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Econometric Models of Governmental Aid to Multilateral Agencies
(1986-02)
This paper investigates the extent to which donors' multilateral aid is affected by conditions in their own economics. For this purpose, we use multiple regression techniques consisting of a pooling of cross-section and ...
Air Force Academy Attrition: A New Perspective on the College Dropout Problem
(1987)
The purpose of this report is to summarize the conceptual underpinnings and computerized implementation of a model of Air Force Academy attrition. The policy questions which prompted development of this model concerns the ...
Differentiated Products, Economies of Scale and Access to the Japanese Market
(1988-10)
For much of the past thirty-face years Japan has imported a remarkably small share of the manufactured goods it consumes. This distinctive trade structure is regularly cited by policy makes as evidence that, despite the ...
Three Papers on Revealed Preference
(1987)
The titles of the three papers are: Revealed Preference with a Subset of Goods; Estimating Risk Aversion from Arrow-Debreu Portfolio Choice; and, On the Goodness-of-Fit of Revealed Preference Conditions
Income and Intergroup Substitution Effects When Preferences are Strongly Separable
(1985-05-16)
In the present paper I provide an alternative to earlier proofs that intergroup substitution effects can be characterized in terms of income effects. An advantage of the new proof is that it gives an explicit form for the ...
Estimating the Dispersion of Tastes and Willingnes to Pay
(1983-07)
The paper examines the concept of willingness to pay and shows how this concept can be explicitly calculated as a function of the unknown parameters of the utility function in a consumer case. The authors postulate a model ...
Bargaining Theory Without Tears
(1989-12-01)
The purpose of this article is two-fold. The primary aim is to provide a simple proof of a version of Rubinstein's bargaining theorem in a setting that is sufficiently general to cover the situations that typically arise ...
Trade and Welfare Effects of the European Schemes of the Generalized System of Preferences
(1987-11)
This paper presents estimates of the trade, price, welfare and employment effects of the GSP schemes of the members of the EEC and EFTA, based on calculations using a general equilibrium computational model of world ...
Macroeconomics Amidst Sense and Nonsense
(1983-08)
This paper attempts to place the so-called Rational Expectations Revolution in macroeconomics into proper perspective regarding its implications both for policy analysis and econometric modelling. It is concluded that ...
Location Choice and Commuting Behavior in Cities with Decentralized Employment
(1987-07)
This paper explores residential and job location patterns and commuting behavior in a monocentric urban model with decentralized employment. We show that, in some cases, identical households choose different residential ...