We identify East Asian growth as an 'emulative process'. Distilling salient facts from a set of particular cases, we construct an example to capture the essence of such technology transfer, where the government of a developing economy may provide adequate incentive for the firms of a developed...

The conventional wisdom that housing prices are the present value of future rents ignores the fact that rents are not discretionary as in dividends on stocks. Housing price uncertainty can affect household property investment, which in turn affects rent. By extending the theory of investment...

The conventional wisdom that housing prices are the present value of future rents ignores the fact that unlike dividends on stocks, rent is not discretionary. Housing price uncertainty can affect household property investments, which in turn affect rent. By extending the theory of investment...