The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

The paper constructs a search-theoretic model of credit markets with a bilateral trading mechanism that enables the manageable introduction of asymmetric information.Borrowers success probabilities are unobservable to financiers, but the degree of risk in observable projects can be used as a...

This paper studies relationship lending in a framework where the cost of switching banks measures the degree of banking competition. The relationship lender's (insider bank's) informational advantage creates a lock-in effect, which is at its height when the switching cost is infinitesimal.This...

We argue that a transaction tax is likely to amplify, not dampen, volatility in the foreign exchange markets.Our argument stems from the decentralised trading practice and the presumable discrepancy between informed and uninformed traders valuations.Since informed traders valuations are likely...