Motivated by the growth in the popularity of style investing and the concern for extreme events among investors, we examine the tail risks of style investing in different countries. For the G7 countries over the 1981-2010 period, we evaluate whether portfolios with different size, value, or...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to explore industrial evolution and economic growth in a closed developing economy. The authors show that industries will endogenously upgrade toward the more capital-intensive ones as the capital endowment becomes more abundant. The model...

We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...