This paper reviews the history of the development of the Chinese stock market, analyses the market scale and structure, and sheds light on the prospects of the market. The development of the stock market can be classified into four stages, namely, the early stage of stock market development...

In this paper, the impact of interest-rate smoothing under Taylor-type rules in the context of a two-sector small open economy is considered. The normative question of whether interest-rate smoothing as a policy response is beneficial for household welfare over the business cycle of the small...

This paper examines the relation between trading volume and stock returns for two Chinese A-share markets and ten individual stocks in the energy sector. We also investigate the effects of exogenous government policies on the relation between trading volume and stock return. Using daily data...

Optimal monetary policy design in the context of a small open economy is studied in this paper. The monetary-policy design problem for the small open economy need not be isomorphic to the closed-economy problem. In this paper, the existence of endogenous deviations from the law of one price...

There has been a resurgence of interest in the effect of stock price changes on the real economy in the wake of the long stock market boom of the 1990s and the subsequent correction starting in 2000. One of the primary variables linking the stock market and output is consumption expenditure,...

This paper investigates the impact of an expansion in agricultural processing on the Western Australian economy by modifying and applying a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) economic model of Western Australia (called WAM). WAM was used to simulate the effects of a $1 million expansion in...

This study contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of foreign direct investment at the sectoral level in the Chinese economy. A review of foreign investment policy in China and China’s inward FDI in presented. The empirical analysis in this study is based on the...

This discussion paper is a draft of the general commentary for Paul Anthony Samuelson: Critical Assessments, which Routledge will publish in October 2004. The three-volume set is a collection of theoretical and applied articles, published between 1988 and 2003, that is intended to assist...

As human traits and preferences were shaped by natural selection, there is substantial potential for the use of evolutionary biology in economic analysis. In this paper, we review the extent to which evolutionary theory has been incorporated into economic research. We examine work in four areas:...

China is transitioning toward more inward-focussed growth, causing adverse changes in the product and financial terms of trade in the advanced economies. At the same time, international financial markets tussle between tightening forces associated with the US recovery on the one hand and...