Baumol has argued that the problem experienced by cities in providing metropolitan services might be the product of an uneven growth process. Slow growth sectors, he argues, could experience increased real costs and, unless demand for their services is highly inelastic, their outputs coudl...

Benge (1997) examined the effects of the Australian full imputation company tax system and capital gains tax provisions on dividend policy and financial policy for an optimizing firm. However, there has been no attempt to quantify the financial policy biases that were identified in the earlier...

Receipt of unemployment insurance by immigrant men and social assistance by immigrant families are analysed using thirteen surveys from Canada. Estimates from a cohort fixed effects model are found to be sensitive to the choice of survey years. This is due to the mis-specification of the fixed...

I study the use of risk adjusters as a regulatory instrument for combatting cream-skimming incentives in a private health insurance market. It is assumed that insurance coverage is mandatory for all individuals, and that insurers must charge community-rated premiums - i.e., premiums independent...

The authors construct a model in which a first mover decides on its location before it knows the identity of the second mover; joint location results in a negative externality. Contracts are inherently incomplete since the first mover's initial decision cannot be specified. The authors analyze...

This paper provides a framework with which to analyse growth in a small economy with perfect capital mobility. It provides a diagrammatic representation of steady states which differs in interesting and important ways from the usual closed-economy Solow-Swan diagram. The paper also analyses...