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Hal Varian has a (hypertext) draft entitled "Economics and the Internet."  It,
along with a very sustantial set of related links, is available at:

	 http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu/EconInternet.html

(You will need to use a WWW-brouser to access this document.)

					-- Mike


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               CENTER FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES DISCUSSION PAPERS

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88-1    "Long-Run Expectations and Capacity," by Robert H. McGuckin & Peter
        A. Zadrozny, 4/88.  Forthcoming in Proceedings, Conference on
        Capacity Utilization, (1988).  (29 pages, $7.25)
 
88-2    "The Longitudinal Research Database (LRD):  Status and Research
        Possibilities," by Robert H. McGuckin & George A. Pascoe, Jr., 7/88. 
        Survey of Current Business, Volume 68, Number 11, pp. 30-37 (1988). 
        (29 pages, $7.25)
 
88-3    "Public Use Microdata:  Disclosure and Usefulness," by Robert H.
        McGuckin & Sang V. Nguyen, 9/88.  Journal of Economic and Social
        Measurement, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 19-40, (1990).  
        (29 pages, $7.25) 
 
88-4    "Modelling Technical Progress and Total Factor Productivity:  A
        Plant-Level Example," by Edward C. Kokkelenberg & Sang V. Nguyen,
        10/88.  Journal of Productivity Analysis, Volume 1, Number 1, 
        pp. 69-90, (1989).  (37 pages, $9.25)
 
88-5    "Analytic Derivatives For Estimation of Linear Dynamic Models," by
        Peter A. Zadrozny, 11/88.  Journal of Computers and Mathematics with
        Applications, Volume 18, pp. 539-553, (1989).  
        (41 pages, $10.25)
 
89-1    "Measuring the Trade Balance in Advanced Technology Products," by
        Thomas A. Abbott, III, Robert H. McGuckin, Paul Herrick, and Leroy
        Norfolk, 1/89.  Proceedings, 1989 American Statistical Association. 
        (33 pages, $8.25)
 
89-2    "Using Linked Census R&D-LRD Data to Analyze the Effect of R&D
        Investment on Total Factor Productivity Growth," by Frank R.
        Lichtenberg and Donald Siegel, 1/89.  Economic Inquiry under title
        "The Impact of R&D Investment on Productivity - New Evidence Using
        Linked R&D-LRD Data," Volume 29, pp. 2-13, (1990). (46 pages,
        $11.50)
 
89-3    "The Effect of Takeovers on The Employment and Wages of Central
        Office and Other Personnel," by Frank R. Lichtenberg and Donald
        Siegel, 6/89.  Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 33, pp. 383-408,
        (1990).  (36 pages, $9.00)
 
89-4    "Entrepreneur Factor Inputs and Small Business Longevity," by
        Timothy Bates, 6/89.  Review of Economics and Statistics under the
        title "Entrepreneur Human Capital Inputs and Small Business
        Longevity," Volume LXII, Number IV, (1990).  (40 pages, $10.00)
 
89-5    "The Effects of Leveraged Buyouts on Productivity and Related
        Aspects of Firm Behavior," by Frank R. Lichtenberg and Donald
        Siegel, 7/89.  Presented at the Conference on Innovation in 
             Corporate Organization, Control, and Incentives, 1990. 
                  #3022, NBER Working Paper Series.  Journal of Finance and Economics,
                  Volume 27, pp. 165-194, (1990).  (53 pages, $13.25)
   
89-6    "Firm Entry and Post-Entry Performance in the U.S. Chemical 
        Industries," by Timothy Dunne, Mark J. Roberts, and Larry Samuelson,
             7/89.  Journal of Law and Economics, (1989).  (49 pages, $12.25) 

89-7    "Price Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing," by Thomas A. Abbott, III,
        10/89.  (16 pages, $4.00)


89-8    "Multifactor Productivity and Sources of Growth in Chinese Industry: 
        1980-1985," by Robert H. McGuckin, Sang V. Nguyen, Jeffrey R.
        Taylor, and Charles A. Waite, 10/89.   Presented at the winter
        meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1/90.  An
        Industrial Census of China, Xu Gang, ed., Beijing, People's Republic
        of China:  The Secretariat of the International Seminar of Analysis
        on China's 1985 Industrial Census Results, pp. 113-138, (1990).  
        (35 pages, $8.75) 
 
89-9    "The Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Database," by Alfred
        Nucci, 10/89.  (28 pages, $7.00)
 
90-1    "Longitudinal Economic Data at the Census Bureau:  A New Database
        Yields Fresh Insights on Some Old Issues," by Robert H. McGuckin,
        1/90.  Proceedings of the Statistics Canada Symposium on Analysis of
        Data in Time, pp. 243-253, (1990).  (33 pages, $8.25) 
 
90-2    "An Analysis of Small Business Size and Rate of Discontinuance," by
        Timothy Bates and Alfred Nucci, 1/90.  Journal of Small Business
        Management, pp. 1-7, (1990).  (14 pages, $3.50)
 
90-3    "Export Performance and State Industrial Growth," by Rodney A.
        Erickson, 1/90.  Economic Geography, Volume 65, Number 4, 
        pp. 280-292, (October 1989).  (31 pages, $7.75)
 
90-4    "Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment  
        Reallocation," by Steven J. Davis and John Haltiwanger, 2/90. 
        Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.  (52 pages, $13.00)

90-5    "Estimating a Multivariate Arma Model with Mixed-Frequency Data:  An
        Application to Forecasting U.S. GNP at Monthly Intervals," by Peter
        A. Zadrozny, 6/90.  (58 pages, $14.50)

90-6    "Wages and the Risk of Plant Closings," by Timothy Dunne and Mark J.
        Roberts, 7/90.  American Statistical Association Proceedings of the
        Business and Economics Statistics Section, pp. 275-280, (1989).  
        (31 pages, $7.75)

90-7    "The Classification of Manufacturing Industries:  An Input-Based
        Clustering of Activity," by Thomas A. Abbott, III and Stephen H.
        Andrews, 8/90.  Proceedings, Census Bureau Annual Research
        Conference, pp. 26-45, (1990).  (47 pages, $11.75)
 
90-8    "The Extent and Nature of Establishment Level Diversification in
        Sixteen U.S. Manufacturing Industries," by Mary L. Streitwieser,
        8/90.  Journal of Law and Economics, Part 2, pp. 503-534 (1991). 
        (39 pages, $9.75)
 
90-9    "Self-Employment Trends Among Mexican Americans," by Timothy Bates,
        8/90.  Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, (1990). 
        (26 pages, $6.50)
  
90-10   "Gross Job Creation and Destruction:  Microeconomic Evidence and
        Macroeconomic Implications," by Steven J. Davis and John
        Haltiwanger, 9/90.  NBER Macroeconomics Annual, MIT Press: 
        Cambridge, MA, (1990).  (51 pages, $12.75)
 
90-11   "Returns to Scale in Small and Large U.S. Manufacturing
        Establishments," by Sang V. Nguyen and Arnold P. Reznek, 9/90. 
        Small Business Economics, Number 3, pp. 197-214, (1991).  
        (35 pages, $8.75)
 


90-12   "The Relationships Among Acquiring and Acquired Firms' Product
        Lines," by Robert H. McGuckin, Sang V. Nguyen and Stephen H.
        Andrews, 9/90.  Journal of Law and Economics, Part 2, pp. 477-502
        (October 1991).  (45 pages, $11.25)
 
90-13   "The Determinants of U.S. Intra-Industry Trade," by F.M. Scherer and
        Keun Huh, 12/90.  International High-Technology Competition,
        Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press (1992).  
        (19 pages, $4.75)

91-1    "Published Versus Sample Statistics from the ASM:  Implications for
        the LRD," by Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh,
        1/91.  Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Business
        and Economics Section, (1990).  (38 pages, $9.50)
 
91-2    "R&D Reactions to High-Technology Import Competition," by F.M.
        Scherer and Keun Huh, 3/91.  Forthcoming in Review of Economics and
        Statistics. (37 pages, $9.25)

91-3    "Measuring Total Factor Productivity, Technical Change and the Rate
        of Returns to Research and Development," by Sang V. Nguyen and
        Edward C. Kokkelenberg, 5/91.  Journal of Productivity Analysis,
        Number 2, pp. 269-282, (1992).  (25 pages, $6.25)

91-4    "Decomposing Technical Change," by Michael Gort, Byong-Hyong Bahk,
        and Richard A. Wall, 5/91.  Southern Economic Journal, Volume 60,
        Number 1, pp. 220-235.  (40 pages, $10.00)
 
91-5    "The Structure of Production Technology, Productivity and
        Aggregation Effects," by Phoebus J. Dhrymes, 8/91.  Proceedings,
        1990 Annual Research Conference as "The Structure of Production
        Technology:  Evidence from the LED Sample 1."  (62 pages, $15.50)
 
91-6    "Technical Inefficiency and Productive Decline in the U.S.
        Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry Under the Natural Gas
        Policy Act,"  by Robin C. Sickles and Mary L. Streitwieser,  10/91. 
        Journal of Productivity Analysis, Volume 3, pp. 119-133, June 1992. 
        (27 pages, $6.75) 

91-7    "Technology Usage in U.S. Manufacturing Industries:  New Evidence
        from the Survey of Manufacturing Technology," by Timothy Dunne,
        11/91.  RAND Journal of Economics.  (31 pages, $7.75)

91-8    "Multiple Classification Systems for Economic Data:  Can a Thousand
        Flowers Bloom?  And Should They?"  by Robert H. McGuckin, 12/91. 
        Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on the Classification of Economic
        Activity, 1991.  (36 pages, $9.00)

91-9    "Commercial Bank Lending Practices and the Development of Black-
        Owned Construction Companies," by Caren Grown and Timothy Bates,
        12/91.  Journal of Urban Affairs, pp. 25-41, (1992).  (31 pages,
        $7.75)

91-10   "The Influence of Location on Productivity:  Manufacturing
        Technology in Rural and Urban Areas," by Sheila A. Martin, Richard
        McHugh, and Stanley R. Johnson, 12/91.  (33 pages, $8.25)

92-1    "Productivity Dynamics:  U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1972-1986," by
        Eric J. Bartelsman and Phoebus J. Dhrymes, 2/92.  (51 pages, $12.75)

92-2    "The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment
        Industry," by G. Steven Olley and Ariel Pakes, 2/92.  (56 pages,
        $14.00)

92-3    "Price Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing:  Implications for the
        Aggregation of Products and Firms," by Thomas A. Abbott, III, 3/92.
        (36 pages, $9.00)

92-4    "Estimating Capital Efficiency Schedules Within Production
        Functions," by Mark E. Doms, 5/92.  Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry. 
        (26 pages, $6.50)

92-5    "Costs, Demand, and Imperfect Competition as Determinants of
        Plant-Level Output Prices," by Timothy Dunne and Mark J. Roberts,
        6/92.  Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization, pp. 13-24,
        (1992).  B.B. Audretsch and J.J. Siegfried, eds., Clover Publishers. 
        (29 pages, $7.25)

92-6    "On the Turnover of Business Firms and Business Managers," by Thomas
        J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr., 7/92.  (49 pages, $12.25)

92-7    "The Characteristics of Business Owners Database," by Alfred Nucci,
        8/92. (82 pages, $20.50)

92-8    "Analytic Use of Economic Microdata:  A Model for Researcher Access
        with Confidentiality Protection," by Robert H. McGuckin, 8/92. 
        Proceedings, International Seminar on Statistical Confidentiality,
        1992.  (23 pages, $5.75)

92-9    "The Structure of Technology, Substitution, and Productivity in the
        Interstate Natural Gas Transmission Industry under the NGPA of
        1978," by Robin C. Sickles and Mary L. Streitwieser, 8/92.  
        (39 pages, $9.75)

92-10   "The Time-Series Pattern of Firm Growth in Two Industries," by
        Kenneth R. Troske, 9/92.  (37 pages, $9.25)

92-11   "Managerial Tenure, Business Age and Small Business Dynamics," by
        Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr., 9/92.  (47 pages,
        $11.75)

92-12   "The Aggregate Implications of Machine Replacement:  Theory and
        Evidence," by Russell Cooper and John Haltiwanger, 10/92.  The
        American Economic Review, Volume 83, Number 3, pp. 360-382, 
        (June 1993).  (41 pages, $10.25)

92-13   "Gender Segregation in Small Firms," by William J. Carrington and
        Kenneth R. Troske, 10/92.  Revised, May 1993.  Forthcoming in
        Journal of Human Resources.  (45 pages, $11.25)

92-14   "Manufacturing Establishments Reclassified Into New Industries:  The
        Effect of Survey Design Rules," by Robert H. McGuckin and SuZanne
        Peck, 11/92.  Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume 1,
        Number 2 (1993). (25 pages, $6.25)

92-15   "Wages, Employer Size-Wage Premia and Employment Structure:  Their
        Relationship to Advanced-Technology Usage at U.S. Manufacturing
        Establishments," by Timothy Dunne and James A. Schmitz, Jr., 12/92. 
        Forthcoming in Economica.  (36 pages, $9.00)

92-16   "Decomposing Learning by Doing in New Plants," by Byong-Hyong Bahk
        and Michael Gort, 12/92.  Journal of Political Economy, Volume 101,
        Number 4, August 1993.  (33 pages, $8.25)
    
93-1    "Academic Science, Industrial R&D, and the Growth of Inputs," by
        James D. Adams and Leo Sveikauskas, 1/93.  (48 pages, $12.00)

93-2    "Science, R&D, and Invention Potential Recharge:  U.S. Evidence," by
        James D. Adams, 1/93.  Forthcoming in American Economic Review
        Papers and Proceedings. (13 pages, $3.25)

93-3    "LBOs, Debt and R&D Intensity," by William F. Long and David J.
        Ravenscraft, 2/93.  The Deal Decade, 1993, Margaret M. Blair, ed.,
        Washington, D.C.:  The Brookings Institution. (38 pages, $9.50)

93-4    "Learning By Doing and Competition in the Early Rayon Industry,"
        Ronald S. Jarmin, 2/93.  Forthcoming in RAND Journal of Economics. 
        (32 pages, $8.00)

93-5    "Inter Fuel Substitution and Energy Technology Heterogeneity in U.S.
        Manufacturing," by Mark E. Doms, 3/93.  (48 pages, $12.00)

93-6    "Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the
        Plant Level," by Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian, 3/93.  
        (29 pages, $7.25)

93-7    "Asymmetric Learning Spillovers," by Ronald S. Jarmin, 4/93.  
        (22 pages, $5.50)

93-8    "Evidence on IO Technology Assumptions from the Longitudinal
        Research Database," by Joe Mattey, 5/93.  (26 pages, $6.50)

93-9    "Energy Intensity, Electricity Consumption, and Advanced
        Manufacturing Technology Usage," by Mark E. Doms and Timothy Dunne,
        7/93.  (24 pages, $6.00)

93-10   "The Importance of Establishment Data in Economic Research," by
        Robert H. McGuckin, 8/93.  Proceedings of the International
        Conference on Establishment Surveys, 1993, and forthcoming, 
        Journal of Economics and Business Statistics.  (20 pages, $5.00)
     
93-11   "Determinants of Survival and Profitability Among Asian Immigrant-
        Owned Small Businesses," by Timothy Bates, 8/93.  Social Forces,
        Volume 72, Number 3, pp. 671-689.  (39 pages, $9.75)

93-12   "Construction of Regional Input-Output Tables from Establishment-
        Level Microdata:  Illinois, 1982," by Eduardo Martins, 8/93.  
        (53 pages, $13.25)   

93-13   "The Long-Run Demand for Labor:  Estimates from Census Establishment
        Data," by Timothy Dunne and Mark J. Roberts, 9/93.  (35 pages,
        $8.75)

93-14   "Testing the Advantages of Using Product Level Data to Create
        Linkages Across Industrial Coding Systems," by SuZanne Peck, 10/93. 
        (30 pages, $7.50)

93-15   "On Productivity and Plant Ownership Change:  New Evidence from the
        LRD," by Robert H. McGuckin and Sang V. Nguyen, 11/93.
        (42 pages, $10.50)

93-16   "The Financial Performance of Whole Company LBOs," by William F.
        Long and David J. Ravenscraft, 11/93.  (34 pages, $8.50)

94-1    "The Choice of Input-Output Table Embedded in Regional Econometric
        Input-Output Models," by Philip R. Israilevich, R. Mahidara, and
        Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, 1/94.  (22 pages, $5.50)


94-2    "A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the
        United States," by John Baldwin, Timothy Dunne, and John
        Haltiwanger, 5/94.  (32 pages, $8.00)

94-3    "Firms Started as Franchises Have Lower Survival Rates than
        Independent Small Business Startups," by Timothy Bates 5/94.  
        (27 pages, $6.75)

94-4    "Downsizing and Productivity Growth:  Myth or Reality?" by Martin
        Neil Baily, Eric J. Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger, 5/94.  
        (34 pages, $8.50)

94-5    "Recent Twists of the Wage Structure and Technology Diffusion" by
        James D. Adams, 6/94.  (61 pages, $15.25)

94-6    "Regulation and Firm Size, Foreign-Based Company Market Presence,
        Merger Choice in the U.S. Pesticide Industry," by Michael Ollinger
        and Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, 6/94.  (33 pages, $8.25).

94-7	"The Span of the Effect of R&D in the Firm and Industry," by 
	James D. Adams and Adam B. Jaffe, 6/94. (37 pages, $9.25). 

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From Hal.Varian@umich.edu Fri Sep  9 14:04:59 EDT 1994
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From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
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Subject: Re: Any Good Ideas for Experimental Economics (eg. auctions) for Microeconomics?
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In article <33lnst$5it@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> lasmith@athena.mit.edu (Lones  
A Smith) writes:

> I have seen discussed before in this group the whereabouts of the  
instructions 
> for running various double auctions, and what not.  
> 
> Where can I find these? Has anyone any strong feelings on what works best for  
them?

Instructions and software for an oral double auction are available from W. W.  
Norton at 1-800-223-2584.  This supplement was produced by Glenn Harrison and
is meant to accompany my undergraduate economics text.
 
---
Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
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From jre8b@fermi.clas.virginia.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:02 EDT 1994
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Subject: Re: Any Good Ideas for Experimental Economics (eg. auctions) for Microeconomics?
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lasmith@athena.mit.edu  writes:
> 
> Hi,

...>      Term is fast approaching and I want to try something new with my 
> advanced senior undergrad micro class.

Charles Holt and Doug Davis (Univ of VA and VA Comm Univ) have a textbook on 
experimental economics. I think that the publisher is Princeton Univ Press.  
They describe many experiments that you can use in the classroom, and anyone
interested in doing classroom experiments would find it a very useful source.

Good luck.

John Elder



From MDFLOOD@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA Fri Sep  9 14:05:06 EDT 1994
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Subject: Re: Any Good Ideas for Experimental Economics (eg. auctions) for         Microeconomics?
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Lones:

I would suggest that you contact Vernon Smith or Shawn 
Lamaster at the Economic Science Lab at the U. of 
Arizona.  They have several versions of various auction
procedures -- including a one-time hand-run auction
for just the sort of classroom use I think you're 
describing.  I don't have their address info. handy
at the moment, but I think you should be able to
locate them through a university gopher.

Best of luck
-- Mark Flood
mdflood@vax2.concordia.ca



From ingber@alumni.caltech.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:15 EDT 1994
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From: ingber@alumni.caltech.edu (Lester Ingber)
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Subject: Re: Derivative security research
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In article <sbjCvCvMA.IDu@netcom.com>, Sheldon Jolson <sbj@netcom.com> wrote:
:Vasos.Panagiotopoulos@mhade.inhouse.compuserve.com wrote:
:: The Hull book had some errors. I hope we're talking about the same
:: book (he has two - I mean the advanced one). I called him and he
:: told me to look in the second edition for corrections!
:
:Which Hull books are you referring to?  I'm trying to look for more books 
:on advanced pricing for derivatives.
:
:: I also strongly suggest Hal Varian's Mathematica finance book
:: because it gives you the tools to rederive important equations for
:: specialiaised or more advanced results.
:: He even gives you an Ito Lemma function!
:
:Speaking of which, do you know of anyone who uses the Stratanovich 
:stochastic calculus as opposed to Ito's?  Seems more natural <though 
:somewhat less intuitive>...are there any books specifically gong into the 
:use of stochastic calculus to derive financial results?
:
:
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:
:_______________________________________________________________________________
:							- SBJ -
:   						     sbj@netcom.com

The Stratonovich and Ito calculus are simply related, but this is not too
well known.  A full text is 
%A F. Langouche
%A D. Roekaerts
%A E. Tirapegui
%T Functional Integration and Semiclassical Expansions
%I Reidel
%C Dordrecht, The Netherlands
%D 1982

In the physical sciences there is good reason for using the
Stratonovich representation, e.g., when examining uses of continuity
around delta-function regions, when requiring covariance, etc.  I have
never seen a convincing reason for using the Ito representation, other
than expressions greatly simplify (sweeping many terms under the rug)
when considering nonlinear multivariate processes.  The claim of
treating causal effects--related to the discrete world with quite large
increments--by otherwise good continous models--is clearly washed out
in the continuous limit.  Anyway, all expressions can be equally
modeled (via simple transformations) in the prepoint discretization of
Ito, or the midpoint discretization of Stratonovich (wherein one can
use the "usual" rules of calculus), or in fact any shade between
prepoint and postpoint discretizations.

I have taken advantage of the modern stochastic calculus presented
in the above text to calculate financial models, e.g.,
%A L. Ingber
%T Statistical mechanical aids to calculating term structure models
%J Phys. Rev. A
%V 42
%N 12
%D 1990
%P 7057-7064
and currently have a project parallelizing these codes for use on Crays.

Some papers and code are in my archive
Interactively [brackets signify machine prompts]:
   [your_machine%] ftp ftp.alumni.caltech.edu
   [Name (...):] anonymous
   [Password:] your_e-mail_address
   [ftp>] cd pub/ingber
   [ftp>] binary
   [ftp>] ls
   [ftp>] get file_of_interest
   [ftp>] quit
The 00index file contains an index of the  other  files  and
information  on  getting gzip and unshar for DOS(R), MAC(R),
UNIX(R), and VMS(R) systems.
 
Interactively Via WWW
This  archive  also   can   be   accessed   via   WWW   path
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber/                        or
ftp://ftp.alumni.caltech.edu/pub/ingber/

Lester
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From pfitton@clark.net Fri Sep  9 14:05:19 EDT 1994
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From: pfitton@clark.net (Peter Fitton)
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In article <sbjCvCvMA.IDu@netcom.com>, Sheldon Jolson <sbj@netcom.com> wrote:
>Vasos.Panagiotopoulos@mhade.inhouse.compuserve.com wrote:
>: The Hull book had some errors. I hope we're talking about the same
>: book (he has two - I mean the advanced one). I called him and he
>: told me to look in the second edition for corrections!
>
>Which Hull books are you referring to?  I'm trying to look for more books 
>on advanced pricing for derivatives.
>
John Hull's _Options, Futures and Other Derivative Securities_, 2nd ed.
(1993) is a good, fairly comprehensive guide to pricing derivatives.

A more advanced treatment can be had in certain chapters of Darrell
Duffie's _Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory_ (1993) and Merton's _Continuous
Time Finance_ (1990).  A classic work is Cox and Rubinstein, _Options 
Markets_ (1985).  All books are out of date; read the journals if you 
want to stay on top of recent thinking in derivatives.

>Speaking of which, do you know of anyone who uses the Stratanovich 
>stochastic calculus as opposed to Ito's?  Seems more natural <though 
>somewhat less intuitive>...are there any books specifically gong into the 
>use of stochastic calculus to derive financial results?
>
Some do use Stratanovich calculus.  They just don't get published in the 
finance literature.

As for books going into the use of stochastic calculus in finance, the 
above-mentioned Duffie and Merton works are both excellent.  Harrison 
also treats this well somewhere or other...the name of his book escapes me.

Peter Fitton
CHALKE Consulting



From sbj@netcom.com Fri Sep  9 14:05:23 EDT 1994
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Subject: Re: Sources? U.S.-Canada Trade/Investment Data/Barriers
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Eric T. Moore (moore@econ.unt.edu) wrote:
: I am attempting to collect data on the following:

: 	-percentage of Canadian exports going to the U.S.
: 	-percentage of U.S. exports going to Canada
: 	-level of direct foreign investment between the U.S. and Canada
: 	-rank of exports/FDI relative to other major trading partners
: 	-state of barriers to trade between Canada and the U.S.

: I only need the most recent figures available, expressed in U.S. dollars.
: Our library has limited amounts of trade data.  Is this data available 
: somewhere on the internet? or is there a recent journal article that would 
: have these figures?

The amounts of imports and exports going to Canada from the US is printed 
in the monthly Survey of Current Busiess, printed by the U.S. 
government.  It also has totals to obtain percentages <if it doesn't have 
them as well>  As far as FDI, I'm not sure if it would have that 
information <perhaps once per year?>  You might want to check the 
statistical Abstract of the United States.  It has information on Foreign 
trade as well as FDI, but isn't especially timely.  If you need more 
timely info, the tables in the statistical abstract give you the 
sources.  As far as the state of barriers, I have no idea.  I have no 
idea what's available on the internet, aslthough you can access some 
government BBS.

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From STSK@HHS.SE Fri Sep  9 14:05:27 EDT 1994
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> Consider the 2 independent variable linear model y = ax + bz + u
> and perform OLS and solve for the t-stat for b^.

> Double the z values and perform OLS again.  What should happen
> to the t-stat for b^ now?

> Doubling all RHS variables changes nothing, but what if only one
> is doubled?

Nothing! It merely changes the scale. Quite easy to show using (for
example) partitioned inverses, but that's to much typing for this time
of the day.

> Thanks,
> Dan
> --
> Dan Rascher
> GO BEARS!!
>
>
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Stockholm School of Economics                   Phone:  + 46 8 736 92 39
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From rm170@columbia.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:30 EDT 1994
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In article <01HGJ69XY0TU8WWHWZ@HHSSUN>, Sune Karlsson  <STSK@HHS.SE> wrote:
>> Consider the 2 independent variable linear model y = ax + bz + u
>> and perform OLS and solve for the t-stat for b^.
>> Double the z values and perform OLS again.  What should happen
>> to the t-stat for b^ now?
>> Doubling all RHS variables changes nothing, but what if only one
>> is doubled?
>Nothing! It merely changes the scale. Quite easy to show using (for
>example) partitioned inverses, but that's to much typing for this time
>of the day.
>========================================================================
>Sune Karlsson                                   Internet:    STSK@HHS.SE
>Stockholm School of Economics                   Phone:  + 46 8 736 92 39
>Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden              Fax:     + 46 8 30 21 15
>========================================================================


	The original question seems to be somewhat ambiguous.  If the question
is : if you have a regression and then double one of the right hand side 
variables and then rerun the regression what happens to the t-stat? then the 
reply above is correct - the estimated coefficient is halved and the t-stat is
unchanged.  All that has occurred is a change of units.  My initial 
interpretation of the question was different.  I took the question to mean: 
what if you double a RHS given the same data-generating-process?  That is to 
say double the z retaining the b at the same level and generate a new y based 
on the true regression and now rerun the regression.  This process doubles the 
standard deviation of z while maintaining the error variance.  This will lead
to an increased t-stat on z, the general idea being that you want as much 
variance as possible in your regressors.  Intuitively, this increases the 
signal to noise ratio.
Ron Miller



From ug930111@alpha02.scs.carleton.ca Fri Sep  9 14:05:34 EDT 1994
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From: ug930111@alpha02.scs.carleton.ca (Tonis Kasvand)
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Subject: New Zealand / Argentina   economics request...
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I am looking for archives, ftp sites, or agencies that I can TELNET to
(ie universities, governmental agencies, world organizations [Pan 
American, etc.]) that would have information specific to New
Zealand and/or Argentina   economic development.
 
  Any and all information is requested. Specifically the creation of
provincial bonds as a cash substitute in Argentina (its effects over
the last year, the dramatic recovery of the economy, etc..).
   New Zealand has about 400-500 local economies called LETSystems.
Is there any information about the LETSystems economic impact to the
overall economy of NZ?
 
