This paper analyzes government policy when random shocks affect particular industries, occupations or regions. Workers can freely choose and industry or occupation ex ante, and can relocate at a cost, once uncertainty is resolved. The policy instruments available are per capita taxes and...

This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon), reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential...

This paper studies the "rationality" of conscious parallelism and predatory pricing in the context of a dynamic oligopoly model. The doctrine of conscious parallelism is modelled as the outcome of a signalling game in which the rules of response are specified axiomatically. This results in a...

Artificial linear regressions often provide a convenient way to calculate test statistics and estimate covariance matrices. This paper discusses one family of these regressions, called "double-length" because the number of observations in the artificial regression is twice the actual number of...

The exact properties of the production possibilty surface with two factors and three commodities (goods) have not been clearly defined.The present conclusion is that the production possibility surface is a ruled surface on which each straight line corresponds to a constant factor price ratio.

Tax evasion is analogous to deadweight loss in its effect upon the rules for cost-benefit analysis of public sector projects. Deadweight loss and tax evasion both cause the marginal cost of public funds to increase as tax payers attempt to reduce the tax base in response to increases in tax...

This paper models the linkage between a country's national security and the defense spending of its allies and adversaries. The cost of an arms race is introduced into the alliance public good framework of Olson and Zeckhauser. Contrary to their presumption, for a cooperative treaty to increase...

Within the framework of linear regression, errors arising from artificial inclusion or exclusion of variables are considered with augmentations or restrictions on a given maintained hypothesis. This permits exploitation of relations between tests based on Wald and Lagrange Multiplier Principles....

We ask if pure profits obtained in our earlier model might be dissipated by forces excluded. We consider the possibility that the profits will be converted into land rents and usurped by landlords and conclude this will not happen. Second, we consider new firms entering to drive existing firms...