We introduce an element of centralization in a random matching model of money that allows for private liabilities to circulate as media of exchange. Some agents which we identify as banks, are endowed with the technology to issue notes and to record-keep reserves with a central clearinghouse,...

Because labor quality changes over the business cycle,the cyclicality of aggregate wages cannot reflect the true cyclical behavior of the price of labor inputs. To control for changes in labor quality, many researchers have examined the cyclical behavior of the price of labor inputs using...

This paper considers the estimation of dynamic structural models where the decision variables are censored. We present and discuss several econometric issues and estimation methods under alternative stochastic structure of the unobservables, different potential sources of censoring, and...

This paper explores quantitatively the general equilibirum implications of a revenue neutral tax reform in which the current income and capital income tax structure in the U.S. is replaced by a flat tax, as proposed by Hall and Rabushka (1995). The central aspects of such reform, the impact of...

This paper is concerned about Botswana's growth, structural transformation, and the connection between the two.

This paper studies adaptive estimation of nonlinear regression models with i.i.d. error terms . Previously in the literature, the adaptive maximum likelihood (AMLE) has been proposed only when the densities of the error terms are assumed to be symmetric.

This paper derives the decision to found a nonprofit firm as the equilibrium outcome of a multistage game among individuals who would like a public good to be provided. The model predicts that if individuals will voluntarily contribute towards provision of the public good, then it is in the...

Our major claim is that when people behave strategically,it is wrong to interpret the betting rates they announce as their subjective probabilities of the different events. Instead, these rates should be understood as the prices at which subjects are willing to trade certain goods (simple...

Using the data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of more...

How will the distribution of welfare, consumption and leisure across households be affected by social security reform? This paper answers this question for a social security refom with a two-tier structure by comparing steady state under a realistic version of the current US system and under the...