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Archive users may download papers and produce {*} {*}+ them for their own personal use, but downloading of papers for {*} {*}+ any other activity, including reposting to other electronic {*} {*}+ bulletin boards or archives, may not be done without the written {*} {*}+ consent of the authors. It is the authors' responsibility to {*} {*}+ notify the archive managers when they wish to have the paper {*} {*}+ removed. The ownership of a paper is solely determined from the {*} {*}+ e-mail address from which it was posted. {*} {*}+ {*} {*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*}+{*} Revised Wed Apr 17 19:43:29 CDT 1996 SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHERE TO SEND THE SUBMISSION The archive is organized according to JEL classifications, with different JEL classification codes assigned to different user names on the archive machine econwpa.wustl.edu. For instance, the JEL category "A" (General Economics and Teaching) has the e-mail address ewp-get@econwpa.wustl.edu After submission your abstract can be found on the archive, which is reached at the Web . Copies of abstracts will also be sent to subscribers of the notification lists of the archive; there is one for each of the JEL categories listed below, and one that distributes notices for any submission in any area. Information on subscribing to them can be found by e-mail: To: econ-wp@econwpa.wustl.edu Subject: get help_lists or the Web subscription form at http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpasubscribe.html ********************* The list of sections *********************** (identical to the list for working papers) CATEGORY E-MAIL ADDRESS General Economics and Teaching ewp-get@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification A Methodology and History of Economic Thought ewp-mhet@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification B Econometrics ewp-em@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification C1-C5,C8, Microeconomics ewp-mic@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classifications D1-D4 GE, Growth, Math methods ewp-ge@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classifications C6,D5,D9 Game Theory and Information ewp-game@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classifications C7,D8 Computational Economics ewp-comp@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification, maybe C8 Experimental ewp-exp@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classifications C9 Macroeconomics ewp-mac@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification E International Trade ewp-it@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification F1-F2 International Finance ewp-if@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification F3-F4 Finance ewp-fin@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification G Public Economics ewp-pe@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification D6,D7,H HEW ewp-hew@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification I Labor and Demography ewp-lab@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification J Industrial Organization ewp-io@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification L Law and Econ ewp-le@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification K Economic History ewp-eh@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification N Development and Comp Systems ewp-dev@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification O,P Urban/Regional ewp-urb@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification R All Else ewp-othr@econwpa.wustl.edu JEL Classification P,Q,Z Computer Programs ewp-prog@econwpa.wustl.edu A section for posting computer programs (and their descriptions and manuals). You can also post references to other archives which have the programs. Data Sets ewp-data@econwpa.wustl.edu A section for posting data sets. The abstract or body should describe the data set. If the data set was used in a posted paper, then a cross command should be used to the section in which the paper was posted to alert readers of its existence. Risk and Insurance ewp-ri@econwpa.wustl.edu Papers in Risk and Insurance that do not precisely fit into JEL classifications. Meetings ewp-meet@econwpa.wustl.edu A section to post a paper that will be delivered at a meeting but is not quite a working paper yet. Papers will be kept for at least one month. Test Section ewp-test@econwpa.wustl.edu A section to test your submission (to see if it can reach the archive) without doing anything permanent) [all of the above] econ-wp@econwpa.wustl.edu This is the general section. You may not submit to this section. However rather than subscribe to all sections to receive all notifications you can subscribe to this section. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may experiment with the archive in the section ewp-test. This section is provided simply as a test area where you may submit, retrieve, replace, etc. without affecting the true archive. All of the commands work for ewp- test. But the section is separate, so whatever you do on this section will not affect the other sections, nor annoy users of them. Since many abstracts may belong in multiple sections, you may want to cross list your submission (see below for the cross command). But remember that users generally subscribe to multiple sections of similar interests, so this feature should be used infrequently, especially for an abstract or announcement. WHAT TO INCLUDE IN THE SUBMISSION To submit a abstract, send e-mail message to ewp-yyy@econwpa.wustl.edu, where yyy is one of the categories: get mhet em mic ge game comp exp mac it if fin pe hew lab io le eh dev urb othr prog data ri test meet The subject of your e-mail contains the command for the archive (in this case, "abstract"). The body of the e-mail has three parts: information identifying on the submittor, an abstract of the announcement, and the announcement itself. Here is a very short example submission for the game section: To: ewp-game@econwpa.wustl.edu Subject: abstract The body of the e-mail message (delete the dashed lines): -----begin-message--------------------------------------------------- \\ Title: Recent Seminal Results That Take One or More Lines to Describe Succinctly Even with Compactification and No Blank Lines Author: Author One (affiliation) and Author Two (affiliation) and Author 3. Infinitum (affiliation) Contact: somename@some.place.edu Phone: your phone number Address: Professor Golly G. Good My Dept. My Univ. It's Street City, State ZIP COUNTRY Planet (if needed) JEL: L12 F34 EWPA-References: ewp-ge/9309054 ewp-gam/9305148 . URL: http://my.univ.edu/my/paper/recent.ps Report-no: (to uniquely identify your submission) (less than 20 lines in this section) \\ This is the abstract (less than 28 lines). We know it is a limitation, and the line has to be drawn somewhere and we drew it at 28 lines (and we hope that the software agrees with us). \\ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The two sections of the submission are: information identifying on the submittor, and the abstract. They