We examine the empirical impact of FDI and neighbourhood spillover on regional income convergence via technology diffusion in the Pacific Basin. The capacity of parametric estimation to trace the evolution of economies is found wanting as it conceals this evolution by averaging across economies.

We show that changes in the innovation covariance matrix of a vector of series can generate spurious rejections of the null hypothesis of co-integration when applying standard residual-based co-integration tests. A bootstrap solution to the inference problem is suggested which is shown to...

Using a finite-horizon general equilibrium model with uncertainty and money, we characterize situations where tax arbitrage opportunities may arise for internatioanl portfolio investors in an economy with heterogeneous capital income taxation when there is some scope to evade taxes on foreign...

An 'option-pricing' model is employed to analyse when a firm should expand its production capabilities abroad. In a framework where the firm's profit are determined by some average of the attractiveness of the home and foreign countries, and attractiveness in each country follow differentiated...

In a small open economy with heterogeneous firms, in which tariffs determine the mass of active firms, the gains from trade liberalization depend positively on the level of firm vertical heterogeneity and negatively on transportation costs. The benefits from temporary protection depend on the...

We explore cost-effectiveness of provision of General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level in a survey of nine colleges receiving central support from the Further Education Funding Council.

In this paper we examine educational data whch has a cross-classified structure. A cross-classified value-added multilevel model is proposed for these data and the problem of estimation are discussed in relation to the probllem of an endogenous regressor.

The present paper outlines a theoretical model of agent-based learning. An agent ‘anchors’ his subjective expectations (or forecasts) to another agent’s subjective expectations. The former believes the latter has a better information set and, therefore, able to make better subjective...

The paper provides a theory where the size of the inspection authority and the size of the fines evolve endogenously. We find that if a society cannot commit to future taxes it may gain form committing to a small Inland Revenue Service and small punishments for tax evasion. The possibility of...

In the Crawford-Sobel (uniform, quadratic utility) cheap-talk model we allow for mediation in which the informed agent reports one possible element of a partition to a mediator (a communication device) and then the mediator suggests an action to the uninformed decision-maker according to the...