In this paper I investigate the nature of the beliefs which agents must hold (at least implicitly) in order to justify their considering various alternatives, in two distinct settings: the Walrasian model without production (with competitive equilibrium), and the sell-all version of the...

We analyse the simulated effects of a tariff reduction as outlined in the Morocco-European Union (EU) trade agreement. Two-thirds of Morocco's trade is with the EU. The analysis is based on a CGE model that integrates 5129 households from a 1998-99 national household standards of living survey...

This paper deals with the EU's trade policy with two objectives: on the one hand, we study the performance of EU's preferential agreements in granting their partners improved market access; on the other hand, we assess the extent to which domestic sectors are effectively protected. As far as the...

Recent literature on the interactions between labor unions and monetary institutions features either a supply or a demand channel of monetary policy, but not both. This leads to two opposing views about the effects of central bank conservativeness. We evaluate the relative merits of those...

This paper establishes the existence of a stationary equilibrium and a procedure to compute solutions to a class of dynamic general equilibrium models that are useful for studying entrepreneurship. The models have two important features. First, occupational choice (entrepreneur or worker) is...

This paper examines a dynamic, stochastic endowment economy with two agents and two financial securities. Markets are incomplete and agents can have heterogeneous tastes. We develop a new computational method to solve the dynamic general equilibrium model. We allow for various forms of portfolio...

This paper addresses the effectiveness of fiscal policy at zero nominal interest rates. I analyze a stochastic general equilibrium model with sticky prices and rational expectations and assume that the government cannot commit to future policy. Real government spending increases demand by...

Mameit Deme, David Franck and Nadeem Naqvi (2005) have shown that the increased government expenditure on education, training and skill acquisition leads to lower unemployment rate, expansion of the urban formal sector and the contraction of the urban informal sector. This is observed in...

We construct a simple general equilibrium model of unemployment and calibrate it to the Canadian economy. Job creation and destruction are endogenous. In this model, we consider several potential factors which could contribute to the long-run increase in the Canadian unemployment rate: a more...