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Academic Year- Number Title Author(s)
08-01 Indeterminacy with No-Income-Effect Preferences and Sector-Specific Externalities Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
07-01 Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic (In)stability
under Balanced-Budget Rules
Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
06-02 Teaching to the Rating: School Accountability and the Distribution of Student Achievementhe Supply and Demand for Public School Choice (forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics) Randall Reback
06-01 Tinkering toward accolades: School gaming under a performance accountability system ( Advances in Applied Microeconomics, 2006) Julie Berry Cullen and Randall Reback
05-04 Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Roaring Twenties? Sharon Harrison and
Mark Weder
05-03 Financial Implications of Models with Indeterminacy and Variable Capacity Utilization Natalia Gershun and Sharon Harrison
05-02 Racial Stereotypes and Robbery Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi
05-01 The Supply and Demand for Public School Choice ( forthcoming, Economics of Education Review ) Randall Reback
04-10 House Prices and the Provision of Local Public Services: Capitalization under School Choice Programs ( Journal of Urban Economics, 2005 ) Randall Reback
04-09   Inequality and Segregation (Journal of Political Economy , December 2004) Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan
04-08 Government Size and Macroeconomic Stability: A Comment (European Economic Review, 50:5, July 2006, 1339-1346) Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
04-07 Balanced-Budget Rules and Macroeconomic (In)stability (Journal of Economic Theory, 119:2, December 2004, 357-363) Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
04-06 Legislative Shocks to the U.S.-Cuban Sugar Trade: The Seismic Information in Stock Prices Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte
04-05 Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country (forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources) Eric Edmonds, Kristin Mammen and Douglas Miller
04-04 The Effect of Children's Gender on Divorce and Child Support Kristin Mammen
04-03 All for One or Each for Her Own: Do Polygamous Families Share and Share Alike? Kristin Mammen
04-02   Statistical Discrimination with Neighborhood Effects: Can Integration Eliminate Negative Stereotypes? Shubham Chaudhuri and Rajiv Sethi
04-01  Rational Choice in the Voting Booth: Are Voters Influenced by the Composition of the Electorate? Randall Reback
03-02   Learning Strategies (forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization ) forthcoming) Nobuyuki Hanaki, Rajiv Sethi, Ido Erev, and Alexander Peterhansl
03-01 John Maurice Clark and the Multiplier: A Note
Luca Fiorito
02-08 How Not to Count the Poor Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge
02-07  Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression? (Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 53:7; October 2006, 1327-1339) Sharon Harrison and Mark Weder
02-06   Do Sunspots reflect consumer confidence? An Empirical Investigation (Eastern Economic Journal, 31:1, Winter 2005, 55-73)
Sharon Harrison
02-05   Race, Income and Neighborhood Sorting Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan
02-04 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes) The Gender Gap in Wage Returns to Labor Market Experience and Job Tenure Lalith Munasinghe and Tania Reif
02-03 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes) Expectations Matter: Future Job Prospects and Turnover Lalith Munasinghe
02-02 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth

Lalith Munasinghe and Nachum Sicherman

02-01 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes) A Theory of Wage Growth and Turnover Dynamics Lalith Munasinghe
01-07   Racial Income Disparities and the Measurement of Segregation Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan
01-06   Legislative Shocks to the U.S.-Cuban Sugar Trade: The Seismic Information in Stock Prices Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte
01-05   Norm Compliance and Strong Reciprocity: Evolutionary Models Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan
01-04   Evolutionary Stability in a Reputational Model of Bargaining (Games and Economic Behavior , August 2003) Dilip Abreu and Rajiv Sethi
01-03  Technical Progress, Globalization, and Speed of Change: What Track and Field Records Show ( Journal of Political Economy) Lalith Munasinghe, Brendan O'Flaherty, and Stephan Danninger
01-02

