This paper studies consumer theory from the bounded rationality approach proposed in Richter and Wong (1996a), with a 'uniformity principle' constraining the magnitudes (prices, quantities, etc.) and the operations (to perceive, evaluate, choose, communicate, etc.) that agents can use. In...

The liquidity effect, defined as a decrease in nominal interest rates in response to a monetary expansion, is a major stylized fact of the business cycle. This paper seeks to understand under what conditions such an effect can be explained in a general equilibrium model with sticky prices and...

This paper presenta a general equilibrium model of imperfect competition in which firm efficiency depends on the level of product market competition. X-efficiency is shown to arise to the extent unions directly affect the level of employment. A positive relationship is established between total...

The main objective of this paper is to show how Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided into two major parts. Part 1 presents the concept of the...

The relationship between our general equilibrium model with multimember households and club models with multiple private goods is investigated. The main distinction in the definitions consists of the equilibrium concepts. As a rule, competitive equilibria among households where no group of...

This paper analyses welfare impacts of tax reforms using a multisectoral general equilibrium tax model with multiple capital assets for the UK economy with micro-consistent benchmark data set for the year the 1995 received from the Inland Revenue. Households make consumption and labour leisure...

This paper looks at the dynamic management of risk in an economy with discrete time consumption and endowments and continuous trading. I study how agents in such an economy deal with all the risk in the economy and attain their Pareto optimal allocations by trading in a few natural securities:...

Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal manufacturing and service sectors is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in power. Such extortion...