This article examines the forces driving output growth in 21 manufacturing industries at the 3-digit level in Hong Kong during the period 1976 to 1997. A varying frontier coefficients model is adopted that relaxes the assumption of homogeneous application of the best practice production...

This article applies the recently developed econometric method of autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to re-examine the relationship between the exchange rate and bilateral trade imbalance for Taiwan and its several trading partners: China, Hong Kong, the US, Japan, South Korea and...