A multi-region computable general equilibrium model is developed in this study to examine Indonesia's trade regime and its labor markets. This model enables the labor market impacts of shocks to trade policy, the capital stock, and technology to be examined individually as well as collectively....

Post-1990 Chinese monetary policy is modeled with a McCallum-type rule that takes into account the People's Bank of China's emphasis on targeting the rate of money supply growth. People's Bank policy appears responsive to the gap between target and actual nominal GDP as well as to external...

The paper reviews some Indo-US technology cooperation initiatives and analyses data on inter-firm alliances in knowledge based industries, especially Information Technology (IT). It snows that the market driven increase in the alliances between Indian and US enterprises has significantly...

This paper looks at the recent empirical literature on the effects of trade reforms on firm level wages, employment and labor demand elasticities in import-competing sectors. The focus is empirical investigations using frameworks that allow for imperfect competition. Imperfect competition is...

This paper investigates whether a J-curve can be detected in the time series data on China's bilateral trade with the G-7 countries. It utilizes cointegration and causality tests to ascertain the long-run relatedness, and the short-run dynamics, between the real exchange rate, national income,...

In this paper we forecast Japanese international travel to 2025. In addition, to the usual economic variables, our model also captured both populations again and cohort effects on Japanese travel abroad. We predict the number of future Japanese overseas trips for males and females separately by...