Recent antitrust regulations in several countries have granted exemptions for col- lusion aimed at achieving environmental goals. Firms can apply for exemptions if collusion helps to develop or to implement costly clean technology, particularly in sec- tors like renewable energy, where capital...

In the past two decades, a new resolve for both increased economic integrationand monetary and exchange rate cooperation has started to emerge in ASEAN, mostnotably since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. This thesis addresses the question ofwhether there are sufficient economic reasons to...

Existing numerical characterizations of the optimal income tax have been based on a limited number of model specifications. As a result, they do not reveal which properties are general. We determine the optimal tax in the quasi-linear model under weaker assumptions than have previously been used;...