  Any information is deeply appreciated and will be notated.  

Thank you in advance (TIA).


     Please e-mail to     aj917@freenet.carleton.ca 
                    or :  ug930111@mach00.scs.carleton.ca




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From jbmillar@ucdavis.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:38 EDT 1994
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Andrew Coulson (andrewco@netcom.com) wrote:
: On 20 Aug 1994, Timothy Huyer wrote:

: > I am looking for information RE:  Australia's financing of post-secondary
: > education.  There is an article by Russ Harrold on the Evolution of Higher 
Education Finance in Australia in Higher Education Quarterly, Vol 46, no. 
4, Autumn, 1992.   Millar


From hancu@crim.ca Fri Sep  9 14:05:42 EDT 1994
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       Academy of Economic Studies
       Faculty of Economic Cybernetics,
       Statistics and Informatics
       Economic Informatics Department









                      THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL
                            SYMPOSIUM
                      ON ECONOMIC INFORMATICS
                             ROMANIA
                    BUCHAREST, May 10-13, 1995




     The Economic Informatics Department of Economic Cybernetics,
Statistics and Informatics Faculty from Bucharest Academy of Economic
Studies and Romanian Association for Economic Informatics Training
Promotion are going to organize the Second International Symposium on
Economic Informatics IE'95, May 10-13, 1995.


Topics:
1. Programming methods, techniques and tools;
2. Software standards, security and quality;
3. Open systems and distributed processing;
4. Multimedia systems;
5. Object-oriented databases;
6. Searching in the solutions space;
7. Expert systems in Economics;
8. Applied information systems.

     The Symposium time table include:
 01.12.1994: participation acknowledgement and summary sending;
 20.12.1994: the second contact and participation accept notified by the
Symposium Committee;
 20.02.1995: papers receiving (5 A4 pages, english or french) to be
included inthe Symposium Proceedings; participation fee payment;
 05.03.1995: finally Symposium time table achievement;
 01.05.1995: Symposium Proceedings editing.

     The work may be exposed in english, french or romanian.

     Participation fee is 10 USD (or equivalent) and comprises logistic
resources and the Proceedings of IE'95.

     The participating intention (see the template) and the work summary
(200 words maximum) will be communicated before December 1, 1994. One
work only sent for each participant will be accepted.

     Further information regarding Symposium organizing will be
communicated in the next contact (December 20, 1994).


     The mail address:
     Prof. dr. Ion Gh. Rosca
     Academy of Economic Studies
     Department of Economic Informatics
     Piata Romana 6, Sector 1, Bucharest,
     Cod 70167, Romania
     Phone: 611.59.60/611.06.10 ext. 336, 319;
            311.20.66
     E-mail:   simpo95@infocib.ase.ro
               simpo95@crc.ase.ro

PARTICIPATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - IE'95

1. Name and surname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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From STEC8033@iruccvax.ucc.ie Fri Sep  9 14:05:45 EDT 1994
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> I'm looking for  a recent paper back job that has lots of
> 	emphasis on measuring economic activity. Any suggestions?
> 	jTreacy@desire.wright.edu

This may be simpler than you are looking for, but try _The U.S.
Economy Demystified_ by Albert Sommers (Lexington, 1993)

Bill Sjostrom
W.SJOSTROM@BUREAU.UCC.IE
 


From mccainra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:49 EDT 1994
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>> I'm looking for  a recent paper back job that has lots of
>>       emphasis on measuring economic activity. Any suggestions?
>>       jTreacy@desire.wright.edu
>
>This may be simpler than you are looking for, but try _The U.S.
>Economy Demystified_ by Albert Sommers (Lexington, 1993)
>
>Bill Sjostrom
>W.SJOSTROM@BUREAU.UCC.IE

I concur. Norman Frumkin, _Guide to Economic Indicators_ (Sharpe, 1990) has
a good deal more info on specific statistical series, but is a bit more of
a laundry list. 


Roger A. McCain
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and Professor, Economics                exhibits a system in which people 
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Philadelphia, PA, 19104               
voice 215-895-1267                         J. R. Hicks, The Foundations of 
mccainra@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu              Welfare Economics, 1939



From svannorden@bank-banque-canada.ca Fri Sep  9 14:05:52 EDT 1994
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From: svannorden@bank-banque-canada.ca (Simon Van Norden)
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Subject: RE: Any Good Ideas for Experimental Economics (eg. auctions)
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Lones:

A second thought comes to mind, one that might be of more general interest so I thought I would post it to the list.

University of Iowa business school runs internet-accessable electronic markets.  These are the guys that run "stock markets" on presidential and state elections, as well as more mundane things like Reebok's quarterly dividend or movements in the Mexican peso.  I believe they were written-up in the Scientific American in 1993.  No doubt someone else on this list can give you their e-mail address.

There are a few things that you should know about them.  Their software simply matches orders - there is no market-maker in the usual sense of the word.  Their software is also available for research purposes; a group at the UBC Faculty of Commerce used it to run a stock market on the last Canadian Federal election.  To make sure that people take the exercise seriously, they allow "investors" to bet _real_ money - convertable to cash at any time at given market prices.  (It was a great comfort to me that w
h
ile my prefered party did not win our last election, their losing it was very profitable for me.)

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From arijit@atlas.socsci.umn.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:55 EDT 1994
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In article <9408311353.AA07170@int90733.boc> svannorden@bank-banque-canada.ca (Simon Van Norden) writes:
>Lones:
>
>A second thought comes to mind, one that might be of more general interest so I thought I would post it to the list.
>
>University of Iowa business school runs internet-accessable electronic >markets.

===========
To get a preview of this, telnet to iem.biz.uiowa.edu
and you should find enough information about the topic.

As for running experiments in class, the following seem to be
popular:
a) Double auction:  Fairly standard.  Take a look at the Friedman
and Sunder text (Cambridge Univ Press) for sample instructions.
b) Public goods:  unfortunately for the pure theory, people contribute
more than the prediction of free-riding.  Instructions: See the 
Harrison and Hirshleifer paper in JPE (1987 or 1988?).
c) Bargaining a la Rubinstein-Stahl: too many 50-50 splits unless
you run all sorts of controls
	(b) and (c) can be useful for motivating why one should
	look at say incomplete information models, but not
	for an undergraduate class
d) Winner's curse: almost never fails, though people bid too much
that the risk neutral NE prediction for a common value auction
e) Even more dramatic: the infamous Dollar auction (winner pays
as well as the runner-up).
f) Spatial voting:  Line up voters in two dimensional space and
set up their locations as in say Plott's paper (Lines joining
matched pairs of voters intersect at one unique point.) Al Roth
used this to great effect in an intro game theory course!

--
 Arijit Mukherji, arijit@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota



From hmahamwa@vela.acs.oakland.edu Fri Sep  9 14:05:58 EDT 1994
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Does anyone know if the American Economic Review has an email address?  




From Hal.Varian@umich.edu Fri Sep  9 14:06:02 EDT 1994
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In article <342je0$cds@oak.oakland.edu> hmahamwa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (line  
noise) writes:

> Does anyone know if the American Economic Review has an email address?  

I don't know about the main office, but several of the co-editors use
email regularly.  This is probably a good place to announce that the AEA  
database is now online at: 

Name=AEA Directory
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/aea
Host=gopher.eco.utexas.edu

You can now search for economists' addresses online.  (No email addresses
yet, but this will probably come with the next AEA survey...)


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From drago@convex.csd.uwm.edu Fri Sep  9 14:06:06 EDT 1994
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From: drago@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Robert W Drago)
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[Moderator's note:  I believe all the following were lumped
together in one post, although the attributions are not precisely
clear to me.  I'm posting this whole thing in the interest of
it's being potentially interested, and apologize if I've
misrepresented anybody's information. -fls]

In July I posted a request for suggestions from others who may be
experiencing enrollment declines in their principles courses.
Three people responded and I've attached their messages below.

Here at UWM we experienced a further 18% decline from F93 to F94
(figures just in) and so are going to drop some mass lectures in
favor of small classes next semester.  Of course, this fits in
neatly with the administration's plan to increase our teaching load...

Perhaps the responses were few because most econ. departments are
doing fine in terms of enrollment, but I doubt it.  If you were
gone for the Summer but would like to add too this discussion,
please feel free to post your experiences/solutions to sci.econ.research

Thanks to those who did pitch in here.

Cheers,
Bob Drago
drago@csd.uwm.edu (univ. wisconsin-milwaukee)


From: grace@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jamie Barlow)
To: drago@convex.csd.uwm.edu
Subject: Re: intro econ course enrollments
Newsgroups: sci.econ.research

  One thing I would look at is the quality of the text books. Fisher and Dornbusch are fairly good in my opinion. I've read many different textbook, including ones written back at the turn of the century. Many business economists agree thatmany textbooks are lousy. A guy at AMerican University named Schiller has published a beginning macro and micro text which should take the market. You might tryit.

From: jad1942@okway.okstate.edu
Subject: Survey on Economics Enrollments
Status: OR


Bob Drago:
    Don Bumpass sent me your e-mail concerning economics enrollments.  At OSU 
economics is located in the business college.  Below are some rougn estimates 
which I passed along to Don.  The percentage changes are very sensitive to 
which year you treat as the base year.  My message to Don was as follows:

    I did a rough estimate of what has happened to our student credit hours 
(SCHs) at OSU in our lower division economics classes (i.e. economic issues 
1113 and introductory economics 2013 and 2023) in fall semester 1992 compared 
to fall 1982, in fall 1993 compared to fall 1983, and in fall 1994 compared to 
fall 1984. (I did not look at spring semesters). The table below provides my 
numbers (with the F1993 and F1994 SCHs being estimates based on pre-enrollment 
numbers before school began).

ENROLLMENT IN LOWER LEVEL (1000 & 2000 LEVEL) ECONOMICS COURSES                 
    (Student Credit Hours)                      
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, STILLWATER                       

                    (EST)   (EST)
    FALL 1982   FALL 1983   FALL 1984   FALL 1992   FALL 1993   FALL 1994

SCHs:   6,597       5,604       5,421       3,801       3,411       3,180

                                     %CHG F82-F92 %CHG F83-F93  %CHG F84-F94
                        
                                           -42.4%       -39.1%      -41.3%

The absolute number of SCHs continues to decline slightly, but the percentage 
decline over ten year periods has remained about 40 percent. However, if you 
take F1982 as the base for the calculation of all percentage changes, the 
decline would be at a rate of over 50 percent from F1982 to F1994. 
    
                        Joe Jadlow, Head, Dept. of Econ., OSU

Received: from SpoolDir by SORENSEN (Mercury 1.12); Tue, 9 Aug 94 11:51:31 CDT
From: "Dick Ballman" <ECBALLMAN@Augustana.edu>
Organization:  Augustana College - Rock Island IL
Subject: econ enrollment

At Augustana College (Rock Island) we teach two orthodox
principles courses.  We tend to choose relatively tough text
books (e.g., Parkin) and assign almost all the material
(including, e.g., graphical depiction of the Slutzky equation). 
The courses are rated as being quite difficult by students; They
are consistently ranked in the 10th decile in the "pace and
difficulty" factor derived from student evaluations.  An analysis
of the transcripts of business majors about two years ago
indicated that about 38% of the required principles courses were
taken off-campus, most during the summer at other, particularly
"junior," colleges, but some by transfer students before they
arrived here.  Our reputation for being demanding dates back over
20 years.

Our audience is (almost) entirely captive.  Both business and
accounting majors must take both principles courses (somewhere). 
Political Science majors are supposed to take at least one course
but some seem to be able to get the requirement waived or opt for
a 100-level issues-oriented, relatively non-quantitative course I
teach on the History of Economics.  Pre-physical therapy students
planning on certain graduate programs (e.g., Northwestern) and
some would-be environmental studies students (e.g., Duke) are
advised to take economics.  (Until two years ago we also had a
social work major which required an econ course--they inevitably
opted for the 100-level, however.)

Our principles' enrollment peaked at 506 (250 in macro and 256 in
micro) in '80-'81.  In '83-'84 it was 377 (186, 199); in '92-'93
it was 205 (112, 93); and, this past year it was about 193 (about
103, 90).  These numbers represent students finishing the course
(or, more precisely, students receiving grades)--about 20% of the
initial enrollment bail out.

Our student body peaked somewhere in the vicinity of 2150 in (I
believe) the late eighties and was down to about 1950 this past
year.  I also believe that the female/male ratio has increased
over the past 10 years.  (I could get exact numbers without much
effort if necessary.)

The number of business majors was 373 in '80-'81, was 158 in '83-
'84, peaked at 471 in '90-91, was 347 in '92-'93 and 272 this
past year.  (The anomaly in the early eighties stems from a steep
upgrading of the rigor of the program at that time.)

Another possibly consequential factor is that three years ago our
academic calendar changed from quarters (which required 48
courses to graduate) to semesters (which requires 40).  This has
reduced, perhaps drastically, the number of double and triple
majors on campus.

Finally, our grading standards, which haven't changed perceptibly
in 20 years, have become the most stringent on campus; i.e.,
courses with an "EC" prefix generate the lowest GPA on campus. 
Anecdotal evidence indicates that some of our colleagues in other
disciplines might have relaxed their standards not only for
grading but also for course rigor.

We have done nothing yet to "stem the tide."  We, along with the
business department, are toying around with the idea of becoming
less amenable to transferring econ credits in.  Some in the
administration would be quite receptive to this idea but it might
not be easy to implement it; moreover, it may not be fair to do
so.

I hope you've gotten a number of responses; I am eager to see
your summery.  Incidently I'm a graduate of UWM (B.A., '66; M.A.,
'68; [also, Ph.D., Iowa, '77]) and have some fond memories of
people and experiences from that time.Dick Ballman
Economics/Augustana College
Rock Island IL 61201
[ECBALLMAN@AUGUSTANA.EDU]


From jhirr@powergrid.electriciti.com Fri Sep  9 14:06:09 EDT 1994
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From: jhirr@powergrid.electriciti.com (vern trimble)
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Subject: Statistics on European land use
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I am interested in obtaining the following statistics on irrigated land in 
Spain ond other European countries:

-Number of acres used for commercial agriculture
-Percentage of acres irrigated
-Crop  types (i.e. row crops, orchards, vineyards)
-Method of irrigation (i.e. flood,furrow,canal, drip/trickle)


Should anyone have any information or leads please contact e.marans
at e-mail jhirr@powergrid.electriciti.com

Thank you



From ftmexpat@netcom.com Fri Sep  9 14:06:13 EDT 1994
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From: ftmexpat@netcom.com (Frank McNeil)
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todd huss (thuss@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: I was wondering if anyone could suggest any sites that I could access via
: telnet, mosaic, gopher etc... where I could get Current European Exchange 
: rates with respect to the US dollar from?

Czech National Bank
       (gopher://dsm.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz/11/miscel/rates) has daily
       exchange rate tables starting in last quarter of 1993.


Here is the list that I keep in the the browsable/launchable URL below:

Foreign currency exchange rates

     * Current exchange rate (http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency)
     * Federal Reserve 10 am EST foreign exchange rates
       (gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/monetary/tenfx.frb)
     * Federal Reserve Weekly foreign exchange rates
       (gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/monetary/exchange.frb)
     * Federal Reserve Monthly foreign exchange rates
       (gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/monetary/fxratesm.frb)
     * U.S. Department of Commerce, Exchange Rate Trends and Averages
       (gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/foreign/exrates.txt)
     * Czech National Bank
       (gopher://dsm.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz/11/miscel/rates) has daily
       exchange rate tables starting in last quarter of 1993.

I would like to find a site that kept exchange rates going back 
1 to 10 ten years.

Thank you,

Frank
ftmexpat@netcom.com
ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ftmexpat/html/taxsites.html 



From hanf@ips.id.ethz.ch Fri Sep  9 14:06:16 EDT 1994
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From: hanf@ips.id.ethz.ch (Martin Hanf)
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____________________________________________________________________________
PASE '95:

                            5th Anniversary
                          First Announcement
                            
                       International Workshop on 
           Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics

                     >> Non-linear Data Analysis <<

                         Trier - Mainz, Germany
                      August 29 - September 2, 1995

____________________________________________________________________________
PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP:

  The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested 
  in innovative information processing systems and their applications in the 
  areas of statistics, finance and economics. The focus will be on in-depth 
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  behavior of complex dynamic systems. The PASE'95 workshop is concerned 
  with but not restricted to the following topics:

   o  Applications in finance, economics, and natural science
   o  Statistical tests for finding deterministic and chaotic behavior
   o  Statistical tests for measuring stability and stationarity
   o  Sampling and retrieving techniques for high frequency data
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____________________________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________________________
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             PASE Workshop - Dr. Diethelm Wuertz
             Schweizerischer Bankverein, Zurich, Switzerland
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  before May 31st 1995. No currencies other than Swiss Francs will be 
  accepted.  In the case of a later remittance we cannot guarantee your
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____________________________________________________________________________
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  The workshop fee is Sfr 580.- for profit-making companies and Sfr 230.- 
  for others. It includes the Proceedings, published as a Special Issue of 
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____________________________________________________________________________
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  For students and a limited number of participants from "post-communist" 
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  please contact the organizers.

____________________________________________________________________________
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  Regular abstracts of one page (approximately 30 lines with 60 characters) 
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  refereed. The deadline for the full papers (about 10 pages) is April 1st, 
  1995. We cannot guarantee that papers submitted later will be printed in 
  the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the conference. It 
  is also possible to submit an extended abstract of 4 pages. From these 
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  3 further speakers for an invited talk. The deadlines are the same as 
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  and full papers to:

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    Pod vodarenskou vezi 2                FAX:    +42 2 858 57 89
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____________________________________________________________________________
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  for Applied Economics, Zurich) and the Institute of Computer Science 
  (Academy of Sciences, Prague)

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From tamossel@cs.vu.nl Fri Sep  9 14:06:20 EDT 1994
Article: 1486 of sci.econ.research
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From: tamossel@cs.vu.nl (Mossel TAK)
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Subject: How does the EMH perform these days?
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Hi all. I just wondered whether the Efficient Market Hypothesis (Fama)
reflects the actual data of the stock markets any good.

Anyone with any knowledge about this, please send your replies through
e-mail.

Greetings,

tamossel@cs.vu.nl



From pherron@leland.Stanford.EDU Fri Sep  9 14:06:23 EDT 1994
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From: pherron@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Herron)
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Subject: Re: Reputation, Chain Store Paradox and Centepede Game
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In article <1994Aug23.223428.11892@aristo.tau.ac.il>,
shayn barak student <anastas@ccsg.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> I am seeking information for a paper I am writing on the subject of
> the Chain Store Paradox (a.k.a the Chain Store Game) and the
> Centipede game, and especially on the subject of reputation earned
> via signalling in the two games.

A good textbook discussion can be found in Fudenberg and Tirole,
Game Theory, pp. 369+.  See the book's bibliography as well.

Michael Herron



From eco_dlb@SHSU.edu Fri Sep  9 14:06:33 EDT 1994
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Public Information Office                       CB94-O.03
301-763-4040
301-763-5668 (TDD)

Randy Summers
301-763-1935

                      CENSUS BUREAU PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT


Quick!  How many of these questions about U.S. counties and cities 
can you answer correctly?

      a)  Which U.S. county experienced the largest population   
          decline between 1980 and 1992?

      b)  Which U.S. counties have the most and fewest people per
          square mile?

      c)  Where do the highest percentage of Americans live      
          alone?

      d)  In what county do the highest percentage of people     
          drive alone to work?

      e)  In which large cities are people most likely to live in
          condominiums?

      Answers to these and many other questions about U.S.
counties and cities can be found in the new Census Bureau County
and City Data Book.

      The 12th edition of the County and City Data Book contains
information on subjects ranging from crime to education to income
to vital statistics, and brings together information from 
nine federal agencies and three private organizations.

                                      -X-

County and City Data Book, stock number 003-024-08753-7, is
available for $40.00 from any Government Printing Office
bookstore.  The book is available also from the National
Technical Information Service, stock number PB94-140993AFY, for
$40.00.    

To request a package of ranking tables contact the bureau's 
Public Information Office by telephone:  301-763-4040, 
fax: 301-763-4644, or e-mail: pio@census.gov.

                                    Answers

      a) Wayne, Michigan lost 241,644 people between 1980 and
      1992.  b) New York County, New York has about 52,432       
      persons per square mile.  Lake and Peninsula counties,     
      Alaska have 0.1 persons per square mile.  c) In New York   
      County, NY, almost 49 percent of the population lives      
      alone. d) In Loving County, Texas, 96.5 percent of the     
      population drives to work alone.  e) Nearly 30 percent of  
      the population of Honolulu, Hawaii live in condominiums.   
      The next closest city is Aurora, Colorado where slightly   
      over 17 percent of the population lives in condos.



     NEW COMPARATIVE STUDY HOLDS GREAT PROMISE FOR SHARPER 

     INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, REPORTS CENSUS BUREAU

     To greatly improve international economic analyses, agencies
of Canada, Europe, and the United States have published a 
first-ever concordance, that allows comparisons of the industry
classifications used in compiling separate national statistics. 
It was developed by Statistics Canada, the U.S. Bureau of the
Census (the designated representative of the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget), and Eurostat, the Statistical Office of
the European Communities.

     In issuing the publication, The International Concordance
Between the Industrial Classifications of the United Nations,
Canada, the European Union and the United States, officials of
each statistical agency agreed with Katherine K. Wallman, Chief
Statistician of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, who
said it "holds great promise for future users of industry
statistics who wish to conduct comparisons of the industrial
structures of Europe and North America."

     The publication features two kinds of comparisons -- between
each separate system and a common international system (called
the trilateral concordance) and between each pair of separate
systems (called bilateral concordances).  This is a major
improvement because these comparisons:

     -    include all of the more than 2,300 industries 
          identified in each separate statistical system, and

     -    are based on the United Nation's International Standard
          Industrial Classification (Revision 3).

     These concordances will help analysts understand how the
international economy works.  For the first time, analysts will
be able to:

     -    compare measures such as wages, unemployment, and
          productivity by industry among nations, and

     -    monitor the effects on industries of tariff changes or
          other events in each country involved.

     In the past, analysts relied on approximate and unofficial
conversions of various national industry classifications.

     Preparation of the concordances required concerted effort by
officials of the affected statistical agencies, and represents an
important step toward greater convergence of the industry
classifications used in North America and Europe.

     Copies of the report are available from the Classification
Staff, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., 20233-6100 or on
301-763-1935.  

                               -X-


CENSUS BUREAU NEWS RELEASES BY E-MAIL

Just a reminder that you can now add yourself to an e-mail list
that will automatically e-mail you our news releases and
tipsheets.  Send an e-mail message to pio@census.gov, and in the
message body type "subscribe press-corps".  Also include the name
of your news outlet, the address and telephone number, and your
preferred e-mail address.  You will then begin receiving news
releases and tipsheets 3 days in advance of the embargo date. 

Non-media organizations may also add themselves to a list by
sending an e-mail message to pio@census.gov, and typing
"subscribe press-release" in the message body.  This list
receives releases and tipsheets on the day of release.

For more information, contact Jackson Morton or Liane Rozzell at
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From jkarl2000@aol.com Fri Sep  9 14:06:36 EDT 1994
Article: 1492 of sci.econ.research
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From: jkarl2000@aol.com (J Karl2000)
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Subject: Urban Economic development
Date: 5 Sep 1994 00:12:02 -0400
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Does anyone know of any papers or books on the effect of stadiums, arenas,
and convention centers on urban and regional economic development. My
address is Jkarl2000@aol.com.   Thanks.



From anderi@rosalie.fir.london Fri Sep  9 14:06:40 EDT 1994
Article: 1493 of sci.econ.research
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From: anderi@rosalie.fir.london (Iain Anderson FISD LDN)
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Subject: Chaos theory and financial modelling
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Can anyone provide information/pointers regarding chaos theory and financial modelling or within economics ?

Is there a bulletin board for such a subject ?

Thanks in advance



From arijit@atlas.socsci.umn.edu Fri Sep  9 14:06:44 EDT 1994
Article: 1494 of sci.econ.research
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From: arijit@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (arijit)
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Subject: Re: Contract Theory, Information, etc.
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In article <szaboCv6o8y.K2x@netcom.com> szabo@netcom.com (Nick Szabo) writes:
>I'm engaging in a course of study on contract theory,
>and am especially interested in the following issues --
>* incentive sharing vs. risk sharing, for example in
>insurance contracts -- how are these two kinds of
>sharings modeled and how do they interelate?

A standard reference for this is Holmstrom's paper
in the Bell Journal of Economics, 1979.  Risk has
to be imposed to create the right incentives and
the optimal contract trades off the costs and benefits
of imposing more risk on the agent.
>* what happens when agents are modeled as time and
>space bounded Turing machines, rather than linear
>functions or functions with infinite computing power?
I am not sure how to answer this.  There is some work in
game theory - an article by Abreu and Rubinstein on
the Prisoner's Dilemma played by finite automata.  I
suppose you want to ask the more general question of
what happens to the optimal contract given bounded
rationality/computation.
>* mechanism incentive compatibility theories that assume the 
>mediator is also a self-interested agent, rather than trusted
See Myerson's paper in Econometrica (1983 or 1984) on
Mechanism Design by an Informed Principal.  A version of 
the Revelation Principle titled Noisy Revelation is also
developed by Praveen Kumar, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University
in a working paper for the case when the principal cannot
credibly commit to ignore information revealed in interim
periods.  For the time inconsistency problem, see the 
articles by Baron and Besanko (Rev of Econ. Studies, 1987?)
or Laffont-Tirole (Econometrica 1987)  The Myerson paper
by contrast is static..
>* propagation of information through markets via price
>changes.
Grossman (the Informational role of Prices, MIT Press) has
several papers on this.  See Kyle (Econometrica, 1985) or
Easley and O'Hara for models of strategic trading by insiders.
Grossman treats traders as competitive.
Most of the other topics you mentioned are probably discussed
in Tirole's Industrial organization text, MIT Press, although
there's been more recent work in the area.

--
 Arijit Mukherji, arijit@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota



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              Standard Industrial Classification Code List
                                   for
                County Business Patterns, 1988 - 1989

NOTE: Major Industry Groups contain one or more 2-digit SIC
codes and are identified by an *--* in the last two digits,
2-digit SIC codes are identified by an "00" in the last
two digits.

---- TOTAL (ALL INDUSTRIES)

07--  AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, AND FISHING
  0700     Agricultural services
    0710     Soil preparation services
    0720     Crop services
    0740     Veterinary services
    0750     Animal services, except veterinary
    0760     Farm labor and management services
    0761     Farm labor contractors
    0762     Farm management services
    0780     Landscape and horticultural services
0800     Forestry
0900     Fishing, hunting, and trapping
098\  AGR Administrative and auxiliary

10--  MINING
  1000     Metal mining
    1010     Iron ores
    1020     Copper ores
    1030     Lead and zinc ores
    1040     Gold and silver ores
       1041     Gold ores
       1044     Silver ores
    1060     Ferroalloy ores, except vanadium
    1080     Metal mining services
    1090     Miscellaneous metal ores
       1094     Uranium-radium-vanadium ores
       1099     Metal ores, n.e.c.

1200     Coal mining
    1220     Bituminous coal and lignite mining
       1221     Bituminous coal and lignite surface
       1222     Bituminous coal underground
    1230     Anthracite mining
    1240     Coal mining services

1300     Oil and gas extraction
    1310     Crude petroleum and natural gas
    1320     Natural gas liquids
    1380     Oil and gas field services
       1381     Drilling oil and gas wells
       1382     Oil and gas exploration services
       1389     Oil and gas field services, n.e.c.

