Top IDEAS hits for August 1998

Rank	Author(s)	Title	Hits
1	Schmidt, V.A.	The New World Order, Incorporated: the Rise of Business and the Decline of the Nation State.	193
2	Atreya Chakraborty & Christopher F. Baum	Poison Pills, Optimal Contracting and the Market for Corporate Control:	161
3	De Ceuster, M.J.K. & Dhaene, G. & Schatteman, T.	On the Hypothesis of PsychologicalBarriers in Stock Markets and Benford's Law.	142
4	Teruo Nakatsuma & Hiroki Tsurumi	ARMA-GARCH Models: Bayes Estimation Versus MLE, and Bayes Non-	103
5	Juankar, P.N. & Pope, D. & Withers, G.	Immigration and Australia's Population in the 21st Century. Opening Address (The Hon Ruddock P.MP). & Immigration and the Australian Maccro-Economy: Perspective and Prospective.	98
6	Garcia-Herrero, Alicia	Monetary Impact of a Banking Crisis and the Conduct of Monetary Policy	96
7	Clarke, H.	Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. The Australian Immigration Parogram: Policy Design and the Case of Reform.	91
8	Chen Chunlai	RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN CHINA	90
9	Richard W. Johnson & David Neumark	Age Discrimination, Job Separation, and Employment Status of Older Workers: Evidence from Self-Reports	86
10	Taslim, M.A.	Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. Household Saving, Immigration and the Current Account.	83

Rank	Author(s)	Title	Hits
1	Nicholas J. Cox	BETA: Stata module to fit beta distribution by moments and maximum likelihood	54
2	James W. Hardin	BIPROB/SUPROB: Stata modules to perform bivariate and nested probit estimation	37
3	Jeroen Weesie	IIA: Stata module to test the iia assumption in conditional logistic regression (version 5)	36
4	Nicholas Oulton	PANTEST2: Stata module to perform diagnostic tests in fixed effects panel regressions	34
5	Nick Winter	OPROBPR: Stata module to display predicted probabilities from ordered probit and logit	33

Rank	Provider	Series	Hits
1	National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc	NBER Working Papers	13448
2	C.E.P.R. discussion papers	CEPR Discussion Papers	8916
3	International Monetary Fund	IMF Working Papers	5009
4	National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc	NBER Reprints	4149
5	Centre for Economic Performance and ESRC	CEP Discussion Papers	3373
6	Harvard - Institute of Economic Research	Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers	3286
7	World Bank - Country Economics Department	World Bank - Country Economics Department	3147
8	Financial Markets Group and ESRC	FMG Discussion Papers	3137
9	University of Bonn, Germany	Discussion Paper Serie A	2752
10	Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)	International Finance Discussion Papers	2603

Rank	Publisher	Journal	Hits
1	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Economic Review	1009
2	Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	New England Economic Review	956
3	Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	Conference Series ; [Proceedings]	321
4	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Economics Update	312
5	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas	Economic & Financial Review	218
6	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	FRBSF Economic Letter	180
7	Stockholm School of Economics	Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance	175
8	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Financial Update	173
9	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Regional Update	148
10	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland	Proceedings	132

Rank	Provider	Series	Hits
1	Boston College Department of Economics	Statistical Software Components	1850
2	Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL	Computer Programs	31
3	Centre de recherche sur l'emploi et les fluctuations	QM&RBC - Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycles Codes	29

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Rank	Author(s)	Title	Hits
1	Steven P. Feinstein	Forecasting stock-market volatility using options on index futures	45
2	Joseph A. Whitt, Jr.	The Mexican peso crisis	38
3	Rachel E. Cononi & Rebecca Hellerstein	50 years after Bretton Woods: what is the future for the international monetary system?	23
4	Geoffrey M. B. Tootell	Purchasing power parity within the United States	16
5	Henry Kaufman	Noted economist calls for financial industry reregulation	12
6	anonymous	Truth in savings	11
7	Geoffrey M.B. Tootell	How natural is the natural rate of unemployment in Europe?	11
8	Peter Fortune	Stock market crashes: what have we learned from October 1987?	11
9	Ralph C. Kimball	Innovations in performance measurement in banking	10
10	Thomas J. Cunningham	Review essay on Structural Slumps: the Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Assets by Edmund S. Phelps, 1994	10