This paper considers a central bank with a zero inflation target and a fiscal authority with a differing objective. Situations under which the fiscal authority is able to exploit the central bank's commitment to zero inflation are examined. An example using a calibrated model shows that, in...

Standard microeconomics tells us that enforcing competition raises social welfare. Second we know form the theory of natural monopoly regulation that Ramsey-pricing will maximize your welfare function. This article tries to analyze a multiproduct enterprise producing in both, markets with...

Economics is the discipline of using data to revise beliefs about economic issues. In Bayesian econometrics, the revision is conducted in accordance with the laws of probability, conditional on what has been observed. The normative appeal of Bayesian econometrics is the same as that of expected...

In many situations that can be characterized as a prisoner's dilemma (PD) agents are not prisoners forced to play the game with whoever they face but are free to select their game partners. Opening the prison door adds an interesting dimension to the original game: players face two strategic...

Monte Carlo experiments establish that the usual ``t-statistic'' used fortesting for first-order serial correlation with artificial regressions is far from being distributed as a Student's t in small samples. Rather, it is badly biased in both mean and variance and results in grossly misleading...

In simultaneous equation models (SEMs) the assumption that the covariance matrix of the disturbances is non-singular cannot always be made. For example, allocation models and models with precise observations which may imply linear constraints on the parameters, have singular disturbance...

There has been progress in estimating the demand and cost primitives underlying the static profit and consumer surplus functions derived from simple IO models. This delivers profits and consumer surplus as a function of the distribution of the state variables of the agents active in the market,...

A multi-agent model is proposed for the analysis of self- organization of trade networks. The model takes into account time spent on transactions (`` trade distance). It is shown that the same set of traders may generate trade networks of different structures depending on average trade distance....

It is common practice in econometrics to base a model to be applied to data on pure theory, and yet to replace the variables of the pure theory by aggregates of them. But if one must aggregate, there are many alternative ways of doing so; we present an approach using heuristic optimization for...

Anderson and Moore  presents a procedure for solving linear perfect foresight models and Andersonn[Anderson1993] shows how to apply this technique to non linear models. The technique requires eigenvalue computations for a sparse linear system to deal with the long run dynamics and computations...