Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper studies the interaction between technology, a public input that flows in from abroad, and human capital, a private input that is accumulated domestically, as twin engines of growth in a developing economy. The model displays two types of long run behavior, depending on policies and...</para>

This paper studies the interaction between technology, a publicly available input that flows in from abroad, and human capital, a private input that is accumulated domestically, as the twin engines of growth in a developing economy. The model displays two types of long run behavior, depending on...

This paper develops a theory of debt management in which government financing decisions have distributional consequences. We consider a constant aggregate endowment economy in which the government finances exogenous stochastic public spending needs with uniform lump sum taxes and...

This paper studies the role of education in women's changing role in the labor and marriage markets since the 1960's.