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Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan
01-01   Indeterminacy with Capital Utilization and Sector-Specific Externalities (Economics Letters, 72(3), September 2001, 355-360) Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
00-02   Indeterminancy in a Model with Aggregate and Sector-Specific Externalities ( Economics Letters , 69(2), October 2000, 173-179) Sharon Harrison and Mark Weder
00-01  Tracing Externalities as Sources of Indeterminancy (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 26(5), December 2001, 851-867)

Sharon Harrison and Mark Weder

99-08 Measuring Poverty in the United States, 1919: Where Do We Draw the Line? Linda Barrington and Mousumi Bhakta
99-07  Tax Policy and Stability in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities (Review of Economic Dynamics,, 4(1), January 2001, 75-89 ) Jang-Ting Guo and Sharon Harrison
99-06 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)   Preference Evolution and Reciprocity
(Journal of Economic Theory, April 2001)
Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan
99-05 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes) The Political Economy of Exporting Economic Instability: The US Sugar Tariff and the Cuban Revolution of 1933 Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte
99-04 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Stability of Equilibria in Games with Procedurally Rational Players (Games and Economic Behavior, July 2000) Rajiv Sethi
99-03 A European Call Option for Financial Aid Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
99-02 Scaling the Ivory Towers: An Analysis by Gender and Race Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
99-01 Organizational Innovation and the Latifundium: The Purpose of the Colono Contract in Cuban Sugar, 1889-1929 Alan Dye
98-08 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Evolution of Interdependent Preferences in Aggregative Games
(Games and Economic Behavior, May 2000)
Levent Koçkesen, Efe A. Ok, and Rajiv Sethi
98-07

  Indeterminacy in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 25(5), January 2001, 747-764)

Sharon Harrison
98-06 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Uneven Development and the Dynamics of Distortion (published as "Uneven Development and Bilateral Conflict," Metroeconomica, November 2000) Peter Skott and Rajiv Sethi
98-05 Returns to Scale and Externalities in the Consumption and Investment Sectors (Review of Economic Dynamics, 6(4), October 2003, 963-976) Sharon G. Harrison
98-04 The Evolution of Cooperation in the Local-interaction Multi-person Prisoners’ Dilemma Peter S. Albin and Duncan K. Foley
98-03 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Stability in Models of Money and Perfect Foresight: Implications of Nonlinearity (Economic Modelling, March 1999) Peter Flaschel and Rajiv Sethi
98-02 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  The Strategic Advantage of Negatively Interdependent Preferences
(Journal of Economic Theory, June 2000)
Levent Koçkesen, Efe A. Ok, and Rajiv Sethi
98-01

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Lalith Munasinghe and Karl Sigman
97-09 The Money Muddle: The Transformation of American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970 ( in Mary S. Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford, editors, From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism, Duke University Press, 1998) Perry Mehrling
97-08 Interdependent Preference Formation Levent Koçkesen, Efe A. Ok, and Rajiv Sethi
97-07 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Economic Growth from a Classical Perspective Duncan K. Foley and Adalmir Marquetti
97-06 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Recent Developments in the Labor Theory of Value Duncan K. Foley
97-05

Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  The Intra-Household Economics of Voice and Exit: Evaluating the Feminist-Institutional Content of Family Resource Allocation Models (Feminist Economics, Fall 1997)

Elizabeth Katz
97-04 Two-Step Estimation Procedure of a Multi-Sectoral Bivariate Selectivity Model: Employer Size and Union Wage Differentials Lalith Munasinghe
97-03 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Evolutionary Stability and Media of Exchange (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 1999) Rajiv Sethi
97-02 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Strategy-Specific Barriers to Learning and Nonmonotonic Selection Dynamics (Games and Economic Behavior, May 1998) Rajiv Sethi
97-01

Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Wage Growth and the Theory of Turnover (Journal of Labor Economics, March 2000)

