I study connected manifolds in this paper. This include finite and infinite dimensional manifolds.

We determine the effects of a delayed or immediate tax cut with or without a "sunset" feature in a real customer-market, nonRicardian economy. Our model incorporates both the supply-sider channel as well as the Feldstein-Rubin-Summers channel. We show that a tax cut may depress both the real...

This paper formulates a conformity test for cointegration for a multivariate I(1) process obeying a VAR specification. The test statistic is a function of the characteristic roots of the sample covariance matrix of the cointegral vector; the latter is obtained from the unrestricted estimation of...

Monetary integration involves a consideration of two quite different types or dimensions of sovereignty.One is policy sovereignty, and the other is legal sovereignty. Policy sovereignty refers to the ability to conduct policy independent of commitments to other countries. Legal sovereignty...

We consider the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: (i) negotiations are undertaken and commitments made in the presence of uncertainty about future political pressures; (ii) governments possess private information about political pressures at the time that the...