This paper reconsiders the valuation equilibrium concept (Jehiel and Samet, 2007) and proposes an additional regularity condition concerning the players' equilibrium strategies. The condition, which requires equilibrium strategies to induce the same local behaviour at all nodes with 'similar'...

Differential information economies are investigated from the viewpoint of contract based approach, developed in series of author's papers. The key idea of the approach is to change the study of a “final” allocation of commodities with (different forms) stable webs of barter contracts which...

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well...

Most people accept that structural and labour market reforms are needed in Europe. However few have been undertaken. The usual conjecture is that reforms are costly in economic performance and costly to finance. Blanchard and Giavazzi (2003) and Spector (2004) develop a general equilibrium model...

The present paper investigates the potential economic impacts of prospective India-Japan FTA in goods using partial equilibrium using SMART model and computable general equilibrium using GTAP model. The results reveal that both India and Japan's consumer's surplus will be increasing as result of...

Scientific expertise suggests that mitigating extreme world-wide climate change damages requires avoiding increases in the world mean temperature exceeding 2° Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions must not exceed some limit, the so-called global carbon...

This general note critically evaluates on the concept of efficiency deals, firstly, on the theoretical concepts which uses as the dictum to understand and asses the economic efficiency namely Pareto, and Kaldo-Hicks efficiency and its revised forms; secondly, what are the types of measurement of...

This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...

This paper investigates the implications of cross-country heterogeneity within the euro area for the design of optimal monetary policy. We build an optimizing-based multi-country model (MCM) describing the euro area in which differences between structural parameters across countries are allowed....