Capital market distortions lower aggregate productive efficiency by misallocating re- sources. The existing literature infers such distortions from the dispersion of the average revenue product of capital. However, the methodology is subject to a set of identification issues: unobserved...

We examine the effect of endogenous and exogenous risk on the equilibrium (expected) membership of an International Environmental Agreement when countries are risk averse. Endogenous risk arises when countries use mixed rather than pure strategies at the participation game, and exogenous risk...

The desire to voice opinions has driven democracy movements and fueled the growth of social media. However, it is unclear why people value voice, and whether exercising voice affects subsequent behavior. Models of identity and self-inference posit that voice has value as a self-image signal: by...

Tests for classification as endogenous or predetermined of arbitrary subsets of regressors are formulated as significance tests in auxiliary IV regressions and their relationships with various more classic test procedures are examined. Simulation experiments are designed by solving the data...

In this presentation, Professor Lim Chong Yah revisits his original proposal for “Shock Therapy II”, paying particular attention to the need to have a pause for three years for the very top income-earners with a view not to slide into “unconscionable salaries”. He also outlines the need...

In dynamic regression models conditional maximum likelihood (least-squares) coefficient and variance estimators are biased. From expansions of the coefficient variance and its estimator we obtain an approximation to the bias in variance es- timation and a bias corrected variance estimator, for...

In simple static linear simultaneous equation models the empirical distributions of IV and OLS are examined under alternative sampling schemes and compared with their first-order asymptotic approximations. We demonstrate that the limiting distribution of consistent IV is not affected by...

I explore the association of early marriage of girls in Indonesia with the probability of passing education transitions using a sequential logit model; I first establish that in Indonesia, due to the socio-cultural and religious environment, marriage is the primary reason for exiting school for...

We propose a two-market heterogeneous agents model with coupling mechanism to study Financial crisis with contagion effect. It manages to calibrate sudden crash behavior of US and UK stock markets during "Black Monday" of 1987 besides smooth crisis and disturbing crisis categorized in...

There are both similarities and differences between conducting cost-benefit analysis in developed and developing countries . While the fundamental principles and theory underlying cost-benefit analysis maybe the same , the methodologies and the estimation techniques that are most appropriate in...