A general equilibrium model with increasing return to labour specialisation and economies of transaction agglomeration is developed to address the residential land-rent escalation associated with the urbanisation process, which is in turn endogenised as a result of the evolution of the division...

A general equilibrium model with increasing return to labor specialization and economies of transaction agglomeration is developed to address the residential land-rent escalation associated with the urbanization process, which is in turn endogenized as a result of the evolution of the division...

This research monograph provides systematic and comprehensive materials for applying inframarginal analysis to study a wide range of economic phenomena. The analysis is based on a new overarching framework to resurrect the classical notion of division of labor and specialization, which is an...

This paper formalizes Cheung, Coase, Stigler, and Young's theory of irrelevance of the size of the firm. This theory states that if division of labor develops within the firm, the average size of the firm and productivity go up side by side. If division of labor develops between firms, the...

We propose a Neo-Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) model of trade that combines comparative endowment advantage, comparative technological advantage, international capital mobility and trade costs. Using an inframarginal approach, we produce a partition of the exogenous parameter space in a host of parameter...

The paper develops a general equilibrium model with endogenous principal-agent relationship within a framework of consumer-producer, economies of specialisation, and transaction costs. It is shown that if transaction efficiency is low, then autarky is chosen as the general equilibrium where no...

The paper introduces differences in production and transaction conditions between countries into a model of monopolistic competition. It applies inframarginal analysis to show that, as transaction conditions are improved, the general equilibrium may jump discontinuously across different patterns...

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to simultaneously endogenize the level of division of labor, the extent of the market, the degree of inequality of income distribution, and aggregate productivity. It shows that good capitalism with free markets for all goods including government...