Quantitites: Durable Goods and Consumers' Word-of-Mouth Communication

Nikolaos Vettas

96-09: Should the Capital Account Be Liberalized in a Minimum Real Wage Economy?

Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

96-08: Environmental Amenities as Sources for Product Differentiation and Market Power

Laura L. Osborne and V. Smith

96-07: Firm Size, Rivalry and the Extent of the Market in Endogenous Technological Change

Pietro Peretto

96-06: Statistical Inference of a Bivariate Proportional Hazard Model with Grouped Data

Mark An

96-05: School District Responses to Fiscal Constraints

Helen Ladd

96-04: Buying Time: Real and Hypothetical Offers

V. Smith and Carol Mansfield

96-03: The Nonlinear Mixed Effects Model with a Smooth Random Effects Density

A. Gallant

96-02: Nonparametric Estimation of a Survivor Function with Across-Interval-Censored Data

Mark An and Roberto Ayala

96-01: Effects of Strategic Behavior and Public Subsidies on Families' Savings and Long-Term Care Decisions

Frank Sloan, Thomas J. Hoerger and Gabriel Picone

95-56: Education in Production: Measuring Labor Quality and Management

Dennis Yang

95-55: Econometric Analysis of Sequential Discrete Choice Models

Mark An

95-54: Why Did the Soviet Economic System Collapse: Two Schools of Thought

Vladimir G. Treml

95-53: Estimation of Continuous Time Models for Stock Returns and Interest Rates

George Tauchen and A. Gallant

95-52: Do Contingent Valuation Estimations Pass a 'Scope' Test?A Meta Analysis

V. Smith and Laura Osborne

95-51: Investment in Knowledge and Capital in Oligopoly: Balanced Growth, Poverty Traps and Indeterminancy

Pietro Peretto

95-50: The Use of Cost Effectiveness Analyses by PharmaceuticalBenefit Managers

Henry G. Grabowski and C. Daniel Mullins

95-49: Specification Analysis of Continuous Time Models in Finance

A. Gallant and George Tauchen

95-48: Cost Reduction, Entry, and the Dynamics of Market Structureand Economic Growth

Pietro Peretto

95-47: Environmental and Trade Policies: Some MethodologicalLessons

V. Smith and J. Andres Espinosa

95-46: The Supply of Children's Time to Disabled Elderly Parents

Frank Sloan, Gabriel Picone and Thomas J. Hoerger

95-45: Revisionism Revisited: An Essay on the Population Debate in Historical Perspective

Allen C. Kelley

95-44: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control

Phillip J. Cook and James A. Leitzel

95-43: The ILO Economists and International Economic Policy in the Interwar Years

Grant Fleming and A. M. Endres

95-42: New Minimum Chi-Square Methods in Empirical Finance

George Tauchen

95-41: Valuing Beach Re-nourishment: Is it Preservation?

Rebecca P. Judge, Laura Osborne and V. Smith

95-40: Crime and the Political Economy of Russian Reform

James Leitzel

95-39: Price and Profit Control, New Competitive Dynamics,and the Economics of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Henry G. Grabowski

95-38: Three Methods to Share Joint Costs or Surplus

Eric Friedman and Herve Moulin

95-37: Aggregate Population and Economic Growth Correlations: The Role of the Components of Demographic Change

Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt

95-36: Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models with Diagnostics

A. Gallant, David Hsieh and George Tauchen

95-35: Marine Debris, Beach Quality and Non-Market Values

V. Smith, Xiaolong Zhang and Raymond B. Palmqvist

95-34: Sunk Costs, Market Structure, and Growth

Pietro Peretto

95-33: The Second Economy and the Destabilizing Effect of Its Growth on the State Economy in the Soviet Union, 1965-1989

Vladimir G. Treml

95-32: Evolution and Equilibria Selection of Repeated Lattice Games

Mark An and Nicholas Kiefer

95-31: On Rivalry, Variety and Spillovers in Endogenous Growth

Pietro Peretto

95-30: Altruism in Marriage Markets

Marjorie B. McElroy

95-29: Nonparametric Discrete Choice Methods forMeasuring Economic Values

Ju-Chin Huang, Douglas W. Nychka and V. Smith

95-28: Incremental Cost Sharing: Characterization by Strategy-Proofness

Herve Moulin

95-27: EMM: A Program for Efficient Method of Moments Estimation. Version 1.1. User's Guide

George Tauchen and A. Gallant

95-26: SNP: A Program for Nonparametric Time Series Analysis. Version 8.4. User's Guide

George Tauchen and A. Gallant

95-25: The Consequences of Population Growth on Human Resource Development: The Case of Education

Allen C. Kelley

95-24: Food Availability, Entitlement and the Chinese Famine of 1959-61

Justin Lin and Dennis Yang

95-23: Weak Complementarity and Quasi Rents

Ju-Chin Huang and V. Smith

95-22: Public Subsidies, Private Provision of Care, and Living Arrangements of the Elderly

Thomas J. Hoerger, Gabriel Picone and Frank Sloan

95-21: A Mixture Model of Willingness to Pay Distributions

Mark An and Roberto Ayala

95-20: Which Moments to Match

George Tauchen and A. Gallant

95-19: Cost-Sharing under Increasing Returns: A Comparisonof Simple Mechanisms

Herve Moulin

95-18: Soviet and Russian Statistics on Alcohol Consumption

Vladimir G. Treml

95-17: Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation: TheNOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation

Richard Carson, Michael Hanemann, Raymond Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud and V. Smith

95-16: R&D Costs, Innovative Output and Firm Size in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Joseph DiMasi, Henry G. Grabowski and John Vernon

95-15: Upstream Intergenerational Transfers

Frank Sloan and Harold Zhang

95-14: Social Benefits of Education: Feedback Effects and Environmental Resources

V. Smith

95-13: Duration Dependence, Endogenous Search and Structural Analysis of Labor Market Histories

Mark An

95-12: Population Welfare and Health: A Survey of Recent developments in Russian Statistics

Vladimir G. Treml

95-11: Longer Patents for Increased Generic Competition:The Waxman-Hatch Act after One Decade

Henry G. Grabowski and John Vernon

95-10: Toward a Cure for the Myopia and Tunnel Vision of the Population Debate: A Dose of Historical Perspective

Allen C. Kelley

95-09: Education and Off-Farm Work

Dennis Yang

95-08: Bargaining over the Core in Marriage Markets

Marjorie B. McElroy

95-07: Tort Liability and Obstetricians' Care Levels

Frank Sloan, Stephen S. Entman, Bridget A. Reilly, Cheryl A. Glass, Gerald B. Hickson and Harold Zhang

95-06: Variety, Spillovers and Market Structure in aModel of Endogenous Technological Change

Pietro Peretto

95-05: Temporal Reliability of Estimates from Contingent Valuation

Richard Carson, Michael Hanemann, Raymond Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul Ruud and V. Smith

95-04: Two Versions of the Tragedy of the Commons

Herve Moulin and Alison Watts

95-03: Logconcavity versus Logconvexity: A Complete Characterization

Mark An

95-02: Volume, Volatility and Leverage: A Dynamic Analysis

George Tauchen, Harold Zhang and Ming Liu

95-01: Saving, Dependency and Development

Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt