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Policy coordination in East Asia and across the Pacific 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
In this paper, we construct a macro-econometric model that describes the economic activity in the Asia-Pacific area and provide
quantitative insights into the recent policy debates on monetary and currency coordination among the East Asian economies.
The model includes a wide variety of monetary and currency policy rules that the East Asian economies adopt and allows for
one country's policymaking to have substantial effects on foreign countries. We apply the model to three current policy issues:
(1) the desirability of currency basket pegs in East Asia, (2) the anticipated effects of China's currency policy reform,
and (3) the non-negativity constraint on Japanese nominal interest rates. The simulation analyses show the external economy
effects of policy rules quantitatively and suggest the difficulty of monetary and currency policy coordination among the East
Asian economies.
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Koichiro Kamada (Corresponding author)Email: |
Izumi TakagawaEmail: |
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Non-traded Goods,Technical Progress and Wages 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
We use a general equilibrium model of trade to show that technical improvement may indeed cause a fall in the wages of unskilled
workers. Under some modest conditions, the wages of skilled workers may go down too.
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Reza OladiEmail: |
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Bonds indexed to the price level or inflation have become popular and more common in the industrialized world. This paper
examines the impact of indexed bonds on the price level elasticity of aggregate demand. With a model of aggregate demand based
on the standard IS-LM framework and expanded to differentiate between bonds which are indexed to the price level and bonds
which are not so indexed, we find that the existence of indexed bonds decreases the elasticity of aggregate demand with respect
to the general price level.
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Gary E. Maggs (Corresponding author)Email: |
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FDI and the relevance of spatial linkages: do third-country effects matter for Dutch FDI? 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) foreign direct investment (FDI).
We estimate a spatial lag model for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. After controlling for fixed effects, we find for our sample
period 1984–2004 that third-country effects matter. Apart from our benchmark spatial lag model, we also estimate various alternative
models by looking at European host FDI countries only, by dividing FDI into industry and services FDI, and by estimating a
spatial error model.
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Harry GarretsenEmail: |
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This paper utilizes calculated historical volatility and GARCH models to compare the historical price volatility behavior
of crude oil, motor gasoline and heating oil in U.S. markets since 1990. We incorporate a shift variable in the GARCH/TARCH
models to capture the response of price volatility to a change in OPEC’s pricing behavior. This study has three major conclusions.
First, there was an increase in volatility as a result of a structural shift to higher crude oil prices after April 1999.
Second, volatility shocks from current news are not important since GARCH effects dominate ARCH effects in the variance equation.
Third, persistence of volatility in all commodity markets is quite transitory, with half-lives normally being a few weeks.
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Thomas K. LeeEmail: |
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In a recent article Robert P. Murphy (2006) uses Cantor’s diagonal argument to prove that market socialism could not function,
since it would be impossible for the Central Planning Board to complete a list containing all conceivable goods (or prices
for them). In the present paper we argue that Murphy is not only wrong in claiming that the number of goods included in the
list should be uncountable, but also that the number of equations/prices is irrelevant from the point of view of market socialism.
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Juliusz JabłeckiEmail: |
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Shocks to Terms of Trade and Risk-premium in an Intertemporal Model: The Dutch Disease and a Dutch Party 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
In this paper, we analyze the impact of terms of trade and risk-premium shocks on a small open economy in an intertemporal
Dutch disease model, with international capital mobility. Given that an improvement in the terms of trade is associated with
a decrease in the risk-premium on lending to this economy, we find that this can lead to a Dutch party (rather than Dutch
disease) in which real exchange rate appreciation is associated with an expansion of the capital-intensive traded sector,
hence, pro-industrialization. The economy also accumulates more debt in the long-run in response to the lower borrowing costs.
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David Vines (Corresponding author)Email: |
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In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (NBER Macroeconomics Annual 7777:339–390, 2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein–Horioka puzzle. Our approach has a number of novel features.
First, we focus on the interrelationship between trade costs, the trade account and the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle. Second,
we use the gravity model to estimate the effect of trade costs on bilateral trade and, third, we show how bilateral trade
can be used to draw inferences about desired trade balances and desired intertemporal trade. Our econometric results provide
strong support for the Obstfeld and Rogoff hypothesis and we are also able to reconcile our results with the so-called home
bias puzzle.
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Jacques Melitz (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Estimation of the price-induced welfare effects in vertical and horizontal market settings may prove a tricky task when multiple
price changes are taken into account. Whether a multi-market sequential approach or a single-market approach is used the well-established,
theoretical result suggests that these two partial equilibrium methods are equivalent in terms of implied welfare changes.
This paper develops the methodology to empirically compare these two methods. We estimate the welfare changes to Greek cotton–yarn
producers induced by the simultaneous change in the prices of cotton–yarn and the cost of labor. Results substantiate the
multi-market approach offers more accurate welfare estimates than the single-market approach, in empirical work.
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Stelios D. KatranidisEmail: |
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In this paper we provide a characterization of international consumption risk sharing among a sample of OECD countries based
on panel cointegration and error-correction techniques. Our results indicate that around 30% of idiosyncratic consumption
risks are shared in the short run. In the long run, however, only about 10% of idiosyncratic consumption risks are shared
internationally. In addition, we find that countries characterized by relatively high foreign asset and liability positions
are less exposed to shocks. Moreover, the time it takes until idiosyncratic shocks exert their full impact on consumption
crucially depends on the foreign asset and liability position.
