This paper suggests that an over-investment on real estate may be one major source of the fundamental weakness of some financially troubled Asian economies. An over-development of the real estate sector could dissipate the crucial process of building a strong productive capacity of the economy....

This paper investigates dynamic efficiency of major East Asian economies based on the criterion of Abel, Mankiw, Summers and Zeckhauser(1989). It shows that both Korea and Taiwan are not necessarily dynamically efficient since they do not satisfy the sufficient condition of dynamic efficiency....

The authors investigate an infinite horizon bargaining problem in which a firm and a worker bargain over two dimensions: quality and wage. The worker has private information about his type. Only the uninformed firm makes an offer and it can offer a menu of quality-age contracts instead of a...

In this paper, we study the incumbent's incentive to share its essential facility when there exist network effects. We show that without network effects, the incumbent will charge an access fee high enough to deter the entry. with network effects, however, the incumbent always has an incentive...

We formulate a pretrial negotiation problem as an infinite-horizon bargaining model with one-sided uncertainty and alternating offers, with the informed party having an outside option. The plaintiff has private information and also has an outside option of "going to court." The defendant moves...