It may be in the interest of low-ability individuals to subsidize the education of high-ability individuals. Sufficient conditions are surprisingly mild: positive externalities in education and complementarity in production between human capital and labor supplied by the low-ability individuals....

We study a full employment monetary economy, where labor is allocated through contracts. We generalize and extend the sticky wage result of Rogerson an Wright. Our model is different from theirs in two respects. Labor is devisible, and hence unemployment is not possible in our model. And in...

In 1980 three Finnish companies established a research joint venture as a separate firm in order to develop semiconductors. This enterprise terminated in 1992 when the firm was sold. We study the RJV from the point of view of incomplete contacts, focusing on hold-up problems. Of particular...