The present study constructs a game in which the two countries strategically set competition policies in their respective non-tradable service sectors. These policies affect the countries' utilities through the presence of trade imbalances. We demonstrate that in the presence of persisting trade...

This paper investigates the interlinkage in the business cycles based on sunspot fluctuations of large-country economies in a free-trade equilibrium. We consider a two-country, two-good, two-factor general equilibrium model with Cobb-Douglastechnologies, sector-specific externalities and linear...

This paper investigates the interlinkage in the business cycles of large-country economies in a free-trade equilibrium. We consider a two-country, two-good, two-factor general equilibrium model withCobb-Douglas technologies and linear preferences. We also assume decreasing returns in both...

This study investigates the quality of Japanese and US stock markets from the viewpoints of efficiency and fairness. We design a new Internet survey and develop a simple model that can quantitatively explain stock market quality by those data. Our estimation shows that the Japanese stock market...

Many economic analyses are based on the property that the value of a commodity vector responds continuously to a change in economic environment. As is well known, however, many infinite-dimensional models, such as an infinite–time horizon stochastic growth model, lack this property. In the...

This study investigates the effect of a country's suppression of competition in its market for nontradables. It assumes that the initial equilibrium is stationary and demonstrates that if competition is suppressed in a small country, the country's trade surplus increases in the short run. In the...

The frequency of export quotas imposed as voluntary export restraints has been increasing. This tends to create the expectation that similar export quotas will be imposed in the future, even if free trade is allowed now. The author analyzes the effect of such an expectation. He demonstrates that...

This study demonstrates the possibility of ergodically chaotic optimal accumulation in the case in which future utilities are discounted arbitrarily weakly. For this purpose, the authors use a two-sector model with Leontief production functions and construct a condition under which the optimal...

This paper constructs a model of the transfer paradox for a small open economy with nontraded goods. It demonstrates that increased production of nontraded goods can change their domestic price so as to offset the otherwise beneficial effect of aid and, under certain conditions, to create a...