Department of Economics Research Reports

 

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1997

  • 1997-1 Botswana's International Trade Policies by Clark Leith.

  • 1997-2 Growth and Structural Transformation in Botswana by Clark Leith.

  • 1997-3 Employment Occupational Structure, Technological Capital and Reorganization of Production by Victor Aguirregabiria and Cesar Alonso-Borrego.
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  • 1997-4 More on Hawtrey, Harvard and Chicago by David Laidler.

  • 1997-5 Monopolistic Competition and Supply-Side Cost Sharing in the Physician Services Market by Ĺke Blomqvist.
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  • 1997-6 Flat Tax Reform: A Quantitative Exploration by Gustavo Ventura.
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  • 1997-7 College Quality and the Wages of Young Men by Kermit Daniel, Dan Black and Jeffrey Smith.
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  • 1997-8 The Wicksell Connection, The Quantity Theory and Keynes by David Laidler.

  • 1997-9 Rational Nonprofit Entrepreneurship by Marc Bilodeau and Al Slivinski.
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  • 1997-10 On the Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform by Mark Huggett and Gustavo Ventura.
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  • 1997-11 Estimation of Dynamic Programming Models with Censored Dependent Variables by Victor Aguirregabiria.
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  • 1997-12 Labor Quality and the Cyclicality of Real Wages by Haoming Liu.
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  • 1997-13 Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Nonlinear Regression Models and Monte Carlo Evidence by Jian Yang.
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  • 1997-14 Specific Inputs, Value-Added, and Production Linkages in Tax- Incidence Theory by Kul Bhatia.
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  • 1997-15 Private Money and Reserve Management in a Random Matching Model by Ricardo de O. Cavalcanti, Andres Erosa and Ted Temzelides.
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  • 1997-16 Constant Risk Aversion, the Dual Theory, and the Gini Inequality Index by Zvi Safra and Uzi Segal.
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  • 1997-17 Coherent Odds and Subjective Probability by Kim Border and Uzi Segal.

1996

  • 1996-1 Fitting Equilibrium Search Models to Labor Market Data by Audra J. Bowlus, Nicholas M. Kiefer, and George R. Neumann.

  • 1996-2 Estimation of Dynamic Decision Models with Corner Solutions: A Model of Price and Inventory Decisions by Victor Aguirregabiria.
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  • 1996-3 Growth Effects of Subsidies in a Search Theoretic R&D Model: A Quantitative Evaluation by Benjamin Bental and Dan Peled.
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  • 1996-4 The Effects of Gender Control on Fertility and Children's Consumption by James B. Davies and Junsen Zhang.

  • 1996-5 Hysteresis in the Canadian Labour Market: Evidence from the 1990s by Loretta Nott.
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  • 1996-6 American Macroeconomics Between World War I and the Depression by David Laidler.

  • 1996-7 How to Escape Dutch Books in Dynamic Choice by Uzi Segal.
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  • 1996-8 Let's Agree that All Dictatorships are Equally Bad by Uzi Segal.
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  • 1996-9 A Model of Demand with Interactions among Consumers by Robin Cowan, William Cowan and Peter Swann.
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  • 1996-10 Notes on the Microfoundations of Monetary Economics by David Laidler.

  • 1996-11 The Optimal Timing of Procurement Decisions and Patent Allocations by Motty Perry and Daniel Vincent.
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  • 1996-12 Contract Damages and Cooperative Investments by Yeon-koo Che and Tai-Yeong Chung.

  • 1996-13 Wealth Inequality and Age by James Davies.

  • 1996-14 Generation X, Search Theory, and the US-Canadian Unemployment Rate and Wage Inequality Gaps During the 1980s by Audra Bowlus.

