We present a model with a monopolistic landlord and tenants with unobservable ability. In this setting, the landlord should use a wage contract to extract the full surplus due to ability since a share or fixed rent contract leaves some of the surplus in the hands of the tenants. We combine this...

This paper analyzes the relation between international liquidity and growth for Brazil in 1966-2000. Defining the former as the ratio of foreign reserves to foreign (interest-bearing) debt, the objective is to build a model connecting growth with international liquidity, and then check whether...

This paper offers a fresh look at the economic theories advanced by Keynes. Keynes correctly asserted that in a fractional reserve banking system supply could not create its own demand when agents held time and savings deposits as a longrun store and entrepreneurs were engaging in the...

We investigate the agent-based modeling technique in a model of wealth distribution. In the first part we discuss this modern approach to economic modeling in the light of two major methodological approaches in the history of economic analysis, classical political economy and neo-classical...

It is widely accepted that global forces of technology and trade have caused a profound shift in labor demand towards the most highly skilled, generating sharply rising earnings inequality in flexible labor markets (the U.S.) and persistently high unemployment in rigid labor markets (Europe)....

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of foreign trade expansion on men and women's employment and earnings in Germany and Japan since the early-1970s. The analysis is prompted by trade studies identifying manufacturing industries appearing most vulnerable to foreign trade,...