In this note it is shown that if the Pareto frontier of the one-shot game is strictly concave and contains the Pareto frontier of the set of weakly renegotiation-proof equilibrium average payoffs, and if there is a player who always has a short-run incentive to deviate from any action pair...

In recent years small autonomous work teams have been increasingly revived as a means of iproving Soviet production efficiency. Empirical evidence suggests that decreasing the size of brigades for a given total workforce entails changes in remuneration and decision making: internal remuneration...

This paper argues that the appropriate standard for the analysis of commodity market integration is the transport cost adjusted law of one price. A threshold error correction model that incorporates that property is developed and applied to French wheat prices in the 19th century. This type of...

An insider-outsider model is constructed in a non-cooperative bargaining framework. In the model there is one employer and a continuum of workers. A majority of the workers can, by threatening to withdraw from bargaining if the employer enters into bargaining with the remaining workers, exclude...

Some recent developments in the macroeconometric model analysis of time series are discussed in the light of the monograph by Haavelmo (1944). A brief overview of some important works in this area during the last three decades is given, and the importance of the widespread use of personal...

By documenting the legislative history of the Corn Laws from 1670 and using previously unused data to calculate annual Ad Valorem Equivalents for most years from 1814, it is possible to establish several important facts about British wheat protection. Statutory protection was only significant...

This paper uses ML and GMM techniques to estimate systems of stochastic differential equations that describe the behavior of stock returns. We test restrictions implied by a continuous time asset pricing model that builds on the work of Chamberlain (1998). The stochastic differential equations...

We study the hypothesis that there is a connection between business cycles and economic growth. If economic growth and business cycles were completely independent of each other, then changes in the growth rate would be unrelated to dates of business cycle turning points (apart from pure...

This paper argues that imperfectly informed consumers use simple signals to identify the characteristics of wine. The geographical denomination and vintage of a wine as well as the characteristics of a particular wine will be considered here. However, the specific characteristics of a wine are...