Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial Virginia

Labour markets and representative institutions: evidence from colonial British America

The literature has identified the quality of political institutions in the transition region as an essential but understudied component of growth, transition and reform. This paper aims to disentangle the determinants of democratic institutions by investigating if high income inequality is always detrimental to the emergence and stability of such regimes, and under what circumstances labour sca...

Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets

Stable Farsighted Coalitions in Competitive Markets

In this paper, we study dynamic alliance formation among price setting agents in a competitive market. We look at n agents selling substitutable products competing (price) in a market. We propose a two-stage game: in Stage 1, agents form alliances (coalitions), and in Stage 2, coalitions set prices and compete against each other. Stage 2 is modelled as a noncooperative competitive game characte...

The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects...

International Trade and Labour Markets

This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute to the literature on international trade and labour markets. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand in a model of international oligopoly. As trade barriers are dismantled foreign competition intensifies. Competing enterprises respond by investing mo...