1995

  • 1995-1 What is Old is New Again by Toni Gravelle.
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  • 1995-2 The Economics of Canadian Deposit Insurance by Jack Carr, Frank Mathewson and Neil Quigley.
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  • 1995-3 Market Institutions and Core Allocations by Gordon Green.
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  • 1995-4 A Search Interpretation of Male-female Wage Differentials by Audra Bowlus.
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  • 1995-5 Ashenfelter's Dip and the Determinants of Participation in A Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies by James J. Heckman and Jeffrey Smith.
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  • 1995-6 Innovative vs. Imitative R&D and Economic Growth by Jinli Zeng.
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  • 1995-7 Spatially Dependent Interactions: A Statistical Approach to Spatial Equilibria, Technological Standardization and Variety by Robin Cowan and William Cowan.
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  • 1995-8 The Replacement Problem by Thomas F. Cooley, Jeremy Greenwood and Mehmet Yorukoglu.
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  • 1995-9 Quandaries in the Economics of Dual Technologies and Spillovers from Military to Civilian Research and Development by Robin Cowan and Dominque Foray.
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  • 1995-10 Long-Run Implications of Investment-Specific Technological Change by Jeremy Greenwood, Zvi Hercowitz and Per Krusell.
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  • 1995-11 Concessions and the Agenda in Bargaining by L.-A. Busch and Ignatius Horstmann.
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  • 1995-12 Access, Utilization, and Equity in Canada and the U.S.: An Empirical Model of Physician Visits by Barton H. Hamilton, Vivian H. Hamilton, and Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1995-13 Asset Pricing Lessons for Modeling Business Cycles by Michele Boldrin, Lawrence Christiano, and Jonas Fisher.
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  • 1995-14 (S,s) Inventory Policies in General Equilibrium by Jonas Fisher and Andreas Hornstein.
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  • 1995-15 Tobin's q and Asset Returns: Implications for Business Cycle Analysis by Lawrence Christiano and Jonas Fisher.
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  • 1995-16 Measuring Marginal Income Tax Rates for Individuals in Canada: Averages and Distributions Over Time by James B. Davies and Junsen Zhang.
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  • 1995-17 Dynamic Consistency and Reference Points by Uzi Segal.
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  • 1995-18 Preferences Over Solutions to the Bargaining Problem by Kim C. Border and Uzi Segal.
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  • 1995-19 First-Order Risk Aversion and Non-Differentiability by Uzi Segal and Avia Spivak.
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  • 1995-20 Non-Nested Pretest Tests by Leo Michelis.
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  • 1995-21 Monetary Explanations of the Weimar Republic's Hyperinflation: Some Neglected Contributions in Contemporary German Literature by David Laidler and George W. Stadler.
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  • 1995-22 Secret Reserve Prices in a Bidding Model with a Re-Sale Option by Ignatius J. Horstmann and Chantale LaCasse.
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  • 1995-23 Advertising as a Signal of Product Quality: Compact Disc Players by Ignatius J. Horstmann and Glenn MacDonald.
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1994

  • 1994-1 Why Do Agents Hold Money, and Why Does It Matter? by David Laidler.

  • 1994-2 Toilet Cleaning and Department Chairing: Volunteering a Public Service by Marc Bilodeau and Al Slivinski.
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  • 1994-3 The Cyclical Behavior of Job Creation and Job Destruction: A Sectoral Model by Jeremy Greenwood, Glenn M. Macdonald and Guang-Jia Zhan.
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  • 1994-4 Algorithms for Solving Dynamic Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints by Lawrence J. Christiano and Jonas D. M. Fisher.
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  • 1994-5 Relative Prices, Complementarities and Co-movement Among Components of Aggregate Expenditures by Jonas D.M. Fisher.
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  • 1994-6 Regulating the Oligopoly with Unknown Costs by Gyu Ho Wang.
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  • 1994-7 Rent-Seeking Contest when the Prize Increases with Aggregate Efforts by Tai-Yeong Chung.
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  • 1994-8 Robertson in the 1920s by David Laidler.
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  • 1994-9 On the Evolution of the Distribution of Income by Arthur Robson, and Myrna Holtz Wooders.
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  • 1994-10 Credit Market Imperfections and the Heterogeneous Response of Firms to Monetary Shocks by Jonas D. M. Fisher.
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  • 1994-11 Tax Coordination in a Cross-Hauling Model: Conflict or Harmony of Interest? by Andreas Haufler.
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  • 1994-12 Incomplete Information Cores: An Insurance Example by Gordon R. Green.
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  • 1994-13 Some Aspects of Monetarism Circa 1970 - A View from 1994 by David Laidler.
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  • 1994-14 Making Inequality Comparisons When Lorenz Curves Intersect by James Davies and Michael Hoy.
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  • 1994-15 Cotton Textile Prices and the Industrial Revolution by C. Knick Harley.
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  • 1994-16 Dynamic Programming for Non-Additive Stochastic Objectives by Hiroyuki Ozaki and Peter A. Streufert.
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  • 1994-17 The Emergence of the Phillips Curve as a Policy Menu by David Laidler.
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  • 1994-18 Endogenous Buffer Stock Money by David Laidler and William Robson.
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  • 1994-19 Sprayed to Death: Pest Control Strategies and Technological Lock-In by Robin Cowan and Philip Gunby.
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  • 1994-20 Commitment Through Specific Investment in Contractual Relationships by Tai-Yeong Chung.
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  • 1994-21 Local Externalities and Spatial Equilibria: Technological Standardization and the Preservation of Variety by Robin Cowan and William Cowan.
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  • 1994-22 Settlement of Litigation under Rule 68: An Economic Analysis by Tai- Yeong Chung.
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1993