1400     Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels
    1410     Dimension stone
    1420     Crushed and broken stone
       1422     Crushed and broken limestone
       1423     Crushed and broken granite
       1429     Crushed and broken stone, n.e.c.
    1440     Sand and gravel
       1442     Construction sand and gravel
       1446     Industrial sand
    1450     Clay, ceramic, & refractory minerals
       1455     Kaolin and ball clay
       1459     Clay and related minerals, n.e.c.
    1470     Chemical and fertilizer minerals
       1474     Potash, soda, and borate minerals
       1475     Phosphate rock
       1479     Chemical and fertilizer mining, n.e.c.
    1480     Nonmetallic minerals services
    1490     Miscellaneous nonmetallic minerals
149\  MIN Administrative and auxiliary

15--  CONSTRUCTION
1500     General contractors & operative builders
    1510     General building contractors
    1530     Operative builders

1600     Heavy construction, except building
    1610     Highway and street construction
    1620     Heavy construction, except highway

1700     Special trade contractors
    1710     Plumbing, heating, air-conditioning
    1720     Painting and paper hanging
    1730     Electrical work
    1740     Masonry, stonework, and plastering
       1741     Masonry and other stonework
       1742     Plastering, drywall, and insulation
       1743     Terrazzo, tile, marble, mosaic work
    1750     Carpentry and floor work
       1751     Carpentry work
       1752     Floor laying and floor work, n.e.c.
    1760     Roofing, siding, & sheet metal work
    1770     Concrete work
    1780     Water well drilling
    1790     Misc. special trade contractors
       1791     Structural steel erection
       1793     Glass and glazing work
       1794     Excavation work
       1795     Wrecking and demolition work
       1796     Installing building equipment, n.e.c.
       1799     Special trade contractors, n.e.c.
179\  CON Administrative and auxiliary

20--  MANUFACTURING
2000     Food and kindred products
2010     Meat products
2011     Meat packing plants
2013     Sausages and other prepared meats
2015     Poultry slaughtering and processing
2020     Dairy products
2021     Creamery butter
2022     Cheese, natural and processed
2023     Dry, condensed, evaporated products
2024     Ice cream and frozen desserts
2026     Fluid milk
2030     Preserved fruits and vegetables
2032     Canned specialties
2033     Canned fruits and vegetables
2034     Dehydrated fruits, vegetables, soups
2035     Pickles, sauces, and salad dressings
2037     Frozen fruits and vegetables
2038     Frozen specialties, n.e.c.
2040     Grain mill products
2041     Flour and other grain mill products
2043     Cereal breakfast foods
2044     Rice milling
2045     Prepared flour mixes and doughs
2046     Wet corn milling
2047     Dog and cat food
2048     Prepared feeds, n.e.c.
2050     Bakery products
2051     Bread, cake, and related products
2052     Cookies and crackers
2053     Frozen bakery products, except bread
2060     Sugar and confectionery products
2061     Raw cane sugar
2062     Cane sugar refining
2063     Beet sugar
2064     Candy & other confectionery products
2066     Chocolate and cocoa products
2067     Chewing gum
2068     Salted and roasted nuts and seeds
2070     Fats and oils
2074     Cottonseed oil mills
2075     Soybean oil mills
2076     Vegetable oil mills, n.e.c.
2077     Animal and marine fats and oils
2079     Edible fats and oils, n.e.c.
2080     Beverages
2082     Malt beverages
2083     Malt
2084     Wines, brandy, and brandy spirits
2085     Distilled and blended liquors
2086     Bottled and canned soft drinks
2087     Flavoring extracts and syrups, n.e.c.
2090     Misc. food and kindred products
2091     Canned and cured fish and seafoods
2092     Fresh or frozen prepared fish
2095     Roasted coffee
2096     Potato chips and similar snacks
2097     Manufactured ice
2098     Macaroni and spaghetti
2099     Food preparations, n.e.c.

2100     Tobacco products
2110     Cigarettes
2120     Cigars
2130     Chewing and smoking tobacco
2140     Tobacco stemming and redrying

2200     Textile mill products
2210     Broadwoven fabric mills, cotton
2220     Broadwoven fabric mills, manmade
2230     Broadwoven fabric mills, wool
2240     Narrow fabric mills
2250     Knitting mills
2251     Women's hosiery, except socks
2252     Hosiery, n.e.c.
2253     Knit outerwear mills
2254     Knit underwear mills
2257     Weft knit fabric mills
2258     Lace & warp knit fabric mills
2259     Knitting mills, n.e.c.
2260     Textile finishing, except wool
2261     Finishing plants, cotton
2262     Finishing plants, manmade
2269     Finishing plants, n.e.c.
2270     Carpets and rugs
2280     Yarn and thread mills
2281     Yarn spinning mills
2282     Throwing and winding mills
2284     Thread mills
2290     Miscellaneous textile goods
2295     Coated fabrics, not rubberized
2296     Tire cord and fabrics
2297     Nonwoven fabrics
2298     Cordage and twine
2299     Textile goods, n.e.c.

2300     Apparel and other textile products
2310     Men's and boys' suits and coats
2320     Men's and boys' furnishings
2321     Men's and boys' shirts
2322     Men's & boys' underwear + nightwear
2323     Men's and boys' neckwear
2325     Men's and boys' trousers and slacks
2326     Men's and boys' work clothing
2329     Men's and boys' clothing, n.e.c.
2330     Women's and misses' outerwear
2331     Women's & misses' blouses & shirts
2335     Women's, junior's, & misses' dresses
2337     Women's and misses' suits and coats
2339     Women's and misses' outerwear, n.e.c.
2340     Women's and children's undergarments
2341     Women's and children's underwear
2342     Bras, girdles, and allied garments
2350     Hats, caps, and millinery
2360     Girls' and children's outerwear
2361     Girls' & children's dresses, blouses
2369     Girls' and children's outerwear, n.e.c.
2370     Fur goods
2380     Miscellaneous apparel and accessories
2381     Fabric dress and work gloves
2384     Robes and dressing gowns
2385     Waterproof outerwear
2386     Leather and sheep-lined clothing
2387     Apparel belts
2389     Apparel and accessories, n.e.c.
2390     Misc. fabricated textile products
2391     Curtains and draperies
2392     Housefurnishings, n.e.c.
2393     Textile bags
2394     Canvas and related products
2395     Pleating and stitching
2396     Automotive and apparel trimmings
2397     Schiffli machine embroideries
2399     Fabricated textile products, n.e.c.

2400     Lumber and wood products
2410     Logging
2420     Sawmills and planing mills
2421     Sawmills and planing mills, general
2426     Hardwood dimension & flooring mills
2429     Special product sawmills, n.e.c.
2430     Millwork, plywood & structural members
2431     Millwork
2434     Wood kitchen cabinets
2435     Hardwood veneer and plywood
2436     Softwood veneer and plywood
2439     Structural wood members, n.e.c.
2440     Wood containers
2441     Nailed wood boxes and shook
2448     Wood pallets and skids
2449     Wood containers, n.e.c.
2450     Wood buildings and mobile homes
2451     Mobile homes
2452     Prefabricated wood buildings
2490     Miscellaneous wood products
2491     Wood preserving
2493     Reconstituted wood products
2499     Wood products, n.e.c.

2500     Furniture and fixtures
2510     Household furniture
2511     Wood household furniture
2512     Upholstered household furniture
2514     Metal household furniture
2515     Mattresses and bedsprings
2517     Wood TV and radio cabinets
2519     Household furniture, n.e.c.
2520     Office furniture
2521     Wood office furniture
2522     Office furniture, except wood
2530     Public building & related furniture
2540     Partitions and fixtures
2541     Wood partitions and fixtures
2542     Partitions and fixtures, except wood
2590     Miscellaneous furniture and fixtures
2591     Drapery hardware & blinds & shades
2599     Furniture and fixtures, n.e.c.

2600     Paper and allied products
2610     Pulp mills
2620     Paper mills
2630     Paperboard mills
2650     Paperboard containers and boxes
2652     Setup paperboard boxes
2653     Corrugated and solid fiber boxes
2655     Fiber cans, drums & similar products
2656     Sanitary food containers
2657     Folding paperboard boxes
2670     Misc. converted paper products
2671     Paper coated & laminated, packaging
2672     Paper coated and laminated, n.e.c.
2673     Bags: plastics, laminated, & coated
2674     Bags: uncoated paper & multiwall
2675     Die-cut paper and board
2676     Sanitary paper products
2677     Envelopes
2678     Stationery products
2679     Converted paper products, n.e.c.

2700     Printing and publishing
2710     Newspapers
2720     Periodicals
2730     Books
2731     Book publishing
2732     Book printing
2740     Miscellaneous publishing
2750     Commercial printing
2752     Commercial printing, lithographic
2754     Commercial printing, gravure
2759     Commercial printing, n.e.c.
2760     Manifold business forms
2770     Greeting cards
2780     Blankbooks and bookbinding
2782     Blankbooks and looseleaf binders
2789     Bookbinding and related work
2790     Printing trade services
2791     Typesetting
2796     Platemaking services

2800     Chemicals and allied products
2810     Industrial inorganic chemicals
2812     Alkalies and chlorine
2813     Industrial gases
2816     Inorganic pigments
2819     Industrial inorganic chemicals, n.e.c.
2820     Plastics materials and synthetics
2821     Plastics materials and resins
2822     Synthetic rubber
2823     Cellulosic manmade fibers
2824     Organic fibers, noncellulosic
2830     Drugs
2833     Medicinals and botanicals
2834     Pharmaceutical preparations
2835     Diagnostic substances
2836     Biological products exc. diagnostic
2840     Soaps, cleaners, and toilet goods
2841     Soaps and other detergents
2842     Polishes and sanitation goods
2843     Surface active agents
2844     Toilet preparations
2850     Paints and allied products
2860     Industrial organic chemicals
2861     Gum and wood chemicals
2865     Cyclic crudes and intermediates
2869     Industrial organic chemicals, n.e.c.
2870     Agricultural chemicals
2873     Nitrogenous fertilizers
2874     Phosphatic fertilizers
2875     Fertilizers, mixing only
2879     Agricultural chemicals, n.e.c.
2890     Miscellaneous chemical products
2891     Adhesives and sealants
2892     Explosives
2893     Printing ink
2895     Carbon black
2899     Chemical preparations, n.e.c.

2900     Petroleum and coal products
2910     Petroleum refining
2950     Asphalt paving and roofing materials
2951     Asphalt paving mixtures and blocks
2952     Asphalt felts and coatings
2990     Misc. petroleum and coal products
2992     Lubricating oils and greases
2999     Petroleum and coal products, n.e.c.

3000     Rubber and misc. plastics products
3010     Tires and inner tubes
3020     Rubber and plastics footwear
3050     Hose & belting & gaskets & packing
3052     Rubber & plastics hose & belting
3053     Gaskets, packing and sealing devices
3060     Fabricated rubber products, n.e.c.
3061     Mechanical rubber goods
3069     Fabricated rubber products, n.e.c.
3080     Miscellaneous plastics products, n.e.c.
3081     Unsupported plastics film & sheet
3082     Unsupported plastics profile shapes
3083     Laminated plastics plate & sheet
3084     Plastics pipe
3085     Plastics bottles
3086     Plastics foam products
3087     Custom compound purchased resins
3088     Plastics plumbing fixtures
3089     Plastics products, n.e.c.

3100     Leather and leather products
3110     Leather tanning and finishing
3130     Footwear cut stock
3140     Footwear, except rubber
3142     House slippers
3143     Men's footwear, except athletic
3144     Women's footwear, except athletic
3149     Footwear, except rubber, n.e.c.
3150     Leather gloves and mittens
3160     Luggage
3170     Handbags and personal leather goods
3171     Women's handbags and purses
3172     Personal leather goods, n.e.c.
3190     Leather goods, n.e.c.

3200     Stone, clay, and glass products
3210     Flat glass
3220     Glass and glassware, pressed or blown
3221     Glass containers
3229     Pressed and blown glass, n.e.c.
3230     Products of purchased glass
3240     Cement, hydraulic
3250     Structural clay products
3251     Brick and structural clay tile
3253     Ceramic wall and floor tile
3255     Clay refractories
3259     Structural clay products, n.e.c.
3260     Pottery and related products
3261     Vitreous plumbing fixtures
3262     Vitreous china table & kitchenware
3263     Semivitreous table & kitchenware
3264     Porcelain electrical supplies
3269     Pottery products, n.e.c.
3270     Concrete, gypsum, and plaster products
3271     Concrete block and brick
3272     Concrete products, n.e.c.
3273     Ready-mixed concrete
3274     Lime
3275     Gypsum products
3280     Cut stone and stone products
3290     Misc. nonmetallic mineral products
3291     Abrasive products
3292     Asbestos products
3295     Minerals, ground or treated
3296     Mineral wool
3297     Nonclay refractories
3299     Nonmetallic mineral products, n.e.c.

3300     Primary metal industries
3310     Blast furnace and basic steel products
3312     Blast furnaces and steel mills
3313     Electrometallurgical products
3315     Steel wire and related products
3316     Cold finishing of steel shapes
3317     Steel pipe and tubes
3320     Iron and steel foundries
3321     Gray and ductile iron foundries
3322     Malleable iron foundries
3324     Steel investment foundries
3325     Steel foundries, n.e.c.
3330     Primary nonferrous metals
3331     Primary copper
3334     Primary aluminum
3339     Primary nonferrous metals, n.e.c.
3340     Secondary nonferrous metals
3350     Nonferrous rolling and drawing
3351     Copper rolling and drawing
3353     Aluminum sheet, plate, and foil
3354     Aluminum extruded products
3355     Aluminum rolling and drawing, n.e.c.
3356     Nonferrous rolling and drawing, n.e.c.
3357     Nonferrous wiredrawing & insulating
3360     Nonferrous foundries (castings)
3363     Aluminum die-castings
3364     Nonferrous die-casting exc. aluminum
3365     Aluminum foundries
3366     Copper foundries
3369     Nonferrous foundries, n.e.c.
3390     Miscellaneous primary metal products
3398     Metal heat treating
3399     Primary metal products, n.e.c.

3400     Fabricated metal products
3410     Metal cans and shipping containers
3411     Metal cans
3412     Metal barrels, drums, and pails
3420     Cutlery, handtools, and hardware
3421     Cutlery
3423     Hand and edge tools, n.e.c.
3425     Saw blades and handsaws
3429     Hardware, n.e.c.
3430     Plumbing and heating, except electric
3431     Metal sanitary ware
3432     Plumbing fixture fittings and trim
3433     Heating equipment, except electric
3440     Fabricated structural metal products
3441     Fabricated structural metal
3442     Metal doors, sash, and trim
3443     Fabricated plate work (boiler shops)
3444     Sheet metalwork
3446     Architectural metal work
3448     Prefabricated metal buildings
3449     Miscellaneous metal work
3450     Screw machine products, bolts, etc.
3451     Screw machine products
3452     Bolts, nuts, rivets, and washers
3460     Metal forgings and stampings
3462     Iron and steel forgings
3463     Nonferrous forgings
3465     Automotive stampings
3466     Crowns and closures
3469     Metal stampings, n.e.c.
3470     Metal services, n.e.c.
3471     Plating and polishing
3479     Metal coating and allied services
3480     Ordnance and accessories, n.e.c.
3482     Small arms ammunition
3483     Ammunition, exc. for small arms, n.e.c.
3484     Small arms
3489     Ordnance and accessories, n.e.c.
3490     Misc. fabricated metal products
3491     Industrial valves
3492     Fluid power valves & hose fittings
3493     Steel springs, except wire
3494     Valves and pipe fittings, n.e.c.
3495     Wire springs
3496     Misc. fabricated wire products
3497     Metal foil and leaf
3498     Fabricated pipe and fittings
3499     Fabricated metal products, n.e.c.

3500     Industrial machinery and equipment
3510     Engines and turbines
3511     Turbines and turbine generator sets
3519     Internal combustion engines, n.e.c.
3520     Farm and garden machinery
3523     Farm machinery and equipment
3524     Lawn and garden equipment
3530     Construction and related machinery
3531     Construction machinery
3532     Mining machinery
3533     Oil and gas field machinery
3534     Elevators and moving stairways
3535     Conveyors and conveying equipment
3536     Hoists, cranes, and monorails
3537     Industrial trucks and tractors
3540     Metalworking machinery
3541     Machine tools, metal cutting types
3542     Machine tools, metal forming types
3543     Industrial patterns
3544     Special dies, tools, jigs & fixtures
3545     Machine tool accessories
3546     Power-driven handtools
3547     Rolling mill machinery
3548     Welding apparatus
3549     Metalworking machinery, n.e.c.
3550     Special industry machinery
3552     Textile machinery
3553     Woodworking machinery
3554     Paper industries machinery
3555     Printing trades machinery
3556     Food products machinery
3559     Special industry machinery, n.e.c.
3560     General industrial machinery
3561     Pumps and pumping equipment
3562     Ball and roller bearings
3563     Air and gas compressors
3564     Blowers and fans
3565     Packaging machinery
3566     Speed changers, drives, and gears
3567     Industrial furnaces and ovens
3568     Power transmission equipment, n.e.c.
3569     General industrial machinery, n.e.c.
3570     Computer and office equipment
3571     Electronic computers
3572     Computer storage devices
3575     Computer terminals
3577     Computer peripheral equipment, n.e.c.
3578     Calculating and accounting equipment
3579     Office machines, n.e.c.
3580     Refrigeration and service machinery
3581     Automatic vending machines
3582     Commercial laundry equipment
3585     Refrigeration and heating equipment
3586     Measuring and dispensing pumps
3589     Service industry machinery, n.e.c.
3590     Industrial machinery, n.e.c.
3592     Carburetors, pistons, rings, valves
3593     Fluid power cylinders & actuators
3594     Fluid power pumps and motors
3596     Scales and balances, exc. laboratory
3599     Industrial machinery, n.e.c.

3600     Electronic & other electric equipment
3610     Electric distribution equipment
3612     Transformers, except electronic
3613     Switchgear and switchboard apparatus
3620     Electrical industrial apparatus
3621     Motors and generators
3624     Carbon and graphite products
3625     Relays and industrial controls
3629     Electrical industrial apparatus, n.e.c.
3630     Household appliances
3631     Household cooking equipment
3632     Household refrigerators and freezers
3633     Household laundry equipment
3634     Electric housewares and fans
3635     Household vacuum cleaners
3639     Household appliances, n.e.c.
3640     Electric lighting and wiring equipment
3641     Electric lamps
3643     Current-carrying wiring devices
3644     Noncurrent-carrying wiring devices
3645     Residential lighting fixtures
3646     Commercial lighting fixtures
3647     Vehicular lighting equipment
3648     Lighting equipment, n.e.c.
3650     Household audio and video equipment
3651     Household audio and video equipment
3652     Prerecorded records and tapes
3660     Communications equipment
3661     Telephone and telegraph apparatus
3663     Radio & TV communications equipment
3669     Communications equipment, n.e.c.
3670     Electronic components and accessories
3671     Electron tubes
3672     Printed circuit boards
3674     Semiconductors and related devices
3675     Electronic capacitors
3676     Electronic resistors
3677     Electronic coils and transformers
3678     Electronic connectors
3679     Electronic components, n.e.c.
3690     Misc. electrical equipment & supplies
3691     Storage batteries
3692     Primary batteries, dry and wet
3694     Engine electrical equipment
3695     Magnetic and optical recording media
3699     Electrical equipment & supplies, n.e.c.

3700     Transportation equipment
3710     Motor vehicles and equipment
3711     Motor vehicles and car bodies
3713     Truck and bus bodies
3714     Motor vehicle parts and accessories
3715     Truck trailers
3716     Motor homes
3720     Aircraft and parts
3721     Aircraft
3724     Aircraft engines and engine parts
3728     Aircraft parts and equipment, n.e.c.
3730     Ship and boat building and repairing
3731     Ship building and repairing
3732     Boat building and repairing
3740     Railroad equipment
3750     Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts
3760     Guided missiles, space vehicles, parts
3761     Guided missiles and space vehicles
3764     Space propulsion units and parts
3769     Space vehicle equipment, n.e.c.
3790     Miscellaneous transportation equipment
3792     Travel trailers and campers
3795     Tanks and tank components
3799     Transportation equipment, n.e.c.

3800     Instruments and related products
3810     Search and navigation equipment
3820     Measuring and controlling devices
3821     Laboratory apparatus and furniture
3822     Environmental controls
3823     Process control instruments
3824     Fluid meters and counting devices
3825     Instruments to measure electricity
3826     Analytical instruments
3827     Optical instruments and lenses
3829     Measuring & controlling devices, n.e.c.
3840     Medical instruments and supplies
3841     Surgical and medical instruments
3842     Surgical appliances and supplies
3843     Dental equipment and supplies
3844     X-ray apparatus and tubes
3845     Electromedical equipment
3850     Ophthalmic goods
3860     Photographic equipment and supplies
3870     Watches, clocks, watchcases & parts

3900     Miscellaneous manufacturing industries
3910     Jewelry, silverware, and plated ware
3911     Jewelry, precious metal
3914     Silverware and plated ware
3915     Jewelers' materials & lapidary work
3930     Musical instruments
3940     Toys and sporting goods
3942     Dolls and stuffed toys
3944     Games, toys, and children's vehicles
3949     Sporting and athletic goods, n.e.c.
3950     Pens, pencils, office, & art supplies
3951     Pens and mechanical pencils
3952     Lead pencils and art goods
3953     Marking devices
3955     Carbon paper and inked ribbons
3960     Costume jewelry and notions
3961     Costume jewelry
3965     Fasteners, buttons, needles, & pins
3990     Miscellaneous manufactures
3991     Brooms and brushes
3993     Signs and advertising specialities
3995     Burial caskets
3996     Hard surface floor coverings, n.e.c.
3999     Manufacturing industries, n.e.c.
399\  MAN Administrative and auxiliary

40-- TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC  UTILITIES
4100     Local and interurban passenger transit
4110     Local and suburban transportation
4111     Local and suburban transit
4119     Local passenger transportation, n.e.c.
4120     Taxicabs
4130     Intercity and rural bus transportation
4140     Bus charter service
4141     Local bus charter service
4142     Bus charter service, except local
4150     School buses
4170     Bus terminal and service facilities

4200     Trucking and warehousing
4210     Trucking & courier services, except air
4220     Public warehousing and storage
4221     Farm product warehousing and storage
4222     Refrigerated warehousing and storage
4225     General warehousing and storage
4226     Special warehousing and storage, n.e.c.
4230     Trucking terminal facilities

4400     Water transportation
4410     Deep sea foreign trans. of freight
4420     Deep sea domestic trans. of freight
4430     Freight trans. on the Great Lakes
4440     Water transportation of freight, n.e.c.
4480     Water transportation of passengers
4481     Deep sea passenger trans., except ferry
4482     Ferries
4489     Water passenger transportation, n.e.c.
4490     Water transportation services
4491     Marine cargo handling
4492     Towing and tugboat service
4493     Marinas
4499     Water transportation services, n.e.c.

4500     Transportation by air
4510     Air transportation, scheduled
4520     Air transportation, nonscheduled
4580     Airports, flying fields, & services

4600     Pipelines, except natural gas
4619     Pipelines, n.e.c.

4700     Transportation services
4720     Passenger transportation arrangement
4724     Travel agencies
4725     Tour operators
4729     Passenger transport arrangement, n.e.c.
4730     Freight transportation arrangement
4740     Rental of railroad cars
4780     Miscellaneous transportation services

4800     Communication
4810     Telephone communication
4812     Radiotelephone communications
4813     Telephone communications, exc. radio
4820     Telegraph & other communications
4830     Radio and television broadcasting
4840     Cable and other pay TV services
4890     Communication services, n.e.c.

4900     Electric, gas, and sanitary services
4910     Electric services
4920     Gas production and distribution
4930     Combination utility services
4931     Electric and other services combined
4932     Gas and other services combined
4939     Combination utilities, n.e.c.
4940     Water supply
4950     Sanitary services
4960     Steam and air-conditioning supply
4970     Irrigation systems
497\  TRN Administrative and auxiliary

50--  WHOLESALE TRADE
5000     Wholesale trade-durable goods
5010     Motor vehicles, parts, and supplies
5012     Automobiles and other motor vehicles
5013     Motor vehicle supplies and new parts
5014     Tires and tubes
5015     Motor vehicle parts, used
5020     Furniture and homefurnishings
5021     Furniture
5023     Homefurnishings
5030     Lumber and construction materials
5031     Lumber, plywood, and millwork
5032     Brick, stone, & related materials
5033     Roofing, siding, & insulation
5039     Construction materials, n.e.c.
5040     Professional & commercial equipment
5043     Photographic equipment and supplies
5044     Office equipment
5045     Computers, peripherals & software
5046     Commercial equipment, n.e.c.
5047     Medical and hospital equipment
5048     Ophthalmic goods
5049     Professional equipment, n.e.c.
5050     Metals and minerals, except petroleum
5051     Metals service centers and offices
5052     Coal and other minerals and ores
5060     Electrical goods
5063     Electrical apparatus and equipment
5064     Electrical appliances, TV & radios
5065     Electronic parts and equipment
5070     Hardware, plumbing & heating equipment
5072     Hardware
5074     Plumbing & hydronic heating supplies
5075     Warm air heating & air-conditioning
5078     Refrigeration equipment and supplies
5080     Machinery, equipment, and supplies
5082     Construction and mining machinery
5083     Farm and garden machinery
5084     Industrial machinery and equipment
5085     Industrial supplies
5087     Service establishment equipment
5088     Transportation equipment & supplies
5090     Miscellaneous durable goods
5091     Sporting & recreational goods
5092     Toys and hobby goods and supplies
5093     Scrap and waste materials
5094     Jewelry & precious stones
5099     Durable goods, n.e.c.

5100     Wholesale trade-nondurable goods
5110     Paper and paper products
5111     Printing and writing paper
5112     Stationery and office supplies
5113     Industrial & personal service paper
5120     Drugs, proprietaries, and sundries
5130     Apparel, piece goods, and notions
5131     Piece goods & notions
5136     Men's and boys' clothing
5137     Women's and children's clothing
5139     Footwear
5140     Groceries and related products
5141     Groceries, general line
5142     Packaged frozen foods
5143     Dairy products, exc. dried or canned
5144     Poultry and poultry products
5145     Confectionery
5146     Fish and seafoods
5147     Meats and meat products
5148     Fresh fruits and vegetables
5149     Groceries and related products, n.e.c.
5150     Farm-product raw materials
5153     Grain and field beans
5154     Livestock
5159     Farm-product raw materials, n.e.c.
5160     Chemicals and allied products
5162     Plastics materials & basic shapes
5169     Chemicals & allied products, n.e.c.
5170     Petroleum and petroleum products
5171     Petroleum bulk stations & terminals
5172     Petroleum products, n.e.c.
5180     Beer, wine, and distilled beverages
5181     Beer and ale
5182     Wine and distilled beverages
5190     Misc. nondurable goods
5191     Farm supplies
5192     Books, periodicals, & newspapers
5193     Flowers & florists' supplies
5194     Tobacco and tobacco products
5198     Paints, varnishes, and supplies
5199     Nondurable goods, n.e.c.
519\  WHO Administrative and auxiliary

52--  RETAIL TRADE
5200     Building materials & garden supplies
5210     Lumber and other building materials
5230     Paint, glass, and wallpaper stores
5250     Hardware stores
5260     Retail nurseries and garden stores
5270     Mobile home dealers

5300     General merchandise stores
5310     Department stores
5330     Variety stores
5390     Misc. general merchandise stores

5400     Food stores
5410     Grocery stores
5420     Meat and fish markets
5430     Fruit and vegetable markets
5440     Candy, nut, and confectionery stores
5450     Dairy products stores
5460     Retail bakeries
5490     Miscellaneous food stores

5500     Automotive dealers & service stations
5510     New and used car dealers
5520     Used car dealers
5530     Auto and home supply stores
5540     Gasoline service stations
5550     Boat dealers
5560     Recreational vehicle dealers
5570     Motorcycle dealers
5590     Automotive dealers, n.e.c.

