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684: Monopolistic Competition and Preference Diversity

Raymond Deneckere and Michael Rothschild

683: Securities Market Equilibrium Without Bankruptcy: Contingent ClaimValuation and the Martingale Property

Kerry Back

682: The Macroeconomic Effects of Uncertain Fiscal Policy

Kenneth Judd

681: Capital Gains Taxation by Realization in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Kenneth Judd

680: Are Bayesian-Nash Incentives and Implementations Perfect?

Ehud Kalai and Dov Samet

679: Finite Rationality and Interpersonal Complexity in Repeated Games

Ehud Kalai and William Stanford

678: On the Existence of Sunspot Equilibria in an Overlapping Generations Model

James Peck

677: The Kinked Demand Curve

Ehud Kalai and Mark A. Satterthwaite

676: Strategic Behavior and Competition: An Overview

Ehud Kalai

675: Excess Capacity and Collusion

Carl Davidson and Raymond Deneckere

674: Efficient Allocation

Stanley Reiter

673: Optimal Consumption Plans and Portfolio Management with Duration- Dependent Returns

Yves Balcer and Kenneth Judd

672: Inference in the Explosive First-Order Linear Dynamic Regression Model

Ian Domowitz and Lars Muus

671: Axiomatic Foundations of Bayesian Decision Theory

Roger Myerson

670: A Theory of Preemptive Takeover Bidding

Michael J. Fishman

669: One is Almost Enough for Monopoly

Lawrence Ausubel and Raymond Deneckere

668: Reputation Effect in Equilibrium Search and Bargaining- A Stigma Theory of Unemployment Duration

Elazar Berkovitch

667: A Theory of Acquisition Markets - Mergers vs. Tender Offers

Elazar Berkovitch and Naveen Khanna

666: Negotiation and Arbitration: A Game-Theoretic Perspective

Robert Weber

665: Optimal License Fees for a New Product

Morton I. Kamien

664r: Comparing Auctions for Risk Averse Buyers: A Buyer's Pointof View

Steven Matthews

663: Game Forms with Minimal Strategy Spaces

Stefan Reichelstein and Stanley Reiter

662: Implicit Labor Contracts to Explain Turnover

Elazar Berkovitch

661: Monopoly Provision of Quality and Warranties: An Exploration in the Theory of Multidimensional Screening

Steven Matthews and John Moore

660: Probabilistic Analysis of the Capacitated Transportation Problem

Refael Hassin and Eitan Zemel

659: The Role of External Search in Bilateral Bargaining

S. D. Chikte and S.D. Deshmukh

658: Negotiation in Games: A Theoretical Overview

Roger Myerson

657: Incentive Compatibility Problems in Soviet-Type Economies

Richard Ericson

656: Average Waiting Time in Queues with Scheduled Batch Services

Suleyman Ozekici

655: Minimal Euclidean Networks with Flow Dependent Costs--The Generalized Steiner Case

Dan Trietsch

654: Optimal Motion Towards a Stochastic Destination

Dan Trietsch

653: Convergence of Information

Kevin D. Cotter

652: A Measure for Crisis Instability

Barry O'Neill

651: Applications of a Crisis Instability Index: Arms Control Agreements and Space-Based Missile Defenses

Barry O'Neill

650: International Escalation and the Dollar Auction

Barry O'Neill

649: On Neighboring Consumers

Kerry Back

648: Incentive Compatibility Ten Years Later

Theodore Groves and John Ledyard

647: Closed-Loop Equilibrium in a Multi-Stage Innovation Race

Kenneth Judd

646: Comprehensive Design of Highway Networks

Dan Trietsch

645: A Family of Methods for Preliminary Highway Alighnment

Dan Trietsch

644: Optimum Product Diversity and the Incentives for Entry in Large Economies

Larry Jones

643: The Welfare Cost of Factor Taxation in a Perfect Foresight Model

Kenneth Judd

642: Equilibrium Incentives in Oligopoly

Chaim Fershtman and Kenneth Judd

641: The Rate at Which a Simple Market Becomes Efficient as the Number of Traders Increases: An Asymptotic Result for Optimal Trading Mechanisms

Thomas Gresik and Mark A. Satterthwaite

640: Connecting Euclidean Networks---The Steiner Case

Dan Treitsch

639: Some Notes on Natural Cubic Spline Functions, Nonlinear Regression and the Elastica

Dan Treitsch

638: The Optimal Ranking Method is the Borda Count

Donald G. Saari

637: A Case Against Bullet, Approval and Plurality Voting

Donald G. Saari and Jill Van Newenhizen

636: Random Behavior in Numerical Analysis, Decision Theory, and Macrosystems: Some Impossibility Theorems

Donald G. Saari

635: An Improved Algorithm for Steiner Trees

Dan Trietch