This paper proposes a general equilibrium model with the feature that value maximizing firms which obtain financing in a competitive capital market will, when bankruptcy is possible, have capital structures which are equilibrium determined variables. This contrasts the traditional view which...

I study the optimal redistributive structure when individuals with distinct productivities also differ in disutility of work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because some of them are not actually disabled but lazy....

This paper describes a new computational technique for solving spatial economic equilibrium problems which are generalizations of the classical transportation problem. Existing algorithms employ quadratic programming, and they therefore require that demand and supply functions are linear. By...

Investors in equilibrium are modeled as facing investor specific risks across the space of assets. Personalized asset pricing models reflect these risks. Averaging across the pool of investors we obtain a market asset pricing model that reflects market risk exposures. It is observed on invoking...

This paper presents a family of simple nonparametric unit root tests indexed by one parameter, d, and containing Breitung's (2002) test as the special case d=1. It is shown that (i) each member of the family with d0 is consistent, (ii) the asymptotic distribution depends on d, and thus reflects...

This paper studies the optimal commodity taxation problem when time taken in consumption is a perfect substitute for either labor or leisure. It shows that while labor substitutability affects the optimal tax structure, leisure substitutability leaves the classical optimal tax results intact. In...

Regions inhabited with an immobile population of disabled and able individuals compete to attract mobile firms that provide jobs. The redistributive goal of regional governments is to support the disabled, who cannot work. Able individuals may work, be involuntary unemployed because of frictions...

The marginal condition indicating whether it is optimal to expand capacity at time t or t+1 is used to examine characteristics of optimal investment programs for cases of economies of scale. A case where the interval between consecutive investments approaches a geometric rate is derived. The...

The central result of this paper is that when moral hazard is present, shadow prices in general differ from market prices. To remedy this market failure, the government should introduce differential commodity taxation. Moral hazard causes people to take too little care to prevent accidents. The...

This paper develops structural estimation techniques which can be applied to experimental game data to consistently estimate and test models of strategic choice. I assume that the true game is a Bayesian game of incomplete information and that the observed actions are supported by an equilibrium...