The authors enquire how the schooling levels of husband and wife come to be associated with each other through the marriage market. The Kiefer-Neumann model of labor market search is adapted to martial search, the aim being to explain both the positive sorting on education levels for spouses,...

This paper reviews the Beveridge-Nelson technique for decomposing economic time series, and illustrate its usefulness for examining the cyclical and secular movements in real GDP in Colombia. Government expenditures and revenues are analysed in order to assess the extent to which the sharp...

In order to meet its obligations to the International Coffee Agreement, Kenya regulated output from 1964-1972 and 1981-1985 by banning the planting of new coffee trees. With the use of a large dynamic computable general equilibrium model, we attempt to show that Kenya suffered significant income...