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Crime, Ethics and Occupational Choice: Endogenous Sorting in a Closed Model
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01-20)
We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become workers instead. The model ...
Dynamics in a Transactions-Based Monetary Growth Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper examines the dynamic properties of a monetary endogenous growth model in which money is introduced into the system via a transactions-cost technology. A monetary equilibrium that either satisfires the Friedman ...
The Economics of 'New Blood'
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
A dynamic general equilibrium model of search and matching is constructed in which: (i) the stock of public knowledge grows through time and (ii) workers accumulate a fraction of this knowledge through education while ...
Skill Differentiation and Income Disparity in a Decentralized Matching Model of North-South Trade
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper develops a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers while the high-tech product is made ...
Educational Policy in a Credit Constrained Economy with Skill Heterogeneity
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the possibility of default, lenders ...
Anticipated Inflation, Real Disturbances and Money Demand: The Case if Chinese Hyperinflation, 1946-49
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper re-examines the dynamics of hyperinflation extending the standard Cagan framework. In our theoretical model, we allow the relative price of capital goods in units of consumption goods to vary in order to examine ...
Activation of a Modern Industry
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements, industry wide spillovers ...
Credit Market Imperfections Financial Activity and Economic Growth
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model with production to examine the inter-relationships between the real and the financial sectors with and without credit market imperfections. Due to the moral hazard ...
Money and Prices in a Multiple Matching Decentralized Trading Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
We study price determination and exchange patterns in a monopolistically competitive economy, in which both goods and (fiat) money are perfectly divisible. The decentralized trading environment features 'multiple matches,' ...
Educational Policy and Skill Heterogeneity with Credit Market Imperfections
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the possibility of default, lenders ...