台灣實質薪資水準於近十多年來近乎停滯狀態。2001年的薪資還與韓國相當,月薪大約1300美元左右，到2011年台灣薪資停留1477美元的水準，而韓國則已經高達2738美元, 幾乎是台灣的兩倍。若考慮物價水準的趨勢變化,...

總額預算制度是一種讓醫療院所替代健保局來承擔財務風險，以舒緩健保財務壓力的制度設計。 總額預算制度的成敗與醫療院所衝量風氣強弱息息相關，同儕制約精神被不少學界、醫界人士認為是抑...

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Heckman’s (1976, 1979) sample selection model has been employed in many studies of linear or nonlinear regression applications. It is well known that ignoring the sample selectivity problem may result in inconsistency of the estimator due to the correlation between the statistical errors in...

In this paper we explore the effects of monetary policy on the number of firms, firm market size, ination and growth in a Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous market structure and cash-in-advance (CIA) constraints on two distinct types of R&D investment - in-house R&D and entry investment....

Many authors have estimated and found that the productivity growth in agriculture was higher than that in non-agriculture in today’s richest countries. Several papers suggested that growth in agricultural productivity was essential for today’s richest countries to take off early. However,...

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This paper sheds light on three important issues in the macroeconomics literature, which comes to a better understanding of Taiwan’s wage stagnation. First, we explore the trend of labor income shares, namely the labor income-output ratios, in Taiwan. This enables us to understand the...

We ask what determines the profitability of candlestick patterns. Is it the definition of trend and/or the holding strategy that one uses in candlestick charting analysis? To answer this, we conduct a systematic investigation by considering three definitions of trend and four holding strategies....

This paper explores the outcome of non-cooperative decision making by elected politicians under transnational externalities. We re-examine the extent of a voter’s incentives for supporting politicians who are less green than the median voter, a phenomenon called “political race to the...