This paper presents a model of inter-regional household migration that extends recent developments in the literature in 2 important ways. First the interaction between the members of the household in the migration decision-making process is explicitly modelled through the application of the...

At various times since Tobin floated the idea of a tax on foreign exchange transactions the concept has been revisited - particularly in times of financial market turmoil when it has been proposed as a means of reducing exchange rate volatility. Recently, Harcourt (1997) suggested a further...