Book-length study of black, Chinese, and Japanese self-employment in northern cities of the United States, 1880-1940, Self-employment is explained as a product of moral communities resulting from migration networks

We present an explanation of the high frequency of team production and high level of peer monitoring found in Japanese firms, in terms of a simple and empirically grounded variation in individual utility functions. We argue that Japanese agents are generally characterized by a higher degree,...

The equilibrium conditions for an economic system that produces output with several factors of production and which is subject to technological constraints are derived. Optimization of either output minus cost or integrated utility yields the conditions that output elasticities must be equal to...

The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random "luck" rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We theoretically...

Der Aufsatz beschreibt, wie mit Hilfe hochwertiger Wirtschaftsdaten kurzfristige Vorhersagen über die Inflationsentwicklung gemacht werden können. Als wichtige Bestandteile eines Modells zur Prognose der Inflationsentwicklung werden die hohe Qualität der Daten und Maßnahmen zur Korrektur von...