Front Matter

Editorial

Hugo Sonnenschein
p. 1-1

The Founding of the Econometric Society and Econometrica

Carl F. Christ
p. 3-6

An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem

Oliver D. Hart, Sanford J. Grossman
p. 7-46

On the Global Uniqueness of Fix-Price Equilibria

Norbert Schulz
p. 47-68

Worker Heterogeneity, Hours Restrictions, and Temporary Layoffs

Mark A. Loewenstein
p. 69-78

Efficient Methods of Measuring Welfare Change and Compensated Income in Terms of Ordinary Demand Functions

Yrjo O. Vartia
p. 79-98

An Index of Inequality: With Applications to Horizontal Equity and Social Mobility

Mervyn A. King
p. 99-116

Gaussian Estimation of Structural Parameters in Higher Order Continuous Time Dynamic Models

A. R. Bergstrom
p. 117-152

Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression for Being Generated by the Gaussian Random Walk

Alok Bhargava, J. D. Sargan
p. 153-174

The Identification Problem in Systems Nonlinear in the Variables

Bryan W. Brown
p. 175-196

The Structure of Qualitatively Determinate Relationships

George M. Lady
p. 197-218

Notes and Comments: Ordinal Interpersonal Comparisons in Bargaining

Lars Tyge Nielsen
p. 219-222

Notes and Comments: An Alternative Characterization of Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion

Philip H. Dybvig, Steven A. Lippman
p. 223-224

Notes and Comments: Sufficient Conditions for the Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Despite Misspecification of Distribution in Multinomial Discrete Choice Models

Paul A. Ruud
p. 225-228

Notes and Comments: An Approximation to the Distribution of the Least Square Estimator in an Autoregressive Model with Exogenous Variables

Koichi Maekawa
p. 229-238

Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society--Santiago, Chile, 1983: Announcement and Call for Papers

p. 239-240

European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Pisa 1983: Announcement and Call for Papers

p. 241-241

Winter 1983 Econometric Society North American Meetings: Announcement and Call for Papers

p. 241-242

Call for Papers: 1983 Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society

p. 242-242

Accepted Manuscripts

p. 243-244

Nomination of Fellows, 1983

p. 243-243

News Notes

p. 245-245

Report of the Secretary

Julie P. Gordon
p. 246-250

Report of the Treasurer

Robert J. Gordon
p. 251-255

Report of the Editors

Angus Deaton, Hugo Sonnenschein, James A. Mirrlees, Kenneth F. Wallis
p. 256-258

Program of the 1982 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society

p. 259-265

Program of the Third Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society

p. 266-275

Submission of Manuscripts to Econometrica

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