Lalith Munasinghe
96-06 Mississippian Civilization and Factor Endowments at First Contact Linda Barrington
96-05 Socioeconomic Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sri Lanka (In David Bloom and Peter Godwin, editors, The Economics of HIV and AIDS: The Case of South and South East Asia. Oxford University Press, 1997) David Bloom and Ajay Mahal
96-04 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Does the AIDS Epidemic Threaten Economic Growth? (Journal of Econometrics, March 1997) David Bloom and Ajay Mahal
96-03 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  The Distribution of Pollution: Community Characteristics and Exposure to Air Toxics (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, February 1997) Nancy Brooks and Rajiv Sethi
96-02 Asset Pricing with Nonstationary Technical Change Duncan K. Foley
96-01 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use (American Economic Review, September 1996) Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan
95-03 Race and Earnings Poverty, 1939-1959: A Refined Classification and Potential Measurement Bias Linda Barrington
95-02 Statistical Equilibrium in a Simple Labor Market (Metroeconomica, June 1996) Duncan K. Foley
95-01 Asset Speculation in Marx's Theory of Money (In Riccardo Bellofiore, editor, Marxian Economics: A Reppraisal. Essays on volume III of Capital: Method, Value and Money. London: Macmillan, 1997) Duncan K. Foley
94-07 The Economic Costs of Affirmative Action: A Review of the Evidence Cecilia Conrad
94-06 Allyn Young and the Chicago Tradition Perry Mehrling
94-05 Measuring Poverty in the United States, 1939: Where Do We Draw the Line? Linda Barrington
94-04 The Monetary Thought of Allyn Abbott Young (History of Political Economy, Winter 1996) Perry Mehrling
94-03 Trends and Fluctuations in Corporate Liquidity: 1954-1991 Perry Mehrling
94-02 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  Idiosyncratic Risk, Borrowing Constraints and Asset Prices  (Metroeconomica, October 1998) Perry Mehrling
94-01 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  The Feminization of Poverty from 1939 to 1959 (Published as "At What Cost A Room of Her Own? Factors Contributing to the Feminization of Poverty Among Prime-Age Women, 1939-1959" Journal of Economic History, June 1994) Linda Barrington and Cecilia Conrad
93-08 Mr. Bewley vs. the Optimum Quantity of Money: A Review Perry Mehrling
93-07 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  A Note on the Optimum Quantity of Money (Journal of Mathematical Economics, March 1995) Perry Mehrling
93-06 The Role of the Stock Market in the Pure Theory of International Trade and Investment Cem Karayalcin and André Burgstaller
93-05 Industry Clusters vs. Global Webs: Organizational Capabilities in the U.S. Economy William Lazonick
93-04 Social Organization and Technological Leadership William Lazonick
93-03 The State of Macroeconomics (Published as "The Evolution of Macroeconomics" in David Colander, editor, Beyond Microfoundations: Post Walrasian Macroeconomics, Cambridge, 1996) Perry Mehrling
93-02 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  A Statistical Equilibrium Theory of Markets (Journal of Economic Theory, April 1994) Duncan K. Foley
93-01 Marriage and Unplanned Motherhood Cecilia Conrad
92-06 The Yen/Dollar Rate and the Price of Oil Ramesh Deonaraine
92-05 Optimal Monetary Policy in a Bewley-Type Model Perry Mehrling
92-04 Why are Women More Visible at the AEA Meetings? Cecilia Conrad
92-03 The Enterprise, the Community, and the Nation: Social Organization as a Source of Global Competitive Advantage William Lazonick
92-02 Maximum Entropy Exchange Equilibrium Duncan K. Foley
92-01 Savings and the Current Account - A Theoretical Investigation Ramesh Deonaraine
91-03 Acrobat.gif (87 bytes)  A Contribution to the Theory of Business Cycles (Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1992) Duncan K. Foley
91-02 Dynamics of the current Account, the Real Exchange Rate, and the Rate of Economics Growth: A Stock Market Approach André Burgstaller
91-01 Corporate Takeovers and the Growth of Productivity Duncan K. Foley and William Lazonick