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Online appendix for the Review of Economic Dynamics article
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inflation. We find that time-dependent models imply unrealistically high persistence and stability of reset price inflation. This discrepancy is exacerbated by adding strategic complementarities, even under state-dependent pricing. A state-dependent model with no strategic complementarities...
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A potential benefit of a large market (GDP) is a large number of locally-produced varieties. We attempt to quantify the number of varieties produced in a market by counting the number of firms and plants. Looking at manufacturing industries across countries and over time, we find that variety...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the past two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
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William Easterly and Ross Levine document five stylized facts about growth and argue that they imply a bigger role for total factor productivity (tfp) and technology than for physical and human capital. The reader agrees with the first four of their facts and believes facts one and three provide...
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William Easterly and Ross Levine document five stylized facts about growth and argue that they imply a bigger role for total factor productivity (tfp) and technology than for physical and human capital. I agree with the first four of their facts and believe facts 1 and 3 provide strong support...
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