Should donors interested in the effectiveness of developmental programmes rely on conditional budget support or on project aid? To answer this question, we present a model in which only a subset of developmental expenditures can be subject to conditionality. We show that budget support is...

An example of an exchange economy is provided, satisfying all the assumptions as in Dubey-Shubik (1988), for which the trivial Nash Equilibrium is the unique equilibrium point of the associated market game. From this example, we are led to propose an argument, related to the intensity of...

In many european countries, public opinion seems to be worried about the effect of lower-wage country competition. In newspapers' articles, as well as in policy debates, the terms "social dumpingll becomes more and more popular. Trade unions, worried by the effect of what they call "unfair...

Domestic transfers such that all individuals gain in utility with international trade, compared to domestic autarky, need not exist.

This paper analyses the impact of a minimum price variation (tick) and time priority on the quote dynamics and on trading costs when competition for the order flow is dynamic. It finds that convergence to competitive prices can take time and that the speed of convergence is influenced by the...