As an alternative to exporting, a firm can enter a foreign market by forging a strategic alliance with its foreign counterparts. The alliance, in the form of a bilateral supply and distribution agreement, eliminates trasportation costs and duplications in product distribution networks....

Under the majority voting rule, a system of universally available vouchers (UV) is politically less feasible than a system of selective vouchers (SV) confined to families with incomes equal to or less than median voter income. After the introduction of UV, public expenditure on education will...

This paper develops an efficiency-wage model of steady-state equilibrium with labor-augmenting technical progress, and uses the model to explore the long-run relationship between unemployment and growth. The rate of productivity growth is either specified exogenously or determined endogenously...