The choice of exchange rate regime is considered for a small open economy. Assuming that different forms of fixed exchange rate regimes involve different costs of reneging, it is shown that one potential beneficial aspect of joining a monetary union with a common currency is that it is less...

This paper shows that the existence and persistence of `overeducation' can be explained by a simple extension of the efficiency wage model. When calibrated to fit the amounts of overeducation found in most empirical studies, the model implies that both the relative wage and the relative...

Progressive income taxation has for some time been recognized to provide incentives for wage restraint in models with imperfectly competitive labour markets. Recent research has established that bargaining over individual working hours may reverse the wage restraining effect such that increased...

We study the problem of allocating workers to different projects in which each project requires having a minimum number of workers assigned to it or else it does not open. We show that the well-known serial dictatorship mechanism is neither strategy-proof nor Pareto efficient. Thus, we propose...

This paper extends the work of Ray and Vohra (1997). It ascertains which partitions of players will emerge and what actions will these players choose under each partition, when they can sign binding agreements and their actions have externalities. The emphasis, however, is placed on situations...

By considering firms operating in a perfectly- or monopolisticallycompetitive industry with free entry, we show that well-established results on the celebrated LeChatelier principle (LCP) do not extend into an endogenous competitive environment. For instance, labour demand may be more elastic in...

The dynamics of export market exit and firm closure have found limited attention in the new heterogeneous-firms trade literature. In fact, several of the predictions on firm survival and exit stemming from this new class of models are at odds with the stylized facts. Empirically, higher...

Real-world industries are composed from heterogeneous firms and substantial intra-industry reallocations take place, i.e. high productivity firms squeeze out low productivity firms. Previous tax-tool comparisons have not included these central forces of industry structure. This paper examines a...

This paper shows that the novel gains from trade liberalization driven by intra-industry reallocations (Melitz (2003)) are not robust to changes in the preference structure. In the Melitz (2003) setting the unambigousness of the welfare effect depends crucially on the assumption of traditional...