One Strand of the literature of the employment contract focuses on the role of the contract in providing for the efficient sharing of risk between capitalists and workers. One way capitalists can shift risk to workers is to provide part of workers" renumeration in the form of an unfunded,...

The authors argue that the academic literature, both qualitative and quantitative, has mislabeled most episodes of large-scale violence in Africa as civil war; these episodes better fit their concept of regional war complexes. The paper seeks to highlight the fundamental flaws in the conception...

Tax laws and administrations often treat different size firms differently. There is, however, little research on the consequences. As modeled here, oligopolists with different efficiencies determine the size distribution of firms. A government that maximizes a weighted sum of consumer surplus,...

A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics. Unique in both its rigor and international treatment. An ideal supplementary textbook in upper-level undergraduate urban...