When it is costly for agents to find a match, integrating small markets into a larger one increases the matching difficulty. We examine such dependence of the number of matches on the market size by explicitely modelling firms' attempt to attract workers by posting wages. It is shown that...

This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when evidence about injurers' behavior is imperfect and rests with the parties. We show that the `preponderance of evidence' standard used in common law, together with ordinary exclusion...

Following the 1982 recession, the unemployment rate fell much more rapidly in the U.S. than in Canada. This paper examines unemployment dynamics using provincial data for Alberta and Ontario, and finds that they differs significantly for the two provinces. A broad model which allows for...

L'objet de cette revue de la littérature est de mettre en évidence les implications de la théorie des contrats auto-exécutoires pour la recherche en macroéconomie. Il s'agit de présenter les développements théoriques sur les contrats auto-exécutoires ayant des implications directes pour...

This paper investigates the relative performance of two expected market-clearing models vis-à-vis inflation and interest rates dynamics. It is shown that neither a limited participation model, nor a predetermined price model can completely explain the stylized facts regarding nominal dynamics....

This paper re-examines the conventional wisdom on the equivalence of staggered-wage setting and staggered-price setting in generating persistent real effects of aggregate demand shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium framework with an input-output production structure. Under staggered-wage...

Under current projections of economic growth and fiscal policy for the next two years, the probability that the federal government will achieve its stated goal of bringing down the fiscal deficit to 3 per cent of GDP by 1996 is almost zero. Four types of changes could improve the odds that the...

Modern business cycle theory involves developing models that explain stylized facts. For this strategy to be successful, these facts should be well established. In this paper, we focus on the stylized facts of international business cycles. We use the generalized method of moments and quarterly...

Plusieurs sources s'entendent pour affirmer que la quantité et la qualité de la formation en emploi offerte au Canada devraient être augmentées. Or qu'en est-il de l'impact de la formation qui est déjà dispensée ici sur le salaire? Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons construit un...

We examine how redistribution policy affects the distribution of income when human capital accumulation is endogenous and the fundamental source of heterogeneity in the economy stems from varying degrees of time preference across members of the population. In comparing the steady states of a...