5600     Apparel and accessory stores
5610     Men's & boys' clothing stores
5620     Women's clothing stores
5630     Women's accessory & specialty stores
5640     Children's and infants' wear stores
5650     Family clothing stores
5660     Shoe stores
5690     Misc. apparel & accessory stores

5700     Furniture and homefurnishings stores
5710     Furniture and homefurnishings stores
5712     Furniture stores
5713     Floor covering stores
5714     Drapery and upholstery stores
5719     Misc. homefurnishings stores
5720     Household appliance stores
5730     Radio, television, & computer stores
5731     Radio, TV, & electronic stores
5734     Computer and software stores
5735     Record & prerecorded tape stores
5736     Musical instrument stores

5800     Eating and drinking places
5812     Eating places
5813     Drinking places

5900     Miscellaneous retail
5910     Drug stores and proprietary stores
5920     Liquor stores
5930     Used merchandise stores
5940     Miscellaneous shopping goods stores
5941     Sporting goods and bicycle shops
5942     Book stores
5943     Stationery stores
5944     Jewelry stores
5945     Hobby, toy, and game shops
5946     Camera & photographic supply stores
5947     Gift, novelty, and souvenir shops
5948     Luggage and leather goods stores
5949     Sewing, needlework, and piece goods
5960     Nonstore retailers
5961     Catalog and mail-order houses
5962     Merchandising machine operators
5963     Direct selling establishments
5980     Fuel dealers
5983     Fuel oil dealers
5984     Liquefied petroleum gas dealers
5989     Fuel dealers, n.e.c.
5990     Retail stores, n.e.c.
5992     Florists
5993     Tobacco stores and stands
5994     News dealers and newsstands
5995     Optical goods stores
5999     Miscellaneous retail stores, n.e.c.
599\  RET Administrative and auxiliary

60--  FINANCE, INSURANCE, AND REAL  ESTATE
6000     Depository institutions
6010     Central reserve depository
6020     Commercial banks
6030     Savings institutions
6060     Credit unions
6080     Foreign bank & branches & agencies
6090     Functions closely related to banking

6100     Nondepository institutions
6110     Federal & fed.-sponsored credit
6140     Personal credit institutions
6150     Business credit institutions
6160     Mortgage bankers and brokers

6200     Security and commodity brokers
6210     Security brokers and dealers
6220     Commodity contracts brokers, dealers
6230     Security and commodity exchanges
6280     Security and commodity services

6300     Insurance carriers
6310     Life insurance
6320     Medical service and health insurance
6321     Accident and health insurance
6324     Hospital and medical service plans
6330     Fire, marine, and casualty insurance
6350     Surety insurance
6360     Title insurance
6370     Pension, health, and welfare funds
6390     Insurance carriers, n.e.c.

6400     Insurance agents, brokers, & service

6500     Real estate
6510     Real estate operators and lessors
6530     Real estate agents and managers
6540     Title abstract offices
6550     Subdividers and developers
6552     Subdividers and developers, n.e.c.
6553     Cemetery subdividers and developers

6700     Holding and other investment offices
6710     Holding offices
6720     Investment offices
6730     Trusts
6732     Educational, religious, etc. trusts
6733     Trusts, n.e.c.
6790     Miscellaneous investing
6792     Oil royalty traders
6794     Patent owners and lessors
6798     Real estate investment trusts
6799     Investors, n.e.c.
679\FIN Administrative and auxiliary

70--  SERVICES
7000     Hotels and other lodging places
7010     Hotels and motels
7020     Rooming and boarding houses
7030     Camps and recreational vehicle parks
7032     Sporting and recreational camps
7033     Trailer parks and campsites
7040     Membership-basis organization hotels

7200     Personal services
7210     Laundry, cleaning, & garment services
7211     Power laundries, family & commercial
7212     Garment pressing & cleaners' agents
7213     Linen supply
7215     Coin-operated laundries and cleaning
7216     Drycleaning plants, except rug
7217     Carpet and upholstery cleaning
7218     Industrial launderers
7219     Laundry and garment services, n.e.c.
7220     Photographic studios, portrait
7230     Beauty shops
7240     Barber shops
7250     Shoe repair and shoeshine parlors
7260     Funeral service and crematories
7290     Miscellaneous personal services
7291     Tax return preparation services
7299     Miscellaneous personal services, n.e.c.

7300     Business services
7310     Advertising
7311     Advertising agencies
7312     Outdoor advertising services
7313     Radio, TV, publisher representatives
7319     Advertising, n.e.c.
7320     Credit reporting and collection
7322     Adjustment & collection services
7323     Credit reporting services
7330     Mailing, reproduction, stenographic
7331     Direct mail advertising services
7334     Photocopying & duplicating services
7335     Commercial photography
7336     Commercial art and graphic design
7338     Secretarial & court reporting
7340     Services to buildings
7342     Disinfecting & pest control services
7349     Building maintenance services, n.e.c.
7350     Misc. equipment rental & leasing
7352     Medical equipment rental
7353     Heavy construction equipment rental
7359     Equipment rental & leasing, n.e.c.
7360     Personnel supply services
7361     Employment agencies
7363     Help supply services
7370     Computer and data processing services
7371     Computer programming services
7372     Prepackaged software
7373     Computer integrated systems design
7374     Data processing and preparation
7375     Information retrieval services
7376     Computer facilities management
7377     Computer rental & leasing
7378     Computer maintenance & repair
7379     Computer related services, n.e.c.
7380     Miscellaneous business services
7381     Detective & armored car services
7382     Security systems services
7383     News syndicates
7384     Photofinishing laboratories
7389     Business services, n.e.c.

7500     Auto repair, services, and parking
7510     Automotive rentals, no drivers
7513     Truck rental and leasing, no drivers
7514     Passenger car rental
7515     Passenger car leasing
7519     Utility trailer rental
7520     Automobile parking
7530     Automotive repair shops
7532     Top & body repair & paint shops
7533     Auto exhaust system repair shops
7534     Tire retreading and repair shops
7536     Automotive glass replacement shops
7537     Automotive transmission repair shops
7538     General automotive repair shops
7539     Automotive repair shops, n.e.c.
7540     Automotive services, except repair
7542     Carwashes
7549     Automotive services, n.e.c.

7600     Miscellaneous repair services
7620     Electrical repair shops
7622     Radio and television repair
7623     Refrigeration service and repair
7629     Electrical repair shops, n.e.c.
7630     Watch, clock, and jewelry repair
7640     Reupholstery and furniture repair
7690     Miscellaneous repair shops
7692     Welding repair
7694     Armature rewinding shops
7699     Repair services, n.e.c.

7800     Motion pictures
7810     Motion picture production & services
7812     Motion picture & video production
7819     Services allied to motion pictures
7820     Motion picture distribution & services
7822     Motion picture and tape distribution
7829     Motion picture distribution services
7830     Motion picture theaters
7832     Motion picture theaters, ex drive-in
7833     Drive-in motion picture theaters
7840     Video tape rental

7900     Amusement & recreation services
7910     Dance studios, schools, and halls
7920     Producers, orchestras, entertainers
7922     Theatrical producers and services
7929     Entertainers & entertainment groups
7930     Bowling centers
7940     Commercial sports
7941     Sports clubs, managers, & promoters
7948     Racing, including track operation
7990     Misc. amusement, recreation services
7991     Physical fitness facilities
7992     Public golf courses
7993     Coin-operated amusement devices
7996     Amusement parks
7997     Membership sports & recreation clubs
7999     Amusement and recreation, n.e.c.

8000     Health services
8010     Offices & clinics of medical doctors
8020     Offices and clinics of dentists
8030     Offices of osteopathic physicians
8040     Offices of other health practitioners
8041     Offices and clinics of chiropractors
8042     Offices and clinics of optometrists
8043     Offices and clinics of podiatrists
8049     Offices of health practitioners, n.e.c.
8050     Nursing and personal care facilities
8060     Hospitals
8070     Medical and dental laboratories
8071     Medical laboratories
8072     Dental laboratories
8080     Home health care services
8090     Health and allied services, n.e.c.

8100     Legal services

8200     Educational services
8210     Elementary and secondary schools
8220     Colleges and universities
8230     Libraries
8240     Vocational schools
8290     Schools & educational services, n.e.c.

8300     Social services
8320     Individual and family services
8330     Job training and related services
8350     Child day care services
8360     Residential care
8390     Social services, n.e.c.

8400     Museums, botanical, zoological gardens
8410     Museums and art galleries
8420     Botanical and zoological gardens

8600     Membership organizations
8610     Business associations
8620     Professional organizations
8630     Labor organizations
8640     Civic and social associations
8650     Political organizations
8660     Religious organizations
8690     Membership organizations, n.e.c.

8700     Engineering & management services
8710     Engineering & architectural services
8711     Engineering services
8712     Architectural services
8713     Surveying services
8720     Accounting, auditing, & bookkeeping
8730     Research and testing services
8731     Commercial physical research
8732     Commercial nonphysical research
8733     Noncommercial research organizations
8734     Testing laboratories
8740     Management and public relations
8741     Management services
8742     Management consulting services
8743     Public relations services
8744     Facilities support services
8748     Business consulting, n.e.c.
8900     Services, n.e.c.
899\SER Administrative and auxiliary

99--  UNCLASSIFIED ESTABLISHMENTS

 



From andrew@gmvt4.concordia.ca Fri Sep  9 14:06:51 EDT 1994
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From: andrew@gmvt4.concordia.ca (Andrew Francis)
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Subject: Re: Bidding behavior at Auctions
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In article <1994Aug27.063310.7767@ivax> gstaman@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:

In article <338pma$lf7@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, 
Michael Benedikt <benedikt@vitruvius.ar.utexas.edu> writes:

GS> I am interested in any empirical research into bidding behavior at
GS> auctions, specifically, bid-price sequences to final price, number of
GS> bidders over time, and the relation of total number of active bidders to
GS> final price. 

MB>One of the few books that Iknow about in this area is
MB>Smith, Charles W.  Auctions:  The Social Construction of value.  The 
MB>Free Press. 1989.> 

   I recommend you look at the papers in the "Auctions and Institutional
Design" section of the book "Papers in Experimental Economics" by Vernon
Smith ( Cambridge Press, 1991).

--Andrew



From pasche@hermes1.econ.uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep  9 14:06:55 EDT 1994
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Hi folks,

I am working on imperfect decision making as it is modelled by R.Heiner.
Heiner shows how rule governed behavior, delayed and partial adjustment 
arises from imperfect information processing (or from controlling the 
errors which result from imperfect information processing). In most articles 
Heiner argues with discrete decision variables. Are there any sources 
dealing with continuous decision variables (e.g. like mixed strategies in 
game theory) and imperfect agents? 

I am not interested in ad hoc assumptions about `bounded rational' agents.

Markus Pasche 
pasche@hermes1.econ.uni-hamburg.de



From mueller@ifi.unizh.ch Fri Sep  9 14:06:58 EDT 1994
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From: Martin Mueller <mueller@ifi.unizh.ch>
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THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND 

is looking for a
Graduate Research Assistant (PhD student)
to participate in a project on

"SITUATED DESIGN"

Topic area: development of IT for work place design employing the
metaphor of the user 
as a "situated agent". 
 
The successful candidate is expected to

- have an interest in some (more than one) of the following areas:
    information technology (software engineering, human computer
interaction, 
    CSCW/Groupware)
    cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind
    work psychology
    ethnomethodology 
    research on communication
    interaction between information technology and organization
    or related fields

- understand German (willingness to improve proficiency is expected)
- stay at least for one year (preferably two years) 
- do practical work on industrial projects
- enjoy working in an interdisciplinary group

We offer
- possibility to pursue Ph.D.
- a salary of roughly CHF 36'000 a year
- a highly creative research environment
- a beautiful university campus
- a network of researchers from various research labs
- excellent computing facilities

The application should include:
- CV
- letter(s) of recommendation
- publications, research reports (if available)

Send applications to:
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University of Zurich-Irchel
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From aicgsdoc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Sep  9 14:07:01 EDT 1994
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   DAAD PRIZE FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP IN GERMAN STUDIES

The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies' prime
purpose is to help develop and foster a new generation of American
scholarship on Germany.  Besides offering scholars in the areas of
German economics, politics, culture, and society opportunities to
present and publish the results of their research, the Institute
recognizes outstanding academic work in these fields in a variety
of other ways, including fellowships and awards.

At the Institute's tenth anniversary dinner on November 17, the
first German Academic Exchange Service Prize for Distinguished
Scholarship in German Studies will be awarded under the Institute's
auspices, this year in Economics.  The award amounts to $5,000. 
The chief criterion for selection is an outstanding record of
publication on policy-relevant issues that relate in a significant
way to the economies of the United States and Germany.

As a rule, awardees will be members of a university faculty or
research institute staff in the United States, no more than 45
years of age, American citizens or residents, and holders of a
doctoral degree from a university in this country.

Nominations for the 1994 award will be welcomed from scholars in
the United States or abroad working in the field of economics.
Nominations must include 
1) a nominating letter of no more than three pages; 
2) c.v. of nominee with publication list; and 
3) the names of three other leading scholars familiar with the
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Nominations must be postmarked no later than October 3, 1994.  Send
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The presentation of the award will be made on November 17, 1994, at
a dinner in New York City in celebration of the Institute's tenth
anniversary.
 
The selection process will be conducted by a five-person committee,
made up of one representative from the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD), one from the Institute, and three distinguished
scholars in economics.

The Institute expresses its gratitude to the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) for its generous support of the prize. 




From maitra@rcf.usc.edu Fri Sep  9 14:07:05 EDT 1994
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Hi

Could anyone point me towards some referrences on regressing a vector of
dependent variables on a single independent variable -- for example regressing
change in prices in period t, t+1, t+3 on change in money supply at t.

You could email me the response to maitra@almaak.usc.edu

Thanx

Pushkar Maitra



From Pierre_Lemieux@UQAH.UQuebec.CA Fri Sep  9 14:07:10 EDT 1994
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Liberty Fund, Inc. (8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300,  
Indianapolis, IN 46250, 1-317-842-0880, fax 1-317-577-9067)
has produced a number of 16mm films and videos on economic
topics, including on
- Hong Kong
- the industrial revolution (3 videos)
- Adam Smith
They are very high-quality and instructive documentaries.
The Adam Smith one, with it background Vivaldi music, is
especially beautiful.

Pierre Lemieux



From sykuta@wuecon.wustl.edu Wed Sep 21 17:34:17 EDT 1994
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Dear 'netters:

I am looking for historical information on the number of law suits filed each
year, broken down by industry (SIC or Census classification).  I am most
concerned with Environmental, Product Liability, and Antitrust suits.  

I know that some secondary sources exist for aggregate numbers, but I
have not seen any breakdowns by industry.  

Is anyone aware of where such information might be obtained?  Original or
secondary sources are welcome.  Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Michael
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From rhawkins@iastate.edu Wed Sep 21 17:34:22 EDT 1994
Article: 1525 of sci.econ.research
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From: rhawkins@iastate.edu ()
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Subject: Re: HELP: Law Suit Info
Date: 13 Sep 1994 22:49:25 GMT
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In article <9409072003.AA13342@wuecon.wustl.edu>,
Michael Sykuta <sykuta@wuecon.wustl.edu> wrote:
>Dear 'netters:
>
>I am looking for historical information on the number of law suits filed each
>year, broken down by industry (SIC or Census classification).  I am most
>concerned with Environmental, Product Liability, and Antitrust suits.  

I doubt that direct breakdown by industry is available.  Federal and
many state courts use a cover sheet which breaks down by type of action,
and the data is generally compiled.  Someone would actually have to go
through each complaint and determine what kind of plaintiff and
defendant is involved by name to obtain the rest of the information.
Also, the classifications used will frequently lump product liability,
in which you are interested, with general negligence.

-- 
R E HAWKINS
rhawkins@iastate.edu



From winkelhake@gsf.de Wed Sep 21 17:35:03 EDT 1994
Article: 1504 of sci.econ.research
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From: winkelha@gsf.de (Olaf Winkelhake)
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Subject: Re: Chaos theory and financial modelling
Date: 8 Sep 1994 07:11:26 GMT
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In article <Cvnr6H.EH7@fi.gs.com>, anderi@rosalie.fir.london (Iain Anderson FISD LDN) writes:
| Can anyone provide information/pointers regarding chaos theory and financial modelling or within economics ?
| 
| Is there a bulletin board for such a subject ?
| 
| Thanks in advance
| 

Iain,
have a look at Scapens/Ryan/Fletcher: E 1-xplaining Corporate Faliure: A Catastrophy Theory Approach, in:
J. of Busin. Finance and Accounting 1981, 1-26

Regards,
Olaf Winkelhake, Ph.D.
gsf-Medis
winkelhake@gsf.de



From eco_dlb@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 21 17:35:07 EDT 1994
Article: 1507 of sci.econ.research
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From: Donald L Bumpass <eco_dlb@SHSU.edu>
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Subject: RE: Chaos theory and financial modelling
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 09:34:05 CDT
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>>Can anyone provide information/pointers regarding chaos theory 
>>and financial modelling or within economics ?
>>Is there a bulletin board for such a subject ?

bumpass: You will want to contact Santa Fe Institute at
          cap@santafe.edu  (mike simmons) , phone #(505) 984-8800.
          ask about their "business network for complex systems"
          and other ongoing activities in choas and complex systems. 




From tracyr@iia.org Wed Sep 21 17:35:10 EDT 1994
Article: 1505 of sci.econ.research
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From: tracyr@iia.org (regina tracy)
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Subject: job creation
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Seeking new research/statistics on job creation in small business.  
Anyone with information or with research project on small business, 
please contact.  This information is for the Small Business Foundation of 
America, The Research Institue for Emerging Enterpise, Wash, DC., a non 
profit nonpartisan educational foundation.  We would like to be aware of 
those areas in which academics/scholars working.  




From STANTONK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA Wed Sep 21 17:35:18 EDT 1994
Article: 1508 of sci.econ.research
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From: Ken <STANTONK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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Subject: Re: Email addr. for AER?
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This is the email info I received from Preston McAfee at Utexas.
 -ken.stanton@queensU.CA

*******************************


AER and JET correspondence should continue to come to the University of
Texas.  Please note the journal's name on any such written correspondence.

AER email correspondence should be sent to aer@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
JET email correspondence should go to mcafee@mundo.eco.utexas.edu

AER phone: Judith Searcy at (512) 471-1734
AER Fax: (512) 471-5570



From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 21 17:35:21 EDT 1994
Article: 1506 of sci.econ.research
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From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
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Subject: Re: Email addr. for AER?
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On 2 Sep 1994 00:45:05 GMT, Hal Varian <Hal.Varian@umich.edu> posted:
> In article <342je0$cds@oak.oakland.edu> hmahamwa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (line
> noise) writes:
>
> > Does anyone know if the American Economic Review has an email address?  
>
> I don't know about the main office, but several of the co-editors use email
> regularly.  This is probably a good place to announce that the AEA database
> is now online at:
>
> Name=AEA Directory
> Type=1
> Port=70
> Path=1/aea
> Host=gopher.eco.utexas.edu
>
> You can now search for economists' addresses online.  (No email addresses
> yet, but this will probably come with the next AEA survey...)

I applaud the AEA's getting this on-line and have found this resource
valuable.  I would also like to point out the on-line Directory of
Economists on the Economics Gopher on Niord.SHSU.edu -- openly admitting
that the 560 or so entries presently in it pale to the 22,900 or so entries
in the AEA database.  The Directory of Economists, populated completely by
self-submitted entries comprised of a well-defined number of fields (see
below), is a completely searchable database which has received favorable
international press recently (to my surprise and pleasure).  It provides
on-line access for submitting information, as well as a variety of
instructions and listing options.  Within its menu, a link is present to
the AEA listing.

I would like to also publicly offer at this time my sincere interest in
working with the AEA on their project, should they be interested.

The link information for the Economics Gopher Server, which includes a huge
array of information for the profession, is:
Name=Economics (SHSU Network Access Initiative Project)
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONOMICS]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu

abd the Directory is at:

Name=Directory of Economists (by name)
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.ECONDIR]
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu

Attached is the template for your use in submitting your entry to the
Directory if it is not already included.

Regards,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
                  How to Get Included in This Directory

If you would like to have your entry included in the Directory of
Economists, please save this entry to an ASCII file on your machine, then
edit it, completing the following template:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Name:   Lastname, Firstname Middlename-or-initial
Postal: Your postal address
        second line (if necessary)
        third line (if necessary)
        fourth line (if necessary)
        City, State, Country ZIP
E-mail: <your-email-address@wherever>
Phone:  (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number 
FAX:    (Area code) Prefix-Telephone_Number 

Research
 Areas: Your areas of research interest, delimited by commas

NOTE:   (optional) Any special information you would like to add
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Each field should begin in column 9, as shown.  Once completed, please send
your entry via electronic mail to <Gopher-Mgr@SHSU.edu>.  Upon processing,
you will be notified by electronic mail.



From mizracb@iia.org Wed Sep 21 17:35:24 EDT 1994
Article: 1509 of sci.econ.research
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From: mizracb@iia.org (Bruce Mizrach)
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To subscribe to the economic nonlinear dynamics mailing list send an 
email message to:

listserv@list.nih.gov

Include in the body of your message

subscribe NONLIN-L your name

Bruce Mizrach
mizracb@mary.iia.org



From mizracb@iia.org Wed Sep 21 17:35:33 EDT 1994
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From: mizracb@iia.org (Bruce Mizrach)
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To subscribe to the economic nonlinear dynamics mailing list send an 
email message to:

listserv@list.nih.gov

Include in the body of your message

subscribe NONLIN-L your name

Bruce Mizrach
mizracb@mary.iia.org



From moody@chianti.cse.ogi.edu Wed Sep 21 17:35:43 EDT 1994
Article: 1510 of sci.econ.research
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From: moody@chianti.cse.ogi.edu (John Moody)
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Subject: Neural Networks in the Capital Markets Workshop
Date: 8 Sep 1994 22:37:48 GMT
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*******************************************************************


       --- Registration Package and Preliminary Program ---


                            NNCM-94


                  Second International Workshop

             NEURAL NETWORKS in the CAPITAL MARKETS


             Thursday-Friday, November 17-18, 1994
         with tutorials on Wednesday, November 16, 1994

       The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
         Sponsored by Caltech and London Business School


Neural networks have now been applied to a number of live systems
in the capital markets, and in many cases have demonstrated better
performance than competing approaches. Because of the overwhelming
interest in the first NNCM workshop held in London in November
1993, the second annual NNCM workshop will be held November 17-18,
1994, in Pasadena, California. This is a research meeting where
original, high-quality contributions to the field are presented and
discussed. In addition, a day of introductory tutorials (Wednesday,
November 16) will be included to familiarize audiences of different
backgrounds with the financial aspects, and the mathematical
aspects, of the field.


--Invited Speakers:

The workshop will feature invited talks by four internationally
recognized researchers:

         Dr. Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School
         Dr. Paul Refenes, London Business School
         Dr. Robert Shiller, Yale University
         Dr. Hal White, UC San Diego


--Contributed Papers:

NNCM-94 will have 4 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions with more
than 40 contributed papers presented by academicians and
practitioners from both the neural networks side and the capital
markets side. Each paper has been refereed by 4 experts in the field.
The areas of the accepted papers include: Stock and bond valuation
and trading, asset allocation and portfolio management, real trading
using neural networks, foreign exchange rate prediction, option
pricing, univariate time series analysis, neural network methodology,
statistical analysis and hints, theory of forecasting, and neural
network modeling.


--Tutorials:

Before the main program, there will be a day of tutorials on
Wednesday, November 16, 1994. The morning session will focus on
the financial side and the afternoon session will focus on the
mathematical side.

                      -Morning Session-

         Dynamics of Trading and Market Microstructure
         Dr. Larry Harris, University of Southern California

         Empirical Research on Market Inefficiencies
         Dr. Blake LeBaron, University of Wisconsin

                     -Afternoon Session-

         Neural Networks, Time Series, and Finance
         Dr. John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute

         Statistical Inference for Neural Networks
         Dr. Brian Ripley, Oxford University

We are very pleased to have tutors of such caliber help bring new
audiences from different backgrounds up to speed in this hybrid area.


--Schedule Outline:

Wednesday, November 16:  8:00-12:15   Tutorials I & II
                         1:30-5:45    Tutorials III & IV

Thursday, November 17:   8:30-11:30   Oral Session I
                        11:30-2:00    Luncheon & Poster Session I
                         2:00-5:00    Oral Session II

Friday, November 18:     8:30-11:30   Oral Session III
                        11:30-2:00    Luncheon & Poster Session II
                         2:00-5:00    Oral Session IV


--Location:

The workshop will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in
Pasadena, within two miles from the Caltech campus. One of the most
beautiful hotels in the U.S., the Ritz is a 35-minute drive from
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with nonstop flights from
most major cities in North America, Europe, the Far East, Australia,
and South America.

Home of Caltech, Pasadena has recently become a major dining/hangout
center for Southern California with the growth of its `Old Town',
built along the styles of the 1950's. Among the cultural attractions
of Pasadena are the Norton Simon Museum, the Huntington Library/
Gallery/Gardens, and a number of theaters including the Ambassador
Theater.


--Organizing Committee:

        Dr. Y. Abu-Mostafa, California Institute of Technology
        Dr. A. Atiya, Cairo University
        Dr. N. Biggs, London School of Economics
        Dr. D. Bunn, London Business School
        Dr. B. LeBaron, University of Wisconsin
        Dr. A. Lo, MIT Sloan School
        Dr. J. Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute
        Dr. A. Refenes, London Business School
        Dr. M. Steiner, Universitaet Munster
        Dr. A. Timmermann, Birkbeck College, London
        Dr. A. Weigend, University of Colorado
        Dr. H. White, University of California, San Diego


--Registration and Hotel Reservation:

Registration is done by mail on a first-come, first-served basis
(last year we had to return the checks to more than 50 people for
lack of space). To ensure your place at the workshop, please send
the enclosed registration form and payment as soon as possible to

  Ms. Lucinda Acosta, Caltech 116-81, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.

Please make checks payable to Caltech. Hotel reservations are made
by contacting the Ritz-Carlton Hotel directly. Their phone number is
(818) 568-3900 and fax number is (818) 792-6613. Please mention that
you are with NNCM-94 in order to get the (very) special rate that we
negotiated. The rate is $79+taxes ($99 with $20 credited by NNCM-94
upon registration) per room (single or double occupancy) per night.
Please make the hotel reservation IMMEDIATELY as the rate is based
on availability.


--Secretariat:

For further information, please contact the NNCM-94 secretariat

Ms. Lucinda Acosta, Caltech 116-81, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.
e-mail: lucinda@sunoptics.caltech.edu , phone (818) 395-4843,
fax (818) 568-8437


*******************************************************************

                   -- NNCM-94 Registration Form --


   Title:---------   Name:------------------------------------

   Mailing Address:-------------------------------------------

   -----------------------------------------------------------

   e-mail:---------------------------- fax:-------------------

********Please circle the applicable fees and write the total********

--Main Conference (November 17-18):

          Registration fee                            $500

          Discounted fee for academicians             $250
          (letter on university letterhead required)

          Discounted fee for full-time students       $125
          (letter from registrar or faculty advisor required)

--Tutorials (November 16):

  You must be registered for the main conference in order to
  register for the tutorials.

          Morning Session Only                        $100

          Afternoon Session Only                      $100

          Both Sessions                               $150

          Full-time students                          $50
          (letter from registrar or faculty advisor required)


  TOTAL: $--------   Please include payment (check or money order in
  US currency). PLEASE MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO CALTECH.

--Hotel Reservation:

Please contact the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena directly. The
phone number is (818) 568-3900 and the fax number is (818) 792-6613. Ask
for the NNCM-94 rate. We have negotiated an (incredible) rate of $79+taxes
($99 with $20 credited by NNCM-94 upon registration) per room (single or
double occupancy) per night, based on availability.

********Please mail your completed registration form and payment  
to********
   Ms. Lucinda Acosta, Caltech 116-81, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.



From seidel@haas.berkeley.edu Wed Sep 21 17:35:46 EDT 1994
Article: 1511 of sci.econ.research
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From: seidel@haas.berkeley.edu (Marc-David Seidel)
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Subject: Re: Regression with more than one dependenat variable
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Take a look at the literature on cannoconical correlation analysis.   That
should do the trick.

Marc-David


Pushkar Maitra (maitra@rcf.usc.edu) wrote:
: Hi

: Could anyone point me towards some referrences on regressing a vector of
: dependent variables on a single independent variable -- for example regressing
: change in prices in period t, t+1, t+3 on change in money supply at t.




