This paper examines the manner in which labour services are modelled in the aggregate production function, concentrating on the relationship between numbers employed and average hours worked. It argues that numbers employed and hours worked are not perfect substitutes and that conventional...

This paper examines the role of interest rate policy in a small open economy subject to terms of trade shocks, and time-varying currency risks. The private sector makes optimal decisions in an intertemporal non-linear setting with rational, forward-looking expectations. In contrast, the monetary...

In shallow markets where there are mutual gains from cooperation among agents, collusive behavior may occur even if it does not constitute a Nash equilibrium. Yet, such behavior is rarely sustainable. Bolle (1994) reports the results of one period team selection experiments in which subjects...

The recent meltdown in some Asian economies highlights the urgent need of more proper measures of economic performance. Measures such as GNP growth rates alone are not good enough in revealing the true strength of an economy unless costs of capitals are also examined. In recent years, there have...

While it is correct to say that Carlyle first applied the exact phrase “dismal science” to political economy in his 1849 article on plantation labour in the West Indies, I argue that Carlyle came to the view that political economy was “dismal” well before that time. Indeed, his negative...

It is well known from the work of S. Ross that a securities market is complete if and only if each call option can be replicated using available securities. The present short note announces the following surprising complementary result to Ross' important contribution. . If the number of...