Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

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1985

• 404 Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model
  by Peter Diamond
• 403 Auctioning Incentive Contracts
  by Jean-Jaques Laffont & Jean Tirole
• 402 Theories of Speculation
  by Jean Tirole
• 401 Monopolistic Competition, Aggregate Externalities and real Effects of Nominal Money
  by Olivier J. Blanchard & Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
• 400 The Wage Price Spiral
  by Olivier J. Blanchard
• 399 Steady State Unemployment Under Profit Sharing
  by Martin Witzman
• 398 Correlated Equilibria and Sunspots: A Note
  by Eric Maskin & Jean Tirole
• 397 The Dynamics of Incentive Contracts
  by Jean-Jacques Laffont & Jean Tirole
• 396 The Logic of Vertical Restraints
  by Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole
• 395 Vertical Restraints from a Principal-Agent Viewpoint
  by Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole
• 394 Equilibrium Without An Auctioneer
  by Peter Diamond
• 393 Economic Issues in Standardization
  by Joseph Farrell & Garth Saloner
• 392 The Japanese Bonus -- Profit Share or Disguised Wage?
  by Martin L. Witzman
• 391 Fiscal Policy, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates: Some Simple Analytics
  by Paul Krugman
• 390 Were Russian Serfs Overcharged for their land in 1861? The History of One Historical Table
  by Evsey D. Domar
• 389 Search Theory
  by Peter Diamond
• 388 Price Leadership
  by Julio Rotemberg & Garth Saloner
• 387 Moral Hazard as an Entry Barrier
  by Joseph Farrell
• 386 Credible Neologisms in Games of Communication
  by Joseph Farrell
• 385 Installed Base and Compatibility With Implications for Product Preannouncements
  by Joseph Farrell & Garth Saloner
• 384 Production-Theoretic Input Price Indices and the Measurement of Real Aggregate Input Use
  by Franklin M. Fischer
• 383 Predation, Mergers and Incomplete Information
  by Garth Saloner
• 382 Communication Equilibrium in Games
  by Joseph Farrell
• 381 Allocating and Abrogating Rights: How Should Conflicts be Resolved Under Incomplete Information
  by Joseph Farrell
• 380 Owner-Consumers and Efficiency
  by Joseph Farrell
• 379 The Performance of Coal-Burning Electric Generating Units in the United States: 1960-1980
  by Paul L. Joskow & Richard Schmalensee
• 378 Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality
  by James M. Poterba & Lawrence H. Summers
• 377 Predation Without Reputation
  by Drew Fudenberg & Jean Tirole
• 376 A Tax-Based Test for Nominal Rigidities
  by James M. Poterba & Julio J. Rotemberg & Lawrence H. Summers
• 375 How Effective is Potential Competition?
  by Joseph Farrell
• 374 Voluntary Disclosure: Robustness of the Unraveling Result, and Comments on Its Importance
  by Joseph Farrell
• 373 A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, II: Price Competition
  by Eric Maskin & Jean Tirole
• 372 The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration
  by Oliver Hart & Sanford Grossman
• 371 Strategic Inventories and the Excess Volatility of Production
  by Julio J. Rotemberg & Garth Saloner
• 370 Pricing and the Distribution of Money Holdings in a Search Economy
  by Peter Diamond & Joel Yellin
• 369 Efficient Estimation and Identification of Simultaneous Equation Models with Covariance Restrictions
  by Jerry A. Hausman & Whitney K. Newey & William E. Taylor
• 368 Using Cost Observation to Regulate Firms
  by Jean Tirole & Jean-Jaques Laffont
• 367 Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation
  by Oliver Hart & John Moore
• 366 Sequential Bargaining with Many Buyers
  by Drew Fudenberg & David Levine & Jean Tirole
• 365 Symmetrically Trimmed Least Squares Estimation For Tobit Models
  by Jim Powell
• 364 On the Misuse of the Profit-Sales Ratio to Infer Monopoly Power
  by Franklin M. Fischer
• 363 Hierarchies and Bureaucracies
  by Jean Tirole
• 362 Procurement and Renegotiation
  by Jean Tirole

