An important stochastic turnpike property in optimal growth models asserts that optimal programs of capital accumulation from different initial stocks converge almost surely in a suitable metric. Its proof requires constructing a value-loss process satisfying both uniform boundedness in...

In many instances of price discrimination, a seller of an item is in possession of signals from competing buyers regarding their private valuation for the item. If the seller uses this information to price discriminate against the buyer, buyers would correspondingly modify their signalling...

The recent proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) has resulted in an increasingly complex network of preferential trading relationships. The economics literature has generally examined the formation of FTAs as a function of the participating countries' economic characteristics alone. In...