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Johann Scharler (Corresponding author)Email: |
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We test the existence of an endogenous relationship between well-being and employment for US individuals. To that end, we
use a simultaneous equation generalized Probit model applied to four recent waves of the National Health Interview Survey
(1997–2000). Our results do not enable us to accept the hypothesis that there is a significant effect from employment status
to subjective well-being. In contrast, we provide evidence that suggest that well-being is positively correlated to the probability
of having a job.
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Rosa DuarteEmail: |
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Floating exchange rates are said to introduce volatility into the foreign exchange market that could deter trade flows. Previous
research employed aggregate import and export trade data and provided mixed results. In this paper we disaggregate the trade
data between the U.S. and the emerging economy of India and use the bounds testing approach to cointegration and error-correction
modeling to show that in 40 industries that trade between the two countries, exchange rate volatility has negative and positive
effects in 40% of industries, in the short run. These short-run effects, however, do not last into the long run in many cases.
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Mohsen Bahmani-OskooeeEmail: |
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Bogdan Glăvan 《Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics》2008,11(1):43-59
In the last decades, more and more economists have advanced the idea that significant obstacles impeding economic growth (especially
in less developed regions) consist in different market failures, preventing entrepreneurs from taking the necessary actions
to exploit profit opportunities: coordination failure. This paper provides a refutation of the idea that coordination failures
as manifested in the inability of clusters to emerge can serve as a ground for government intervention. It uses the Porter,
Rodrik and Rodriguez-Clare thesis as an example of this approach and criticizes the claim that coordination externalities
prevent the market process to allocate resources optimally.
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Bogdan GlăvanEmail: |
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James Peoples 《The Review of Black Political Economy》2009,36(1):1-6
Efforts by public and private institutions to increase the number of minorities participating in graduate economics programs
has contributed to a growing supply of Ph. D. trained minority economists. However, minorities are still under-represented
as faculty members in economics departments. This presidential address explores whether the concentration of minorities in
a few fields of specialization creates a demand-supply mismatch for these individuals.
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James PeoplesEmail: |
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The purpose in this note is first to review briefly the empirical results on the relationship between real interest rates
and real exchange rates; this empirical literature provides little support for the hypothesis of Roll that expected real interest
rates are equal in general. Our second aim is to discuss the theoretical conditions that have to be met for his hypothesis
to hold.
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David PeelEmail: |
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This study employs a public goods game in which participants can punish each other for free-riding. This paper examines the
motivation for punishment behavior when the situation is such that a rational individual will not punish. This paper predicts
and finds evidence for the punishment of free-ridership, even when not punishing is the profit-maximizing strategy. Specifically,
this paper finds participants will punish more when designated the sole punisher for a group, than when all group members
are allowed to punish. This result implies that those individuals who punish for non-rational reasons often free-ride on each
others’ punishment. Accordingly, the study suggests individual responsibility is important for ensuring the strength of institutions
aimed at punishing selfish behavior.
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Katherine LimEmail: |
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Marcel Mérette Evangelia Papadaki Jorge Hernandez Yu Lan 《Atlantic Economic Journal》2008,36(2):195-209
In this paper, we develop a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to shed quantitative light on the implications of a
scenario of deeper economic integration between Canada and the United States, where the barriers for foreign direct investment
are preferentially eliminated. Our model distinguishes between the activities of domestic and foreign-owned firms at the microeconomic
level, both in terms of demand and production characteristics. Overall our findings suggest that further investment liberalization
between the two countries will accelerate the shaping of Canada’s industrial structure, as manifested by recent trends.
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Yu LanEmail: |
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In the debate over whether non-profit and for-profit hospitals behave differently in the presence of market concentration
and greater individual market power, most scholars have concentrated on the traditional price analysis approach. But this
has produced conflicting results. This study attempts to avoid the limitations of price as an indicator of how these hospitals
respond to greater market power by examining changes in admissions given the capacity decision. The results indicate that
for-profit and public hospitals respond similarly to increased market power. On the other hand, private non-profit hospitals
appear to act differently. This presents important implications for antitrust policies and for the management of non-profit
hospitals.
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Alfredo G. Esposto |
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Martyn Andrews Lutz Bellmann Thorsten Schank Richard Upward 《Review of World Economics》2009,145(2):293-317
We provide the first estimates of the effect of foreign ownership on wages in Germany, controlling for the observed and unobserved
characteristics of workers and plants. We also test whether the wage gains from joining a foreign-owned firm are subsequently
lost when leaving that firm, and we examine whether wage gains vary across the sample. We find large selection effects in
terms of worker and plant components of wages. Once the selection effect is taken into account, the takeover effect is small
and in some cases insignificantly different from zero.
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Richard UpwardEmail: |
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Maxim L. Pinkovskiy 《Atlantic Economic Journal》2009,37(1):99-112
We propose a model of stochastic choice in which the error term is derived from a maximizing framework in which it is costly
for agents to make decisions optimally. We argue that the model has testable implications, and is closely related to other
models used in the literature on choice under risk. We test this model over experimental data, replicate some conclusions
of the existing literature, and show our model to perform well against models in the field in current use.
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Maxim L. PinkovskiyEmail: |