Recent studies on the relationship between family income and child health show that children from poorer families have worse health than those from wealthier families, and that the negative effects of low income on health accumulate during childhood. In this paper, we aim to disaggregate the...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach to empirically analyze the existence of strategic interactions of taxation between state governments (horizontal) and between state and federal governments (vertical) using gasoline and cigarette taxation in the U.S. I explicitly estimate...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has rapidly increased in developing countries since the 1990s, but formal evidence for vertical FDI has been surprisingly mixed. This paper empirically reconsiders the factor-proportions hypothesis by exploring the role of host countryfs relative skill endowments...

This paper investigates recent diverging trends among East Asian currencies as well as recent movements of the weighted average value of East Asian currencies (Asian Monetary Unit: AMU) and deviations (AMU Deviation Indicators) of the East Asian currencies from the average values by ƒÀ and...

This paper is to investigate how much realignment of currencies is needed for adjustments to the current account imbalances of Japan compared with those of East Asia as a whole, given the productions networks in East Asia. The analyses show that the large realignments of the Japanese yen and...

We propose a Bayesian procedure to estimate heteroscedastic variances of the regression error term ƒÖ, when the form of heteroscedasticity is unknown. The prior information on ƒÖ is elicited from the wellknown Eicker-White Heteroscedasticity Consistent Variance-Covariance Matrix Estimator....

This paper analyzes trade between firms that are heterogeneous in product quality in a simple general equilibrium model. The multi-sided heterogeneity of exporters and importers creates a new source of gains from trade. The opening of trade raises the quality of final goods by improving matching...

This article analyzes whether daily realized volatility, which is the sum of squared intraday returns over a day, is useful for option pricing. Different realized volatilities are calculated with or without taking account of microstructure noise and with or without using overnight and lunch-time...