This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the choice of payment terms under which a company sells its products. In our model, these terms are chosen to permit sellers or buyers to specialize at repairing defects if they are equally well-informed about quality or if one has significantly...

This study provides a model in which a supplier's use of short- and long-term debt depends on the demand for its product. The model predicts that suppliers use short-term debt to match their assets' and liabilities' maturities and that their incentive to do so is stronger, the larger the term...

This paper builds and calibrate a model of competitive search that can reproduce a set of stylized facts concerning major impacts of the decade long stagnation and subsequent changes in the labor market in Japan. We highlight the role played by varying degrees of relation specific investments in...