• 361 Vertical Integration and Long Term Contracts: The Case of Coal Burning Electric Generating Plants
  by Paul Joskow
• 360 Excess Capacity as a Policing Device
  by Garth Saloner
• 359 A Unified Theory of Consistent Estimation for Parametric Models
  by Charles Bates & Halbert White
• 358 Optimal Bayesian Mechanisms
  by Eric S. Maskin
• 357 The Simple Macroeconomics of Profit Sharing
  by Martin L. Weitzman
• 356 Distribution of Preferences and the 'Law of Demand'
  by Jean-Michel Grandmont
• 355 The Analysis of Union Behavior
  by Henry S. Farber
• 354 The General Basis of Arbitrator Behavior: An Empirical Analysis of Conventional and Final-Offer Arbitration
  by Henry S. Farber & Max H. Bazerman
• 353 The Persistence of Volatility and Stock Market Fluctuations
  by James M. Poterba & Lawrence H. Summers
• 352 The Benefits of Price Stability
  by Stanley Fischer
• 351 Adjusting the Gross Changes Data: Implications for Labor Market Dynamics
  by James M. Poterba & Lawrence H. Summers
• 350 Expected Future Tax Policy and Tax Exempt Bond Yields
  by James M. Poterba
• 349 A Supergame-Theoretic Model of Business Cycles and Price Wars During Booms
  by Julio J. Rotemberg & Garth Saloner
• 348 Intergenerational & International Trade
  by R. Dornbusch
• 347 External Debt, Budget Deficits and Disequilibrium Exchange Rates
  by R. Dornbusch
• 346 The Estimation of Complete Aggregate Structures
  by J. Powell & T. Stoker
• 345 Standardization, Compatibility and Innovation
  by Joseph Farrell & Garth Saloner
• 344 Moral Hazard....
  by Joseph Farrell
• 343 The Economic Effects of Dividend Taxation
  by James M. Poterba & Lawrence H. Summers
• 342 Dynamic Equilibrium Limit-Pricing in an Uncertain Environment
  by Garth Saloner
• 341 Duopoly with Time-Consuming Production
  by Garth Saloner
• 340 The Citizens Utilities Case: A Further Dividend Puzzle
  by James M. Poterba
• 338 New Evidence that Taxes Affect the Valuation of Dividends
  by James M. Poterba & Lawrence A. Summers
• 337 An Asymmetric Least Test of Heteroscedasticity
  by J. Powell & W. Newey
• 336 The Effects of Technical Change, Experience and Environmental Regulation on the Construction Cost of Coal-Burning Generating Units
  by Paul Joskow & N. Rose
• 310 The Folk Theorem and Repeated Games with Discount and with Incomplete Information
  by E. Maskin & D. Fudenberg

• 339 Tax Subsidies to Owner-occupied Housing: An Asset Market Approach
  by James M. Poterba
• 335 The Multiproduct Firm: Horizontal and Vertical Integration
  by E. Helpman
• 334 Communication in Game I: Mechanism Design without a Mediator
  by J. Farrell
• 333 The Theory of Implementation in Nash Equilibrium: A Survey
  by E. Maskin
• 332 Profitability and Market Share
  by B. Stangle & M. A. Adelman
• 331 Efficient Estimation and Identification of Simultaneous Equation Models with Covariance Restrictions
  by J. Hausman & W. Newey & W. Taylor
• 330 The Distribution of Inventory Holdings in a Pure Exchange Barter Search Economy
  by J. Yellin & P. Diamond
• 321 A General Equilibrium Appraisal of Energy Policy in Mexico
  by T. J. Kehoe & J. Serra-Puche
• 317 Early Impacts of Proposition 2-1/2 on the Massachusetts State-Local Public Sector
  by J. Rothenberg & P. Smoke
• 314 Regularity in Overlapping Generations Exchange Economies
  by T. J. Kehoe & D. K. Levine
• 313 Indeterminacy of Relative Prices in Overlapping Generations Models
  by T. J. Kehoe & D. K. Levine

