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Working Papers - 1990

This page lists the working papers in order of their RR Number, beginning with the most recent.
 

RR # 90-53
Product Demand, Cost of Production, Spillovers and the Social Rate of Return to R&D
By Jeffrey I. Bernstein and M. Ishaq Nadiri [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-52
Consumption and Government Debt in High Deficit Countries:
Is Tax-Discounting Stable Over Time? The Case of Italy and Belgium
By Giuseppe Nicoletti [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-51
Behavior and Efficiency in the Sealed-Bid Mechanism
By Peter Linhart, Roy Radner and Andrew Schotter [Paper] (No abstract available)

RR # 90-50
The Ownership-Control Structure and the Behavior of Polish Enterprises During
the 1990 Reforms: Macroeconomic Measures and Microeconomic Response
By Roman Frydman and Stanislaw Wellisz [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-49
Homogenization, Specialization and the Sharing of Output Growth
Between Incumbents and Entrants
By Tito Boeri [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-48
Marshall's Principles and the Advent of Neo-Classicism in America
By James F. Becker [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-47
Auctions for Oil and Gas Leases with an Informed Bidder and a Random Reservation Price
By Kenneth Hendricks, Robert H. Porter and Charles A. Wilson [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-46
Interest Rate Spreads, Credit Constraints, and Investment Fluctuations: An Empirical Investigation
By Mark Gertler, R. Glenn Hubbard and Anil Kashyap [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-45
Bayesian Rationality and Learning Without Common Priors
By Yaw Nyarko [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-44
Financial Capacity and Output Fluctuations in an Economy with Multiperiod Financial Relationships
By Mark Gertler [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-43
Asset Returns with Transactions Costs and Uninsured Individual Risk: A Stage III Exercise
By S. Rao Aiyagari and Mark Gertler [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-42
Markets and Institutions in Large Scale Privatizations:
An Approach to Economic and Social Transformations in Eastern Europe
By Roman Frydman and Andrzej Rapaczynski [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-41
Technical Change and the Demand for Skills by U.S. Industries
By David R. Howell and Edward N. Wolff [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-40
Arms-Control Inspection Strategies That Induce Compliance: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
By D. Marc Kilgour and Steven J. Brams [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-39
Why Does Capital Flow From Poor to Rich Countries?
Interest Groups and Dynamic Games in Poor Countries
By Aaron Tornell and Andres Velasco [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-38
Sequential Decisions by a Single Tortfeasor
By Lewis A. Kornhauser and Richard L. Revesz [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-37
Beyond Allocative Efficiency: How Perfect are the “Perfect” Market Forms?
By William J. Baumol [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-36
On the Economics of the Performing Arts in the USSR and the USA:
A Preliminary Comparison of the Data
By A. Rubinstein, W. Baumol and H. Baumol [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-35
Technological Imperatives, Productivity and Insurance Costs
By William J. Baumol [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-34
The Diffusion of Technology and Inequality Among Nations
By Royan Jovanovic and Saul Lach [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-33
Changes in Age-Wealth Profiles: Savings, Revaluation and Inheritance
By Daphne T. Greenwood and Edward N. Wolff [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-32
The Inequity of an Efficient Indirect Tax Structure
By Charles A.M. de Bartolome [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-31
On the Transition to a Currency Union
By Roberto Chang [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-30
Classification and Aggregation: An Application to Estimating Wage Equations and CPS Data
By Robert Cotterman and Franco Feracchi [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-29
Approval Voting in Practice
By Steven J. Brams and Jack H. Nagel [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-28
Constrained Approval Voting: A Voting System to Elect a Governing Board
By Steven J. Brams [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-27
Unraveling in Exchange Games
By Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour and Morton D. Davis [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-26
The Box Problem: To Switch or Not to Switch
By Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-25
Robust M-Tests
By Franco Peracchi [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-24
A Laboratory Investigation of Multi-Person Rationality and Presentation Effects
By Andrew Shotter, Keith Weigelt and Charles Wilson [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-23
Experimentation and Learning in Laboratory Experiments:  Harrison’s Criticism Revisited
By Antonio Merlo and Andrew Schotter [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-22
Vintage Captial, Investment and Growth
By Jess Behnhabib and Aldo Rustichini [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-21
Wages, Profits and Capital Flight
By Andres Velasco and Aaron Tornell [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-20
Endrogenous Fertility and Growth
By Jess Benhabib and Kazuo Nishimura [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-19
Measuring External Openness:  The Index of Effective Exposure
By Linda S. Goldberg [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-18
Homework in Macroeconomics II: Aggregate Flucutations
By Jess Benhabib, Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-17
Homework in Macroeconomics I: Basic Theory
By Jess Behhabib, Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-16
The Effect of Child Custody and Support Arrangements on the Welfare of Children and Parents
By Daniel Del Boca and Christopher Flinn [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-15
Stock Market Volatility and Investment: Do Only Fundamentals Matter?
By Marzio Galeotti and Fabio Schiantarelli [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-14
Asymmetric Tounaments, Equal Opportunity Laws and Affirmatve Action:
Some Experimental Results (Revision: February 1990)
By Andrew Schotter and Keith Weigelt [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-13
An Experimental Study of Two-Actor Accidents
By Lewis A. Kornhauser and Andrew Schotter  [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-12
A New Class of Solutions to Dynamic Programming Problems Arising
in Growth Theory and Applications to Dynamic Games
By Jess Benhabib and Aldo Rustichini [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-11
Predicting Exchange Rate Crises: Mexico Revisited
By Linda S. Goldberg [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-10
The Impact of the Brady Plan on Stockholders Wealth
By Jaime Andres Batarce  [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-09
Market Failure and Public Sector Failure: Is Privatization a Panacea?
By Jonas Prager [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-08
Stochastic Dynamic Resource Models With Stock-Dependent Rewards
By Yaw Nyarko and Lars. J. Olson [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-07
Hierarchy: The Economics of Managing
By Roy Radner [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-06
A Model of Inspection and Repair with an Endogenous Number of Projects
By Sharon Gifford and Charles Wilson [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-05
Matching and Efficiency in the Baseball Free-Agent System: An Experimental Examination
By Haig Nalbantian and Andrew Schotter (additional assistance by Ken Rogoza) [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-04
Bad and Good News About the Sealed-Bid Mechanism: Some Experimental Results
By Andrew Schotter [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-03
Learning in Mis-Specified Models and the Possibility of Cycles
By Yaw Nyarko [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-02
On Bayesian Learning in Optimal Control Problems
By Yaw Nyarko [Abstract][Paper]

RR # 90-01
On the Convergence of Bayesian Posterior Processes in Linear Economic Models:
Counting Equations and Unknowns
By Yaw Nyarko [Abstract][Paper]