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583: Fees Versus Royalties and the Private Value of a Patent

Morton I. Kamien and Yair Tauman

582: Analysis of Two Bargaining Problems with Incomplete Information

Roger Myerson

581: Uncertain Lifetimes, Social Security, and Individual Saving

Robert Hubbard

580: Optimal Regulatory Pricing Under Asymmetric Cost Information

Wayne Y. Lee and Anjan Thakor

579: The January Effect on a Small Stock Market: Lumpy Information and Tax-Loss Selling

Bjorn Wahlroos and Tom Berglund

578: Entrusting Investment Decisions to Managers With Superior Information: The Delegation Problem

Salman Shah and Anjan Thakor

577: Credible Spatial Preemption

Kenneth Judd

576: The Private Value of a Patent: A Game Theoretic Analysis

Morton I. Kamien and Yair Tauman

575: Conjectural Variations Strategies in Dynamic Cournot Games With Fast Reactions

Ehud Kalai and William Stanford

574: The Efficiency of Monopolistically Competitive Equilibria in Large Economies: Commodity Differentiation With Pure Substitutes

Larry Jones

573: An Axiomatization of Harsanyi's Non-Transferable Utility Solution

Sergiu Hart

572: Redistributive Taxation in a Simple Perfect Foresight Model

Kenneth Judd

571: The Slow Server Problem

Michael Rubinovitch

570: Bid, Ask and Transaction Prices in a Specialist Market with Heterogeneously Informed Traders

Lawrence R. Glosten and Paul Milgrom

569: The Pure Theory of Large Two Candidate Elections

John Ledyard

568: Strategy-Proofness: The Existence of Dominant Strategy Mechanisms

Eitan Muller and Mark Satterthwaite

567: Monotonic Solutions to General Cooperative Games

Ehud Kalai and Dov Samet

566: Capital Accumulation and the Sustainability of Collusive Markets

Chaim Fershtman and Eitan Muller

565: A Martingale Characterization of the Price of a Nonrenewable Resource with Decisions Involving Uncertainty

Sudhakar D. Deshmukh and Stanley R. Pliskaf

564: Production Economies With Patents: A Game Theoretic Approach

Amoz Kats and Yair Tauman

563: Supportability, Sustainability and Subsidy Free Prices

Leonard Mirman

562: Monopoly and Sustainable Prices as a Nash Equilibrium in Contestable Markets

Leonard Mirman

561: Ramsey Prices, Average Cost Prices and Price Sustainability

Leonard Mirman, Yair Tauman and Israel Zang

560: On the Implementability of Reduced Form Auctions

Steven Matthews

559: Short-Run Analysis of Fiscal Policy in a Simple Perfect Foresight Model

Kenneth Judd

558: Exercises in Voodoo Economics

Kenneth Judd

557: Continuous and Hypograph Convergence of Utilities

Kerry Back

556: Solutions to the Bargaining Problem

Ehud Kalai

555: Prices and Qualities in Markets With Imperfect Information: A Search Model

Yuk-Shee Chan and Hayne Leland

554: Linear Rational Expectations Interrelated Factor Demands and Symmetric Adjustment Costs

Tryphon Kollintzas

553: Capital Accumulation Games of Infinite Duration

Chaim Fershtman and Eitan Muller

552: Distributed Lags and Intermediate Good Imports

Tryphon Kollintzas and Steven Husted

551: The Number of Traders Required to Make a Market Competitive: The Beginnings of a Theory

Thomas Gresik and Mark A. Satterthwaite

550: On the Existence of a Locally Stable Dynamic Process With a Statically Minimal Message Space

Kenneth R. Mount and Stanley Reiter

549: A Welfare Analysis of Unemployment Insurance: Variations on Second Best Themes

Dale Mortensen

548: Bayesian Equilibrium and Incentive-Compatibility: An Introduction

Roger Myerson

547: Unions and Strikes with Asymmetric Information

Beth Hayes

546: Unanimity Games and Pareto Optimality

Ehud Kalai and Dov Samet

545: Using Weighted Nonlinear Least Squares to Estimate Fish Population Dynamics Models

Ian Domowitz

544: Monopolistic Competition

K. Ravi Kumar and Mark A. Satterthwaite

543: The Linear Model With Stochastic Regressors and Heteroscedastic Dependent Errors

Ian Domowitz

542: An Elasticity Can Be Estimated Consistently Without a Priori Knowledge of Functional Form

Ibrahim El Badawi

541: A Note on Competitive Foresight and Optimum Product Diversity

Larry Jones

540s: Qualitative Choice and the Blending of Discrete Alternatives

Alex Anas and Leon N. Moses

539: Amtrack Vs. Conrail: Ramsey as Arbiter

Ronald R. Braeutigam and Leon N. Moses

538: Imposing Curvature Restrictions on Flexible Functional Forms

A. Gallant and Gene H. Golub

537: Managerial Incentives, Investment and Aggregate Implications, Part I: Scale Effects

Bengt Holmstrom and Laurence Weiss

536: The Allais Paradox, Dutch Auctions, and Alpha-Utility Theory

Robert Weber

535: Structures for the Non-Hierarchical Organizations

Barry O'Neill

534: The Simplest Three-Person Non-Cooperative Games

Barry O'Neill