This paper introduces a matching model of credit and exchange in which potentiel difficulties in the enforcement of contracts play a central role. The repeated games framework that is developed is used to analyze the pricing and availability of credit, the consequences of information monopoly in...

This paper discusses how a consistent treatment of asset markets may be integrated into standard trade-focussed CGE models. Starting from a core specification of the real economy, calibrated to data for Zambia in the mid-1990s, the paper examines the properties of a hierarchy of models which...

In this paper we use the insights of the stochastic general equilibrium growth model to help understand the effects of risk on the real, risk adjusted return to capital, capital flows, exchange rate policy, and economic growth in two Pacific Basin economies, Mexico and Indonesia, over the period...

This paper extends the partial (PE) and general equilibrium (GE) analyses of Nash and stackelberg optimum export taxes to multicountry framework, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the global cocoa market.

The liquidity effect, defined as a decrease in nominal interest rates in response to a monetary expansion, is a major stylized fact of the business cycle. This paper seeks to understand under what conditions such an effect can be explained in a general equilibrium model with sticky prices and...

This paper gives an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of a variety of economic approaches commonly used for cost estimates for limiting CO2 emissions, including the ad nod approach, the dynamic optimization approach, the input-output approach, the macroeconomic approach, the...

This paper investigates necessary conditions for an equilibrium to exist on a reinsurance market with short sale constraints. It establishes that, equilibrium, there exists an equivalent probability measure under which the reinsurance premium is the compensator of the jump process describing the...

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are among the most influential tools in applied economics. However, some serious questions have been raised about the empirical validity of these models. The core of the critique is that the parameter selection criteria are unsound and the use of...

This paper gives an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of a variety of economic approaches commonly used for cost estimates for limiting CO2 emissions, including the ad nod approach, the dynamic optimization approach, the input-output approach, the macroeconomic approach, the...