After prolonged recessions, the Japanese economy had recovered in the first half of the 2000s and recorded sustained growth until summer 2007. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of international trade with China for the recovery of Japanese firms in the 2000s from both macro- and...

Based on the critical assumption of strategic complementarity, this paper builds a general model to describe and solve the screening problem faced by the monopolist seller of a network good. By applying monotone comparative static tools, we demonstrate that the joint presence of asymmetric...

This paper examines the impact of reproductive externalities on fertility behaviour in Kenya by quantifying the effects of group membership on the number of children born. We focus on the identification of structural forms of social interaction operating across individuals in the context of...