This paper evaluates the drastic reforms of Japanese public health insurance initiated in 2006. We employ a computable general equilibrium framework to numerically examine the reforms for an aging Japan in the dynamic context of overlapping generations. Our simulation produced the following...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between fishery's exports and its economic growth in Indonesia by utilizing cointegration and error-correction models. Using annual data from 1969 to 2005, we find the evidence that there exist the long-run relationship as well as bi-directional...

One of the surprising findings in the economic development literature is that natural resource-rich countries tend to have slower economic growth than resource-poor countries, i.e., the natural resource curse and Dutch disease. In this paper, we revisit these issues by applying quantile...