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03-14: On the Optimal Volume of Labor Hoarding

Yi Wen

03-13r: The Power of Demand: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Multi-Stage-Fabrication Economy with Inventories

Yi Wen

03-12: Durable Goods Inventories and the Volatility of Production: A Puzzle

Yi Wen

03-11: Policy Dilemmas for Controlling Child Labor

Kaushik Basu

03-10: Optimal Exploitation of Renewable Resources under Uncertainty and the Extinction of Species

Tapan Mitra and Santanu Roy

03-09: Cantor Type Invariant Distributions in the Theory of Optimal Growth under Uncertainty

Tapan Mitra and Fabio Privileggi

03-08: Understanding the Inventory Cycle: I. Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Yi Wen

03-07: The Economics and Law of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Kaushik Basu

03-06: The Global Child Labor Problem: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

Kaushik Basu and Zafiris Tzannatos

03-05: Utilitarianism for Infinite Utility Streams: A New Welfare Criterion and Its Axiomatic Characterization

Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra

03-04: Globalization and the Politics of International Finance: The Stiglitz Verdict

Kaushik Basu

03-03: Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with Inter-generational Equity: The Impossibility of Being Paretian

Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra

03-02: Lumpsum versus Non-lumpsum Redistribution: A Second Glance

Murray Kemp and Henry Wan

03-01: Tariff Reform: Some Pre-strategic Considerations

Murray Kemp and Henry Wan

02-18: Triadic Power Relations with Production, External Markets and Multiple Agents

Magnus Hatlebakk

02-17: A Characterization of the Turnpike Property of Optimal Paths in the Aggregative Model of Intertemporal Allocation

Tapan Mitra

02-16: On Literacy Rankings

Tapan Mitra

02-15: Should We Be Concerned about the Distribution of Literacy across Households? An Axiomatic Investigation

Paola Valenti

02-14: What Does It Take to Explain Procyclical Productivity

Yi Wen

02-13: Strategy for Economic Reform in West Bengal

Abhijit Banerjee

02-12: Survival under Uncertainty in an Exchange Economy

Nigar Hashimzade and Mukul Majumdar

02-11: Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility

George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin

02-10: Addiction and Present-Biased Preferences

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin

02-09: Procrastination on Long-Term Projects

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin

02-08: Introduction to Sunspots and Lotteries

Edward Prescott and Karl Shell

02-07: Comparing Sunspot Equilibrium and Lottery Equilibrium Allocations: The Finite Case

Rodney Garratt, Todd Keister and Karl Shell

02-06: Intertemporal Complementarity and Optimality: A Study of a Two-Dimensional Dynamical System

Tapan Mitra and Kazuo Nishimura

02-05: Intertemporal Equity and Hartwick's Rules in an Exhaustible Resource Model

Swapan Dasgupta and Tapan Mitra

02-04: Understanding the Inventory Cycle

Yi Wen

02-03: Stability in Distribution of Randomly Perturbed Quadratic Maps as Markov Processes

Rabi Bhattacharya and Mukul Majumdar

02-02: Equilibrium and Uncertainty

Mukul Majumdar

02-01: Fickle Consumers versus Random Technology: Explaining Domestic and International Comovements

Yi Wen

01-20: Uniform Working Hours: A Culprit of Structural Unemployment

Yi Wen, Lijing Zhu and Haoming Liu

01-19: Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations? Comment

Yi Wen

01-18: Demand-Driven Business Cycles: Explaining Domestic and International Comovements

Yi Wen

01-17: Equilibrium Dynamics in a Two-Sector Model with Taxes

Salvador Ortigueira and Manuel S. Santos

01-16: Unemployment Benefits and the Persistence of European Unemployment

Salvador Ortigueira

01-15: Testing for Common Deterministic Trend Slopes

Timothy Vogelsang and Philip Hans Franses

01-14: Spectral Density Bandwidth Choice: Source of Nonmonotonic Power for Tests of a Mean Shift in a Time Series

Ciprian Crainiceanu and Timothy Vogelsang

01-13: Heteroskedasticity-Autocorrelation Robust Standard Errors Using the Bartlett Kernel without Truncation

Nicholas Kiefer

01-12: Testing in GMM Models without Truncation

Timothy Vogelsang

01-11: The Economic Effects of Restrictions on Government Budget Deficits: Imperfect Privte Credit Markets

Christian Ghiglino and Karl Shell

01-10r: Equilibrium Bank Runs

James Peck and Karl Shell

01-09r: Indeterminacy, Aggregate Demand, and the Real Business Cycle

Jess Benhabib and Yi Wen

01-08: Why Does Consumption Lead the Business Cycle?

Yi Wen

01-07: Granger Causality and Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory

Yi Wen

01-06: Ranking Investment Projects

James Foster and Tapan Mitra

01-05: International Credit and Welfare: Some Paradoxical Results with Implications for the Organization of International Lending

Kaushik Basu and Hodaka Morita

01-04: The Nature of the Steady State in Models of Optimal Growth Under Uncertainty

Tapan Mitra, Luigi Montrucchio and Fabio Privileggi

01-03: Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents in an Intertemporal Model of Consumption and Savings

Subir K. Chakrabarti

01-02: Information Revelation and Collusion in Oligopolies with Unknown Costs

Subir K. Chakrabarti

01-01: Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-Determined Balance of Power

Kaushik Basu

00-12: Intertemporal Equity and Efficient Allocation of Resources

Tapan Mitra

00-11: Alternative Labor Retrenchment Laws and Their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation with Special Reference to Developing Countries

Kaushik Basu, Gary Fields and Shub Debgupta

00-10: Unemployment and Wage Rigidity When Labor Supply Is a Household Decision

Kaushik Basu, Garance Genicot and Joseph Stiglitz

00-09: A New Approach to the Asymptotics of HAC Robust Testing in Econometrics

Nicholas Kiefer and Timothy Vogelsang

00-08: The Application of Size Robust Trend Analysis to Global Warming Temperature Series

Thomas Fomby and Timothy Vogelsang

00-07: Forecasting Autoregressive Time Series in the Presence of Deterministic Components

Serena Ng and Timothy Vogelsang

00-06: RENT: Notes on Efficiency Pricing, Rent Control and Monopolistic Landlords

Kaushik Basu and Patrick Emerson

00-05: Statistical Manifolds and Separate Inference

Bent Jesper Christensen and Nicholas Kiefer

00-04: The Economics of Tenancy Rent Control

Kaushik Basu and Patrick Emerson

00-03: Measuring Interest Rates as Determined by Thrift and Productivity

Woon Gyu Choi and Yi Wen

00-02: Understanding Self-Fulfilling Rational Expectations Equilibria in Real Business Cycle Models

Yi Wen

00-01: The Business Cycle Effects of Seasonal Shocks

Yi Wen