  • 1993-1 What Can Univariate Models Tell Us about Canadian Economic Growth 1870-1985? by Lewis Evans and Neil Quigley.
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  • 1993-2 Hawtrey, Harvard, and the Origins of the Chicago Tradition by David Laidler.
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  • 1993-3 The Importance of Input Price Shocks for Business Cycles in Developing Economies by Jack Praschnik.
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  • 1993-4 Issues in a Natural Resources Economy by F. J. Anderson.
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  • 1993-5 Intermediate Goods And the Transmission of International Business Cycles by Donna M. Costello and J. Praschnik.
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  • 1993-6 On the Choice of Mechanism to Sell Timber by Harry J. Paarsch and Gyu Ho Wang.
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  • 1993-7 Multi-player Bargaining Situations: a Decision Theoretic Approach by Murali Agastya.
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  • 1993-8 Monopolistic Competition, Increasing Returns And Self-fulfilling Prophecies by Brian Rivard.
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  • 1993-9 A Survey of Recent Empirical Work Concerning Auctions by Kenneth Hendricks and Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1993-10 Cheap Talk and Signaling Games by Gyu Ho Wang.
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  • 1993-11 Is Health Care Really A Luxury? by A. G. Blomqvist and R.A.L. Carter.
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  • 1993-12 Factor Returns, Comparative Advantage and Market Size: Some Core- Periphery Results by F. J. Anderson.
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  • 1993-13 Endogenous Growth and the Choice of Tax Base by Carlo Perroni. [Abstract]

  • 1993-14 An Incomplete Information Core of a Dynamic Economy by Gordon R. Green.
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  • 1993-15 Deriving an Estimate of the Optimal Auction: an Application to British Columbian Timber Sales by Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1993-16 Endogenous Money and Goods Production in a Search Model by Scott Hendry.
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  • 1993-17 The Partnered Core of a Game with Side Payments by Philip Reny, Eyal Winter and Myrna Wooders.
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  • 1993-18 Destructive Interference in an Imperfectly Competitive Multi-security Market by Utpal Bhattacharya, Philip J. Reny and Matthew Spiegel.

  • 1993-19 Identification, Estimation, and Testing in Empirical Models of Auctions Within the Independent Private Values Paradigm by Stephen G. Donald and Harry J. Paarsch.

1992

  • 1992-1 Wage and Price Stickiness in Macroeconomics: an Historical Perspective by David Laidler.

  • 1992-2 Cross-border Externalities and Trade Liberalization: the Strategic Control of Pollution by Rodney Ludema and Ian Wooton.
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  • 1992-3 A Non-cooperative View of Coalition Formation and the Core by Motty Perry and Philip Reny.
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  • 1992-4 Liquidity, Exchange Rates, and Business Cycles by Wai-Ming Ho.[Abstract]

