This paper provides a statistical summary of aggregate economic growth in Taiwan and mainland China using the standard national income accounting framework by decomposing aggregate growth into components due to growths in capital, labor and total factor productivity. For Taiwan, new series of...

This study try to identify the â-convergence process among regions in East Java using panel data of 37 regencies & municipalities between 1983-2002, taking into account the presence of spatial heterogeneity and spillover effects. Detection of spatial regimes using G-I* statistics (Getis & Ord,...

Smooth Transition Autoregressive (STAR) model has been employed in a number of current studies dealing with non-linearities. The usefulness of this model has been documented in these studies. However, the population statistical properties of the parameters in this model remain unknown. This...

This essay develops a transcendental variable elasticity of substitution (Trans-VES) production function in which hypotheses concerning scale, output-input, and substitution, elasticities can be examined. The objective is to determine the impacts of domestic resources on the pattern of economic...

In this note I explictly construct utility functions that (more or less) satisfy the conditions needed for the counterexample of Mas-Colell and Zame(1992)

This book covers a broad range of mathematical and statistical concepts that includes Mathematical Statistics, Non-Parametric Statistics, Design of Experiments, Probability, Operations Research, and Stochastic Models. The topics covered include: statistics, stochastic models, mathematics,...

The particular subject of this paper, is to give an explicit formulas that will permit to obtain the linear VaR or Linear ES, when the joint risk factors of the Linear portfolios, changes with mixture of t-Student distributions. Note that, since one shortcoming of the multivariate t-...

Time is ripe to look at the bonding institutions of Europe in a different way: as instruments able to change the internal dynamics of an economic system. These institutions will put a country attracted by a low and stable equilibrium output onto a path of economic growth. Questions such as under...

Extending and combining concepts from consumer surplus of product availability and personalization strategies under privacy concern we made a model to comprehend and justify the reasons for the increase in the spending on online advertisements. We inductively found that with higher capability to...

Capitalism’s inherent feature is “destructive creation”, said Marx. Decades later, in a similar fashion, Schumpeter stated that “Capitalist system incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure FROM WITHIN”. What are those dynamic forces causing the incessant changes in an economy?...