The rapid accumulation and persistence of interenterprise credits and arrears is a fairly common phenomenon in transition economies, posing serious policy concerns. A general equilibrium model of production chains is presented to analyze this phenomenon and provide policy implications. The model...

This paper presents a multisector growth model where education enhances general human capital, which is essential for increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that education, combined with international trade, can affect growth positively in the long...

We develop a signaling model of prestige seeking in competitive college applications. A prestigious program attracts high-ability applicants, making its admissions more selective, which in turn further increases its prestige, and so on. This amplifying effect results in a program with negligible...

This paper develops a model which allows us to analyze the effect of policies that influence income distribution between capitalists and workers (such as taxes and market imperfections) on the log-run growth path of an economy. More specifically, we present a heterogeneous agent model where some...

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of interenterprise arrears, characterized by n-stage production technology with random productivity shocks. The model shows that large interenterprise arrears in transition economies may reflect substantial business risks in those countries and...

The paper examines international linkages between daily time series of US and Australian 3 month Treasury Bills and 10 year Government Bonds from 1987-95, paying particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic announcements in both countries. The 2 country's interest rate data are modelled...

Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia on foreign exchange markets from 1993 to 1997 is conjectured to have been determined by exchange rate trend correction, exchange rate volatility smoothing and profitability considerations. Using Probit and friction models, we show that these factors...

This paper investigates the response efficiency of the 10-year Australian Commonwealth bond futures market to the new contents of the Australian scheduled information release from January 1993 to July 1997. Using Money Market Services market expectations data to generate the news component of...