Automation affects workers because it affects the return to their skills when performing different tasks. I propose a general equilibrium model of occupational choice and technological change which takes two important labor market features into account: (i) automation happens to tasks and (ii)...

International trade economists made seminal contributions to general equilibrium theory, moving away from an emphasis on existence of equilibrium to algebraic formulations which enabled us to characterize key relationships between parameters and variables, such as that between tariffs and...

We prove the existence of an increasing equilibrium, and study the comparative statics of correlation in the k-double auction with affiliated private values. This is supposedly the simplest bilateral trading mechanism that allows for dependence in valuations between buyers and sellers. In the...

Jensen/Mecklings Konzept der Agency Costs (des Fremdkapitals) beschreibt die Vermögenseinbuße opportunistisch agierender Schuldner, wenn rationale Gläubiger (fremdkapitalinduzierte) Risikoanreize korrekt antizipieren und, risikoadjustiert, höhere Kreditforderungen durchsetzen. Dabei wird...