This paper extends the partial (PE) and general equilibrium (GE) analyses of Nash and Stackelberg optimum export taxes to a multicountry framework, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the global cocoa market. There are several important results to report. First, depending on...

This paper uses the variance-ratio-based multiple comparison test and Richardson-Smith's Wald test procedures to test for martingale property of daily exchange rates of seven major currencies vis-a-vis US dollar. To allow for the possibility that exchange rates are not governed by a single...

We obtain measures of demand and supply shock spillovers across the U.S. manufacturing industries using monthly data on industrial production (1976-2022) and producer prices (1947-2022). Analyzing the spillovers/connectedness measures and the input-output linkages, we find strong evidence that...

This paper investigates the relationship between input-output networks and the transmission of inflation shocks across manufacturing industries in South Korea, an economy that is open to external shocks. Using the dynamic inflation connectedness measures for 1971-2020, we show that production...

The literature has so far focused on the risk-return tradeoff in equity markets and ignored alternative risky assets. This paper is the first to examine the presence and significance of an intertemporal relation between expected return and risk in the foreign exchange market. The paper provides...