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185: Asymptotic Efficiency of Bechhofer's Single-Stage Procedure Relative to a Two- Stage Procedure for Selecting the Largest Normal Mean

Ajit Tamhane

184: Coase's Theorem and the Choice of Liability Rules

Shmuel Amir and Joseph Greenberg

183: Individual Decisions and Group Decisions: The Fundamental Differences

Jean-Marie Blin and Mark A. Satterthwaite

182: Models of New Product Diffusion Through Advertising and Word-of-Mouth

Joe A. Dodson

181: Pitfalls in the Theory of Fairness

Elisha A. Pazner

180: Singularity Theory of Utility Mappings I: Degenerate Maxima and Pareto Optima

Donald G. Saari and Carl P. Simon

179: Proportional Solutions to Bargaining Situations: Interpersonal Utility Comparisons

Ehud Kalai

178: Induced Outcomes in Cooperative Normal-Form Games

Robert Rosenthal

177: Choice and Selection in Income Contingent Loan Plans

Suresh Jain

176: Optimal Control of Service Quality in a Queueing System

S. D. Deshmukh and Suresh Jain

175: Manipulation of Schemes that Mix Voting with Chance

Allan Gibbard

174: Egalitarian Equivalent Allocations: A New Concept of Economic Equity

Elisha A. Pazner and David Schmeidler

173: The Formation of Firms in Labor-Managed Economies

J. Greenberg

172: Towards the General Equilibrium Theory of the Labor-Managed Market Economy

Tatsuro Ichiishi

171: An Interactive Package of Programs for Unconstrained Optimization Purposes UCNLP

Avinoam Perry

170: Construction of a Continuous Utility Function for a Class of Preferences

Kenneth R. Mount and Stanley Reiter

169: On the Foundations of the Theory of Monopolistic Competition

John Roberts and Hugo Sonnenschein

168: On the Informational Size of Message Spaces

Mort Walker

167: Some Recent Results on the Existence of Equilibrium in Finite Purely Competitive Economies

Hugo Sonnenschein

166: Incentive Compatible Control of Decentralized Organizations

Theodore Groves

165: The Complementary Unboundedness of Dual Feasible Solution Sets in Convex Programming

Elmor L. Peterson

164: A Mathematical Programming Approach to the Scheduling of Sorting Operations

Frederic H. Murphy and Edward A. Stohr

163: Technological Similarity and Aggregation in Input-Ouput Systems: A Cluster- Analytic Approach

Jean-Marie Blin and Claude Cohen

162: On the Number of Solutions to the Linear Complementarity Problem

Arie Tamir

161: Capital Structure and the Value of the Firm

Frederic H. Murphy

160: A Theorem on Correspondences and Some Applications

Mark Walker

159: Optimal Stochastic Development Strategy

S.D. Deshmukh and S.D.Chikte

158: A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Check Sorting

Frederic H. Murphy and Edward A. Stohr

157: On Totally Unimodular Matrices

Arie Tamir

156: Market Games with Production and Public Commodities

Robert Rosenthal

155: Cheatproofness Properties of the Plurality Rule in Large Societies

Elisha A. Pazner and Eugene Wesley

154: Stability of Social Choices in Infinitely Large Societies

Elisha A. Pazner and Eugene Wesley

153: On a Fundamental Result in Stochastic Dominance Theory

Arie Tamir

152: Fenchel's Hypothesis and the Existence of Recession Directions in Convex Programming

Elmor L Peterson

151: The Global Asymptotic Stability of Optimal Control with Applications to Dynamic Economic Theory

William Brock and Jose Scheinkman

150: Some Results on Global Asymptotic Stability of Control Systems

William Brock and Jose Scheinkman

149: Optimal Facility Location under Random Demand with General Cost Structure

V. Balachandran and Suresh Jain

148: Measure Structures for Function Spaces

Eugene Wesley

147: Financial Planning in a Multinational Firm Facing Flexible Exchange Rates

David P. Baron and Richard M. Soland

146: Entrance-Exit Distributions for Semiregenerative Processes

Erhan Cinlar

145: Equilibrium with Externalities

Wayne Shafer and Hugo Sonnenschein

144: Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the 'Free Rider Problem'

Theodore Groves and John Ledyard

143: Rates of Convergence of a One-Dimensional Search Based on Interpolating Polynomials

Arie Tamir

142: Qualitative Variables and Simultaneous Equation Econometric Models

Jay Magidson

141: Optimal Capital Accumulation and Durable Goods Production

Morton I. Kamien and Nancy Schwartz

140: Spatial Population Dynamics

Andrei Rogers and Frans Willekens

139: Symmetry and Diversification of Interdependent Prospects

Arie Tamir

138: Optimal Target Dates and Penalties for Contract Work

Edward A. Stohr

137: Pre-Leontief Functions and Least Elements

Arie Tamir

136: Optimal Control with Integral State Equations

Morton I. Kamien and E. Muller