Autumn 1979 Table of Contents

Volume 10, No. 2

Margaret F. Barton
Conditional Logit Analysis of FCC Decisionmaking
Ram C. Rao and David P. Rutenberg
Preempting an Alert Rival: Strategic Timing of the First Plant by Analysis of Sophisticated Rivalry
Peter Temin
Technology, Regulation, and Market Structure in the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Peter Berck
The Economics of Timber: A Renewable Resource in the Long Run
Tae Hoon Oum
A Cross Sectional Study of Freight Transport Demand and Rail-Truck Competition in Canada
Mark A. Satterthwaite
Consumer Information, Equilibrium Industry Price, and the Number of Sellers
Willard G. Manning, Jr. and Charles E. Phelps
The Demand for Dental Care
Robert Cooter and Rodrigo Restrepo
A Closed Model of Careers in a Simple Hierarchy
John F. Stewart
Plant Size, Plant Factor, and the Shape of the Average Cost Function in Electric Power Generation: A Nonhomogeneous Capital Approach
Yehuda Kotowitz and Frank Mathewson
Advertising, Consumer Information, and Product Quality
Raymond S. Hartman, Kirkor Bozdogan, and Ravindra M. Nadkarni
The Economic Impacts of Environmental Regulations on the U.S. Copper Industry
Howard E. Thompson
Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital for Electric Utilities: 1958-1976
Stephen Martin
Advertising, Concentration, and Profitability: The Simultaneity Problem
William J. Baumol, Dietrich Fischer, and Thijs ten Raa
The Price-Iso Return Locus and Rational Rate Regulation
Douglas K. Reece
An Analysis of Alternative Bidding Systems for Leasing Offshore Oil
Simon Benninga and Eitan Muller
Majority Choice and the Objective Function of the Firm under Uncertainty
David R. Meinster and Rodney D. Johnson
Bank Holding Company Diversification and the Risk of Capital Impairment
John E. Roemer
Divide and Conquer: Microfoundations of a Marxian Theory of Wage Discrimination
David D. Friedman
In Defense of the Long-Haul/Short-Haul Discrimination
J. David Cummins and Jack VanDerhei
A Note on the Relative Efficiency of Property-Liability Insurance Distribution Systems
Steinar Ekern
The New Soviet Incentive Model: Comment
Franklin M. Fisher and John J. McGowan
Advertising and Welfare: Comment
Avinash Dixit and Victor D. Norman
Advertising and Welfare: Reply
Lee E. Preston
Vogel's Lobbying the Corporation, Winter's Government and the Corporation, and Hessen's In Defense of the Corporation