• 320 A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, I: Overview and Quantity Competition with Large-Fixed Costs
  by J. Tirole & E. Maskin
• 315 Intertemporal Separability in Overlapping Generations Models
  by D. K. Levine & T. J. Kehoe
• 312 Comparative Statics and Perfect Foresight in Infinite Horizon Economies
  by T. J. Kehoe & D. K. Levine
• 309 Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Exchange Rates
  by R. Dornbusch
• 308 A Model of the Managerial Revolution
  by P. Temin
• 307 On the Profitability of Russian Serfdom
  by M. Machina & E. D. Domar
• 304 Product Safety, Liability Rules and Retailer Bankruptcy
  by M. J. Simon & R. G. Wolf & J. M. Perloff
• 303 Incentives and the Allocation of Legal Costs: Products Liability
  by M. J. Simon
• 302 A General Equilibrium of Domestic Commerce in Mexico
  by T. J. Kehoe & J. Serra-Puche & L. Solis
• 301 Some Macroeconomic Implications of Alternative Wage Systems
  by M. L. Weitzman
• 299 The Determination of the Union Status of Workers
  by H. S. Farber
• 297 Money in Search Equilibrium
  by P. A. Diamond
• 296 Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
  by J. A. Mirrlees & P. Diamond
• 295 The Demand for Union Representation
  by H. S. Farber
• 294 Costs, Technology and Productivity in the U. S. Automobile Industry
  by A. F. Friedlaender & C. Winston & D. K. Wang
• 293 Expectations and Monetary Policy in an Open Economy: Should Canada Follow U. S. Interest Rates?
  by G. S. Sparks

• 311 Optimal Auctions with Risk Averse Buyers
  by J. Riley & E. Maskin
• 292 Specification Tests for the Multinominal Logit Model
  by D. McFadden & J. Hausman
• 291 Increasing Returns and Unemployment Equilibrium
  by M. L. Weitzman
• 290 Worker Preferences for Union Representation
  by H. S. Farber
• 289 Mergers, Competition and Monopoly in the Regulated Trucking
  by J. S. W. Chaing & A. F. Friedlaender
• 288 Italian Small Business Development Lessons for U. S. Industrial Policy
  by M. J. Piore & C. F. Sabel
• 286-A Macro-Experiments Versus Micro-Experiments for Health Policy
  by J. E. Harris
• 286 Convergence in Industrial Relations?
  by M. J. Piore
• 285 The Theory of Macro-Economic Regulation and The Current Economic Crisis in the U. S
  by M. J. Piore
• 284 Aggregate Production Functions: Does Fixed Capital Matter?
  by F. M. Fisher
• 283 A Dual Approach to Regularity in Production Economies
  by T. J. Kehoe
• 282 On the Simultaneous Existence of Full and Partial Capital Aggregate
  by F. M. Fisher
• 280 Identification in Linear Simultaneous Equations Models with Covariance Restrictions: An Instrumental Variables Interpretation
  by J. Hausman & W. E. Taylor
• 279 Price Distortions, Financing Constraints and Second Best Investments Rules in the Transportation Industries
  by A. Friedlaender & S. C. Mathur
• 278 Union Wages and the Minimum Wage
  by H. S. Farber
• 277 Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Combining Experiments in Man and Other Species
  by W. DuMochel & J. Harris

