The authors examined school readiness from the parental perspective, focusing on parents' efforts and expectations for kindergarten in conjunction with their child's academic development. Using self-reported survey data from two waves of the National Household Education Surveys, the authors...

In this paper we assess the empirical relevance of an expectations version of purchasing power parity in forecasting the dollar|euro exchange rate. This version is based on the differential of inflation expectations derived from inflation-indexed bonds for the euro area and the USA. <P>Using the...</p>

In this paper we assess the empirical relevance of an expectations version of purchasing power parity in forecasting the Dollar/Euro exchange rate. This version is based on the differential of inflation expectations derived from inflation-indexed bonds for the Euro area and the USA. Using the...

This paper presents a selective survey on some recent empirical attempts to test the validity of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to explain exchange-rate movements in the main currencies, as well as the econometric methodology used in such tests. Finally, we offer some encouraging results...

We analyze bargaining mechanisms for allocating resources in atomless econo- mies. We provide results proving that it is not necessary to consider the forma- tion of all coalitions in order to obtain the bargaining sets. This is shown under restrictions of different nature, triggering different...

We define a bargaining set for finite economies using Aubin’s veto mechanism and show its coincidence with the set of Walrasian allocations. Then, we rewrite our notion in terms of replicated economies showing that, in contrast with Anderson, Trockel and Zhou’s (1997) non-convergence result,...

We give a notion of bargaining set for finite economies and show its coincidence with the set of Walrasian allocations. Moreover, we also show that justified objections equate with Walrasian objections. Our bargaining-Walras equivalence provides a discrete approach to the characterization of...

We introduce a new notion of bargaining set for finite economies and show a convergence result.

We address economies with asymmetric information where agents are not perfectly aware about the informational structure for coalitions. Thus, we introduce solutions that we refer to as risky core and ambiguous core. We provide existence results and a variety of properties of these cooperative...