Letters of Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queen's college. Oxford, 1755-83: with additions, notes, and appendices.

Includes letters by John James, Jr., and Jonathan Boucher.

Observations on the comparative merits of locomotive & fixed engines, as applied to railways : being a reply to the report of Mr. James Walker, to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, compiled from the reports of Mr. George Stephenson ; With an account of the competition of locomotive engines at Rainhill, in October, 1829, and of the subsequent experiments /

"Account of the competition of locomotive engines ... at Rainhill in October, 1829," p. [60]-83.

Lectures on general literature, poetry, &e. : delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 /

Mode of access: Internet.

1893 University of Michigan Football Team

Bibliotheca Erasmiana : répertoire des œuvres d'Érasme.

By F. van der Haeghen.

The Hawaiian incident; an examination of Mr. Cleveland's attitude toward the revolution of 1893,

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the French revolution of 1830: with all the anecdotes relating to it.

Title vignette.

The Croker papers. The correspondence and diaries of the late Right Honorable John Wilson ... secretary to the Admirality from 1809 to 1830.

Mode of access: Internet.

Selections from the letters and correspondence of Sir James Bland Burges, with notices of his life.

Mode of access: Internet.

Auction sale to close estate of Mary P. Chrystie, dec'd, 23 building plots, also Harlem River water front, near Morris Heights stations, N.Y. Central and N.Y. & Northern railroads : Wednesday, November 22d, 1893, at 12 o'clock noon at no. 111 Broadway, New York Real Estate salesroom : by order of Morris & Steele, attorneys ... New York City /

Street map showing properties to be sold, existing buildings (some with owners' names), and railroad stations.

Rejoinder to James Hamilton

Hamilton (2001) makes a number of comments on our paper (Harding and Pagan, 2002b). The objectives of this rejoinder are, firstly, to note the areas in which we agree; secondly, to define with greater clarity the areas in which we disagree; and, thirdly, to point to other papers, including a longer version of this response, where we have dealt with some of the issues that he raises. The core of our debate with him is whether one should use an algorithm with a specified set of rules for determining the turning points in economic activity or whether one should use a parametric model that features latent states. Hamilton begins his criticism by stating that there is a philosophical distinction between the two methods for dating cycles and concludes that the method we use “leaves vague and intuitive exactly what this algorithm is intended to measure”. Nothing is further from the truth. When seeking ways to decide on whether a turning point has occurred it is always useful to ask the question, what is a recession? Common usage suggests that it is a decline in the level of economic activity that lasts for some time. For this reason it has become standard to describe a recession as a decline in GDP that lasts for more than two quarters. Finding periods in which quarterly GDP declined for two periods is exactly what our approach does. What is vague about this?