We explore market dynamics generated by the Santa-Fe Artificial Stock Market model. It allows to study how agents adapt themselves to a market dynamic without knowing its generation process. It was shown by Arthur and LeBaron, with the help of computer experiments, that agents in bounded...

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. This paper attempts to explore the validity of this traditional perception with the help of a two-sector, specific factor general...

This paper serves as an empirics guide to the "Pakistan Economy DSGE Model with Informality" paper by Ahmed, et al. (2012) covering the empirical aspects regarding calibration of both the model and shocks related parameters. We have tried to focus as much as possible on micro level empirical...

In this paper, we establish the empirical linkages between nominal and real variables of Pakistani economy using both annual and quarterly data. The focus of our empirical analysis has been limited to the post financial liberalization period starting in early 1990s. Furthermore, this paper...

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spillover effects of national and local tax policies using a static bi-regional general equilibrium model for the Buenos Aires City (BAC) and the rest of Argentina. The BAC represents 7% of the population of the country, but 29% of its GDP. We analyze the...

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skill acquirement for achieving higher economic growth and improving relative wage inequality in the future. However, empirical observations on certain small OECD countries over the period 2000-2011 tell somewhat...