If capital lowers marginal cost and a firm with more capital gets a bigger share of the surplus in merger bargaining, then the equilibrium price with a merger may be lower than without a merger. If entry is restricted, the level of industry profits minus investment costs may be higher if mergers...

We study a model in which a customs union trades with countries that behaved strategically. If the members of the customs union are similar but not identical, one country will want to delegate authority for making union policy to its partner. Even if side-payments within the union are permitted,...

This paper looks at simple decision rules in bankruptcy procedures. It describes special issues of enterprise liquidation and reorganization during economic transformation. The reforms of the financial system and other important factors in economic transformation influence the impact of...

The paper examines privatization in Hungary over the last decade. It investigates the `spontaneous privatization' of the late 1980s and its relation to today's privatization efforts. It studies the changes in the economic structure of Hungary since 1988, and provides detailed information...

In this paper we obtain the time-consistent solution to a stochastic dynamic version of the strategic export subsidy problem. The dynamic structure of the problem emanates either from an exhaustible resource or from a learning-by-doing technology. In any given period, nature ‘chooses’ the...

The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the ‘public finance’ impact of international migration on wages and welfare. To this end, we construct a general equilibrium model of a labour-exporting (source) and a labour-importing (host) country with identical consumers,...