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1157: Financial Innovation and the Control of Monetary Aggregates: Some Evidence from Canada

Robert Lucas

1156: The Economics of Price Scissors

Raaj Sah and Joseph Stiglitz

1155: The Distributional Impact of Social Security

Michael Hurd and John B. Shoven

1154: Moral Hazard and Optimal Commodity Taxation

Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz

1153: Inflation and Labor-Market Adjustment

Daniel Hamermesh

1152: The Dynamic Effects of Tax Law Asymmetries

Alan Auerbach

1151: Real Determinants of Corporate Leverage

Alan Auerbach

1150: Wage Contracts with Incomplete and Costly Information

Joshua Aizenman

1149: Models of Arbitrator Behavior: Theory and Evidence

Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Bloom

1148: Consumer Durables and the Real Interest Rate

N. Gregory Mankiw

1147: Inflexible Relative Prices and Price Level Inertia

Olivier Blanchard

1146: Life-Cycles in Income and Wealth

J. R. Kearl and Clayne L. Pope

1145: Investment Patterns and Financial Leverage

Michael S. Long and Ileen B. Malitz

1144: Shunto, Rational Expectations, and Output Growth in Japan

Herschel Grossman and William S. Haraf

1143: Contingent Claims Valuation of Corporate Liabilities: Theory and Empirical Tests

E. Philip Jones, Scott P. Mason and Eric Rosenfeld

1142: Debt and Equity Yields: 1926-80

Patric Hendershott and Roger D. Huang

1141: Why Are Real Interest Rates So High?

Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Robert L. McDonald

1140: What Are the Determinants of Delayed Childbearing and Permanent Childlessness in the United States?

David Bloom and James Trussell

1139: Unionization and Productivity in Office Building and School Construction

Steven Allen

1138: The Forward Exchange Market, Speculation, and Exchange Market Intervention

Jonathan Eaton and Stephen J Turnovsky

1137: Capital Structure Change and Decreases in Stockholders' Wealth: A Cross-Sectional Study of Convertible Security Calls

Wayne H. Mikkelson

1136: Right-to-Work Laws and the Extent of Unionization

Henry S. Farber

1135: A Model of Exchange-Rate Determination with Policy Reaction: Evidence from Monthly Data

William Branson

1134: The Changing Relationship Between Aggregate Price and Output: The British Experience

Richard T. Froyen and Roger Waud

1133: Seasonal Adjustment with Measurement Error Present

Jerry Hausman and Mark Watson

1132: The Effect of Risk on the Firm's Optimal Capital Stock: A Note

Kevin J. Maloney, William J. Marshall and Jess B. Yawitz

1131: Interpreting Ex-Dividend Evidence: The Citizens Utilities Case Reconsidered

James Poterba

1130: The Substitutability of Debt and Equity Securities

Benjamin M. Friedman

1129: Current Account Dynamics and the Terms of Trade: Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Two Generations Later

Torsten Persson and Lars Svensson

1128: The Economics of Retirement Behavior

Olivia Mitchell and Gary Fields

1127: Monetary Policy in the Large Open Economy

Michael Darby

1126: Incentive Effects of Pensions

Edward Lazear

1125: Defining a Unitary Business: An Economist's View

Charles E. McLure, Jr.

1124: Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions

Irving B. Kravis

1123: Which Effective Tax Rate?

Don Fullerton

1122: The Present Value of Profits and Cyclical Movements in Investment

Andrew Abel and Olivier Blanchard

1121: Commodity Prices, Overshooting, Money Surprises, and Fed Credibility

Jeffrey Frankel and Gikas Hardouvelis

1120: International Balance of Payments Financing and Adjustment

Willem Buiter and Jonathan Eaton

1119: Supply Shocks, Wage Stickiness, and Accommodation

Stanley Fischer

1118: International Liquidity and Monetary Control

Jacob A. Frenkel

1117: Stabilization Policies in Open Economies

Richard C. Marston

1116: The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Union Organizing

David T. Ellwood and Glenn A. Fine

1115: The Theorems of International Trade with Factor Mobility

Wilfred Ethier and Lars Svensson

1114: Monetary Instruments and Policy Rules in a Rational Expectations Environment

Michael Dotsey and Robert King

1113: Are Asset Demand Functions Determined by CAPM?

