This paper presents a model where opening the capital account of an economy causes more bankruptcies to take place in the non tradables sector. Non tradable arms must forecast the future state of the economy when investing since the demand for their goods depends on this. In our model the...

The persistence of gendered pay inequality some 30 years after its formal prohibition raises questions over the mechanisms sustaining it. Recent contributions highlight the role of low skills visibility and valuation in maintaining pay inequality in predominantly female occupations. We examine...

We analyze how individual happiness is affected by nine major life events using a panel of British individuals. Our aim is to test the importance of hedonic adaptation in the United Kingdom and to compare our results with equivalent ones obtained in the literature using German data. We also...

This article compares Japan and Southeast Asia before the Second World War to explore the question Goldsmith posed: why, since financial transition in all countries follows the same path, should there be such remarkable differences in the speed of transition? Beginning after the Meiji...

In this paper, we rebut the case that Ashcroft, Christie and Swales (2006) make in favour of the status quo fiscal settlement in Scotland that stems from the Scotland Act 1998. This Act in creating the Scottish Parliament and Executive effectively separated public spending by the Scottish...

This paper investigates the dynamic interaction between ination and stock returns in four ination targeting countries. We find that following the introduction of formal targets, ination persistence and the magnitude of volatility spillovers between ination and stock returns have been reduced.

We study the effects of a between-cake discount factor in the agenda selection problem faced by a multi-issue committee. The presence of an interval of time between bargaining stages is a reasonable and realistic assumption. We show that this assumption simplifies the agenda selection problem...

A large and growing literature addresses the impact of foreign aid on the growth of per capita incomes in recipient countries. While this link is important, given its implications for poverty reduction, an arguably more important link is that between aid and human development, broadly defined....

This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to examine the quantitative macroeconomic implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is the particular market failure justifying policy...