From bigraat@cs.few.eur.nl Wed Sep 21 17:35:49 EDT 1994
Article: 1512 of sci.econ.research
Path: news.duke.edu!bigraat
From: bigraat@cs.few.eur.nl (Ivo Graat)
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Subject: Derivatives and monetary policy
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 13:56:46 GMT
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Summary: any ideas, info request
Keywords: derivatives, monetary policy


Hi there,

A friend, and at this time, a colleque of mine, Oliver van
Zon, asked me to place some questions from him on the net. The
questions concern the world of finance, so i hope i placed
them well in this group. At this time, he doesn't have an
acount, so you can reply to me, and i will forward all of your
creative thought's and replies to him.

His questions are:

Verzoek 1:        - I am writing a thesis on the effects of deri-
                  vatives on the effectiveness of  monetary poli-
                  cy. To prove a possible link between the two,
                  several hypotheses have been developed. One of
                  the hypotheses concerns the difference between
                  SUPER-NOW ACCOUNTS and the three months treasu-
                  ry bill rate. The hypothesis is that the diffe-
                  rence has narrowed throughout the years and
                  that this same difference has narrowed even
                  faster in countries where such accounts have
                  been introduced in the '80's. However, I have
                  no monthly DATA for the super-NOW's since they
                  first started in 1976. No input, no output! If
                  you have any data on a super NOW industry
                  benchmark or any comparative rate please send
                  them to this adress.

                                                Dank je wel.
                                                (Thank you :-)

Verzoek 2:        - I am currently researching the effects of the
                  trade in DERIVATIVES on the effectiveness of
                  MONETARY POLICY. Since I am still in the crea-
                  tive part of the whole proces I'm open for any
                  creative or well thought through suggestions
                  about any possible effects. If you want more
                  info. prior to an answer just let me know and
                  you'l be gladly let in on the details. Waiting
                  for your suggestions I remain with enthusiasm,

Verzoek 3:       - While you are busy reading this here is one last
		 request. Where can I get expenditures on mortgages
		 and the nominal repayments for the US, UK, Canada 
		 and Germany?

                                    Oliver van Zon
                                    student Economics
                                    Erasmus University Rotterdam  
                                    The Netherlands


Thanks in advance, 

Ivo Graat
student Business Informatics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Netherlands
bigraat@cs.few.eur.nl
bigraat@sus.edu.eur.nl



From viren@wefa.com Wed Sep 21 17:35:52 EDT 1994
Article: 1513 of sci.econ.research
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From: Virendra Singh <viren@wefa.com>
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Subject: Job Opening: Senior  Utility Economist
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 11:07:09 EDT
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                   SENIOR UTILITY ECONOMIST

The WEFA Group, a leading economic consulting and forecasting
company, is seeking a Senior Utility Economist for its Consulting 
Services Group. The individual will work with a team of economist 
to develop and deliver economic services to the utility industry.
Minimum requirements are a Masters degree in Economics or other 
appropriate field and at least five years experience in utility
planning/marketing/rates. Highly desirable is a background in
forecasting/econometrics/statistics and knowledge of econometric
software. Send resume and a cover letter to:

S-Mail:     The WEFA Group
            Attn: Virendra Singh
            401 City Avenue, Suite 300
            Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

E-mail:     viren@wefa.com

FAX:        (610) 660-6477
Voice:      (610) 660-6312



From Steve@euronet.nl Wed Sep 21 17:35:55 EDT 1994
Article: 1514 of sci.econ.research
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From: Steve@euronet.nl (Steve Bennett)
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Subject: Announcing... The Web Word
Date: 9 Sep 1994 15:24:51 GMT
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Announcing...
                    The Web Word      

Published today is the first newsletter devoted exclusively to the
World Wide Web Community. This is a monthly email publication which is
generated from the information bases of Information Innovation.

We are an information filter for people who want to use the Web to do
their job. We are concentrating our efforts on analysing what happens
in the Web community and then organising the Webs information so that
it is accessible and efficient to use.

This months edition of The Web Word concentrates on the financial
information available on the Internet and contains sections on:

     New Sites
     This Months Top Ten Sites and Users
     Breaking News on the Web
     Under the Microscope... Reuters New Media
     This Months Interview... QuoteCom
     The Detectives Guide to... Financial Information
     How to use... a Web Robot
     Getting Plugged in... Your Guide to WWW Software

Within the next few weeks Information Innovation is launching a Web
server site which will contain a large repository of information for
the manager, technologist, and finance professional.

We have not posted The Web Word because we don t want to overload this
Usenet group with a large (80K) email. You can however get a free copy
by sending an email to:

     innovation@euronet.nl

with the line:

     intro   <your email address>  <your name>

for example:   intro  jbloggs@blogg.com  Joe Bloggs


Information Innovation
New York     Amsterdam






From izvorski@aida.econ.yale.edu Wed Sep 21 17:35:58 EDT 1994
Article: 1515 of sci.econ.research
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From: Ivailo Izvorski <izvorski@aida.econ.yale.edu>
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Subject: Capital Stock Series For the US
Date: 13 Sep 1994 19:30:42 GMT
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Does anybody know an ftp (gopher, etc.) site where I can get capital
stock series for the US? I am interested in both "aggregate" capital
stock series, as well as in various disaggregated series available. 
(The Penn World Table has aggregate capital stock per worker, but it
is in international prices.)


Sincerely,

Ivailo

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From sflynn@panix.com Wed Sep 21 17:36:00 EDT 1994
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: In article <sbjCvCvMA.IDu@netcom.com>, Sheldon Jolson <sbj@netcom.com> wrote:
: [...] do you know of anyone who uses the Stratanovich 
: :stochastic calculus as opposed to Ito's?  Seems more natural <though 
: :somewhat less intuitive>...are there any books specifically gong into the 
: :use of stochastic calculus to derive financial results?

You might be interested in this paper:
S.P. Sethi & M. Taksar:  A comparison of the Ito and Stratonovich Formulation
of Problems in Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, #3,
November 1981, p 343-356



From manolisp@aol.com Wed Sep 21 17:36:03 EDT 1994
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I am interested in articles discussing various methods of estimating the
"cost shifting" component of  health care expenditures of private 
insurers, which arises from  low Medicare & Medicaid compensation payments
to providers.  

I would appreciate any information related to this literature.

                                          Thank you



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ManolisP (manolisp@aol.com) wrote:
: I am interested in articles discussing various methods of estimating the
: "cost shifting" component of  health care expenditures of private 
: insurers, which arises from  low Medicare & Medicaid compensation payments
: to providers.  

: I would appreciate any information related to this literature.

I don't know if this helps any...but when I was involved in setting 
health inflation assumptions for Equicor, <equitable's Group insurance 
division>...we estimated that the core inflation rate was augmented by 
1-2%.  I don't know of any published studies ofhand though.

							- SBJ -



From damax@aol.com Wed Sep 21 17:36:09 EDT 1994
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In article <34rb5l$9d2@search01.news.aol.com>, manolisp@aol.com (ManolisP)
writes:

An excellent book recently published by the American Enterprise Institute,
written by Michael Morrisey, argues that cost shifting does not happen. 
In fact, he argues that if Medicare and Medicaid lower reimbursement
rates, that prices in other markets would actually decline.  

The book is entitled Cost Shifting in Health Care, and is published by AEI
Press.  If you have trouble finding it, email me, or call me at
202/862-5863.

Derrick A. Max
Research Assistant
Econ. Policy Studies, AEI



From C627631@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:12 EDT 1994
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Hi,

I need economic data on Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (and its
successors): inflation, real GDP, unemployment, export, import, etc.
Preferably monthly, or at least per quarter. What would be a good
source--I know of the IMF Financial Statistics (but some data are only
given per year or quarter there)? I do not need regional data, just
national.

Thanks,

Jan

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From izvorski@econ.yale.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:14 EDT 1994
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In article <30037805@MVB.SAIC.COM> Jan Fidrmuc <C627631@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I need economic data on Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (and its
>successors): inflation, real GDP, unemployment, export, import, etc.

[deleted]

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>Jan Fidrmuc
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>Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.       Bitnet:   c627631@mizzou1


You might want to subscribe to the CERRO discussion group (Central
European Economies). Send a command to the listserv for cerro-l. Also
check the gopher for Charles University in Prague. 

All the best,


Ivailo


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Dept. of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520



From tripathi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:17 EDT 1994
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Hi all,
	I posted this request once before but did not see it on the net, so
I am posting it again. If you read the previous one please bear with me.
	As the subject line says I am looking for references in the area of
"Tree Regressions". This is apparently an emerging area in statistics and
deals with with functional estimation (in infinite dimensional spaces). If 
anybody on the net knows some basic references about these areas I'd be
eternally grateful if they would e-mail me those references. 
	Thanks ...
GT



From rmporter@unixg.ubc.ca Wed Sep 21 17:36:35 EDT 1994
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Recently (on a different economics list), Alan McGowan, David Orr and Don
Epp raised some interesting issues regarding the role of urban density in
determining regional landscapes.  This was followed by a seperate exchange
between Peter May and William Hayes with respect to land/consumption
ethics and the costs of soil productivity loss.  These issues are, in many
places about the globe (North and South), intimately related.  The
following are some thoughts, conjectures and ideas concerning urban
densification and land stewardship which were motivated by their posts. 

[Quotes attributed to Epp, were posted to ecol-econ by Epp, 2
September 1994 (Subject: wilderness recovery networks).  Quotes
attributed to May were contained in a posting to ecol-econ by
Hayes, 6 September 1994 (Subject: Re: Erosion cost).  op cit re:
quotes by Hayes.  Don Epp <DJE2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>; Alan McGowan 
<alanm@klerk.cup.hp.com>; William Hayes <whayes@cln.etc.bc.ca>; Peter May 
<pmay@ax.apc.org>; David Orr <lost address>]

Picking up from the issue of urban densities, Epp writes (largely
in reply to Orr): "... I was particularly intrigued by the short
exchange concerning the creation of wilderness as the matrix and
islands of human habitation with considerably increased density
over that experienced today. ... I do, however, hope that future
calls for everyone to retreat to the core cities and return most
of the rest of the country to wilderness will be posted from the
Borough of Manhattan in New York City or some other suitable
dense place..."  [Don, I hope the City of Vancouver classifies as
a suitably dense enough place ...]

Despite their differences, the three all agree that the "problem"
of cities must be dealt with.  Urban municipalities, counties and
other administrative units (villages, townships, etc.) in Canada,
the U.S. and elsewhere have been dealing formally with the
problem of "densification" on a regional basis since the 1970s
(in some cases, eg. Asia and Europe, for much, much longer).  A
number of unique institutional solutions have arisen in response
to the problems which motivate densification, and which
densification creates.  This post considers an institutional
response ib British Columbia.  Different responses have occured
in the Chesapeake Bay area, Seattle-King County, WA, the Tri-Met
area (Portland), OR, and the Bay Area, CA.   The perception of a
"failure" of cities to deal with their impact on the regional
landscape has more to do with the inability of existing processes
of local governance to meet the expectations of a vocal minority
possessing a particular set of intense preferrences than any
failure to act.

The reasons for densification are as diverse as the communities
which are resisting and/or embracing it.  There are economies of
scale in the collection of taxes and the provision of publicly
provided goods and services (ie., policing, utility networks,
primary and secondary education, transit and transport services
and capital, etcetera).  There are market-based synergies created
by the proximity of firms and consumers (this is largely the
result of reduced information and transactions costs) which lead
to efficiency and welfare gains to the community.  But there are
also diseconomies resulting from resource demand congestion, cost
shifting and externality shirking by constituencies and regional-
border residents.  The question that remains to be answered, and
the one sought through regional cooperation, is what the optimal
scale or pattern of density is for a given community and region. 
To gain an appreciation for the complexity of the problem one
need only attend a session of their local city/town council with
a non-judgemental mind.  Densification raises issues of
allocation efficiency and, due to existing governance structures,
income distribution.

Apart from the obvious technical externalities created by dense
urban areas, there is a less obvious, but equally important, set
of pecuniary effects which pattern a city's or town's greater
landscape (the regional pattern of landuse or settlement).  One
of these effects was picked up by Hayes while responding to May's
inqueries regarding the costs of soil erosion.  Most every major
urban area in North America and Europe has evolved from the soil
of productive agricultural areas (I am less certain of Asia and
the Pacific, but a simple analogy to inshore fisheries will
complete the statement).  The mining of productive agricultural
soils is a rational response to the pecuniary effects of
agricultural product markets relative to the market for landuse
rights.  Defensive measures to conserve soil (i.e., zero- or
reduced tillage, selection/selective forestry, cover cropping,
extended fallow, soil banking, etc.) in the absence of coercion
will only be engaged in when secure benefits from agricultural
activity exist.  It is imperative that sufficient positive
benefits (i.e., positive after tax income, measured in money and
in kind) are attainable.  If benefits are not attainable (due to
low relative prices for output), or are not secure (due to poorly
specified property rights), costs will be shifted laterally to
other economic agents in the present, as well as into the future
in an effort to capture as much of the total capital value of the
soil as soon as possible.  Mine-like agricultural activities will
likely lead to a series of technical and ownership externalities,
such as pollution, particulate and BOD loading from run-off,
downstream flooding, soil compaction, and off-farm damage due to
microscopic and macroscopic soil particulates carried by wind. 
It should be pointed out that the coercive and/or induced
promotion of soil conservation can have equally disastrous
results.

Before returning to the question of the determination of extra
regional landscapes (ie., lots of wilderness and a few very dense
megalopoli), I think it pertinent to deal more conctretely with
some issues and solutions raised by May and Hayes.

In response to Hayes' post regarding the "quality of life" of
N.A. farming, May wrote of [some] Brazilian farmers: "... these
[soil mining agriculturalists] are tenured, long-term family
farmers who supposedly have a stake in maintaining their assets
intact.  The system here [in Brazil] as well as in the North,
undermines prospects for sustainability."

For reasons elaborated to above, it may be clearer as to why
conservation measures are not being employed to the satisfaction
of conservation agency administrators.  If the tenure is
insecure, or if other dimensions to the tenure are significantly
attenuated, this could very well combine with already low farm
gate prices to promote "mining" in an attempt to pass on a more
secure bundle of assets to the tenure-holder's family (ie.,
house, car, TV, propane refrigerator, etc.).  It is not clear
what "system" May is referring to.  Is the "system" a set of
dominant preferrence orderings that deconsumptionists do not
share?  Or is it, as I believe it to be, a deeper institutional
problem that promotes socially Pareto-suboptimal behaviour
through distorted private incentives and asymmetric collective
incentives?

Hayes would have us believe that consumptionism/deconsumptionism
plays a central role in the erosion of agriculturally productive
soils, writing: "yes, land ethics are at a low ebb; the downward
spiral of decline seems to go hand-in-hand with the desire to
consume more and more."

Aldo Leopold (in Sand County Almanac), conjectures that "a land
ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from that of conqueror of
the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.  It implies
respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the
community as such."  Despite the apparant "equality-in-community"
posed by Leopold's comment, he admits mankind to a special status
in the land-community, that of "steward."  Stewardship is an
ancient concept, and is rooted in a land ethic.  Economically, we
can think of stewardship as socially responsible land use.  More
formally, we can define stewardship as land (capital) management
that results in minimized lateral and intertemporal externality. 
With this definition in mind, Leopold's condemnation of mid-
century real property rights is little more than the description
of an institution lacking the private incentives to engage
economic stewardship.  Leopold writes: "there is as yet no ethic
dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants
which grow upon it.  Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still
property.  The land-relation is still strictly economic,
entailing priviledges and not obligations."  When priviledges are
understood to be the right to enjoy the benefits of landuse,
obligations become the attenuation of that right.  Obligations
can be imposed externally by legitimate authority (zoning laws,
production, effluent or emmission standards, voluntary contracted
restrictions, etcetera), or informally through cultural and
community norms/practices.  Regardless of its origin, an
obligation or attenuation represents the political manifestation
of an ethical judgement regarding the limits of property rights. 
So when May writes of the erosion of agricultural productivity
and observes what appears to be irrational behaviour by the
farmer/tenure-holder, before we can describe that behaviour as
irrational or parisitic we must first look to the institutional
arrangements that promote the realization of "mining" behaviour,
and the external consequences of it.

I want to extend the notion of soil mining as strictly the
physical transportation of soil from one place to another to
include the truncation of the extensive margin of agriculture due
to irreversable investment in alternative land uses.  This
extension of "soil erosion" is implied by Hayes when he writes
that the [transport] "erosion of soil is one major element [of
agricultural decline]; another [is] losses to Urban [sic]
encroachment."  The urban/ industrial development of
agricultually productive land can be viewed as the complete
liquidation of the soil (and its location) as a capital asset. 
However, its liquidation is to a higher value or "better" use. 
Privately, the exchange is strictly Pareto optimal.  But
socially, the exchange may be neo-Paretian suboptimal (i.e., the
social benefits of the exchange are exceeded by its social costs;
the winners of an exchange would be unable to compensate the
losers).  If this is so, then the institutional arrangements that
permit such an exchange (in this case the rules of real property)
are not revealing all relevant information to the participants of
an exchange.  If the welfare loss is significant enough,
individuals will form groups and seek to redefine the right to
exchange/transform the land.

As was pointed out above, the ethical obligations of ownership
(rights attenuation) define the frontier of land stewardship.  In
British Columbia, there has been an expressed desire to provide
to future generations some degree of agricultural productivity. 
Concomitant to this desire, is a strong preference for green/open
space and viewscapes in close proximity to residential/urban
areas.  There are several ways to assure the present generation
that there will exist some degree of future agricultural
productivity.  Likewise, there are a multitude of ways to ensure
the persistence of pockets and large tracts of green space. 
Which methods are employed by a community depend on existing
institutions, and the amount of welfare at stake to different
groups.

In 1974, British Columbia instituted its collective solution to
urban encroachment on agricultural land: the Agricultural Land
Commission Act, creating the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).  It
was by no means a perfect solution.  It was, by construction,
Pareto suboptimal (the creation of the ALR coincided with a
change in government, redefining real property rights without
compensation).  It is not clear, however, if establishing the ALR
constituted a neo-Paretian optimal solution to the problem. 
Whether or not BC is better off with or without the ALR is no-
longer a relevant issue -- its here to stay, but for reasons
which have little to do with what initially motivated its
creation.  The current conflict over the ALR concerns the
agricultural lands straddling the urban areas of the Fraser River
Estuary (Vancouver metropolitan area), and the ALR lands which
surround rapidly growing communities in the province's interior.

Since Hayes' further comments (and my own familiarity) concern
the ALR in the GVRD, the discussion of the ALR as a collective
defensive measure against agricultural soil erosion, its
relationship to urban densification, and its role in restoring
ecological relationships to economic property (ie., restoring the
land ethic) will be discussed in the shadow of the GVRD. 
[Apologies to those who may be totally unfamiliar -- hopefully, I
won't get too parochial).

Hayes writes of the ALR: 

     "Though there's no quality soil index [sic] we've had some
     success holding off Urban [sic] development, but money is
     powerful and persistent, there's a lot of slippage. Also,
     the farming community is divided: between those trying to
     sustain the land and those (retiring farmers) who want the
     freedom to sell their land to the highest bidder (the
     developer)."

The delineation of the ALR was based on the BC Land Inventory
classification scheme (BCLI).  The BCLI was based, in turn, on
the Canada Land Inventory for agriculture. Lands with the
greatest potential and scope in soil-bound agriculture were
assigned to a class -- 1 being "best" and 7 being "no potential
without improvement."   The BCLI took place by Order-in-Council
in 1973, freezing developments on lands classed 1-4 and which
were taxable as farmland.  With some exceptions, this stood in
the 1974 ALC Act.  This classification froze all operational
agricultural land in the agricultural belt of the GVRD.  The
scheme was not based on the economic value of the land in
agriculture.  Subsequently, some high value soil-bound crops
(ie., cranberries) are being grown in reclaimed land that is
outside the ALR, and some high value non-soil-bound crops (ie,
greenhouse peppers) are excluded from some areas of the ALR where
growing degree days are highest.

Less than 5% of the total area under the ALR has been withdrawn
since 1974.  To its credit, the Land Commission (ALC) has not
supported the withdrawals, having to be overruled by the
Provincial Cabinet under the appeal process.  However,
residential development has not been excluded from the ALR, nor
has the ALR been able to prevent the decline of full-time
agriculture.  The ALR was never intended to prevent the
subdivision of large land units -- this was considered necessary
for the transfer of lands into high value agricultural use, and
for intergenerational reasons.  However, successive transfers has
forced the fragmentation of many lands into units too small to
support full-time farming activities; this has created a large
class of absentee landlords who lease to full-time farmers (who,
themselves, rarely hold sufficient land privately for full-time
agriculture).  Considerable land close to the urban core has
passed from food-oriented agriculture to recreation-based
agriculture (hobby and horse farms) -- one municipality flaunts
the objectives of the ALC by actively encouraging this landuse. 
The acquisition of small and minimum size ALR land units to build
large rural estate homes complete with stables, "greens," and a
large drive removes considerable land from productive use -- but
it is higher private use all the same, and should not be ignored.

Technical and ownership externalities at the urban-rural fringe
lead to conlict over landuse practices.  Many new residents to
the region (in a single century the region has grown from several
thousands to 1.25 million, and it expects an additional 650,000
over the next 30 years) do not appreciate the sights, smells, and
noise of agriculture and actively seek landuse restrictions
through local zoning authorities.  The rapid reduction in the
core of full-time farmers has changed the composition of the farm
service community leading to less local services near urban
areas.  Pockets of dense urban areas separated by agricultural
strips, combined with fragmented operating land units increases
the difficulty of timely farm operations (field work, cultivation
and harvest).  Together these combine to significantly increase
the ITCs associated with farming near urban centers.

Land stewardship in the estuary has been notoriously poor, but
the region's soils remain highly productive due to its richness
(soil loss has been largely limited to conservable flow elements;
off-farm replenishment of revolving stock elements has always
been affordable).  The imposition of the ALR and the overall
fragmentation of land units has not helped things.  This has been
due to many reasons, prominant amoung them being: a) production
based subsidies that encourage capital (machine) intensive
agriculture; b) poor contractual arrangements by absentee
landlords (especially the crown); and, c) the presence of tens of
thousands of hungry migrating and overwintering waterfowl.  Until
recently, cover cropping was rarely practiced -- dense flocks of
ducks, geese and swans merely ate into the income of farmers. 
Changes to crown lease arrangements (implicit subsidy) and a
partial subsidy to cover crop has increased this activity; but
participation remains limited and induced.

Since the 1980s, considerable efforts at coordinated regional
planning has lead to the establishment of regional landscape
objectives.  These objectives include a clear delineation of the
extensive margin of urban development, and the distribution of
high density urban/commercial cores (and with it the distribution
of land tax revenues and income-based crown to municipality tax
transfers).  As part of this planning effort the GVRD, adjacent
regional districts, and federal/provincial planning authorities
entered into numerous consultations with "the public."  What
emerged from these consultations with respect to agricultural
lands was a dominant (and likely intense) preference by urban
residents for recreational access to the foreshore/dykes,
entrenchment of green space and preservation of clean/safe
wildlife habitat.  In order to meet these preferrences the "rules
of the game" for agriculture have to change -- the professional
agricultural community has strengthened its efforts to resist the
imposition of these preferrences as their implementation demands
the redefinition of property rights.  This trenchant resistence
is not surprizing given the weak political position of the
agricultural community and the past history of local governments
to satisfy the dominant urban/suburban majority.

In the 1970s, the ALR was imposed as a collective defensive
measure against non-transport soil erosion (urban encroachment). 
It created conditions that intensified other institutional
arrangements that were inducing transport soil erosion.  The
further entrenchment of the ALR (in the Fraser Estuary) and
restrictions to landuse within it are now motivated, not by loss
of farmland, but by the demand for the concomitant goods of
greenspace, clean and abundant wildlife habitat and recreational
lands.  These new demands may represent preference drift, or may
be the result of new information concerning their realization
through the existence of the ALR and prior success in obtaining
landuse restrictions.  But the expression of these demands has
acted to reduce the security of tenure in the ALR.  Other
institutional developments (some promoted by the pecuniary
effects of densification itself) are acting to reduce the
profitability of existing agricultural activities.  An urban
population, increasingly seperated from the land that supports
it, is creating the very conditions that are driving land-holders
in the ALR not to act as stewards, but to mine the land instead. 
This in-turn has lead to the appearance of agents offering weak
subsidies to induce stewardship practices, groups lobbying for
Coasian exchange instruments, and other groups lobbying for the
uncompensated redefinition of property rights.

All of these activites are attempts to "restore" the land ethic
to a segment of the population that has never really "lost" its
land ethic, but which has instead "submerged" it in order to
survive in the presence of distorting institutions.  The
effectiveness of any re-definition of property rights to achieve
this ethical goal will be undermined by cost shifting and
externality shirking (transfer-seeking) by the participants in
the process of redefinition.  The movement toward increased
densification will exacerbate this asymmetry and the degree of
conflict which arises.  It is not limited merely to the immediate
problems of urban-rural adjacency, but is extended (through
public goods and ownership externalities) to the extra-regional
landscape of whole states, provinces and national regions.  The
wilderness/wildlife movement can be paralleled, through the above
but on a greater scale to include international concerns over
extra-regional landuse (eg., industrial forestry, extensive
livestock grazing, large-scale fisheries, or regional industry
pollution flows).

Given the complexity of the issues surrounding soil erosion,
densification and wilderness preservation, these thoughts and
ideas remain raw and unfinished.  If you've read this far, and
feel you have something to correct or contribute, I encourage you
to send your comments to me, or submit them to the list.  I have
not offered any solutions to some of the problems highlighted
here, and hope that in the course of dialogue, the merits and
demerits of potential solutions can be discussed.

regards,

richard m porter <rmporter@unixg.ubc.ca>
forest economics and policy analysis research unit
university of british columbia

va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate!

In the interests of focused dialogue, this posting has been sent
seperately to pol-econ, res-econ and ecol-econ.  Apologies to those who
will inevitably receive multiple copies. 



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Hi!
   Can anyone tell me the FTP site for corrections of the book "Estimation and
inference in econometrics "
    Thanks!



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ftp::/qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/dm-book

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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:46 EDT 1994
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A few people have asked me recently about "news" types of subjects being
included here or their general availability on the network.  

Nearly everything the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports (as seen on the
daily news, in the papers, etc.) is included in their LABSTAT archive
(authoritative host at stats.bls.gov) and placed in its news.release
directory.  I maintain a mirror of that archive on one of our hosts here to
ensure that it is accessible from an alternate point on the network and to
ensure that it can be accessed from ftp, gopher, and WWW.

Anyway, as an example, I append the file ppi.090994.news (9Sep94) from that
directory (economics/bls/news.releases on ftp.shsu.edu) without the
complete set of Tables, which account for about 3/4 of that file and
include all of the quarterly detail you could ever want -- see the list of
Tables below:
 Table 1.  Producer Price Indexes and percent changes by stage of processing
 Table 2.  Producer Price Indexes and percent changes for selected commodity
           groupings by stage of processing
 Table 3.  Producer Price Indexes for selected commodity groupings
 Table 4.  Producer price indexes for the net output of major industry groups
If you are interested in the complete file, with the complete set of
Tables, it may be retrieved from ftp.shsu.edu via the various user
interfaces.

Definitely a huge and rich repository of information is there and you can't
get an awful lot more authoritative than what the "news heads" are using as
their source.

Regards,   George
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MEDIA CONTACT:  (202) 606-5902          8:30 A.M. (E.D.T.), FRIDAY,
                                        SEPTEMBER 9, 1994
 
 
 
                    PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES--AUGUST 1994
 
     The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods increased 0.6 percent
seasonally adjusted from July to August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U. S. Department of Labor reported today.  The Finished Goods Price
Index moved up 0.5 percent in July and showed no change in June.  Prices
received by domestic producers of intermediate goods rose 0.7 percent over
the month following a 0.5 percent advance in July.  Crude material prices
declined 0.4 percent after falling 0.9 percent in the previous month.  (See
table A.)
 
