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1986: Household Behavior and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Jerry Hausman and James Poterba

1986: Finite Lifetimes and the Effects of Budget Deficits on National Savings

James Poterba and Lawrence Summers

1986: Semiparametric Estimation of Duration and Competing Risk Models

Jerry Hausman and Aaron Han

1986: Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined?

Alan Auerbach and James Poterba

1986: The Formation of Economic Magnitudes: Disequilibrium and Stability

Franklin M. Fischer

1986: On Stability Analysis with Disequilibrium Awareness

Dale Stahl and Franklin M. Fischer

1986: Empirical Structural Evidence On Wages, Prices and Employment in the US

Olivier Blanchard

1986: Hysteresis and Unemployment

Olivier Blanchard

1986: Fiscal Increasing Returns, Hysteresis, Real Wages and Unemployment

Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers

1986: Investment and Sales; Some Empirical Evidence

Andrew Abel and Olivier H. Summers

1986: Piece-Rate Incentive Schemes

Robert Gibbons

1986: A Collapse of the Fixed Rate Regime With a Discrete Alignment of the Exchange Rate

Kiyoshi Otani

1986: Cheap Talk in Bargaining Games

Joseph Farrell and Robert Gibbons

1986: Stochastic Credit in Search Equilibrium

Peter Diamond

1986: Bargaining and Strikes

Oliver Hart

1986: Pan American to United: The Pacific Division Transfer Case

Franklin M. Fischer

1986: Quotas and the Stability of Implicit Collusion

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

1986: Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem

Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers

1986: The Influence of Endogenous Offer Durations on Bargaining

Dale P. Stahl

1986: Paul Samuelson

Stanley Fischer

1986: Stabilization and Growth in Developing Countries: How Sensible People Stand

Lance Taylor

1986: The Relative Rigidity of Monopoly Pricing

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

1986: The Theory of Contracts

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom

1986: Seniority Rationing and Unemployment

Kiyoshi Otani

1986: Tax Loss Carryforwards and Corporate Tax Incentives

Alan Auerbach and James Poterba

1986: Price Leadership

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

1986: Installed Base and Compatibility, With Implications for Product Preannouncements

Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner

1986: How Burdensome Are Capital Gains Taxes?

James Poterba

1986: A Simple Model of Optimum Life Cycle Consumption With Earnings Uncertainty

Eytan Sheshinski

1986: Money in the Utility Function: An Empirical Implementation

James Poterba and Julio Rotemberg

1986: Job Duration, Seniority and Earnings

Katharine Abraham and Henry S. Farber

1986: Bertrand Competition for Inputs, Forward Contracts, and Walrasian Outcomes

Dale Stahl

1985: Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model

Peter Diamond

1985: Dissolving a Partnership Efficiently

Peter Cramton, Robert Gibbons and Paul Klemperer

1985: Auctioning Incentive Contracts

Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole

1985: Theories of Speculation

Jean Tirole

1985: Monopolistic Competition, Aggregate Externalities and real Effects of Nominal Money

Olivier Blanchard and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

1985: The Wage Price Spiral

Olivier Blanchard

1985: Steady State Unemployment Under Profit Sharing

Martin Witzman

1985: Economic Issues in Standardization

Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner

1985: The Japanese Bonus -- Profit Share or Disguised Wage?

Martin L. Witzman

1985: Equilibrium Without An Auctioneer

Peter Diamond

1985: Were Russian Serfs Overcharged for their land in 1861? The History of One Historical Table

Evsey D. Domar

1985: Price Leadership

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

1985: Vertical Restraints from a Principal-Agent Viewpoint

Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole

1985: Fiscal Policy, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates: Some Simple Analytics

Paul Krugman

1985: Search Theory

Peter Diamond

1985: Installed Base and Compatibility With Implications for Product Preannouncements

Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner

1985: The Dynamics of Incentive Contracts

Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole

1985: Moral Hazard as an Entry Barrier

Joseph Farrell

1985: Production-Theoretic Input Price Indices and the Measurement of Real Aggregate Input Use

Franklin M. Fischer

1985: Predation, Mergers and Incomplete Information

Garth Saloner

1985: The Performance of Coal-Burning Electric Generating Units in the United States: 1960-1980

Paul Joskow and Richard Schmalensee

1985: Credible Neologisms in Games of Communication

Joseph Farrell

1985: Communication Equilibrium in Games

Joseph Farrell

1985: Allocating and Abrogating Rights: How Should Conflicts be Resolved Under Incomplete Information

Joseph Farrell

1985: Correlated Equilibria and Sunspots: A Note

Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole

1985: Owner-Consumers and Efficiency

Joseph Farrell

1985: Predation Without Reputation

Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole

1985: A Tax-Based Test for Nominal Rigidities

James Poterba, Julio Rotemberg and Lawrence Summers

1985: How Effective is Potential Competition?

Joseph Farrell

1985: Voluntary Disclosure: Robustness of the Unraveling Result, and Comments on Its Importance

Joseph Farrell

1985: The Logic of Vertical Restraints

Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole

1985: Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality

James Poterba and Lawrence Summers

1985: A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, II: Price Competition

Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole

1985: The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration

Oliver Hart and Sanford Grossman

1985: Strategic Inventories and the Excess Volatility of Production

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

1985: Using Cost Observation to Regulate Firms

Jean Tirole and Jean-Jacques Laffont

1985: Pricing and the Distribution of Money Holdings in a Search Economy

Peter Diamond and Joel Yellin

1985: Efficient Estimation and Identification of Simultaneous Equation Models with Covariance Restrictions

Jerry Hausman, Whitney Newey and William Taylor

1985: Sequential Bargaining with Many Buyers

Drew Fudenberg, David Levine and Jean Tirole

1985: Symmetrically Trimmed Least Squares Estimation For Tobit Models

Jim Powell

1985: On the Misuse of the Profit-Sales Ratio to Infer Monopoly Power

Franklin M. Fischer

1985: Hierarchies and Bureaucracies

Jean Tirole

1985: Procurement and Renegotiation

Jean Tirole

1985: Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation

Oliver Hart and John Moore