We develop a model of international trade with increasing returns to scale by taking into account the possibility of cooperation among agents in an egalitarian economy. It is shown that each country gains from trade in a trading world in which there are arbitrary numbers of...

Zur Analyse saisonbehafteter Zeitreihen stehen heutzutage eine größere Anzahl von unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätzen und auch von fertigen Software-Systemen zur Verfügung. Für die praktischen Anwendungen spielen nicht nur methodische Gesichtspunkte, sondern teilweise auch rein...

This paper corrects the analysis, presented in Albert and Meckl (1991), of adjustment in a dynamic specific-factors model with endogenous capital stocks, and extends it to a multi-sector setup.

Most transitional economies in Central and Eastern Europe have rather surprisingly resisted protectionist pressures - at least during early stages of reform - and adopted liberal trade policies. In this paper the course of trade policy during transition is explained from a political economy...

The effects of different institutional arrangements for the central bank are examined in the presence of economic shocks and uncertainty about the central banker's and the medianvoter's inflation target. A contract which is based on self-imposed monetary target announcements proves to be...

International joint ventures (JV) are popular institutional forms chosen by the less developed countries (LDCs) to attract foreign Investments. In this paper we describe a set up where a multinational firm (MNF) decides on the volume of investment and the LDC gov-ernment offers a package...

This paper generalizes the analysis in Albert (1989) and Meckl (1990) of adjustment in a dynamic specific-factors model with endogenous capital stocks. Capital reallocation and accumulation are consequences of investment decisions and depreciation. The Investment process is analyzed under a...