     The index for finished goods other than foods and energy moved up 0.4
percent, faster than in July.  Consumer food prices also moved up more than
in the previous month.  Prices for finished energy goods continued to rise,
although not as much as in July.
 
Table A.  Monthly and annual percent changes in selected stage-of-
processing price
indexes, seasonally adjusted.
                     Finish
                         ed
                      goods
 
                                     Change in
                            Except   finished   Inter-
                                       goods
                             foods    from 12   mediateCrude
                              and     months
Month  Total  Foods  Energy energy      ago      goods goods
                                     (unadj.)
 1993
 Aug.    -0.8    0.3   -1.0    -1.1         0.5      0   -0.7
Sept.     0.2    0.6   -0.1     0.1         0.4      0    0.7
 Oct.    -0.1   -0.2    0.8    -0.3         0.2    0.1    2.2
 Nov.     0.1    0.8   -2.1     0.4         0.4    0.2   -0.3
 Dec.    -0.1    0.6   -2.9     0.1         0.2   -0.3   -1.5
 
 1994
 Jan.     0.3   -0.4    1.1     0.5         0.2    0.1    1.7
 Feb.     0.4   -0.3    2.8     0.1         0.2    0.4   -1.4
 Mar.     0.2    0.6   -0.3     0.1         0.2    0.2    1.3
 Apr.       0   -0.5   r0.3     0.1        -0.4      0  r-0.2
 May     -0.1  r-1.0  r-1.2    r0.5        -0.4    0.2  r-1.2
 June       0      0    0.3    -0.1           0    0.3    0.9
 July     0.5    0.5    2.5     0.1         0.6    0.5   -0.9
 Aug.     0.6    0.7    1.7     0.4         1.9    0.7   -0.4
r=revised.  Some of the figures shown above and elsewhere in this release
may differ from those previously
reported because data for April 1994 have been revised to reflect the
                                     -2-
 
availability of late reports and corrections
by respondents.
 
     Before seasonal adjustment, the Producer Price Index for Finished
Goods moved up 0.5 percent in August to 126.6 (1982=100).  From August 1993
to August 1994, the Finished Goods Price Index increased 1.9 percent.
During this same period, consumer food prices rose 1.4 percent, the energy
goods index advanced 2.8 percent, and prices for finished goods other than
foods and energy were up 1.9 percent.  The Intermediate Goods Price Index
moved up 2.4 percent during the 12 months ended in August 1994, and prices
for crude goods were 0.8 percent higher than a year before.
 
Finished goods
 
      The index for consumer goods other than foods and energy moved up 0.4
percent in August after showing no change in July.  Prices turned up after
falling a month earlier for cosmetics, sanitary papers and health products,
tobacco products, prescription drugs, alcoholic beverages and light trucks.
Prices for women's apparel and over-the-counter drugs moved up after
showing little or no change a month earlier.  Prices for passenger cars
rose 0.7 percent, the same as in July.  (Before seasonal adjustment, the
passenger car index inched down 0.1 percent in August.)  By contrast,
prices turned down after rising a month earlier for tires and tubes and
floor coverings.  Price increases for newspaper circulation slowed from 2.4
percent in the previous month to 0.6 percent in August.  Prices for
household flatware were unchanged in August after moving up 2.5 percent in
the preceding month.
 
     The Producer Price Index for finished consumer foods  moved up 0.7
percent seasonally adjusted in August after rising 0.5 percent a month
earlier.  Prices turned up markedly after falling in the previous month for
beef and veal (6.9 vs. -2.0 percent), dairy products, pork, and eggs for
fresh use.  Price declines slowed for shortening and cooking oils and for
milled rice.  Prices rose more rapidly than in the preceding month for
finfish and shellfish.  By contrast, prices for roasted coffee moved up
12.0 percent after rising nearly 43 percent in July.  Prices turned down
after increasing in July for soft drinks, fresh fruits and melons, bakery
products, and pasta.  Prices for young chickens fell 3.2 percent after
falling 1.4 percent in the previous month, and prices for turkeys were
almost unchanged after increasing 2.8 percent in July.
 
                                     -3-
 
Table B.  Monthly and annual percent changes in selected price indexes for
intermediate goods and crude goods, seasonally adjusted.
              Interm                           Crude
              ediate                           goods
              goods
                            Change in                        Change in
                            intermedi                          crude
                               ate
                     Exclud   goods                  Excludi   goods
                      ing      from                    ng
                     foods  12 months         Energy  foods   from 12
                      and      ago                     and   months ago
Month  Foods  Energy energy  (unadj.)   Foods (unadj energy   (unadj.)
                                                .)
 1993
 Aug.     0.6   -1.3    0.2        1.0    1.1   -1.9   -2.0            0
Sept.    -0.4      0      0        0.9    0.5    1.2    0.1         -1.4
 Oct.     0.6    0.1      0        1.0   -1.4    6.6    1.3          0.9
 Nov.     1.1   -0.2    0.2        1.2    4.7   -6.3    1.1          0.4
 Dec.     1.4   -3.5    0.2        1.0    1.0   -5.9    1.2          0.1
 
 1994
 Jan.     0.3   -0.2    0.2        0.9   -0.9    4.1    2.7          1.8
 Feb.     0.8    2.8    0.1        0.9    0.9   -6.3    2.2          0.4
 Mar.    -0.3      0    0.2        0.7   -1.1    5.0    0.3          1.5
 Apr.   r-0.3  r-0.6    0.1       r0.5  r-1.1   r1.1  r-0.3         r0.2
 May    r-0.8  r-0.6    0.3        0.9  r-3.5   r1.7  r-1.0         -3.0
 June    -1.4   -0.2    0.6        1.1   -1.2    3.3    0.7         -0.6
 July    -2.0    1.7    0.4        1.6   -2.1   -1.3    2.0          0.6
 Aug.     0.4    2.2    0.5        2.4   -1.4   -0.1    1.4          0.8
r=revised.  Some of the figures shown above and elsewhere in this release
may differ from those previously reported because data
for April 1994 have been revised to reflect the availability of late
reports and corrections by respondents.
 
     Prices for finished energy goods advanced 1.7 percent in August
following a 2.5 percent increase in the preceding month.  Prices for home
heating oil were unchanged after rising 6.4 percent in July.  Prices for
residential gas turned down 0.7 percent following a 0.9 percent increase a
month earlier.  Price increases slowed for gasoline (from 8.0 percent in
July to 6.8 percent in August) and residential electric power.
 
     The capital equipment index inched up 0.1 percent for the third
consecutive month.  Increases for motor vehicles, pumps and compressors,
and railroad equipment outweighed declines for office and store machines,
metal cutting machine tools, and electronic computers.
                                     -4-
Intermediate goods
 
     The Producer Price Index for Intermediate Materials, Supplies, and
Components rose 0.7 percent in August after increasing 0.5 percent in July.
Prices for foods and feeds turned up after 5 consecutive months of decline.
Indexes for nondurable and durable manufacturing materials as well as for
energy goods rose more than in the prior month.  Prices for construction
materials rose the same amount as in the month before.  (See table B.)
 
     In August, the index for intermediate foods and feeds advanced 0.4
percent after declining 2.0 percent in July.  Prices turned up after
falling in July for meats, condensed and evaporated milk, and flour.
Indexes for prepared animal feeds, confectionery materials, fluid milk
products, crude vegetable oils, and for natural and processed cheese
declined less than in the previous month.  In contrast, prices for malt and
malt byproducts were unchanged after increasing a month earlier.
 
     Prices for nondurable manufacturing materials registered a 1.4 percent
advance in August following July's increase of 0.9 percent.  Indexes for
primary and miscellaneous  basic organic chemicals, plastic resins and
materials, woodpulp, alkalies and chlorine, and synthetic fibers advanced
more than in July.  In addition, gray fabric prices turned up after falling
a month earlier.  Prices for paper and intermediate basic organic
chemicals, however, rose less than in July.
 
     The index for intermediate energy goods moved up 2.2 percent in August
after a July increase of 1.7 percent.  The rise in commercial electric
power prices accelerated to 1.6  percent from 0.1 percent in July.  Indexes
for residual fuel and industrial electric power also rose more than a month
earlier.  In addition, prices for natural gas to electric utilities turned
up after falling in July.  In contrast, the index for diesel fuel decreased
0.2 percent after increasing 7.3 percent in the previous month.  Prices for
miscellaneous petroleum and coal products also turned down after rising a
month earlier.  In addition, indexes for jet fuel and gasoline rose less
than in the prior month.
 
     The Producer Price Index for durable manufacturing materials rose 0.7
percent after increasing 0.6 percent a month earlier.  Prices advanced for
hot rolled steel sheet and strip, plywood, aluminum, and for building paper
and board.  Conversely, indexes for copper and brass mill shapes, silver,
gold, and zinc declined in August.
 
     The index for construction materials moved up 0.3 percent in August,
the same as the month before.  Increases for softwood lumber, plywood,
plastic construction products, asphalt felts and coatings, concrete
products, and switchgear outweighed declines for nonferrous wire and cable,
plumbing fixtures and brass fittings, and for air conditioning and
refrigeration equipment.
 
 
                                     -5-
Crude goods
 
     The Producer Price Index for Crude Materials for Further Processing
moved down 0.4 percent in August after falling 0.9 percent in July.
Indexes for crude energy materials and for crude foodstuffs and feedstuffs
fell less than in July.  In contrast, the basic industrial materials index
advanced less than it had a month before.  (See table B.)
 
     The decline in the crude energy materials index slowed to 0.1 percent
in August from 1.3 percent a month earlier.  The natural gas to pipelines
index turned up 3.0 percent after dropping 9.7 percent in July, and coal
prices rose somewhat faster than in the previous month.  Crude petroleum
prices, however, turned down 3.4 percent after increasing in each of the
previous 5 months.
 
     The crude foodstuffs and feedstuffs index moved down 1.4 percent after
declining 2.1 percent in July.  The smaller July decrease was partly due to
the corn index, which was unchanged after dropping 14 percent in July.
Indexes for slaughter broilers, soybeans, and Irish potatoes for processing
fell less than in July.  In addition, prices for slaughter hogs, slaughter
turkeys, and unprocessed shellfish rose more in August than the month
before.  By contrast, the rise in the slaughter cattle index slowed to 1.1
percent from 6.4 percent in the prior month.  Prices for fresh vegetables
except potatoes turned down after rising in July, and the fluid milk index
fell more than a month earlier.
 
     The index for crude nonfood materials less energy moved up 1.4 percent
in August following an increase of 2.0 percent in July.  Price increases
for wastepaper slowed to 1.4 percent from over 36 percent in July and
nearly 34 percent in June.  Indexes for aluminum base scrap, copper ores,
gold ores, and copper base scrap turned down after rising in the previous
month.  The raw cotton index, however, turned up 3.8 percent after dropping
almost 12 percent in July.  Prices for iron and steel scrap rose more than
a month earlier, and  the softwood logs, bolts, and timber index fell less
than in July.
 
Net output price indexes for mining, manufacturing, and other industries
 
     Mining.  The Producer Price Index for the net output of the domestic
mining sector moved up 0.3 percent  in August after falling 2.2 percent in
the preceding month.  (Net output price indexes are not seasonally
adjusted.)  The oil and gas extraction industry group index turned up 0.4
percent following a 3.6 percent decline in July.  Price increases
accelerated for the industry group for bituminous coal and lignite mining.
By contrast, the metal mining industry group index turned down 0.8 percent
in August after rising 5.1 percent in July, and the index for the
nonmetallic minerals mining group fell much more than in the previous
month.
 
     Manufacturing.  Prices received by producers for the net output of the
domestic manufacturing sector rose 0.6 percent in August after moving up
0.2 percent in July.  Prices for the petroleum refining industry group
increased 5.8 percent in August after rising 4.4 percent in the previous
month.  Price increases also accelerated for the industry groups for
chemicals and allied products and for paper and allied products.  Prices
turned up after falling a month earlier for the industry groups for lumber
and wood products and for food and kindred products.  Prices continued to
climb for the industry groups for primary metal industries and for rubber
and plastic products.
                                     -6-
 
     Other.  After rising over 25 percent in July, the index for wastepaper
collection moved up 1.0 percent in August.  Prices turned up after falling
a month earlier for scheduled air transportation. Prices for ferrous metal
scrap collection rose faster in August (8.8 percent) than in July (2.1
percent).  Price declines slowed for airports and airport services.  The
index for general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.6 percent for
the second consecutive month.  By contrast, price increases for the
passenger car rental index slowed markedly from July (8.8 percent) to
August (0.9 percent).  Price increases also slowed for nonferrous metal
scrap collection and radio broadcasting.  The index for crude petroleum
pipelines was unchanged after moving up 1.7 percent in July.  Prices turned
down in August after increasing in the preceding month for hotels and
motels, as well as for cable and other pay television services.
 
                                   *****
           Producer Price Index data for September 1994 will be
         released on Thursday, October 13, at 8:30 a.m. (E.D.T.).
                                   *****
Information in this news release will be made available to sensory impaired
individuals  upon request.  Voice phone: 202-606-7828; TDD  phone  202-606-
5897; TDD Message Referral phone number: 1-800-326-2577.
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               ***********Call For Papers*************
                Missouri Valley Economic Association
                        February 23-25, 1995
                   Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel
                        Kansas City, Missouri


     Paper proposals should include Title, Topic, and two copies of either 
     an abstract of approximately 700 words (or a draft of the paper itself) 
     as well as the name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and 
     affiliation of the author(s).

     Persons wishing to serve as Discussant and/or Session Chair should 
     submit name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and topic 
     preferences. This information may also be appended to a paper proposal.

            Note: Submissions by Graduate Students are encouraged.

     _The Journal of Economics_ publishes a refereed selection of those 
     papers presented at each meeting of the Association and subsequently 
     submitted for publication.

     Submissions by October 1, 1994:
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From drago@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:49 EDT 1994
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Would someone please post to me (by email) a full reference to and order
information for the report of the Dunlop Commission on the future of
the american workplace?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
Bob Drago
drago@csd.uwm.edu



From huberman@parc.xerox.com Wed Sep 21 17:36:52 EDT 1994
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From: huberman@parc.xerox.com (Bernardo Huberman)
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he following report is available either in hardcopy form or in postcript format via ftp to parcftp.xerox.com
If you choose to retrieve it electronically login as anonymous and when asked for the password give it your e-mail user id.

Once you are logged in, do a  cd to pub/dynamics.

-----------------------------------

Bubbles and Market Crashes

Michael Youssefmir, Bernardo A. Huberman, and Tad Hogg
Dynamics of Computation Group
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Abstract
We present a dynamical theory of asset price bubbles that exhibits the
appearance of bubbles and their subsequent crashes. We show that when
speculative trends dominate over fundamental beliefs, bubbles form,
leading to the growth of asset prices away from their fundamental value.
This growth makes the system increasingly susceptible to any exogenous
shock, thus eventually precipitating a crash. We also present computer
experiments which in their aggregate behavior confirm the predictions of
the theory.



From FRASCA@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu Wed Sep 21 17:36:55 EDT 1994
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I am searching for annual data on employment in the U.S.
manufacturing sector back to about 1870. Is it readily
available in either paper or electronic form?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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From R1RWS@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU Wed Sep 21 17:36:58 EDT 1994
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On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:26:14 -0500 (CDT) Michael Sykuta said:
>>
>>I am searching for annual data on employment in the U.S.
>>manufacturing sector back to about 1870.

The reference I beleive is to Historical Statistics of the U.S.

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I'm looking for filings to ERISA(Department of Labor) by Pension Funds.  Any 
help would be greatly appreciated. 

Please respond to "Postmaster%capaccess.com@uu10.psi.com"

Thanks


From caspar@qualia.dircon.co.uk Wed Sep 21 17:37:04 EDT 1994
Article: 1528 of sci.econ.research
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From: caspar@qualia.dircon.co.uk (Caspar Bowden)
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Subject: Wanted: RATS/TSP/Gauss GARCH contract programmers
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We would be interested in hearing from Stats/Finance/Econometric postgrads
with experience of coding GARCH-type models in RATS/TSP/Gauss (or even 'C'
and Mathematica), who might be able to do some development contract 
programming for us - PC/Windows environment (location unimportant -
communicate via e-mail). 
Please send CV including details of programming experience and 
qualifications in time-series work.

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Equitable House Investments Ltd, London 



From dskanderson@peg.kpmg.com Wed Sep 21 17:37:07 EDT 1994
Article: 1529 of sci.econ.research
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From: "Skanderson, David M." <dskanderson@peg.kpmg.com>
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Subject: Senior Consultant Sought
Date: 15 Sep 1994 22:47:33 GMT
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     POSITION:
     Well-rounded economist (Senior Consultant) for the International 
     Economics practice of the Policy Economics Group of KPMG Peat Marwick, 
     Washington, DC.  This is an entry-level position for new PhD's.
     
     JOB DESCRIPTION:
     The Policy Economics Group (PEG) of KPMG Peat Marwick is a global 
     leader in international financial, fiscal and economic reform 
     consulting. PEG specializes in the provision of technical assistance 
     to governments around the world in the design and implementation of 
     economic reform policy and fiscal administration.  PEG is currently 
     undertaking multi-year technical assistance projects in economic 
     restructuring for Russia and the other states of the former Soviet 
     Union, as well as for countries of Central and Eastern Europe, under 
     contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development.  PEG is 
     also involved in projects of various kinds in Central and South 
     America, Africa and Asia.  In addition, PEG has well established 
     consulting practices in privatization (merchant banking), state and 
     local tax, health care, and legislation. The economist who joins our 
     team will contribute to our growing practice in macroeconomic, 
     monetary and financial market reform, as well as to other foreign and 
     domestic consulting projects.
     
     QUALIFICATIONS:
     Ph.D. in economics, with strong analytical skills.  Open 
     to new Ph.D.'s.  Relevant experience and language skills are a plus.
     
     FIELDS OF EMPHASIS: 
     We seek a well-rounded economist capable of applying his or her
     skills/knowledge in various areas of interest to PEG. The candidate 
     should have a STRONG interest in applied work and a NON-ACADEMIC 
     career path.  Areas of priority:  money/macro. policy, international 
     trade/finance, public finance.  
     
     LOCATION:
     Job will be based in Washington, DC, but will provide substantial 
     opportunities for overseas travel.
     
     SUBMISSION:
     Send CV and abstract (only) to
     
     Lori Brown (ECON/NET)
     Human Resources
     Policy Economics Group
     KPMG Peat Marwick
     2001 M St., NW
     Washington, DC 20036
     
     
     Salaries are competitive.
     KPMG Peat Marwick is an equal-opportunity employer. 
     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++END+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



From fls@walras.econ.duke.edu Wed Sep 21 17:37:10 EDT 1994
Article: 1531 of sci.econ.research
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Subject: s.e.r. archive on world wide web
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	I've made a first pass at putting the sci.econ.research
archive on the World Wide Web.  It's nothing fancy, but feel free
to take a look.

	The home page can be reached via

http://walras.econ.duke.edu

	<note there is no www in the address>

	If you have any trouble, please let me know.

				- Forrest Smith
				  fls@walras.econ.duke.edu


From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 21 17:37:13 EDT 1994
Article: 1535 of sci.econ.research
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From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
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On 15 Sep 1994 22:47:51 GMT, Forrest Smith <fls@walras.econ.duke.edu>
posted:
> I've made a first pass at putting the sci.econ.research archive on the
> World Wide Web.  It's nothing fancy, but feel free to take a look.
> 
> The home page can be reached via
>
> http://walras.econ.duke.edu

A nice addition to the web.  Please let me also point out something which I
think is a good ancillary to this -- the completely searchable Boolean
indexed archives of Pol-Econ which are available on Niord.SHSU.edu's
Economics Gopher Server.  Yes, it's more than s.e.r since it includes
everything ever posted to Pol-Econ, dating back to December, 1990. 
However, it also includes everything posted to s.e.r since August, 1993.

The major advantage of this index and archive of posts is that, using
Boolean logic and wildcards, you can specify what you wish to search for,
getting somewhat specific in terms of your search.  This makes the archives
a developing research resource since prior posts may be quickly identified
and only those posts matching the search target are extracted for you from
the complete archive.

A secondary advantage is that this engine is Gopher-based, so access to a
Web client is not a prerequisite for use, even though its URL is reachable
via the Web.  If you don't have a Gopher client, we continue to support a
publicly-accessible client for use via TELNET to Scrooge.SHSU.edu (login as
"gopher" -- all lowercase, without the quotes, no password required). 
Please be aware, though, that we have a one user limit on this service and
it stays busy almost constantly around the clock (i.e., fair warning; you
may have to try a few times).

The Gopher link information for the archives is:
#
Type=1
Name=List Archives for <Pol-Econ@SHSU.edu>
Path=1gopher_root:[_DATA.FILESERV.POL-ECON]
Host=Niord.shsu.edu
Port=70

or, if all you're after is the search itself, the link is:
#
Type=7
Name=Search Pol-Econ Archives
Path=7:nosort:GOPHER_ROOT:[000000]_search.shell gopher_root:[IDXSEL.
  POL-ECON]POL-ECON*
Host=Niord.SHSU.edu
Port=70
(wrap Path= back to a single line; no space)

The URL specifications for these services are:
<A 
HREF="gopher://Niord.shsu.edu:70/11gopher_root%3a%5b_DATA.FILESERV.
  POL-ECON%5d">
List Archives for Pol-Econ@SHSU.edu</A>
  and
<A
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Search Pol-Econ Archives</A>
(wrap HREF= specifications back to a single line; no space)

Suggestions as to how we can enhance the archives (or any of our services,
for that matter) are always welcome.

Regards,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
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Article 1534 of sci.econ.research:
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Hi Everybody,

Have anyone come across recent articles related to Intertemporal general
eqlbm- approach to exchange rate and current account behaviour.
If so please let me know the following e-mail add

   in%"thalaya_r@usp.ac.fj" 
Thanks
Ravi.



From MomotaroT@aol.com Wed Sep 21 17:37:28 EDT 1994
Article: 1532 of sci.econ.research
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Subject: Production in refining industry
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     I am looking for monthly or quartery data on production, capital, and
employment in refining industry during the 1980s.  I am trying to regress
production on capital and employment in Cobb-Douglas function.  Does anyone
know where I can obtain those data?
     Thank you for any help.
Kotaro Takada     momotarot@aol.com



From M.Voorneveld@kub.nl Wed Sep 21 17:37:32 EDT 1994
Article: 1538 of sci.econ.research
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From: M.Voorneveld@kub.nl (VOORNEVELD M.)
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Subject: lattices
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In courses on econometrics, decisions are usually defined as subsets
of n-dimensional Euclidean space, based on a certain preference relation.
The most common example in economics is choosing the 'best' bundle of goods
in the commodity space on which a preference relation is defined, for example
by means of a utility function.
It seems straightforward to extend such decision rules to any nonempty set with
a preference relation on this set. I believe such a 2-tuple (S, <) where S is
the nonempty set and < the preference relation is called a lattice.
Am I trying to reinvent the wheel when I try to generalize decision rules so
that they are applicable to lattices?
Can someone give some references to books on lattices? The definition I gave
above is about all I know concerning lattices and I would like to have a 
thorough introduction to this theory. Since I seldomly read this group, please 
send e-mail responses to the following address:  M.Voorneveld@kub.nl



From fls@corp.sun.com Wed Sep 21 17:37:37 EDT 1994
Article: 1540 of sci.econ.research
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From: fls@corp.sun.com (Forrest Smith)
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Subject: Job Announcement, Furman University
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Furman University is a private, coeducational, liberal-arts undergraduate
institution; the Department of Economics and Business Administration wishes to
hire an Assistant Professor of Economics in a tenure-track position to teach
principles, other courses; Ph.D. required; flexibility a must.  We seek
economists who are committed to undergraduate teaching and continued
professional development.  I/O and international interests desirable.
Applications should include a vita, the graduate transcript, and letters of
recommendation.  Contact R.D. Roe, Department of Economics and Business
Administration, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613.  Furman is an
affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer.



From fls@corp.sun.com Wed Sep 21 17:37:40 EDT 1994
Article: 1541 of sci.econ.research
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From: fls@corp.sun.com (Forrest Smith)
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Subject: IMF Working Papers, with reply
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I need a few papers published by the IMF in their Working Papers Series 
and IMF Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment. These are not available 
in  our library here at UMC (which is a shame). How can I order them 
directly from the IMF (phone-No. or fax) and what is the cost?

Thanks,

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Jan Fidrmuc  
Department of Economics             Phone: +314-882-0959
University of Missouri--Columbia    Fax:   +314-882-2697
118 Professional Building           c627631@showme.missouri.edu 
Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.          c627631@mizzou1.missouri.edu

***********AND THE ANSWER IS: **************************************

IMF Working Papers and IMF Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment
can be ordered direct from the IMF :

International Monetary Fund
Attention: Publication services
700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20431
USA

Tel:  (202) 623 7430
Fax: (202) 623 7201

The Working Papers are $7.00 each, but the  Papers on Policy Analysis
and Assessment are free.




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*  Mark Blofeld                                          E-mail:mblofeld@imf.org  *
*  International Monetary Fund                                                           *
*  700 19th St., N.W.                                 Tel. (202) 623-8193          *
*  Washington, D.C. 20431                        Fax. (202) 623-5650        *
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From adh2@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu Wed Sep 21 17:37:44 EDT 1994
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From: adh2@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Amresh D. Hanchate)
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Subject: switching regression for binary variables
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I am interested in running a switching regression in which the two regression equations (as well as the criterion function) have binary dependent variables. Does anyone know of a consistent estimator for this problem? Thanks!
Sue Helper



From samie@access.digex.net Wed Sep 21 17:37:47 EDT 1994
Article: 1543 of sci.econ.research
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From: samie@access.digex.net (adam samie)
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Subject: The quality of Human Capital and Economic growth
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The following is a very brief synopsis of a research proposal that I have 
begun work on.  I would be grateful if those of you who are interested in 
this area can provide me with any references that may be useful as wellas 
any names of people who may be interested.  I have tried to be very brief 
and so I hope have not ended up being too cryptic.  However, if there is 
need for elaboration, I will be ready to post more.

The topic is very important from the standpoint of economic policy in 
many countries to deserve wide discussion.  Hence the reason for my 
posting. 

It has long been recognized that human capital is an important 
determinant of economic growth.  Recently, the endogenous growth 
literature has underscored this proposition even more emphatically.  When 
one begins to explore the relatively fluid notion of modern technology, 
which includes design and marketing as well as the role of computers and 
information technology, perhaps the role of human capital and its quality 
should recieve even greater attention.  Similarly, the need to innovate 
and imitate as an integralpart of catching up perhaps also points to the 
need to consider the quality of human capital development in an economy.  

However, economic theory gives us relatively little guidance on the 
policy that should be pursued with regard to human capital.  For 
example, in keeping with recieved wisdom, should the government 
in poor countries concentrate primarily on primary education and only 
attempt to develop higher levels having achieved this level.  Or does the 
new growth theory and the new technology suggest that there should be a 
greater weight given to quality rather than quantity of education.  Or 
even that perhaps the higher levels of education should recieve more 
weight.
  



From adh2@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu Wed Sep 21 17:37:50 EDT 1994
Article: 1544 of sci.econ.research
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From: adh2@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Amresh D. Hanchate)
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Subject: Need references on switching regression with logit
Date: 20 Sep 1994 17:09:42 GMT
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Hello readers,

	A friend of mine is looking for estimation methods for a switching regression model (with endogenous switching) wherein the dependent variable in the two regression equations is also binary. Maddala's book (pp 224) mentions of a two-stage method (by Lee(1976)) - but the dependent variable here is continuous. 
	Is maximum likelihood the only option?
	Thanks in advance for your comments.

Amresh Hanchate



From berumehm@wfu.edu Wed Sep 21 17:37:53 EDT 1994
Article: 1545 of sci.econ.research
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From: "Hakan M. Berument" <berumehm@wfu.edu>
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Subject: Granger casuality and Cointegration.
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 15:56:49 -0400 (EDT)
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I find that variables x1 x2 x3 do not granger (and there is no 
instantenous correlation) causes each other.  However there is a 
cointegraiting relationship among among these three variables.  
Do you hava any suggestion what does this imply.
Hakan Berument
email berumehm@wfu.edu



From dmanning@hookup.net Wed Sep 21 17:37:56 EDT 1994
Article: 1547 of sci.econ.research
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From: dmanning@hookup.net (Daryl Manning)
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Subject: Fractal Modelling
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Could someone point me to information on Fractal Modelling as it 
applies to discovering non-linear relationships and particularly seminal 
papers, methods, techniques and applied instances (or software) please give me 
a yell at the E-mail address below?

