"This study provides a new explanation of total factor productivity growth of Taiwanese industry. Besides the channels identified in the literature, this study finds that the venture capital (VC) industry development significantly promotes productivity growth. In addition, an indicator of legal...

Utilizing a linear endogenous growth model, the paper provides an economic rationale for two empirical findings: the positive correlation between export growth and income growth, and the association of rapid structural changes with fast income growth. In the benchmark case, the small open...

This paper compares the stylized facts of international real business cycles between developed and developing countries. A two-sector two-country real business cycles model is constructed to examine the cyclical behaviors of domestic as well as international macroeconomic variables, and to...

This paper studies the nonlinear dynamics of the stock returns on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. A fuzzy system modelling approach is introduced to fit and forecast the stock returns on the TSE. The result of the BDS test implies that we may have a good chance to fit and forecast more accurately the...