------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers received as of Tue Dec 1 02:31:46 CST 1998. (To retrieve abstracts without full papers, use e.g. get 9812001.abs ) get 3 2.abs 9303001 , e.g., returns multiple papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812001 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:15:39 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 972kb ) Title: Financial Derivatives: Harnessing the Benefits and Containing the Dangers Author: A. Willem Thorbecke (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 25; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 145 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812002 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:31:02 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1469kb ) Title: The Distributional Effects of Disinflationary Monetary Policy Author: A. Willem Thorebeck (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 39; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 144 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812003 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:33:55 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1760kb ) Date (revised): Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:42:43 -0600 (CST) Title: The Productivity Effects of Human Resource Management Practices: Evidence from New Japanese Panel Data Author: A. Takao Kato (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) B. Motohiro Morishima (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 41; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 143 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812004 From: mili@ere.umontreal.ca ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY ( 31kb ) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 98 11:42:02 CST Title: New BibEc entries: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Author: BibEc_Editor Mr. Fethy Mili (Universite de Montreal) Contact: mili@ere.umontreal.ca Phone: 514-343-6111 Address: Mr. Fethy Mili Departement des Sciences Economiques Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7 Expires: 12/31/50 JEL: E URL: http://netec.wustl.edu/BibEc/BibEc.html EWPA-references: Keywords: Report-no: BIBECE120598 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812005 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:03:15 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1760kb ) Title: The Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective: Progressive Reformers and the Constitutional Jurisprudence of "Liberty of Contract" Author: A. Oren M. Levin-Waldman (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC ; to print on PostScript; pages: 32; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 256 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812006 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:46:24 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1110kb ) Title: Is Keynesianism Institutionalist? An Irreverent Overview of the History of Money from the Beginning of the Beginning to the Present Author: A. L. Randall Wray (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC ; to print on PostScript; pages: 23; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 257 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812007 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:29:54 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1954kb ) Title: Industrial Change and Social Mobility: Black Men in New York City & London 1970-1990 Author: A. David Ladipo (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 54; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 142 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812008 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:35:54 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1315kb ) Title: Financial Innovation and Risk Management: The Cross-Guarantee Solution Author: A. Bert Ely (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 19; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 141 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812009 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:39:47 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1381kb ) Title: On Stock Market Returns and Monetary Policy Author: A. Willem Thorbecke (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 35; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 139 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812010 From: kuchi@levy.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:45:14 -0600 (CST) ( 0kb + 1320kb ) Title: U.S. Foreign Trade, the Budget Deficit and Strategic Policy Problems: A Background Brief Author: A. Wynne Godley (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute) Contact: kuchi@levy.org Comments: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 30; figures: included Keywords: JEL: EWPA-references: Report-no: WP 138 \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ Paper: ewp-mac/9812011 From: Peter Spiro Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:12:22 -0500 ( 0kb ) Title: The Social Discount Rate Based on Financial Market Information Author: Peter S. Spiro (Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Branch of Ontario Ministry of Finance) Contact: spirop@gov.on.ca Comments: full text available in pdf format on request Report-no: wp981224 JEL: E17 H43 G10 \\