In particular if you are familiar with these methods as they apply to the 
development of models for very large marketing databases, I would appreciate 
any pointers.

Any help greatly appreciated,
Later,
Daryl.


Daryl Manning, Toronto, CANADA
DWM & Associates
________________________
  dmanning@hookup.net
  ____________________



From caspar@qualia.dircon.co.uk Wed Sep 21 17:37:59 EDT 1994
Article: 1548 of sci.econ.research
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From: caspar@qualia.dircon.co.uk (Caspar Bowden)
Newsgroups: sci.econ.research
Subject: Re: GARCH programmers wanted. Mailer crash: please resend replies
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Apologies to those people who replied to our posting for RATS/TSP GARCH
postgrad programmers.

Our mailer program crashed and we lost your replies and e-mail addresses.

Would you be so kind as to re-send you replies

Thank you
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Caspar Bowden					Tel: (01044)(71) 490 8477
Senior Researcher
Equitable House Investments Ltd, London 



From dskanderson@peg.kpmg.com Wed Sep 21 17:38:02 EDT 1994
Article: 1546 of sci.econ.research
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From: "Skanderson, David M." <dskanderson@peg.kpmg.com>
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Subject: Consultant sought, Policy Economics Group
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The Policy Economics Group, KPMG Peat Marwick

seeks qualified candidates for the position of

Economic Consultant -- International & Domestic

        The Policy Economics Group (PEG) is a global leader in economic 
consulting services.  In its international practice, PEG specializes in 
providing technical assistance to developing countries in the design and 
implementation of economic policy reform and fiscal administration.  This 
involves macroeconomic policy reform, tax policy and financial management 
reform, financial institution development, and privatization.  PEG is actively 
involved in Russia and the other former Soviet states, as well as in numerous 
countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  The 
domestic practice emphasizes tax/fiscal policy, and regional economics.  PEG is 
a leader in consulting with state governments on tax policy, and a has a rapidly
growing practice in health policy.  Current projects include the development of 
policy simulation models, and the conduct of tax-policy and economic-impact 
analyses.

        Consultants at PEG provide a wide variety of research assistance to 
senior staff.  Some of the duties may include general research, data gathering, 
data analysis and statistical work, and assistance with proposal preparation.  
The position is ideal for individuals seeking work experience before going on to
graduate school.  Positions are available in three practice areas:

                  --International Economics
                  --State and Local Tax Policy
                  --Health Policy

        The positions are based in Washington, DC, though consultants in the 
International Economics practice may have opportunities for travel and/or living
abroad.  Salaries are competitive.

QUALIFICATIONS:  Candidates should have a Bachelors degree in Economics with 
coursework in statistics and econometrics.  A background in public finance is 
also helpful. Computer skills -- such as experience with spreadsheet, word 
processing, and statistical software -- will be important considerations, as 
will practical research assistance experience.  Candidates should have good 
communication skills and be able to work with teams, accept responsibility and 
take initiative.  Relevant language skills, though not required, are an added 
plus for candidates for the International Economics positions.

SEND RESUM? TO:  Lori Brown (ECON), Human Resources, Policy Economics Group, 
KPMG Peat Marwick, 2001 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.  Please indicate the
practice area in which you are interested.

Direct e-mail queries to:  David Skanderson (dskanderson@peg.kpmg.com)



From ruebeck@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Fri Sep 30 20:56:19 EDT 1994
Article: 1549 of sci.econ.research
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From: ruebeck@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Christophe B Ruebeck)
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Subject: Producer Price Index collection methods
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 17:25:52 -0400
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I am interested in the method of collection of PPI data - is it list 
price, sell price, etc.  Any details appreciated.

Thanks

Chris Ruebeck



From bmolefsky@delphi.com Fri Sep 30 20:56:29 EDT 1994
Article: 1587 of sci.econ.research
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From: Barry Molefsky <bmolefsky@delphi.com>
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Subject: Re: Producer Price Index collection methods
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Christophe B Ruebeck <ruebeck@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> writes:
 
>I am interested in the method of collection of PPI data - is it list 
>price, sell price, etc.  Any details appreciated.
 
  There have also been articles in the Monthly Labor Review discussing PPI
data collection.



From izvorski@econ.yale.edu Fri Sep 30 20:56:38 EDT 1994
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From: izvorski@econ.yale.edu (Ivailo Izvorski)
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Subject: Re: The quality of Human Capital and Economic growth
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In article <35lpim$st@access2.digex.net> samie@access.digex.net (adam samie) writes:

[some stuff deleted]

>It has long been recognized that human capital is an important 
>determinant of economic growth.  Recently, the endogenous growth 
>literature has underscored this proposition even more emphatically.  When 
>one begins to explore the relatively fluid notion of modern technology, 
>which includes design and marketing as well as the role of computers and 
>information technology, perhaps the role of human capital and its quality 
>should recieve even greater attention.  Similarly, the need to innovate 
>and imitate as an integralpart of catching up perhaps also points to the 
>need to consider the quality of human capital development in an economy.  
>
>However, economic theory gives us relatively little guidance on the 
>policy that should be pursued with regard to human capital.  For 
>example, in keeping with recieved wisdom, should the government 
>in poor countries concentrate primarily on primary education and only 
>attempt to develop higher levels having achieved this level.  Or does the 
>new growth theory and the new technology suggest that there should be a 
>greater weight given to quality rather than quantity of education.  Or 
>even that perhaps the higher levels of education should recieve more 
>weight.

It is hard to quote an article which gives any definitive answer.
My reading of the literature is that unless your country is the US,
Germany, etc., imitation is the way to catch up (for example, all of
the East Asian countries are gowing rapidly due to imitation). This
suggests that availability of education is the key issue. It is a bit
utopic to try to catch up by heavly promoting higher education. 

Just an idea. Have you looked at Freeman and Polasky's "Knowledge
Based Growth", JME, 1992? Try also looking at the latest articles by
Paul Romer (JME, December 1993 is especially enlightening. There is no
mathematics whatsoever)

Best of luck,

Ivailo


- 
Ivailo Izvorski
izvorski@econ.yale.edu     izvorski@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Dept. of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520



From samie@access.digex.net Fri Sep 30 20:56:47 EDT 1994
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William L. Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm hardly a development expert, but according to _The Economist_ (Riddle of
>East Asia's Success: Economic Miracle or Myth?" _The Economist_, Oct. 2-8,
>1993, pp. 41-2), a recent extensive World Bank report ("The East Asian 
>Miracle") finds that the type of education spending seems to have played a
>role in the unprecedented growth in that part of the world. Rather than 
>spending more on education, it was more directed to primary and secondary
>education, rather than universities.
>
>Of course, this isn't theory, but the evidence does seem to suggest an 
>answer.
>
>
>  .---.   Bill Goffe                                 bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu
> (    |   Dept. of Econ. and International Business   office: (601) 266-4484
>  )__*|   University of Southern Mississippi             fax: (601) 266-4920
>    (_|   Southern Station, Box 5072
>          Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5072
>
This result is quite misleading for the following reasons:
a.  We cannot assign causality of growth to investment in primary 
education in East Asia given that there were so many different factors at 
work.
b.  The World Banks has been pushing investmetn in primary education for 
the last 30 years ever since the Macnamara years and the basic need 
philosophies.  This policy has been pursued in many countries leading 
only to useless school buildings, bloated education budgets and little 
impact on growth.
c.  The far east did not underinvest in higher education.  In fact we can 
see the signs of it right now given teh flow of researchers in American 
universities from that part of hte world and given the difficulties of 
gaining admission to places like Seoul National.

No, I think that the policy choices arising out of the tradeoffs between 
investing in quality and quantity of education and between lower and 
higher levels of education remains an important question that has not 
been debated in the profession.  The development community and the World 
Bank have without investigating accepted the shoddy reasoning of no 
tradeoff but mere investment in poor quality primary education and 
visible negelct of good quality and higher education.






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In article <35tcrr$dch@access2.digex.net>,
adam samie <samie@access.digex.net> wrote:
>In article <35sff3$cgd@server.st.usm.edu>,
>William L. Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm hardly a development expert, but according to _The Economist_ (Riddle of
>East Asia's Success: Economic Miracle or Myth?" _The Economist_, Oct. 2-8,
>1993, pp. 41-2), a recent extensive World Bank report ("The East Asian 
>Miracle") finds that the type of education spending seems to have played a
>role in the unprecedented growth in that part of the world. Rather than 
>spending more on education, it was more directed to primary and secondary
>education, rather than universities.
>
>Of course, this isn't theory, but the evidence does seem to suggest an 
>answer.

This result from East Asia is quite misleading for the following reasons:
a.  We cannot assign causality of growth to investment in primary 
education in East Asia given that there were so many different factors at 
work.
b.  The World Banks has been pushing investmetn in primary education for 
the last 30 years ever since the Macnamara years and the basic need 
philosophies.  This policy has been pursued in many countries leading 
only to useless school buildings, bloated education budgets and little 
impact on growth.
c.  The far east did not underinvest in higher education.  In fact we can 
see the signs of it right now given teh flow of researchers in American 
universities from that part of hte world and given the difficulties of 
gaining admission to places like Seoul National.

No, I think that the policy choices arising out of the tradeoffs between 
investing in quality and quantity of education and between lower and 
higher levels of education remains an important question that has not 
been debated in the profession.  The development community and the World 
Bank have without investigating accepted the shoddy reasoning of no 
tradeoff but mere investment in poor quality primary education and 
visible negelct of good quality and higher education.




From mjwolfe@delphi.com Fri Sep 30 20:57:03 EDT 1994
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I work for Kraft General Foods..we have been talking about allowing
academics to source a scanner data set that has what you want, I think..
I do extensive causal modelikng myseflf..Thiis data is weekly, covering
18 markets, with actual weekly GRP's and daypart, plus all the t other
stuff that comes with scanner data...mfr. coupons, trade merchandising,
sales volume, market share, price..etc...this is an econometricians
dream...Michael Wolfe (708) 646-4021 (2454 Fax)



From davidhess@delphi.com Fri Sep 30 20:57:11 EDT 1994
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written for the Institute of Politics at the University of
Pittsburgh which explores the current public policy dilemmas
involved in coping with environmental degradation left from past
manufacturing and industrial operations and finding innovative
ways to encourage the reuse of these sites.
 
     This is the fifth in a series of issues papers written for
the Institute of Politics by Clarke M. Thomas, the retired senior
editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
 
     "How Brown Is My Valley"is available by electronic mail upon
request to: DAVIDHESS@Delphi.com.
 
     For information on the Institute of Politics, contact
Elizabeth Beck, Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh,
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From NEBK@HHS.SE Fri Sep 30 20:57:21 EDT 1994
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From: "Bengt Kristrom, SSE, Sweden" <NEBK@HHS.SE>
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Subject: Re: Income elasticity of environmental improvements
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Thanks to those who kindly for responding to my inquiry on this. If you have
access
to UUDECODE I can mail you my recent version of the paper (wordperfect). A
key reference, albeit somewhat old now, is Pearce, D.W. (1980) "The Social
Evidence of Environmental Costs and Benefits" in O'Riordan & Turner,
Progress in Resource Management and Environental Planning, vol 2., Wiley.
His conclusions are similar to mine, the evicence is mixed and the
folklore not true. 

Bengt Kristrom



From JHBROWN@GSVMS2.CC.GASOU.EDU Fri Sep 30 20:57:28 EDT 1994
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Does anyone know of English language literature dealing with the law
and economics analysis of non-common law legal systems?  I am particularly
interested in such analysis of Civil law jurisdictions.  I found next to
nothing in English although the literature in other languages is abundant.
I would appreciate an cites you are able to supply.  Send them to:
JHBROWN@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu.  Thanks for your help in this.



From pngco@aol.com Fri Sep 30 20:57:37 EDT 1994
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Subject: VALUING THE INTANGIBLE: CORPORATE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
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Let me try this again.  I m interested in Valuation of Major Capital
projects with consideration of large uncertainty and risk in a limited
capital environment.  If I were to pick one title it would be  VALUING THE
INTANGIBLE . Some of the literature (1989-93) applying Option Pricing
Theory to real capital projects (e.g. REAL OPTION VALUATION TECHNIQUES) 
is where I m heading and I d like to know if anyone out there knows of a
group/individual interested in this type of discussion.

My thesis is that the short term investment practices of many of America s
largest corporation (I work for one) is a result of the limited capital
valuation techniques.  Long term real growth options associated with
product price volatility, active project management, and project
interdependencies are not fully valued (if valued at all) and as a result
the capital budgeting process funds short term lower potential projects. 
Beyond the missed opportunities at increasing shareholder value, the
resulting portfolio mix is poorly balanced and highly skewed.  My personal
opinion is that environmental projects are especially biased against in
this process.

I would appreciate any leads you could provide in finding others
interested in this subject.  Thanks,

Gardner Walkup




From M.J.H.Yaffey@bradford.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 20:57:47 EDT 1994
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On 24 Sep 1994, PNGCO wrote:

> Let me try this again.  I m interested in Valuation of Major Capital
> projects with consideration of large uncertainty and risk in a limited
> capital environment.  If I were to pick one title it would be  VALUING THE
> INTANGIBLE . Some of the literature (1989-93) applying Option Pricing
> Theory to real capital projects (e.g. REAL OPTION VALUATION TECHNIQUES) 
> is where I m heading and I d like to know if anyone out there knows of a
> group/individual interested in this type of discussion.
> 
>[cut] 
> Gardner Walkup
> 
There is a British journal called Project Appraisal which might be a
useful lead.

Best wishes

Michael Yaffey, Development and Project Planning Centre, Bradford University




From nwilliam@ucbeh.san.uc.edu Fri Sep 30 20:57:55 EDT 1994
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Hi,
  I'm searching for data on the average hourly earnings in the US states, over
the period 1976 to 1993.  I need annual averages for each state.  I know that
average hourly earnings in manufacturing is published in Employment and
Earnings.  I want similar data across all industries.
  It seems that such data
is available from the BLS, in their LABSTAT data base.  However, extracting
only the 50 series I need seems no simple task.  Does anyone know of an
Internet site which might have this information?  Or does anyone have
experience using Labstat that would suggest it is not as complicated as it
looks at a quick glance?

Nick Williams                         Voice:  (513) 556 2390
University of Cincinnati              FAX:    (513) 556 2669
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From drago@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu Fri Sep 30 20:58:02 EDT 1994
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A friend and I were discussing the state (or lack thereof) of heterodox
economics journals.  A particular problem which arose was how to
categorize and generate a list of 'major' heterodox econ. journals.
The problem is that none of these journals will be major in the
sense of JPE/QJE/AER (at least in sales), and many journals which
might be included are not obviously dealing with economics in the
usual sense of the word.

As a first cut, I suggested defining these journals as ones which
confront traditional economics from a critical standpoint.  The
list which then comes to mind is (in alphabetical order):

Cambridge J.E.
J. Econ. Inquiry
J.Post-Keynesian Econ.
Rev. Black Pol. Econ.
Rev. Radical Pol. Econ.
Rev. Social Econ.

Journals like _Rethinking Marxism_, _Politics and Society_, _Signs_,
and some other influential journals as well might not make
it on this definition, but maybe they should (I exclude _Feminist
Economics_ as simply too new).  

Anyone have any alternative definitions/lists to suggest?


Cheers,
Bob Drago

PS. I think this warrants discussion on s.e.r., but if anyone
prefers e-mail, my address is below.

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From M.J.H.Yaffey@bradford.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 20:58:17 EDT 1994
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From: MJH YAFFEY <M.J.H.Yaffey@bradford.ac.uk>
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Richard Porter <rmporter@unixg.ubc.ca> posted his "annual
blitz of economics-related lists" -- another list just started:

     econ-soc-devt@mailbase.ac.uk

deals with development studies (LDCs and countries in
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Send message 
    join econ-soc-devt Firstname Lastname
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From Robert.Frank@semecon.vwl.uni-muenchen.d400.de Fri Sep 30 20:58:23 EDT 1994
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From: Robert.Frank@semecon.vwl.uni-muenchen.d400.de (Robert Frank)
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Subject: Fleeming Jenkin: "The graphic representation of the laws ..."
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Hello,

my search for the paper: 

"The graphic representation of the laws of supply and demand, and their 
application to labour"

by Fleeming Jenkin in "Recess Studies" by Alexander Grant, Edinburgh, 
1870 was invain (at least in Germany).

Does anyone know if a reprint is available?

Thank you very much

Robert Frank
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From picard@convex.csd.uwm.edu Fri Sep 30 20:58:29 EDT 1994
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From: picard@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Aaron Anslem Picard)
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Outside of programing the system in GAUSS, is there any software availible
that is capable of Kalman filtering?  Or TARCH (Zakoian, 1990)?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Aaron A. Picard



From e-day@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu Fri Sep 30 20:58:37 EDT 1994
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From: e-day@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (A. E. Day)
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I don't know about TARCH, but RATS has procedures for Kalman filtering.

>
>Outside of programing the system in GAUSS, is there any software availible
>that is capable of Kalman filtering? 

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Department of Economics          middle classes.  It is the hidden threat
University of Central Florida    that disorganized government holds over
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From swg8890@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Fri Sep 30 20:58:43 EDT 1994
Article: 1572 of sci.econ.research
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From: swg8890@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Satomi  Wakita)
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Subject: Looking for Consumer Expenditure Survey Questionnaire
Date: 26 Sep 1994 21:26:07 GMT
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Hi, 

    I am trying to locate the questionnaires used in the Consumer 
Expenditure Survey.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not seem
to have these available on their publication list that I have.
I really need this, so any help that anyone can provide would be
appreciated.  By the way, please note that I need the questionnaires,
not the code books.  


Thank you,

Satomi Wakita
E-mail: swg8890@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu



From cgspb@cc.newcastle.edu.au Fri Sep 30 20:58:50 EDT 1994
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From: cgspb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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Subject: data on advertising for the US/Canadian manufacturing industries
Date: 27 Sep 94 20:59:13 +1000
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Hi Readers!

I need data on advertising for the US and/or Canadian manufacturing industries 
at SIC 3 digit level for the 1984/85 or some nearby period.  We do'nt have 
any data on advertising for the Australian manufacturing indsutries, on which
part of my work is based.  I will use US or Canadian data as a proxy.

Any suggestion  or reference will be gratefully appreciated.  Please send the
information at my e-mail address given below :

Thanks in advance

Mita Bhattacharya
IN%"mbhattac@sbl.buslaw.utas.edu.au"
Economics Deptt.
University of Tasmania
Australia 


From cgspb@cc.newcastle.edu.au Fri Sep 30 20:58:50 EDT 1994
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Hi Readers!

I need data on advertising for the US and/or Canadian manufacturing industries 
at SIC 3 digit level for the 1984/85 or some nearby period.  We do'nt have 
any data on advertising for the Australian manufacturing indsutries, on which
part of my work is based.  I will use US or Canadian data as a proxy.

Any suggestion  or reference will be gratefully appreciated.  Please send the
information at my e-mail address given below :

Thanks in advance

Mita Bhattacharya
IN%"mbhattac@sbl.buslaw.utas.edu.au"
Economics Deptt.
University of Tasmania
Australia 


From cottrell@wfu.edu Fri Sep 30 20:58:57 EDT 1994
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From: cottrell@wfu.edu (Allin Cottrell)
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Subject: US input-output tables
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Does anyone happen to have information on how to get hold of
US input-output table data in machine-readable form (diskette or
CD)?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

=======================
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
(910) 759-5762
cottrell@wfu.edu
=======================



From tpierce@wiley.csusb.edu Fri Sep 30 20:59:03 EDT 1994
Article: 1577 of sci.econ.research
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From: tpierce@wiley.csusb.edu (Thomas Pierce)
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Subject: Re: US input-output tables
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>Does anyone happen to have information on how to get hold of
>US input-output table data in machine-readable form (diskette or
>CD)?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 You might try US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Econ Analysis, Regional
Economic Analysis Div., (202) 523-0586.
    TP



From esolovyo@blackbox.Mines.Colorado.EDU Fri Sep 30 20:59:09 EDT 1994
Article: 1575 of sci.econ.research
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From: esolovyo@blackbox.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Eugene Solovyov)
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Subject: Exchange Rates
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Hi,

I am looking for U.S. Dollar - Rouble exchange rates data for as long period of  
time, as possible. 
If you have such data, or got any ideas where I can find it, please mail to  
esolovyo@mines.colorado.edu

Thanks



From bobvan@uncecs.edu Fri Sep 30 20:59:15 EDT 1994
Article: 1576 of sci.econ.research
Path: news.duke.edu!usenet
From: bobvan@uncecs.edu (Bob Vanderheyden)
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Subject: COL Index
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I am attempting to find a listing of the COst of Living Index for various
metropolitan areas in the U.S.

Does any know of an FTP site (or a location for a FAQ list the might have
the site) where this information can be found?

I'm looking for cities in the South (Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham,...).

thanks in advance,

Bob



From lucky@owlnet.rice.edu Fri Sep 30 20:59:23 EDT 1994
Article: 1578 of sci.econ.research
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From: lucky@owlnet.rice.edu (John Patrick Johnson)
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Subject: Local Economic Development
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I am currently beginning work on an undergraduate thesis in Economics.  I am
particularly interested in local economic development policies (mainly
municipalities).  There is a relative wealth of recent econometric studies on
the "effectiveness" of these policies at stimulating job growth.  

Ideally, I would like to see some game-theoretic approaches that might address
the questions of how cities compete with each other for firms, and how a local
government and a firm might play a non-cooperative game before site selection
is announced/decided.  If anyone knows of a working paper, or a thesis, or
some other work that addresses anything closely related to this subject, please
contact me.

If something sounds interesting, I would be more than happy to reimburse you
for photocopying/postage.

Thanks to everyone in advance.

John Johnson



From LB39@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Fri Sep 30 20:59:29 EDT 1994
Article: 1582 of sci.econ.research
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From: LB39@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Hi,

I'm working on valuing dollar warrants (i.e. dollar options)
in the German market.

So, to avoid unsynchronity (between the prices of the warrants
and the dollar exchage rates) I am looking for the

Dollar exchange rates at 11.30 MEZ for the period from
January 1990 to December 1993.

I'm also looking for the U.S. interest rates in this period.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks,

Heinrich Schuetz



From @@pubxfer.news.psi.net Fri Sep 30 20:59:35 EDT 1994
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          Does anybody out there have any information on SIAC ?  Specifically 
what IS it?  Is it a government or commercial agency? Is it reachable through 
the Net?  If not how can I get in touch with them?  

         Thank you in advance for any information concerning this topic!  
Please respond to Postmaster@capaccess.com.

        Jay


From PJG@CU.NIH.GOV Fri Sep 30 20:59:41 EDT 1994
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     On 9/26/94 picard@convex.csd.uwm.edu wrote:

<Outside of programing the system in GAUSS, is there any software availible
<that is capable of Kalman filtering?  Or TARCH (Zakoian, 1990)?
<
<Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
<
<Thanks in advance,
<Aaron A. Picard

    Bronwyn Hall's TSP econometrics package has a Kalman command.  I
    can not vouch for its power or versatility however.

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From wich1820@maynard.ww.tu-berlin.de Fri Sep 30 20:59:48 EDT 1994
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From: wich1820@maynard.ww.tu-berlin.de (Thorsten Wichmann)
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Subject: MMMF data wanted
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Does anybody know where to find time series data about money market mutual  
funds (MMFs)? I am especially looking for US data about the volume of MMFS  
(stock and flows), maturity and yield. Any pointers, also to data for  
other countries are greatly appreciated.

Please reply directly.


Thorsten Wichmann

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From gava@u.washington.edu Fri Sep 30 20:59:55 EDT 1994
Article: 1593 of sci.econ.research
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From: gava@u.washington.edu (Gary Anderson)
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Subject: Road to Serfdom MYSTERY
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For those of you familiar with the writings of Hayek or John Stuart 
Mill.

We are involved in a seminar of Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom".  On page 
112, he quotes John Stuart Mill, and references Mill's "Principles of 
Political Economy, Book I, chap. ii, par. 4.  But when we look up this 
reference, it is not even similar.  Is this just an error?  Especially 
in a book that is year 50 years old, quite famous, and one that has gone 
through a number of printings.

The full quote is (The Road to Serfdom, page 112):

On the whole question, what John Stuart Mill wrote nearly a hundred 
years ago remains equally true today:

"A fixed rule, like that of equality, might be acquiesced in, and so 
might chance, or an external necessity;  but that a handful of human 
beings should weigh everybody in the balance, and give more to one and 
less to another at their sole pleasure and judgment, would not be borne 
unless from persons believed to be more than men, and backed by 
supernatural terrors."(5)

(5) Principles of Political Economy, Book I, chap. ii, par. 4.

Our class would most surly appreciate any help with the correct source 
of this cite.

Gary Anderson, gava@u.washington.edu



From mbenedikt@mail.utexas.edu Fri Sep 30 21:00:02 EDT 1994
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From: Michael Benedikt <mbenedikt@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Symposium on "The Question of Economic Value"
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  Announcing The First In A Series Of Four Symposia On    



         ***  THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC VALUE  ***



             Flawn Academic Center, 4th Floor
            The University of Texas at Austin
                October 21 and 22, 1994

              Sponsored and organized by
    The Center for American Architecture and Design



These symposia are devoted to exploring the nature of "economic 
value": its origin as a concept, its use and misuse, its future 
as a guide for action in human affairs and the shaping of the 
environment.

Twelve distinguished speakers, drawn principally from philosophy, 
economics, sociology, and architecture, will come together to 
debate the question of economic value from their own disciplinary 
perspectives.  The aim is to find common ground.  Does it make 
sense to speak of value in the singular?  Can economic value be 
re-fused with the interests of art, justice, nature?  Only by 
understanding our economic system more deeply can we hope to work 
within it or to affect it; only in this way can we hope to build 
a more satisfying and beautiful environment than is currently in 
store for us.

You are invited to attend.  In order to encourage significant 
discussion, the setting is collegial and attendance is limited.  
General admission to observers is free, with reservations honored 
on a first-come-first-served basis.  Call 512-471-9890, fax 512-
471-7033, email at the address below, or visit The Center for
American Architecture and Design, Battle Hall 105 on The
University of Texas Campus.


                       PROGRAM

Friday, October 21, 9.00am--12.00pm. "The idea of value in the 
context of  philosophy, science, and ethics." 

   Jim Hankinson (Philosophy, U. Texas)
   Charles Dyke (Philosophy, Temple U.)
   Robert Kane (Philosophy, U. Texas)

Friday, October 21, 2.00pm--5.00pm. "The idea of value in the 
context of economics."

	Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy/Economics, U. Michigan)
	Thomas Schelling (Economics/Publ. Aff., U. Maryland)
	David Warsh (Economics Desk, The Boston Globe)

Saturday, October 22, 9.00am--12pm. "Manifestations of value in 
everyday life and work."

	Michael Benedikt (Architecture, U. Texas)
	Judith Blau (Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill)
	Frederick Turner (Literature/Humanities, U. Texas Dallas)

Saturday, October 22, 2.00pm--5pm.  "The value of architecture 
and the environment." 

	Ranko Bon (Construction Mng., U. Reading, U.K.)
	Thomas Fisher (Editor, Progressive Architecture)
	James Kunstler (Author, N.Y.)

Also participating, and as future speakers, will be: Joel Barna 
(Editor, Texas Architect), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Psychology, 
U. Chicago), Betty Sue Flowers (English, U. Texas), Dan Hamermesh 
(Economics, U. Texas), Michael O' Hare (Public Policy, UCLA), 
Saskia Sassen (Urban Planning, Columbia U.), Robert Solomon 
(Philosophy, U. Texas), and others by invitation.