  • 1992-5 On the Cyclical Allocation Of Risk by Paul Gomme and Jeremy Greenwood.
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  • 1992-6 Hayek on Neutral Money and the Cycle by David Laidler.
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  • 1992-7 Are Labor Shares Really Constant? An International Study of the Cyclical Behavior Of Labor Shares by Donna M. Costello and J. Praschnik.
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  • 1992-8 The Role of Oil Price Shocks in a Two-sector, Two-country Model of the Business Cycle by J. Praschnik and Donna M. Costello.
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  • 1992-9 Hubs and Spokes, and Free Trade in the Americas by Carsten Kowalczyk and Ronald J. Wonnacott.
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  • 1992-10 A Comparison of Estimators for Empirical Models of Auctions by Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1992-11 Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Empirical Models of Auctions by Stephen G. Donald and Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1992-12 Empirical Models of Auctions and an Application To British Columbian Timber Sales by Harry J. Paarsch.
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  • 1992-13 Inequality and Capital Accumulation under Majority Voting Taxation by S. Rao Aiyagari and Dan Peled.
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  • 1992-14 Does Trade Cause Firms to Specialize? by F. J. Anderson.
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  • 1992-15 Efficiency of Comparative Negligence: A Game Theoretic Analysis by Tai- Yeong Chung.
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  • 1992-16 Identification In Empirical Models of Auctions by Stephen G. Donald and Harry J. Paarsch.
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1991

  • 1991-1 Optimal International Trade Agreements And Dispute Settlement Procedures by Rodney D. Ludema.
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  • 1991-2 On the Social Optimality of Liquidated Damage Clauses: an Economic Analysis by Tai-Yeong Chung.
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  • 1991-3 Tax Analysis in a Real Business Cycle Model: on Measuring Harberger Triangles and Okun Gaps by Jeremy Greenwood and Gregory Huffman.
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  • 1991-4 The Allocation of Capital and Time over the Business Cycle by Jeremy Greenwood and Zvi Hercowitz.
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  • 1991-5 The Antebellum American Tariff: Food Exports and Manufacturing by C. Knick Harley.
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  • 1991-6 The Role of Transaction Volume in Producing Information about Asset Prices by Gregory Huffman.
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  • 1991-7 Barter and Monetary Exchange Under Private Information by Stephen Williamson and Randall Wright.
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  • 1991-8 Perfect Equilibria in a Negotiation Model by Lutz-Alexander Busch and Quan Wen.
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  • 1991-9 Currency Elasticity and Banking Panics: Theory and Evidence by Bruce Champ, Bruce Smith, and Stephen Williamson.
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  • 1991-10 Liquidity and Market Participation by Stephen D. Williamson.
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  • 1991-11 Income Inequality and International Migration by James B. Davies and Ian Wooton.
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  • 1991-12 Searching for Investment Opportunities: a Micro Foundation for Endogenous Growth by Benjamin Bental and Dan Peled.
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  • 1991-13 Optimal Capital Income Taxation and Long Run Debt with Borrowing Constraints by S. Rao Aiyagari and Dan Peled.
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  • 1991-14 Dynamic Factor Demand and Value Function Methods by Stephen Gordon.
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  • 1991-15 The Cycle Before New-classical Economics by David Laidler.
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  • 1991-16 Price Stability and the Monetary Order by David Laidler.
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1990

  • 1990-1 A First Graduate Course in Economic Theory by Glenn M. MacDonald.
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  • 1990-2 Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income by Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic.
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  • 1990-3 A Test for Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Time Series Models by A. K. Bera and M.L. Higgins.
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  • 1990-4 Wicksell's Cumulative Process as Nonconvergence to Rational Expectations by Peter Howitt.
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  • 1990-5 Animal Spirits by Peter Howitt and R. Preston McAfee.
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  • 1990-6 Influence Activities and Economic Growth by Marco Terrones.
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  • 1990-7 Endogenous Policy in a Computational General Equilibrium Framework by Thomas Rutherford and Stanley L. Winer.
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  • 1990-8 Estimation of Systematic Risk Using Bayesian Analysis with Hierarchical and Non-normal Priors by Anil K. Bera and Jose A. F. Machado.
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  • 1990-9 Was Wicksell a Quantity Theorist? by David Laidler.
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  • 1990-10 Attachment to Home and Efficient Purchases of Population in a Fiscal Externality Economy by Arman Mansoorian and Gordon Myers.
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  • 1990-11 Habit Persistence and the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect in an Infinite Horizon Model by Arman Mansoorian.
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  • 1990-12 The State of the British Industrial Revolution: A Survey of Recent Macroeconomic Reassessment by C. Knick Harley.
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  • 1990-13 Dynamic Increasing Returns, Technology and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy by Ka-yiu Michael Fung and Jota Ishikawa.
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  • 1990-14 Money and Growth Revisited by Peter Howitt.
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  • 1990-15 Risk Sharing, Specific Investment and Incomplete Contracts by Tai-Yeong Chung.
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