Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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A Re-examination of Causes of Deforestation and Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidences from Latin America, Africa and Asia
Published 2003-02-01Previous cross-country regression analyses on the causes of deforestation seem to have misspecified the regression models, in which the causes at different levels are mixed, leading to flawed cause-effect relationship ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Child care and female employment decisions: A theoretical note
Published 2004-07-01The empirical literature is divided over the issue of whether child care costs are a significant barrier to female employment. In this paper we develop a theoretical model that contributes to the literature (1) by allocating ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Access, Veto and Ownership in the Theory of the Firm
Published 2006-01-01Ownership may not always be the best driver for investment incentives in an incomplete contract context. This paper shows that ownership has two facets (access and veto) which can be used specifically, and sometimes ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Asymmetric Monetary Policy in Australia
Published 2005-02-01We find evidence for asymmetric behaviour in Australian monetary policy. During 1984-1990, the Reserve Bank of Australia acted with considerable discretion yielding poor performance of an interest rate rule. However it ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Determinants of Bangladesh’s Trade: Evidence from the Generalized Gravity Model
Published 2005-02-01The application of the generalized gravity model in analyzing the Bangladesh’s trade reveals that Bangladesh’s trade is positively determined by the size of the economies, per capita GNP differential of the countries ...Open AccessWorking Paper