We develop a directed-technological-change model to address the issue of the optimal patent system and investigate how the optimal patent system influences the direction of technological change and the inequality of wage, where patents are categorized as skill- and labor-complementary. The major...

This paper reexamines monetary non-superneutrality and the optimality of the optimum quantity of money in the money-in-utility Sidrauski model with endogenous fluctuations of the time preference by introducing in?ation aversion. It is shown that the long-run superneutrality of the standard...

We investigated the endogenous choice of roles by managerial firms in the presence of unilateral externality. The choice over timing can be taken either by managers or by owners. It is shown that (i) the choice of the timing by managers entails the same profit that owners would have achieved by...

We propose a novel generalized recursive smooth ambiguity model which permits a three-way separation among risk aversion, ambiguity aversion, and intertemporal substitution. We apply this utility model to a consumption-based asset pricing model in which consumption and dividends follow hidden...

This paper extends Kurz¡¯s (1968) growth model to a stochastic growth framework with the social-status concern and production shocks. Using the stochastic monotonicity of stochastic dynamic system and methods using in Zhang (2007), the existence and stability of invariant distribution has been...

This paper extends an otherwise standard one-sector neoclassical growth model by postulating that the depreciation rate of physical capital depends on the agent's efforts on maintenance and repairs. Specifically, we introduce endogenous depreciation into the standard optimal growth model via two...

This paper empirically tests whether the host country financial reform promotes the inflow of FDI. We test the hypothesis on the panel data of China. First, Granger causality tests (Granger, 1969; Sims, 1972) show that financial deregulation causes FDI and the causality is unidirectional. Second,...

Rare disasters become increasingly important for understanding asset pricing, and the spirit of capitalism has been successful in explaining various issues in economic growth, savings behavior, and asset pricing. However, pervious studies don't reveal the connection of these two ideas. This...

This research paper sets forth that an alternative for managing the internal investment fund of any company, lies on separation portfolios. Firstly, the company’s internal investment portfolio is built up within the context of the incremental cash-flow model. Next, separation portfolios are...

La idea de progreso es inherente a la especie humana y ha cambiado tanto históricamente como culturalmente. La obtención de riqueza sirve de hilo conductor para analizar a lo largo de los tiempos y a lo ancho de las diferentes culturas cómo diferentes tipos de trabajadores han contribuido al...