Using an extension of the influence-driven lobbying approach developed by Grossman and Helpman, we study the impact of regional trading arrangements (RIAS) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model.

In the present paper, we analyse the role of demand factors on wages and hours in Switzerland. To accomplish this task, we used the 1996 Swiss Wage Structure Survey, a large employee-employer survey. As in many other developed economies, inter-industry wage differentials are great, whether or...

This paper uses a price-leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of alternative pricing policies for Madagascar, the leader in the vanilla market, that also controls domestic production through a single-channel marketing system.

In this paper we analyse the labour supply in a static framework, examining the two basic components of labour services, effort and working time. We discuss how the method chosen by firms to extract effort from the workers affects the relationship between the hourly wage offered and the number...