At one time, JEAB editorial policy was perceived by some to consist mainly of dogmatically enforcing a Skinnerian interpretation of all findings reported in the journal. Partly in response to that undeserved reputation, the journal explicitly defined itself as the place to publish research on the behavior of individual organisms, and not as a place that encourages any particular theoretical ori...

This paper develops a framework for analyzing the impact of macroeconomic conditions on credit risk and dynamic capital structure choice. We begin by observing that when cash flows depend on current economic conditions, there will be a benefit for firms to adapt their default and financing policies to the position of the economy in the business cycle phase. We then demonstrate that this simple ...

The new classical macroeconomics is today certainly the most coherent, if not the dominant, school of macroeconomic thought. The pivotal document in its two decades of development is Robert Lucas’s 1976 paper, “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique.” Lucas argued against the then reigning methods of evaluating the quantitative effects of economic policies on the grounds that the models used...

Designing effective environmental policies for mitigating global warming is a very challenging task that requires detailed knowledge of the international channels through which goods are traded. Standard environmental regulations focus on reducing the impact in the place of origin regardless of the final destination of the goods produced, which might lead to an unfair allocation of responsibili...

We address the issue of foreign exchange risk and its macroeconomic determinants in several new EU members. We derive the observable macroeconomic factors—consumption and inflation—using the stochastic discount factor (SDF) approach. The joint distribution of excess returns in the foreign exchange market and the factors are modeled using a multivariate GARCH-in-mean specification. Our findings ...

This paper gives a brief introduction to the theory of dynamic games as developed mostly by control theorists and engineers and presents some economic applications of this theory. The paper shows how the theory of dynamic games can be applied to problems of economic policy-making with heterogeneous policy-makers, whose behavior is characterized by strategic interactions. In particular, for the ...