Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

This paper resumes a source of instability of intertemporal equilibrium which was anticipated by Garegnani (2003) and criticized by Schefold (2004). The author points out that a non orthodox tâtonnement pricing must be accepted if the theory has to be consistent with the Jevons’s law of...

A common interpretation of the vicissitudes of the EMS holds that the credibility of EMS parities remained very high at least up to the Danish referendum of June 1992. In contrast, we argue that capital inflows into higher-inflation countries and falling interest differentials can coexist with...

The entrance of Italy in the Euro area in 2001 has given rise to a wide debate about the perception of inflation on households’ well-being. However, most of the debate has involved the measurement of the “correct†consumer price index at national level. Much less analysis has...

This paper aims at extending the analysis of the efficiency of equilibria in an OLG framework with asymmetric information. I study the stationary states of an economy where consumers, firms and financial intermediaries are at work. The economy is affected by ex post moral hazard due to costly...

In this paper we study the economic implications of IPR protection on corporate intelligence, R&D investment and economic growth. To accomplish this objective, we present a dynamic, scale-invariant Schumpeterian model of growth with information gathering and analyze the steady-state e¤ects of...

This work presents five structural co-integrating VAR models used to describe the economies of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain in the years 1983-1998 and to analyse their economic policies. Shortrun dynamics move around the long-run structure, represented by money, goods and...

Vertical integration followed by quantity competition is studied. The downstream firms simultaneously decide whether to integrate with one of the upstream suppliers. If firms are not able to observe whether the vertically integrated competitor enters the intermediate good market, they are...

In this article the author, after a critical assessment of the main notions of services developed in economics, presents a revised definition of services based on process analysis. A corresponding distinction is made between material and non-material goods, on the one hand, and services, on the...

This paper analyzes the behavior of a central bank under strong (“Knightian”) uncertainty when the short run trade-off between output and infl‡ation is represented by the Sticky Information Phillips Curve recently proposed by Mankiw and Reis (2002). By solving the robust control...