Presenters at future meetings include Weld Coxe, James Fallows, 
Kenneth Frampton, Robert Frank, Philip Mirowski, Peter Passell, 
Ilya Prigogine, Richard Sennett, Michael Sorkin, Michael Storper, 
and others not yet confirmed.

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This first meeting of the Symposium Series on "The Question of 
Economic Value" was made possible with support from The Annenberg 
Foundation, The Texas Committee for the Humanities, and 
Structural Metals, Inc.


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From Grant.Rhodes@EGZ.Rulimburg.nl Fri Sep 30 21:00:09 EDT 1994
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From: Grant.Rhodes@EGZ.Rulimburg.nl (G. Rhodes)
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Subject: cost-shifting and health care
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I seem to have scrubbed the original thread here, thus you will have to 
forgive me if I am a little off the point. But, following an answer by I 
think Shea yesterday, it stuck me that:

One man's cost-containment is another man's cost-shifting. This being the 
case it may be worthwhile - although frustrating in terms of the amount of 
material it will generate - to word search `cost-containment'. The search 
could be narrowed with appropriate secondary keywords. Critically appraise 
individual programmes. 

Does any particular programme represent cost-containment or simply a shift 
in costs between for example, direct, indirect or intangeable costs? Who now 
meets these costs?


G. Rhodes.

Dep.t of Health Economics.
RULimburg.
Maastricht.
The Netherlands



From ecs1tk@surrey.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 21:00:17 EDT 1994
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  Regina Wernhart asks:

> Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?

  A software that could fall under this category is the ACES 
  "Analysis and Control of Economic Systems" package. It is 
  a series of FORTRAN77 routines to perform control excercises
  on discrete-time linear-quadratic rational expectations models. 
  It is particularly useful to analysis the relations between 
  cooperational and reputational regimes. Mail me for further info. 



  Thomas Krichel                              mailto::T.Krichel@surrey.ac.uk
                                    http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/~lgecstk/ToK.html



From biabdoel@cs.few.eur.nl Fri Sep 30 21:00:25 EDT 1994
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Summary: Spatial Effects of changes in the chains of products caused by
Keywords: Recycling , Product Chains

SPATIAL EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN THE CHAINS OF PRODUCTS CAUSED BY RECYCLING.


One of the problems we met in the Dordrecht Region, or wider the Rijn-Schelde
Region in the southern part of the Netherlands and the northern part of
Belgium, is the ignorance of potential effects of changes in the chains of
products, which will be caused by the necessity to give more attention to
possibilities to recycle raw materials.
On the one hand the proces of globalisation in the economy gives us some
indications about the effects on the flow of goods, which are handled in the
sea-harbours in the region. On the other hand there is a tendency to achieve a
more sustainable development. This means a more responsable use of raw
materials, which are to reproduce difficultly. Recycling is the answer, but we
know very few about the extent of existing processes and nearly nothing about
the spatial effects of these processes. One of the basic problems we experience
is the lack of data. 
Possibly there are scientists somewhere who can help us to get more insight in
these problems or who have already carried out some research.

We are very interested in the response. Thank you very much.

Centre for Social Geography
Community of Dordrecht
The Netherlands

E-Mail : biabdoel@cs.few.eur.nl

S. Abdoelkhan
Henk M.M. van den Heuvel.



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I am reasearching urban renewal effect on retail stores in Chicago. 
Anybody have any ideas on unconventional data sources that are accessible.



From eco_dlb@SHSU.edu Fri Sep 30 21:00:37 EDT 1994
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       Abstract

       Evidence on the Employer Size-Wage Premium 
       From Worker-Establishment Matched Data

       By Kenneth R. Troske

       CES 94-10  August 1994

In spite of the large and growing importance of the employer size-wage 
premium, previous attempts to account for this phenomenon using 
observable worker or employer characteristics have met with limited 
success.  The primary reason for this lack of success has been the lack 
of suitable data.  While most theoretical explanations for the size-wage
premium are based on the matching of employer and employee characteristics, 
previous empirical work has relied on either worker surveys with little 
information about a worker's employer, or establishment surveys with 
little information about workers.  In contrast, this study uses the newly 
created Worker-Establishment Characteristic Database, which contains
linked employer-employee data for a large sample of manufacturing 
workers and establishments, to examine the employer size-wage premium.
  
The main results are: 1) Examining the cross-plant distribution of the 
skill of workers shows that managers with larger observable measures of 
skill work in large plants and firms with production workers with larger 
observable measures of skill.  2) Results from reduced form wage 
regressions show that including measures of the amount or type of capital 
in a worker's plant eliminates the establishment size-wage premium.  3) 
These results are robust to efforts at correcting for possible bias in 
the parameter estimates due to sample selection.
  
While these findings are consistent with neoclassical explanations 
for the size-wage premium that hypothesize that large employers 
employ more skilled workers, their primary importance is that 
they show that the employer size-wage premium can be accounted 
for with employer-employee matched data.  As such, these data lend 
support to models which emphasize the role of employer-employee 
matching in accounting for both cross-sectional and dynamic aspects of
the wage distribution.


ftp to ftp.census.gov /pub/ces/ps/94-10/94_10.ps to download Postscript
Version.
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In response to e-mail requests for a bibliography on this subject
please find my readings on this and related topics. I would
be very interested in discussing this topic with anybody who
is interested.

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Barney, J. B. (1986). Type of Competition and the Theory of Strategy:
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Investment Decisions. Research in Marketing, 9, 1-57.
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BUsiness School Press.  
Carter, E. E. (1971). The Behavioural Theory of the Firm and Top Level
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Eaton, B. C., & Lipsey, R. G. (1979). The Theory of Market Pre-emption:
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Freeman, M., & Hobbes, G. (1991). Capital Budgeting: Theory vs
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Ghemawat (1991). Commitment: The Dynamic of Strategy.  
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Mahoney, W. F. (1991). Investor Relations: The Professional's Guide to
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Marsh, I. (1992). The Politics of Increasing Value-Added Exports
(Working Paper No. 92-012). Australian Graduate School of Management.
Martin, S. (1988). Industrial Economics: Economic Analysis and Public
Policy. New York: MacMillan.  
McGee, J., & Thomas, H. (1986). Strategic Groups: Theory, Research and
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Meyer, R. L., Besley, S., & Longstreet, J. (1988). An Examination of
Capital Budgeting Decision Alternatives for Mutually Exclusive
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Myers, S. C. (1987). Finance Theory and Financial Strategy. Midland
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Management.
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Strategic Management. Academy of Management Review, 6, 609-620.
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Rappaport, A. (1986). Creating Shareholder Value: The New Standard for
Business Performance. New York: Free Press.  
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Comparative Analysis of Performance and Risk. Managerial and Decision
Economics, 11, 177-185.
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Development Decisions Allowing for Managerial Risk Aversion and
Information Uncertainty (Working Paper No. 87-035). Australian Graduate
School of Management.
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of Capital Assets: Toward a Resource-Based View of Strategic Investment
by Firms. Organization Science, 3(4), 522-536.
Rumelt, R., Schendel, D., & Teece, D. (1991). Strategic Management and
Economics. Strategic Management Journal, 12(Winter), 5-29.
Rumelt, R. P. (1991). How Much Does Industry Matter? Strategic
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Introduction to Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options. Midland Corporate
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Investments, and Discounting Rules for Corporate Investment Decisions.
Managerial and Decision Economics, 13, 101-109.
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Essays in Honor of Joel Dean. Lexington:   Lexington Books.
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Complex Option. Journal of Finance, 45(2), 549-565.
Trigeorgis, L., & Kasanen, E. (1991). An Integrated Options-Based
Strategic Planning and Control Model. Managerial Finance, 17(2/3),
16-28.
Trigeorgis, L., & Mason, S. P. (1987). Valuing Managerial Flexibility.
Midland Corporate Finance Journal, 5(1), 14-21.
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Contractual Relations. Journal of Law and Economics, 22, 233-261.
Williamson, O. E. (1985). The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. New
York: Free Press.  
Williamson, O. E. (1991). Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic
Organization. Strategic Management Journal, 12, 75-94.
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Strategic Investment Decisions. Strategic Management Journal, 11,
353-363.



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From toukie@zui.unizh.ch Fri Sep 30 21:00:51 EDT 1994
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Questions:

(1) which is the RICHEST city in the United States?

(2) in which cities are the two MOST IMPORTANT computer firms in the
    United States located?

     Since the terms RICHEST and MOST IMPORTANT are open to interpretation,
kindly define them in your answer.

     Please send all responses to me DIRECTLY at

                          toukie@zui.unizh.ch

because the server throough which I operate usually deletes my postings
(and responses) before I have had an opportunity to read them.

     I thank all responders in advance for their cooperation in the above
matter.

Yours sincerely,

(Dr.) S. Shapiro
Zuerich, Switzerland
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From v9210105@vub.ac.be Fri Sep 30 21:00:57 EDT 1994
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   Hi there!
                I am doing a research paper on management of labor,
so if anybody has any article related to this topic would you please
send it to me in the following address: "v9210105@is1.vub.ac.be"
        Any help is appreceated.
        Thank you in advance!



From pmalmi@levi.urova.fi Fri Sep 30 21:01:05 EDT 1994
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The Profitability of Cultural Investments

Abstract of a working paper
(available by email:  pmalmi@levi.urova.fi)

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the "profitability"
of cultural investments. This confusion is partially due
to the implicit and misleading "definitions" of profitability.
In the working paper, a clear distinction is done between
the economic profitability of a public investment
(defined from a fiscal point of view) and the social
profitability (defined as the net change of welfare).

The results of 14 empirical studies are presented to
show, how public cultural investments are generally
economically unprofitable in such a way that only 10-50%
of the investment is returned to the investor.

However, according to several other studies the cultural
investments seem to be socially profitable in such a way
that they produce a positive social net benefit.
Weird enough, the terms "social profitability" and
"social net benefit" are hardly ever used in the
discussion about the justification of public cultural
spending.

The final conclusion of the work is following:
During tight economic situation it is advisable for
public decision makers to conceptualise profitability
along two dimensions: 1) the economic profitability and
2) the social profitablity (social net benefit). This
conceptualisation shall help decision makers to see
how some actions and policies that are economically
profitable shall result in a decreased social profitability
- or vice versa. The idea of two dimensional conceptualisation
has already been succesfully used in the management
of private coorporations.

Pasi Malmi, University of Lapland
pmalmi@levi.urova.fi



From adconf94@bugsuvax.bgsu.edu Fri Sep 30 21:01:12 EDT 1994
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JUST RELEASED!!!
Studies in Applied Demography
Edited by
K.V. Rao and Jerry Wicks
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
============================
u   Contents   u
============================= [see end of this doc for ordering info]

u	Part 1  Population Projections

Economic-Demographic Projection and Simulation:  A Description of the Meds
System of Models
	Frank T. Denton, Christine H. Feaver and Byron G. Spencer	3

Projecting the Size, Composition, and Areal Concentrations by Race of the
Elderly Population of Substate Regions for the Year 2000 Using STF1A File on
CD-ROM:  An Example from the New York State Capital District
	David L. Elliott	13

Selection of Migration Rates in Local Area Population Projections:  
Metropolitan Boston as a Case Study
	Douglas Carnahan and Patricia Johnson	29

Multiregional Projection Model and its Application to India
	P. Ramachandran	51


u	Part 2  Population Estimates and Evaluation

Experimental Estimates of Poverty in New York State Counties
	Nancy Dunton and Seth Leon	67

A Technique for Estimating a Small Immigrant Population in Small Areas:  The
Case of Jewish Israelis in the United States
	Pini Herman	81

Estimating Population, Housing and Employment for Micro-Geographic Areas
	Jeff Tayman	101

An Evaluation of the Accuracy of 1990 Population Estimates by Age, Sex 
and Race for Florida and its Counties
	Mohammed Shahidullah	109

Confidence Intervals for Net Migration Estimates that Incorporate Measurement
Errors in Census Counts
	Hallie J. Kintner and David Swanson	121

ZIP+4 Market Segmentation Systems:  A Critique
	Lynn Bodin Wombold and Edmond Ting	141


u	Part 3  Business Demography

The Demographics of Household Vehicle Ownership in the U.S., 1980/81 and 
1990/91
	Katharine A. Frohardt-Lane	153

Divorce Rates:  Causes of Regional Differences and Implications for 
Purchasing Behavior
	Nancy Hendrix and Terrell Hayes	165

Application of Demographic Techniques in Modeling Customer Retention
	Shaomin Li	183

Demographics in Area Ministry Development Planning of Congregations
	Stella U. Ogunwole	199

Demography's Contributions to Database Marketing:  Experiences from the 
Private and Public Sectors
	Louis Schwarz	211

Demographic Approach to Foodstore and Restaurant Sales -- A Preliminary 
County Level Analysis
	Z. Darwin Tu	223


u	Part 4  Law and Demography

The Role of Demographers in Public and Private Suits of Racial 
Discrimination in Housing
	Jacob S. Siegel	237

Expert Testimony in Adversarial Legal Proceedings:  Some Tips for 
Demographers
	Stanley K. Smith	253

State Laws and the Use of Population Data
	Ching-li Wang	261


u	Part 5  Canadian Demography

Role of Census Coverage in Population Estimation of Local Areas:  A 
Comparison Between Canada and the United States
	Rosemary Bender and Ravi B.P. Verma	273

Temporary Immigrants to Canada:  Numbers and Characteristics in the 1980s
	Margaret Michalowski	289

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From jratliff@bpa.arizona.edu Fri Sep 30 21:01:22 EDT 1994
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From: jratliff@bpa.arizona.edu (Jim Ratliff)
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Subject: Re: lattices
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 14:48:24 -0700
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In article <19940919130917.M.Voorneveld@sp0012.kub.nl>,
M.Voorneveld@kub.nl wrote:

> Can someone give some references to books on lattices? The definition I gave
> above is about all I know concerning lattices and I would like to have a 
> thorough introduction to this theory

You should find the discussion and references within the following to be
helpful:

Milgrom, Paul and Chris Shannon [1993]  Monotone Comparative Statics, 
Econometrica 62 1 (January): 157 180.

Topkis, Donald M. [1978]  Minimizing a Submodular Function on a Lattice, 
Operations Research 26: 305 321.

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From elbers@sara.nl Fri Sep 30 21:01:29 EDT 1994
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From: elbers@sara.nl
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M. Voorneveld writes:

>  In courses on econometrics, decisions are usually defined as subsets
>  of n-dimensional Euclidean space, based on a certain preference relation.
>  The most common example in economics is choosing the 'best' bundle of goods
>  in the commodity space on which a preference relation is defined,
>  for example 
>  by means of a utility function.
>  It seems straightforward to extend such decision rules to any
>  nonempty set with
>  a preference relation on this set. I believe such a 2-tuple (S, <)
>  where S is 
>  the nonempty set and < the preference relation is called a lattice.
>  Am I trying to reinvent the wheel when I try to generalize decision rules so
>  that they are applicable to lattices?
>

I wasn't aware of this particular meaning of the word `lattice'.
General ordered (or pre-ordered, or weakly ordered etc.) sets are
a subject of general topology. Orders on finite sets are studied in
combinatorial mathematics. 

I don't know of any real general `decision rule' for general ordered
sets, but I doubt whether it would be of much use: adding structure
(rather than abstracting from it) is the path to stronger
conclusions. Of course, many results for n-dimensional Euclidean space
have been generalized to infinite-dimensional spaces. For instance,
the first order conditions in optimal control problems are a direct
extension of the Lagrange multiplier technique. There are many good
texts on optimization in function spaces. I particularly liked
(without claiming to have read many) David Luenbergers `Optimization
by Vector Space Methods'. (Can't remember the year.)

Another `generalization' is to extend Lagrange-type of conditions to
situations which are NOT necessarily optimization problems but do
arise in many different types of spaces and problems. An example is
Kinderlehrer and Stampacchia's `An Introduction to Variational
Inequalities and Their Applications' (1980, Academic Press).

I'm sure any modern Mathematical Programming text would point to other
extensions. So there are many wheels out there. I hope there is one
that suits your particular interest.

Chris

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From claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM Fri Sep 30 21:01:35 EDT 1994
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In article <9409221037.AA43475@horus.sara.nl>,  <elbers@sara.nl> wrote:
>M. Voorneveld writes:
			.
			.
			.
>>  a preference relation on this set. I believe such a 2-tuple (S, <)
>>  where S is 
>>  the nonempty set and < the preference relation is called a lattice.
>>  Am I trying to reinvent the wheel when I try to generalize decision rules so
>>  that they are applicable to lattices?
>>
>
>I wasn't aware of this particular meaning of the word `lattice'.
>General ordered (or pre-ordered, or weakly ordered etc.) sets are
>a subject of general topology. Orders on finite sets are studied in
>combinatorial mathematics. 
			.
			.
			.
Perhaps we're talking past each other, but, indeed, one of the
common meanings of "lattice" in mathematics is "partially-
ordered set on which greatest-lower-bound and least-upper-bound
are defined [with certain qualifications".  It was certainly an
active research area a decade ago and is still, I suspect.  I
have slight acquaintance with the field, so little that all I
know about

	Kalton, Nigel J. (Nigel John), 1946-
	1993	Lattice structures on Banach spaces.
		American Mathematical Society,
		Providence, Rhode Island

for example, is the title.
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From DGS4@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Fri Sep 30 21:01:41 EDT 1994
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In article <35dekp$j8f@panix.com>, sbj@panix.com (Sheldon Jolson) says:
>
>ManolisP (manolisp@aol.com) wrote:
>: I am interested in articles discussing various methods of estimating the
>: "cost shifting" component of  health care expenditures of private
>: insurers, which arises from  low Medicare & Medicaid compensation payments
>: to providers.
>
>: I would appreciate any information related to this literature.

There are so many articles on this, that it would be difficult
to type them all in.  I see someone mentioned the Morrisey article.
Dave Dranove has an article from the Journal of Health Economics, I think,
which shows how cost-shifting can occur if some firms in the industry
are not profit maximizers.  A book edited by Ted Frech, called
Regulating Doctor's Fees has several articles that discuss this topic.
The Prospective Payment Assessment Commission has issued severla reports
on Medicare that focus on cost-shifting.

You might just start with a good search of ECONLIT on cost-shifting.



Dennis G. Shea
Department of Health Policy & Administration
Penn State University
University Park PA 16801 (814) 863-2901



From Lewiscml@aol.com Fri Sep 30 21:01:48 EDT 1994
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While I cannot personally vouch for the quality of the following references
on cost-shifting, a colleague of mine has suggested these sources as a place
to start with respect to the issue of health care cost shifting. 

Dranove, D., "Pricing by Non-Profit Institutions:  The Case of Hospital
Cost-shifting," Journal of Health Economics, 7(1): p 47-57, 1988.

Foster, R.W., "Cost-shifting under Cost Reimbursement and Prospective
Payment," Journal of Health Economics, 4(3), p. 262-271, 1985.

May, J.W., "The Impact of Public Health Care Financing Policies on
Private-sector Hospital Costs," Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law,
7(4), p 945-952, 1983.

I also believe that J. Hadley and S. Zuckerman were drafting working papers
on the subject at the Urban Institute in Washington circa 1989-1990.

Hope this helps.

CML




From dmanning@hookup.net Fri Sep 30 21:01:56 EDT 1994
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Could anyone out there who can point me to some seminal articles and books on 
Fractal Modelling especially for the purposes of uncovering non-linear 
relationships or is aware of any standardized applications available please 
E-mail me at the address below.

And especially, if anyone has been involved with fractal modelling work 
involving large databases, I would be very interested in talking with them.

Thanks,
Daryl.


Daryl Manning, Toronto, CANADA
DWM & Associates
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From BMILANOVIC@worldbank.org Fri Sep 30 21:02:02 EDT 1994
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          Anyone familiar with (an easy) software that can do quadratic and 
          linear programming?
          
          B. Milanovic
          BMILANOVIC@WORLDBANK.ORG@INTERNET
          




From rons@u.washington.edu Fri Sep 30 21:02:08 EDT 1994
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In article <01HHE575U2FQ95MR8Z@mr.worldbank.org>,
Branko Milanovic PRDTE 36968  <BMILANOVIC@worldbank.org> wrote:
>          Anyone familiar with (an easy) software that can do quadratic and 
>          linear programming?
>          

Gauss has software modules for linear programming and quadratic programming.
Call Aptech Systems at 206-432-7855 for info.

-- 
Ronald Schoenberg   University of Washington  rons@u.washington.edu



From AKUTAN%SIUEMUS.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu Fri Sep 30 21:02:14 EDT 1994
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Romania recently established an interbank market. Daily bid and ask
prices will be announced. Also, they will qoute a forward exchange rate.
I suspect that other countries had similar experiences. I would
like to when, if at all, other countries have opened such
foreign exchange markets and whether the data are easily available.
Feel free to cite relevant references about the liberalization process
regarding the foreign exchange market.

Ali Kutan (AKUTAN@SIUEMUS.BITNET)



From rvigfusson@bank-banque-canada.ca Fri Sep 30 21:02:21 EDT 1994
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From: rvigfusson@bank-banque-canada.ca (Robert  Vigfusson)
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Lattice theory is a generalization of the concept of union and intersection. (or as they are also called join and meet.) I got an introduction to it in a third year honours abstract algebra course. I can't really suggest one text over another but an advanced algebra text would be a good place to start. Not all books will cover it but there should be at least a reference somewhere.

Electrical engineers are starting to use lattice theory in some manner.


Rob Vigfusson




From wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at Fri Sep 30 21:02:28 EDT 1994
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From: wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at (Regina Wernhart)
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Hello,
Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument for
analyzing economic problems. 
Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use of 
this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make sure that 
there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something about 
software for game theoretical approaches??

Thanks for your information in advance.

Best regards

Regina Wernhart 

(University of Economics and Business Administration  - Vienna, Austria, 
Europe)



From Hal.Varian@umich.edu Fri Sep 30 21:02:35 EDT 1994
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In article <wernhart.3.001072FD@isis.wu-wien.ac.at>  
wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at (Regina Wernhart) writes:

> Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
> I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument  
for
> analyzing economic problems. 
> Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use  
of 
> this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
> writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make  
sure that 
> there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something  
about 
> software for game theoretical approaches??

Richard McKelvey (rdm@hss.caltech.edu) has a very neat package
called Gambit that runs on PCs.  It computes all sorts of equilibria
for all sorts of games.

John Dickhaut  & Todd Kaplan have written a Mathematica program
for finding all Nash equilibria for 2 person games.  This program
is available from mathsource@wri.com.

There are probably other packages; I just happened to know about
these two.

---
Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
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                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220



From marsten@utu.fi Fri Sep 30 21:02:43 EDT 1994
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In article <wernhart.3.001072FD@isis.wu-wien.ac.at> Regina Wernhart,
wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at writes:

>Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
>I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument
for
>analyzing economic problems. 
>Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use
of 
>this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
>writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make
sure that 
>there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something
about 
>software for game theoretical approaches??

I used Mathematica for problems where the FOC's did the trick. If you do
find -- or write yourself -- something usefull for wider classes of
problems, let me know.

Markku

***********************************************
Markku  Stenborg
University of Turku
Department of Economics
FIN-20500 Turku
Finland
marsten@utu.fi



From mack13@panix.com Fri Sep 30 21:02:51 EDT 1994
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> Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
> I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument for
> analyzing economic problems. 
> Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use of 
> this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
> writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make sure that 
> there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something about 
> software for game theoretical approaches??

In Economic and Financial Modeling With Mathematica, Hal Varian ed., 1993
TELOS (A Springer-Verlag imprint) a book accompanied by a program disk for
use with Mathematica, there are two articles (and programs) that you might
find interesting: Chapter 7 "A Program for Finding Nash Equilibria" by John
Dickhaut and Todd Kaplan and Chapter 8, "Cooperative Games", by Michael
Carter. Hope this helps.



From jmillar@nermal.santarosa.edu Fri Sep 30 21:02:58 EDT 1994
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From: jmillar@nermal.santarosa.edu (Jane Millar)
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Regina Wernhart (wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at) wrote:
: Hello,
: Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
: I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument for
: analyzing economic problems. 
: Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use of 
: this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
: writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make sure that 
: there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something about 
: software for game theoretical approaches??

: Thanks for your information in advance.

: Best regards

: Regina Wernhart 

: (University of Economics and Business Administration  - Vienna, Austria, 
: Europe)

: There is a program for finding Nash equilibria using Mathematica in
: Economic and Financial Modeling, Hal Varian {ed.}. A disk is included
: with the book.  Publisher: TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science,
: Santa Clara, CA (USA).  Program authors: John Dickhaut (jdickhaut@csom.
: umn.edu) and Todd Kaplan (todd@atlas.socsci.umn.edu)    Millar



From alex@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at Fri Sep 30 21:03:06 EDT 1994
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From: alex@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Mehlmann)
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In article <wernhart.3.001072FD@isis.wu-wien.ac.at>,
wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at (Regina Wernhart) wrote:

> Hello,
> Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
> I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument for
> analyzing economic problems. 
> Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use of 
> this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in 
> writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make
sure that 
> there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something
about 
> software for game theoretical approaches??
> 
> Thanks for your information in advance.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Regina Wernhart 
> 
> (University of Economics and Business Administration  - Vienna, Austria, 
> Europe)


I had to analyze a rather complicated signaling game (ODYSSEUS GOES TO WAR).
The corresponding strategic form was (after reduction and deletion of
strictly dominated strategies) a 7 times 9 bimatrix. I used Nash.m, a 
Mathematica package developed by Dickhaut and Kaplan (see, Hal R. Varian ed.,
Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica, Springer). It worked for
5 times 6 submatrices quite comfortable (45 minutes). According to their
worst case performance estimations the 7 times 9 bimatrix should use
rather a lot of time (42 days?!). However, I did not find a better
program.

Regards

Alex

-- 
Alexander Mehlmann
University of Technology Vienna
Institut fuer Oekonometrie, Operations Research und Systemtheorie
A-1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA
e-mail: alex@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at
Fax: 50 54 524
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From GARSON@social.chass.ncsu.edu Fri Sep 30 21:03:13 EDT 1994
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> Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?

Game theory software has been covered from time to time in SOCIAL
SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW (Duke University Press). I believe the most
elaborate research tool for game theory is "Conflict and
Cooperation", presented by the authors a few years ago in SSCORE. his
is by Oppenheimer, Winer, and Lu. It was (is ??) sold by PDS Software
Company, 3210 Pauline Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815.



From CUNNING@UConnVM.UConn.Edu Fri Sep 30 21:03:20 EDT 1994
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One of our faculty members here uses a program called GAMS. It may be
the kind of software you are looking for. Unfortunately, I think I just
told you about all I know about the subject... If you are interested
in knowing more, contact me directly (EMAIL, etc.) and I'll put you in
touch with the faculty member who uses GAMS. In the middle, I am just
in the way.

Steve Cunningham

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From vladimir@pclab.msk.su Fri Sep 30 21:03:27 EDT 1994
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 Regina Wernhart (wernhart@isis.wu-wien.ac.at) wrote:

>Does anyone have information on "game theory software"?
>I use game theory - and I am sure that I am not alone - as an instrument for
>analyzing economic problems.
>Applying game theory in my thesis (PhD), I have the idea to make the use of
>this instrument easier (the search for a Nash-Equilibrium and so on) in
>writing a little program. However, before doing this, I want to make sure that
>there does not already exist such a program.Does somebody know something about
>software for game theoretical approaches??

Hi Regina!

Some economic software based on differential game theory
(Nash model, Nash-Stackelberg model, Stackelberg model)
developed at The Baumann Moscow State Technical University:

1. A Projection of the Interindustry Interaction Matrix under
   Circumstances of Market Development.

2. A Theoretic-Game Model of Control of the Inflation and Unemployment
   Processes in the Market Economic System.

3. Training of Specialists' Staff According to Educational Forms:
   An Systematic Approach Based on Stackelberg Strategy.

4. Training of the Teaching Specialists in a Context of Systematic
   Need of Employment by the Science and Technology Advance.

This software not sold and uses for recearches.

There is the big scientific school of differential game theory and
practice in Moscow (Zhukowski, Bokov, Zhitomirski, Muchin).
Cooperative work is possible.

All the best!

Vladimir



