The celebrated inflationary bias of time consistent monetary policy is re-examined. To this end we consider an extended version of the simple Barro and Gordon framework featuring important aspects of actual policy making such as imperfect instrument control, overlapping wage contracts, policy...

This survey is part of a project on The Financial Implications of Environmental Legislation. The purpose of it is to see how the problem of credit rationing, according to borrowers' characteristics, has been empirically estimated in some literature. The survey considers first allocation of...

Why are labour-managed firms so rare in market economies? We address this question by analysing the determinants of entry. A negative binomial random effects model is used to examine a panel of UK entry data. Our main finding is a significant negative relationship between entry counts and both...

This paper analyses the effect of integration on growth when countries have different preferences. It describes a two-country two-sector model, with the first sector producing the homogeneous good and the second sector producing a differentiated good, which is divided in a first-class goods...

In examining China's exchange rate policy in the reforming years, the paper finds empirical evidence of its long-run inflationary consequences, but the effects appear to be not sizable. In the short-run, while changes in the devaluation rate are positively correlated with the increase in the...