1. Introduction -- 2. Applications of General Equilibrium Models to the 1986 Tax Reform Act in the United States -- 3. Tax Reform, Capital Allocation and Welfare Gains in Norway -- 4. Introducing Intertemporal and Open Economy Features in Applied General Equilibrium Models -- 5. On the...

This paper describes a variant of the Simplex algorithm, applicable to matrices containing blocks of elements along and just below the diagonal. It uses the emptiness of the other blocks to save space and computation.

Sheppard's corrections for grouping can, in the case of an underlying normal distribution, be interpreted as a first step to the solution of the maximum likelihood equations which incorporate the grouping problem. This result of Lindley (for the univariate) and Haitovsky (for the bivariate) is...