are delimited by two back slashes, which begin in column one, and NOTHING else is on these lines. Thus, sections are delimited by, and the submission begins with, \\ The first section FOLLOWS the first \\ and contains Title, Author, Contact, Phone, Address, and JEL categories. There is a maximum of 20 lines for this section. Anything above the first \\ is ignored. Title: Title of your abstract Author: Obvious. Please list institutional affiliations in parentheses; such as D. Dum (Trash Univ.) and V. Smart (Intelligent Univ.) Please do not use commas even though English would dictate it and appearance would be improved. Separate authors with the word "and". The software will appreciate it, even if there are three or more authors. Contact: E-mail address of the contact author, so that readers can contact a human about the abstract. Since no paper was submitted, expect to answer your e-mail requests. Phone: Phone number of someone who can be contacted about the abstract. Address: Your mailing address, or someone's else's, who can be contacted about the abstract. JEL: JEL categories. The following two fields are not checked but you may use them. EWPA-References: indicates papers that appear elsewhere on the WPA and are referenced in this paper. You probably won't use this but its here just as with a submission of a paper. We won't bore you with the details here though. Report-no: If you institution has a working paper series, then include the institutional reference and paper #, e.g., Report-no: UI Econ 94-06, or Report-no: IBER-CalBerk 94-223 You may also have a URL: field, e.g., URL: http://some.univ.edu/~lazy/mypaper.ps.Z or similar but if the paper is on the net, why not take just a bit of extra time and submit the paper rather than the abstract. URL: should be placed after the JEL: field. We like to remember the fields by TACPAJ which are the beginning letters of the required fields -- you may have some other method. You can include other information if you wish in the Title/Author section including for example, any of the indicators used in the BibEc format (e.g., |PR|, |AD|, etc.) However, we do not check for those fields. These `extra fields' must be placed after the Expires: field. There must be 20 or less lines in the Title/Author section. The second section contains THE abstract, and must be no more than 30 lines (after all it is an abstract). THE LINES BEGINNING WITH \\ MUST BE OTHERWISE EMPTY. THE FIRST AND SECOND SECTIONS SHOULD BE SINGLE SPACED WITH NO BLANK LINES. You MUST end the abstract with '\\' on an otherwise blank line, beginning in column 1. If your submission was successful, the archive will e-mail you a reply telling you the number of your submission. That number will be of the form yymmnnn, where yy are the last two digits of the year of submission, mm is the month of submission, and nnn counts submissions (thus 9307135 is the 135'th paper, abstract, or announcement received in July 1993). If your submission failed for some reason, the archive will sadly inform you of that fact. If the submission was successful, as a further check, you should immediately retrieve your announcement from the archive. E.g., if your announcement was ewp-test/9307135, then e-mail: To: ewp-test@econwpa.wustl.edu Subject: get 9307135.abs with an empty body. You can also retrieve it via ftp, gopher or the Web, (the gopher will not normally `see' the abstract until the next weekday). CROSS LISTING AN ABSTRACT For example, you might post the abstract to ewp-game (being mostly a game theory paper) but the content of the abstract is so highly relevant to industrial organization (a Cournot Duopoly game for example) that you want subscribers on the IO notification list to know about your abstract. Note that such people who would want to know about it probably subscribe to both lists anyway and you may just be repetitive rather than really informing anyone. However, if you want to forge ahead, rather than post it to both areas, you MUST cross list the abstract posted to ewp-game to ewp-io. The cross command (again, placed in the subject field of your e-mail) is: cross name/paper# Hence, using the above example, having posted the paper to ewp-game and received the paper# there, you would send an e-mail message --------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ewp-io@econwpa.wustl.edu Subject: cross ewp-game/paper# \\ Title: Recent Seminal Results That Take One or More Lines to Describe Succinctly Even with Compactification and No Blank Lines Author: author one (affiliation), author two (affiliation), and authors ad infinitum (affiliations) Contact: somename@some.place.edu Phone: your phone number Address: Professor Golly G. Good My Dept. My Univ. It's Street City, State ZIP COUNTRY Planet (if needed) JEL: L12 F34 WPA References: ewp-ge/9309054 ewp-gam/9305148 . Report-no: (to uniquely identify your submission) (less than 20 lines in this section) \\ Abstract (less than 25 lines) \\ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribers to the notification list ewp-io@econwpa.wustl.edu will then see your posting (Title/Author/Abstract) in the daily distribution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLACING ABSTRACTS We seriously doubt that your ABSTRACT should change enough to warrant replacing it. However, if you want to post a revised copy of an abstract already on the archive, you may use the replace command. replace paper# where paper# is in the form yymmnnn, e.g., 9308135, which is the abstract number from your previous submission. REPLACE is identical to ABSTRACT except that it is replacing rather than submitting de noveau. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deleting Abstracts There is no command to delete a abstract. You may replace a abstract with something. For example, using the previous example: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To: ewp-game@econwpa.wustl.edu Subject: replace paper# \\ Title: Recent Seminal Results That Take One or More Lines to Describe Succinctly Even with Compactification and No Blank Lines Author: author one (affiliation), author two (affiliation), and authors ad infinitum (affiliations) Contact: somename@some.place.edu Phone: your phone number Address: Professor Golly G. Good My Dept. My Univ. It's Street City, State ZIP COUNTRY Planet (if needed) JEL: L12 F34 \\ ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN \\ --------------------------------------------------------------------- via the replace command. In EXTREME instances, you can e-mail the moderators and ask them to remove the abstract. We regard it as an important *feature* that abstracts leave a permanent record. This is a mostly unmoderated archive. Not having a delete command should provide some incentive to post `finished' products, and should be a disincentive to post junk (since the e-mail address is kept as part of the record). Second, since we have a cross-reference ability, having the paper as a permanent archive provides a much needed ability to do a literature search (albeit in 2001 after we have been in operation awhile). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks to Bill Goffe for editorial assistance.