This article examines the behaviour of a consumer diagnosed with diabetes. It is shown that the medical treatment of the disease creates incentives that make diabetic's consumption and wieght display cyclical patterns. One implication is that labour supply can be cyclical as well.

The paper discusses how the Peter and Dilbert Principles can occur and what are the consequences for a profit maximizing firm. A competence frontier is constructed as a linear combination of the maximum levels of technical and social skills that are difficult to measure and evaluate. The Peter...

This paper derives an optimal investment function that combines Tobin's q with Goodwin's nonlinear accelerator. It provides microfoundations to the backward looking behaviour of investment in Goodwin's model, and simultaneously allows the study of Tobin's q into a business cycle model.

This paper studies a differential game between authors and editors. Authors maximize the number of publications seeking to increase the impact of their work in the literature. Editors maximize the quality of papers they publish in order to increase the reputation of their journals. The game is...

This paper analyses an overlapping generations model with absolute bequest motive. It is shown that the widely accepted criterion to verify dynamic efficiency does not apply to this case. In our model the social planner maximizes welfare by choosing a capital stock larger than the golden rule...

This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by developing a model which predicts that migrants’ remittances would lead to the reduction of social conflict in the recipient economy under the condition that remittances...

The paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage over the other wages in Brazil using a bargaining framework. The key result is that the minimum wage precedes the market wage in the period 1980-85 while there is simultaneous determination in the period 1986-93.

This paper studies the controversy around the readmission of the Jews to England in 1655-6. Only the economic argumens are considered. They are constrasted with the mercantilist model of Breams (1986). It is shown that some of the arguments in favour and against the readmission are according to...