• 276 Pictures of Egypt's Future
  by R. S. Eckaus & Y. Boutros-Ghali & A. M. Eldin & R. Feenstra
• 275 An Exact Small Test of Non-Nested Hypothesis
  by M. L. Weitzman
• 271 Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Production Economics
  by T. Kehoe
• 268 Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium
  by P. Diamond
• 267 Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality
  by J. Harris
• 266 Comparing Specification Tests and Classical Tests
  by J. A. Hausman & W. E. Taylor
• 265-A Labor Force Macroeconomics in Egypt: Structure of a General Equilibrium Model
  by Y. Boutros-Ghali & L. Taylor
• 265 Consequences of Changes in Subsidy Policy in Egypt
  by R. S. Eckaus & A. M. Eldin
• 264 Cigarette Smoking Among Women and Men in the United States
  by J. Harris
• 263 On a General Approach to Search and Information Gathering
  by M. Weitzman & K. W. S. Roberts
• 262 Exchange Risk and Macroeconomics of Exchange Rate
  by R. Dornbusch
• 258 On the Efficiency of Keynesian Equilibrium
  by E. Maskin & J. Tirole
• 257 Mobility Costs, Frictional Unemployment and Efficiency
  by P. Diamond
• 256 Inflation, Unemployment and Public Opinion
  by S. Fischer & J. Huizinga
• 255 Panel Data and Unobservable Individual Effects
  by J. A. Hausman & W. E. Taylor
• 254 The Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply
  by J. A. Hausman

• 249 Foreign Ownership and the Theory of Trade and Welfare
  by J. N. Bhagwati & R. A. Brecher
• 248 Dynamic Inconsistency, Co-operation and the Benevolent Dissembling Government
  by S. Fischer
• 247 Relative Prices, Employment and the Trade Balance in a Model With International Goods
  by R. Dornbusch
• 246 Effects of Construction Migration on the Egyptian Economy
  by R. S. Eckaus
• 245 Siting Nuclear Power Plants
  by Y. Joskow & J. Yellin
• 244 The Effects of Competition and Regulation on Hospital Bed Supply and the Reservation Quality of the Hospital
  by Y. Joskow
• 243 Revenue-Seeking: A Generalization of the Theory of Tariffs
  by J. Bhagwati & T. N. Srinivasan
• 242 An Analysis and Evaluation of Final Offer Arbitration
  by H. S. Farber
• 241 Imperfect Information, Costly Litigation and Product Quality
  by M. Simon
• 240 Reflections on Fiscal Policy
  by E. C. Brown
• 239 The 'Ratchet Principle' and Performance Incentives
  by M. Weitzman
• 238 The Effect of Wages, Taxes and Fixed Costs on Women's Labor Force Participation
  by J. Hausman
• 237 An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, II: A Non-Steady State Example
  by P. Diamond & E. Makin
• 236 An Overview of Real Economic Development in the Middle East Since 1973
  by R. S. Eckaus
• 235 Modes of Economic Behavior: Variations on Themes of J. R. Hicks and Herbert Simon
  by P. Temin
• 234 Funding Criteria for Research, Development and Exploration Projects
  by M. L. Weitzman & K. Roberts
• 233 Multisector General Equilibrium Policy Models for Egypt
  by R. S. Eckaus et al.
• 232 Neighborhood Deterioration and the Urban Housing Market Complex
  by J. Rothenberg
• 231 Stability, Disequilibrium Awareness, and the Perception of New Opportunities
  by F. Fisher
• 230 Sterling and the External Exchange
  by R. Dornbusch
• 229 Voting Schemes for Public Alternatives: Some Notes on Majority Rule
  by E. Maskin
• 228 Monetary Policy Under Exchange Rate Flexibility
  by R. Dornbusch

• 227 Rational Expectations With Market Power: The Paradox of the Disadvantageous Tariff
  by E. Maskin & D. Newbery
• 226 Diagnosing Monopoly
  by F. M. Fisher
• 225 Uncertainty and Optimal Social Security Systems
  by E. Sheshinski & Y. Wiess
• 224 National Welfare in an Open Economy in the Presence of Foreign Owned Factors of Production
  by J. Bhagwati & R. Brecher
• 223 The Evolution of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
  by P. Temin
• 222 The Origin of Compulsory Drug Prescriptions
  by P. Temin
• 221 An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, I
  by P. Diamond & E. Maskin
• 220 Inventories, Rational Expectations, and the Business Cycle
  by A. S. Blinder & S. Fischer
• 219 On Inferring Resource-Allocational Implications Feom DRC Calculations in Trade-Distorted Open Economics
  by J. N. Bhagwati & T. N. Srinivasan
• 218 Regulation in Theory and Practice: An Overview
  by P. L. Joskow & R. G. Noll
• 217 Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
  by P. Diamond & J. Helms & J. Mirrlees
• 216 Implementation and Strong Nash Equilibrium
  by E. Maskin
• 215 On the Relations Between Econometric Sectoral And Macro Models
  by F. M. Fisher
• 214 Optimal Search for the Best Alternative
  by M. L. Weitzman

