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Stochastic interest rates in the aggregate life cycle/permanent income cum rational expectations model
An estimation of the life cycle/permanent income model with rational expectations that allows for uncertain future interest rates. Results provide ample evidence to reject this form of model during the postwar period.
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Home equity lines: characteristics and consequences
A discussion of the possible impact of home equity lines of credit on the variability of total consumer spending and borrowing, with comment on the potential growth of home equity lending and its affect on consumers and lenders.
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Is the consumer overextended?
An evaluation of consumer spending and the part it plays in the expansion of the economy, with a discussion of the role of debt and assets as constraints on future spending.
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The effect of regulation on Ohio electric utilities
An estimation of the regulatory impact on technical change in the electric utility industry, indicating that regulation retarded the rate of technical change experienced by a sample of Ohio electric utilities over the 1965 to 1982 period.
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The outlook for inflation
A look at whether we can have an economic recovery without reaccelerating inflation. The authors consider past behavior of prices, wages, capacity utilization, and productivity growth in their analysis.
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Personal bankruptcy: theory and evidence
An evaluation of the impact of the new bankruptcy code, effective in 1979, on the number of personal bankruptcy filings in the United States.
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A test of two views of the regulatory mechanism: Averch-Johnson and Joskow
A test of the Averech-Johnson and the Joskov models of the electric utility regulatory process.
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The difficulty in explaining postwar stability
A discussion of the business cycle before and after the Second World War, with a survey and critique of major arguments used to explain superior postwar economic stability.
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Bankruptcy in the life-cycle consumption model
An analysis assessing the sensitivity of consumption to income using a life-cycle model of consumption that incorporates the possibility of bankruptcy.
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Estimating total factor productivity in a generalized cost system
A description of two ways of adding an equation for total factor productivity to the generalized cost system of Atkinson and Halvorsen; includes a discussion of testing for regulatory biases.