This paper examines whether the existence and the timing of real balance effects contribute to the determination of the absolute price level, as suggested byPatinkin (1949,1965), and if they affect conditions for local equilibrium uniqueness and stability. I show that there exists a unique price...

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobileacross the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by search frictions. We find that,contrary to general...

The Nash Bargaining problem in the context of a random utility modelyields a stochastic demand for each player, conditional on his or her beliefs re-garding the other player's behavior. We derive a symmetric logit equilibriumunder naive expectations that converges to the Nash axiomatic solution...

This paper examines the role of bequests and of taxation on bequests for the distributionof wealth. We investigate a model with overlapping generations and heterogenoushouseholds where parents derive utility directly from their bequests. We obtain allresults analytically. Using the coefficient...

Viele Finanzdienstleister betrachten ihre Kunden zwar als zahlende Abnehmerfür ein Produkt, ihre Bedürfnisse bleiben aber mehr oder weniger unberücksichtigt.Dies gilt vor allem für Standardprodukte, zum Beispiel Rentenfonds, Hausfinanzierungenoder Lebensversicherungen. Durch die zunehmende...

We suggest an alternative way of analyzing the canonical Bergstrom-Blume-Varian model of non-cooperative voluntary contributions to a public goodthat avoids the proliferation of dimensions as the number of players is in-creased. We exploit this approach to analyze models in which the...