This paper analyzes the consequences of a working time reduction within a matching model with worker moral hazard. In the "laissez faire", workers and employers bargain over wages and working hours. When the no-shirking condition (NSC) is binding, the number of working hours is lower than the...

This paper proposes a simple measure of the World's Economic Center of Gravity (WECG) based on national GDP figures and the geographical location of the world's most important cities. This measure makes it possible to characterize the location of economic activity around the globe. It turns out...

Consider the problem of measuring long-run household welfare and investigating welfare orderings from cross-section data. Life-cycle theories emphasize that consumption is allocated intertemporally on the basis of a long-term concept of resources, which differs from household income. Expenditure...

The paper is organised around three objectives. First, it scrutinises closely each of the two indices of Central Bank Independence (CBI) most commonly used in the empirical literature and quantifies their "subjectivity" bias. It defines and discovers an impressive interpretation bias, a major...

This paper reports the results of an experiment on the intertemporal model of consumer behavior with perfect foresight. A test using the theory of revealed preference show that a significant number of individuals have an inconsistent behavior. However, the average data are consistent with the...

We conduct a laboratory experiment to test the empirical behavior of the bid-and-propose mechanism, defined in Navarro and Perea (2005). This mechanism implements the Myerson value for networks, and therefore its outcome posesses fairness properties. Since the bid-and-propose mechanism includes...

Using a US sample of parents and children, we examine income distribution in two generations. We find that the mean of the children's distribution is higher than that of parents', but incomes were more equally distributed in the lower deciles of the latter distribution. Groups of children raised...