When pollution is transboundary and there is international trade, a domestic inefficiency may arise in addition to the well-known inefficiencies at the international level. More precisely, there will be a Nash equilibrium in which each country chooses a policy that gives it lower welfare than...

The pay parameters in a profit-sharing system are likely to be determined by collective bargaining between unions and employers. In this case, employment will not necessarily be higher under profit sharing than under a fixed wage system. For a fixed capital stock, the most likely case is that...

Investment behavior may depend on whether wage bargaining takes place centrally or locally (at the firm level). The outcome of the wage bargain will in turn depend on previous investments. Ignoring other differences between the two bargaining regimes, endogenous investments imply that wages are...

In the environmental policy of most countries, various forms of quotas and direct regulation are more important than environmental taxes. This paper addresses four arguments which are often given against the use of emission taxes. The three arguments related to information asymmetries and...

This paper deals with the employment effects of reduced working time when firms' endogenous response of overtime is considered. The anal ysis distinguishes between fixed and profit-maximizing levels of outp ut as well as between interior and corner solutions. It is shown that under plausible...