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...

Start-up entrepreneurs are often commercially inexperienced. In giving managerial advice, venture capitalists can importantly enhance the success of innovative but highly risky ventures. The supply of experienced venture capitalists is not eas-ily increased, however, when the rate of business...

We consider a firm that is subject to employment protection laws that limit the firm's ability to fire labor. In particular, we suppose that though a firm which shuts down can fire all its workers, it may fire no fewer. Compared to a firm that is subject to no employment protection, a firm...

Bank regulation is a basic theme in this dissertation. More extensively, the dissertation focuses on bank panics, deposit insurance and on problems in bank-depositor relationships.

This study uses GARCH modelling to estimate and forecast conditional variances and covariances of returns calculated from a set of financial market series: twelve markka exchange rates, twelve corresponding short-term euro interest rates and the Finnish short-term interest rate, the Finnish...

We find strong evidence in the OECD country panel to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape the equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically significant...