1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-07 // 1991

    Individual Income, Incomplete Information and Aggregate Consumption

    In this paper I study a model of life-cycle consumption in which individuals react optimally to their own income process but ignore economy wide information. Since individual income is less persistent than…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-06 // 1991

    R & D Incentives and Spillovers in a Two-Industry Model

    This paper develops a two-industry model ofR&D. A monopolist supplier sells an intermediate good to an oligopolistic buyer industry where firms compete in quantity and quality-enhancing R&D. The supplier can…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 91-05 // 1991

    Estimation of Labour Supply Functions Using Panel Data: A Survey

    This survey aims at providing the reader with a thread through the literature on the topic of panel econometrics of labour supply, reporting also on the evaluation of the data used in these studies, and…