Based on the structural VAR model of the global crude oil market proposed by Kilian(2009), this article investigates the causes for wild fluctuations in oil prices since the mid-2000s. A main contribution of the study is to compare the effects of changes in oil price on three major economies,...

We characterize free mobility equilibrium in a common pool resource setting with two localities. We find that adopting a decentralized management in just one locality increases agents' welfare not only in the regulated locality but in the unregulated locality as well.

Uzawa (1961) has shown that balanced growth requires technological progress to be strictly Harrod neutral (purely labor-augmenting). This paper offers a slightly more general variant of the theorem that does not require assumptions about savings behavior or factor pricing and is much easier to...

Is capital more complementary to one of the genders? More specifically, which types of capital are complementary to which gender? This paper presents a first attempt at estimating capital-gender complementarities, at both aggregated and disaggregated levels. By employing a panel of 12 OECD...

As International Monetary Fund(2006) suggested, the inflation rate is less sensitive to business cycles in 1990s than before 1990s in the world. The so called "flattening Phillips curve" becomes the global phenomenon. If this phenomenon is dominant in the world, how does it affect the monetary...

A simple model of the distribution of wealth is presented. In such a model the distribution of wealth follows a Pareto type II distribution whose parameters depend on the growth rates discussed in the book. Compared to previous studies of the asymptotic distribution of wealth in economies...

The study examines the causal relationship between inflation uncertainty and output growth uncertainty for selected African countries. Asymmetric BEKK GARCH-M model is used to derive measures of uncertainty for inflation and output growth, and bootstrap causality testing approach is used to...

We employ the total factor productivity (TFP) index in growth accounting as a proxy for productivity growth to compare patterns and sources of output growth for a group of proximate countries in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region. The estimates indicate that output growth has benefited...