type="main" <p>We incorporate two sets of behavioural assumptions, fairness concerns and insatiable desire for money, into a dynamic optimization model to illuminate how they can generate persistent aggregate demand shortages. We obtain the conditions for persistent unemployment and temporary...</p>

type="main" <p>Using a two-country, two-commodity dynamic optimization model with general homothetic preference for the commodities, this paper examines the effects of a tariff and a quota on consumption and employment in the case where persistent unemployment arises due to a liquidity trap. A...</p>