When future international agreement for global environmental control is anticipated, decicions for controlling current carbon gas emissions by improving the country's abatement capabilities are strongly affected by the likelihood of and the likely outcome of such agreements. We construct a two...

Recent work by Hamermesh (1989) has emphasised that it is wrong to assume that employers adjust continuously in response to demand shocks. Using data provided by a Japanese company we examine the nature of adjustment costs at different levels of aggregation in Japan.

Using a model where a monopoly chooses its commodity's quality as well as its quantity, we consider optimal regulation whenthe monopoly's costs are unknown to the regulator. Regarding quantity and quality, the results are a natural extension of Baron and Myerson (1982): the levels of quantity...