English Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the effects of import tariff on within-plant productivity growth … lowering tariff-barriers has a positive impact on within-plant TFP growth. We interpret the results in a way that trade … plant productivity growth from reducing tariff barriers is particularly conspicuous within a year after tariff changes …

, such as, domestic economic growth and inflation. In particular, the asymmetric response of macroeconomic variables to the … oil price increase shocks, it reduces economic growth and increases the inflation rate, but oil price decrease shocks do … not have any significant effects on these variables. The elasticity of economic growth against oil price increase shocks …

driving process of investment-specific technology might overstate the contribution of I-shocks to economic fluctuations … process for investment-specific technology in the Real-Business-Cycle (RBC) model. Using a structural VAR approach, this paper …-specific technology shocks (I-shocks). This finding indicates that the current RBC models which use the real price of equipment as the …

English Abstract: The existing literature has shown that the relationship between output volatility and growth depends … and growth in Korea, China and Japan, using monthly data on the index of industrial product from 1990 to 2009 …. Specifically, a country's growth and output volatility are measured by the ratio of change in industrial product and its …

rate fluctuations. Moreover, an interest rate rule that responds to the exchange rate fluctuations, i.e. the monetary … exchange rate fluctuations. Finally, it shows that the monetary authority needs to stabilize a narrow price index such as …