The effects of removing the German coal subsidy and of introducing a carbon tax are explored using a single country, static computable general equilibrium model.

In this paper we consider the problem of testing the null hypothesis that a series has a constant level against the alternative that the level follows a random walk. This problem has previously been studied by inter alia, Nyblom and Makelainen in the context of the orthogonal random walk plus...

The Almost Ideal Demand System can be made integrable by a slight change in its specification.

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.