This paper discusses how real-life statistical analysis/inference deviates from ideal environments. More specifically, there often exist models that have equal statistical power as the actual data-generating model, given only limited information and information processing/computation capacity....

This paper reconsiders logics somewhat implicit in many international trade models, particularly centered around Law of One Price. International trade is identical to domestic trade with two markets combined as one only when no frictions, such as labor immobility, or some states close, exist. In...

This paper re-visits the dimensional analysis issues raised by Barnett (2004). This paper finds that dimensional analysis has zero value and even is misleading in some applications of economics, especially production

This paper points out a simple but important “money” issue in New Keynesian models. Once central bank-controlled bonds are included as part of the household budget constraint, New Keynesian models can no longer be considered in money-less framework, if we think of economic logic of the...

The very fact that utility maximization in real business cycle and New Keynesian models is intertemporal suggests the possibility of a Fisherian intertemporal futures market, which is not state-contingent. Ex-ante speaking, the addition of a futures market does not result in any difference, but...

This paper presents a re-interpretation of a New Keynesian model with capital, where zero long-run output gap restriction is eliminated and a certain type of assumption regarding risk-less nominal interest rate is adopted

This paper presents a Neo-Fisherite theory of recession. Mainly, the paper deals with the case where output decline is caused by a one-period factor that is non-existent for other periods and pins the output for that period to a particular value. The paper assumes an economy where technology...

This paper intends to present a novel perspective on the capital debates. Thomas Piketty, on his book, asserts that the capital debates were virtually meaningless and the neoclassical side won the debates, and this brought several discussions on this point. This paper does not wish to argue that...

This paper resolves the chainstore paradox by viewing each game of a monopolist against a single competitor as a sequential game. Every game is done under perfect and complete information. In this sequential game, with subgame perfection imposed, the number of sequential stages - even or odd -...

This paper argues that consumption-leisure tradeoff is difficult to include in several popular international trade models. The ones discussed are one of the Krugman's New Trade Theory models and the Eaton-Kortum trade model, and in these models, once consumption-leisure tradeoff is included,...