We build a trade model with two countries located in different time zones, a monopolistically competitive sector in which production requires differentiated goods produced using day and night labor, and shift working disutility. Consumers choose between working at a day shift or a night shift...

We build a trade model with two identical countries located in different time zones and one sector with intermediate differentiated goods produced in two successive stages. We introduce shift working disutility that raises night wage and firms that "virtually" outsource foreign labor. We found...

This paper uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) questionnaire (2000) from four provinces that have a large number of migrant workers—Guizhou, Guangxi, Hubei, and Henan (16 counties with 96 villages). We clarify the characteristics of non-agricultural workers and migrants...

This article examines the impacts of the European sovereign debt crisis on the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) between three European currencies (EUR, CHF and GBP) and the US dollar for 1-year maturities. We found that the correlation between each pair of the swap prices significantly...

The present study examines the characteristics of the business cycle in the Japanese economy by using the Hodrick-Prescot filter, concluding that a change in consumption is relatively large and that labour input is ficed in Japan. Fluctuating consumption supports a permanent income hypothesis in...

This paper empirically analyzes India’s money demand function during the period of 1980 to 2007 using monthly data and the period of 1976 to 2007 using annual data. Cointegration test results indicated that when money supply is represented by M1 and M2, a cointegrating vector is detected...

This paper has two purposes: it introduces the econometric methods used to analyze time series data with general frequency and presents a framework for analyzing economic variables that are measured daily; this special case is then applied to the trading volume of stock markets.

This study analyses the stock return characteristics for Japan and Asian emerging markets using monthly return to capture the changes in mean-variance in a two state framework. An unobserved Markov process drives the evolution of the states. The approach allows both the mean and the variance to...

This paper empirically analyzes the business cycle transmission between the two African countries and their largest economic partners. The empirical results show that business cycles in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States induce the economic fluctuations in Madagascar and...