Jeffrey Frankel and William T. Dickens

1112: Empirical Studies of Exchange Rates: Price Behavior, Rate Determinationand Market Efficiency

Richard M. Levich

1111: Uncertain Parameter Values and the Choice Among Policy Options

Don Fullerton and Andrew Lyon

1110: The Desirability of a Dollar Appreciation, Given a Contractionary U.S. Monetary Policy

Jeffrey Frankel

1109: Survey Response Variation in the Current Population Survey

James Poterba and Lawrence Summers

1108: Wage Flexibility and Openness

Joshua Aizenman

1107: Adjustment to Monetary Policy and Devaluation Under Two-Tier and Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes

Joshua Aizenman

1106: On the Relevance or Irrelevance of Public Financial Policy: Indexation,Price Rigidities and Optimal Monetary Policy

Joseph Stiglitz

1105: A Relationship Between Regression Tests and Volatility Tests of Market ncy

Jeffrey Frankel and James Stock

1104: Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and their Choice of Production Locations

Robert Lipsey, Irving B. Kravis and Linda O'Connor

1103: Balance-of-Payments Crises and Devaluation

Maurice Obstfeld

1102: Taxes and Labor Supply

Jerry Hausman

1101: Trade in Goods and Factors with International Differences in Technology

James Markusen and Lars Svensson

1100: Intertemporal Price Speculation and the Optimal Current-Account Deficit

Maurice Obstfeld

1099: The New Nexus among Trade, Industrial and Exchange-Rate Policies

J. David Richardson

1098: U.S. Antidumping Policies: The Case of Steel

Barry Eichengreen and Hans Van der Ven

1097: Real and Financial Decisions of a Firm with Bankruptcy and Default: An Integration

Fumio Hayashi

1096: Economic Incentives to Retire: A Qualitative Choice Approach

Olivia Mitchell and Gary Fields

1095: Unemployment and Insurance

Sherwin Rosen

1094: Some Aspects of the Taxation of Capital Gains

Joseph Stiglitz

1093: Causality and Innovations Between Fertility and Infant Mortality

Tadashi Yamada

1092: A Skeptical Note on the New Econometrics

Alan Blinder

1091: Inflation and the Role of Bonds in Investor Portfolios

Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Robert L. McDonald

1090: The Structure of Expectations of the Weekly Money Supply Announcement

Thomas Urich and Paul Wachtel

1089: Optimal Price and Inventory Adjustment in an Open-Economy Model of the Business Cycle

Robert Flood and Robert Hodrick

1088: Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model

Michael Katz and Harvey Rosen

1087: Currency Inconvertibility, Portfolio Balance and Relative Prices

Jorge Braga de Macedo

1086: Length of Service, Terminations and the Nature of the Employment Relationship

Katharine Abraham and James Medoff

1085: Length of Service and the Operation of Internal Labor Markets

Katharine Abraham and James Medoff

1084: Money, Credit Constraints, and Economic Activity

Alan Blinder and Joseph Stiglitz

1083: Deficits and Intergenerational Welfare in Open Economies

Torsten Persson

1082: Asset Substitutability and the Impact of Federal Deficits

V. Vance Roley

1081: Demand Variability, Supply Shocks and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

Richard T. Froyen and Roger Waud

1080: A General Equilibrium Simulation Study of Subsidies to Municipal Expenditures

Roger Gordon and Joel Slemrod

1079: Rules, Discretion and Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy

Robert Barro and David Gordon

1078: Deficits, Crowding Out and Inflation: The Simple Analytics

Willem Buiter

1077: Money, Real Interest Rates, and Output: A Reinterpretation of Postwar U.S. Data

Robert Litterman and Laurence Weiss

1076: Planning the Consumption Goods Market: Preliminary Disequilibrium Estimates for Poland, 1955-1980

Richard Portes, Richard E. Quandt, David Winter and Stephen Yeo

1075: International Capital Movements Under Uncertainty

Gene Grossman and Assaf Razin

1074: World Equilibrium with Oil Price Increases: An Intertemporal Analysis

Nancy Marion and Lars Svensson

1073: The Taxation of Income from Capital: A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--

Mervyn A. King and Don Fullerton

1072: The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Douglas Coate

1071: Is Optimism Good in a Keynesian Economy?

Torsten Persson and Lars Svensson

1070: Rational Expectations and Macroeconomic Forecasts

Victor Zarnowitz

1069: Retirement Flows

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

1068: Productivity and R&D at the Firm Level in French Manufacturing

Philippe Cuneo and Jacques Mairesse

1067: Monetary Policy: Domestic Targets and International Constraints

Jacob A. Frenkel

1066: Modeling Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Joshua Aizenman

1065: The Short-Run Relation Between Inflation and Growth in Latin America

Sebastian Edwards

1064: Floating Exchange Rates, Expectations and New Information

Sebastian Edwards

1063: The Demand for International Reserves and Exchange Rate Adjustments: TheCase of LDCs, 1964-1972

Sebastian Edwards

1062: Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

Paul J. Taubman and Robin Sickles

1061: Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis

Jerry Hausman and David Wise

1060: Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rate from the Individual Income Tax

Robert Barro and Chaipat Sahasakul

1059: Rational Asset Price Bubbles

Behzad Diba and Herschel Grossman

1058: The Taxation of Income from Capital: A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--

Mervyn A. King and Don Fullerton