This paper examines the implications of the asymmetries in the tax treatment of corporate profits and losses for the theory of the competitive firm under uncertainty. It is shown that the tax asymmetry introduces a curvature into the firm's target function which affects its behavior in the short...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The economics of social regulation: an overview -- 3. The economics of product reliability and warranties -- 4. The regulation of quality by licensing and certification -- 5. Social regulation and the Canadian legal system: an economic...

In recent years, there has been a large number of papers on the subject of rent seeking. Most such works on rent seeking have taken the rent as exogenously determined by regulators. Regulators, howeve r, may also be expected (and indeed have been shown) to be rent seeke rs and hence the...

In this paper we consider the effects of certain capital market imperfections on portfolio choice problems. We show that as a result of these imperfections, the distribution functions of rates of return may depend on portfolio allocation, thus leading to non‐convexities and consequently to...