Macroeconomic theories in which there is a fixed cost to changing prices have proliferated recently. This paper solves a menu-cost pricing problem faced by a monopolistic firm in continuous time and subject to both the stochastic aggregate price level emphasized by Sheshinski and Weiss (1983)...

Considerable interest in the effect of mergers in high technology industries exists because this sector is seen to be strategically important for industrial policy. This paper investigates the effect of mergers in this sector, comparing them to mergers in other industries. The effect of...

Few subjects in economics have been more exhaustively discussed than the relation between productivity and thrift in the determination of the rate of interest, yet leading authors continue to hold markedly divergent views. This issue might be brought into focus in the following paper by...

This paper extends the analysis of "Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the Loss" (Lewis 1996) to non-agricultural property. The estimate is based mainly on the area of urban property abandoned by refugees, where valuations are based on contemporary transfer...

This paper develops a general repeated game model over arbitrary time domain (which includes continuous time behaviour). A player is committed at any point in time to history independent behaviour for a positive length of time. The length of time of commitment depends on the way the history...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interaction of financial capital movements and accumulation of physical capital in a small open economy with flexible exchange rates. Tobin's q theory of investment plays a central role in linking the financial and real sides of the economy and also in...

The dynamic path of accumulation in a neo-classical economy can be described by a differential equation in the time rate of change of the per capita capital stock. In the theory of differential equations there is a technique for examining the change of the solution of a differential equation...

The paper attempts to test one widely accepted corollary of the proposition that the availability of or increases in unemployment benefits have serious disincentive effects: namely, that the seasonality of employment will increase. The results based on an analysis of the dispersion of seasonal...