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- 1987
- Chapter
Limited Communication and Incentive Compatibility
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Limited Communication and Incentive Compatibility." In Information, Incentives and Economic Mechanisms: Essays in Honor of Leonid Hurwicz, edited by Theodore Groves, Roy Radner, and Stanley Reiter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
- Article
A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures." Quarterly Journal of Economics 89, no. 1 (February 1975): 138–144.
- Article
On the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "On the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods." Journal of Public Economics 8, no. 1 (August 1977): 79–93.
- Article
On Coalition Incentive Compatibility
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "On Coalition Incentive Compatibility." Review of Economic Studies 46, no. 2 (April 1979): 243–254.
- 1979
- Article
An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production: A Corrigendum
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production: A Corrigendum." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 81, no. 3 (1979): 443–444.
- Article
Disequilibrium Dynamics with Inventories and Anticipatory Price-Setting
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Disequilibrium Dynamics with Inventories and Anticipatory Price-Setting." European Economic Review 16, no. 1 (1981): 199–221.
- Article
Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
In a principal-agent model with adverse selection, we study the implementation of social choice functions when the agent's message space is a correspondence which depends on this true characteristic. We characterize such correspondence for which the Revelation... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design." Review of Economic Studies 53, no. 3 (July 1986): 447–456.
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Choice-based Measures of Conflict in Preferences
By: Katherine Baldiga and Jerry R. Green
We propose a family of measures of difference between ordinal preference relations. The difference between two preferences is the probability that they would disagree about the optimal choice from a random available set. It is in this sense that these measures are... View Details
- 1986
- Chapter
Incentive Theory with Data Compression
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Incentive Theory with Data Compression." In Uncertainty, Information and Communication: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, edited by Walter P. Heller, Ross M. Starr, and David A. Starrett. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- 1986
- Chapter
Alternative Limited Communication Systems: Centralization vs. Interchange of Information
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Alternative Limited Communication Systems: Centralization vs. Interchange of Information." In Uncertainty, Information and Communication: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, edited by Walter P. Heller, Ross M. Starr, and David A. Starrett. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- 1983
- Chapter
The Effects of Financing Opportunities and Bankruptcy on Entrepreneurial Risk Bearing
By: Jerry R. Green and John Shoven
Green, Jerry R., and John Shoven. "The Effects of Financing Opportunities and Bankruptcy on Entrepreneurial Risk Bearing." In Entrepreneurship, edited by Joshua Ronen, 49–74. Lexington Books, 1983.
- Article
Direct vs. Indirect Remedies for Externalities
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Direct vs. Indirect Remedies for Externalities." Journal of Political Economy 84, no. 4 pt. 1 (1976): 797–808.
- Article
Optimal Capital-Gains Taxation under Limited Information
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Taxation of capital gains at realization may distort individuals' decisions regarding holding or selling during an asset's lifetime. This creates the problem of designing a tax structure for capital gains so as to induce efficient patterns of holding and selling.... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Optimal Capital-Gains Taxation under Limited Information." Journal of Political Economy 86, no. 6 (December 1978): 1143–1158.
- Article
Variance-Minimizing Monetary Policies with Lagged Price Adjustment and Rational Expectations
By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja
This paper considers a macroeconomic model with rational expectations in which prices are incompletely flexible. Markets therefore fail to clear. In such a model monetary policy is not neutral. The variance of real and nominal quantities and interest rates is sensitive... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Seppo Honkapohja. "Variance-Minimizing Monetary Policies with Lagged Price Adjustment and Rational Expectations." European Economic Review 20, nos. 1-3 (January 1983): 123–141.
- June 1983
- Article
A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts
By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy Stokey
Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Nancy Stokey. "A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts." Journal of Political Economy 91, no. 3 (June 1983): 349–364.
- 2009
- Chapter
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
By: Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff
A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making... View Details
- Article
Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law
By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details
Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement
By: Jerry R. Green and Daniel A. Hojman
We present a method for evaluating the welfare of a decision maker, based on observed choice data. Unlike the standard economic theory of revealed preference, our method can be used whether or not the observed choices are rational. Paralleling the standard theory we... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Daniel A. Hojman. "Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, No. 2144, November 2007.
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
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Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 1981
- Chapter
Mathematical Analysis and Convexity with Applications to Economics
By: Jerry R. Green and Walter P. Heller
Green, Jerry R., and Walter P. Heller. "Mathematical Analysis and Convexity with Applications to Economics." In Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 1, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow and Michael D. Intriligator. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1981.