• 213 Taxing Tar and Nicotine
  by J. E. Harris
• 212 Interest Arbitration, Outcomes and the Incentive to Bargain: The Role of Risk Preference
  by H. S. Farber & H. C. Katz
• 211 The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment
  by G. Burtless & J. A. Hausman
• 210 A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement
  by P. A. Diamond & J. A. Mirrlees
• 209 The Effects of Learning by Doing on Nuclear Plant Operating Reliability
  by P. L. Joskow & G. A. Rozanski
• 208 Pricing Rules for Hospitals
  by J. E. Harris
• 207 Anticipation and the Non-Neutrality of Money II
  by S. Fischer
• 206 Call Option Pricing When the Exercise Price Is Uncertain and the Valuation of Index Bonds
  by S. Fischer
• 205 Shadow Prices in Project Evaluation With and Without Distortions, and With Many Goods and Factors
  by J. N. Bhagwati & H. Wang, Jr.
• 204 Value Subtracted, Negative Shadow Prices of Factors in Project Evaluation and Immiserizing Growth: Three Paradoxes in the Presence of Trade Distortions
  by J. N. Bhagwati & T. N. Srinivasan & H. Wan, Jr.
• 203 Hedonic Cost Functions for the Trucking Industry
  by R. H. Spady & A. F. Friedlander
• 202 A Regional Economic Policy Simulation Model
  by G. Treys & A. Friedlander & B. H. Stevens
• 201 Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Comment
  by P. A. Diamond & P. Temin
• 200 Non-Random Missing Data
  by J. A. Hausman & A. M. Spence
• 199 Capital Taxation in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Setting
  by A. F. Friedlaender & A. F. Vandendorpe
• 198 Quality and Quantity Competition
  by A. Dixit
• 197 Resource Extraction and Recycling With Environmental Costs
  by M. Hoel
• 196 Resource Extraction When a Future Substitute Has an Uncertain Cost
  by M. Hoel
• 195 Tax Incidence in a Two Good Model
  by P. Diamond
• 194 The Effect of Simple Specification Error on the Coefficients of 'Unaffected' Variables
  by F. M. Fisher

• 193 Optimal Revenue Functions for Economic Regulation
  by M. L. Weitzman
• 192 Welfare Analysis of Imperfect Information Equilibria
  by P. Diamond
• 191 Contractionary Effects of Devaluations
  by P. Krugman & L. Taylor
• 190 Endogenous City-Suburb Governmental Rivalry Trough Household Location
  by J. Rothenberg
• 189 On the Microeconomics of Internal Migration
  by J. Rothenberg
• 188 Keynesian Models of Unemployment
  by H. R. Varian
• 187 A Remark on Boundary Restrictions in the Global Newton Method
  by H. R. Varian
• 186 Commercial Impossibility, the Uranium Market, and the Westinghouse Case
  by P. L. Joskow
• 185 Specification Tests in Econometrics
  by J. A. Hausman
• 184 Organizational Failure in Hospitals: An Analysis and a Proposal
  by J. E. Harris
• 183 The Theory of Effective Protection and the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem
  by Y. Uekawa
• 182 The Theory of Effective Protection and Resource Allocation: The Many-Industry Case
  by Y. Uekawa
• 181 The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and The Cost of the Civil War
  by P. Temin
• 180 Shadow Prices for Project Selection in the Presence of Distortions: Effective Rates of Protection and Domestic Resource Costs
  by T. N. Srinivasan & J. N. Bhagwati
• 179 Market Behavior With Demand Uncertainty and Price Inflexibility
  by D. W. Carlton
• 178 Comparative Advantage, Trade and Payments in a Ricardian Model With a Continuum of Goods
  by R. Dornbusch & S. Fischer & P. A. Samuelson

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