Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle as a Trade Phenomenon (Ph.D. thesis), and matlab files related to chapter 1 of my dissertation

Concordances between

• 6-digit IO codes and 4-digit US SIC 1987 codes. Constructed for translating 6-digit US Input-Output tables for years 1971, 1977, 1982, 1987 and 1992 into SIC 87. The second column denotes a weight (assumed equal across all SIC industries in a particular row).
• 4-digit US SIC 1987 codes and 4-digit ISIC (rev. 3) codes. Same, aggregated to 2-digits.
• 4-digit ISIC (rev. 3) codes and 5-digit SITC (rev. 3) codes. Same, aggregated into 2-digit ISIC (rev.3) and 2-digit SITC (rev.3)

Note: second column denotes a weight (assumed equal across all industries in a particular row

Restructuring the Banking Sector in Slovakia (M.A. thesis), with defense notes (all you really need to know, encrypted)

Some recent conference discussions:

• Discussion of Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Savings Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman (at NBER EASE 2012 in Taipei)
• Discussion of Payroll Tax and Household Consumption by Chongen Bai and Binzhen Wu (at NBER EASE 2011 in Beijing)
• Discussion of Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade by Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama (at the Second conference of Microeconomic Foundations of real exchange rate analysis, Vanderbilt University)

Research reports and theses of some of the students I supervised:

• European real exchange rate and total factor productivity: an empirical study by Erin Wilson
• Is globalization operating to reduce inflation: Evidence from 6 OECD countries by Menghan Cai
• The economic relationship between trade and immigration in New Zealand by Mingming Qian
• Explaining exchange rate pass-through to different Asian countries by Xuemei Xiang
• Explaining exchange rate pass-through in different prices by using VAR model in European countries by Fangfang Liang
• Exchange rate pass-through to import prices across industries in New Zealand by Hanshi Lin
• Explaining the persistence of Aus-NZ real exchange rate deviations across industries by Jinhui Zhang

Other
New Economics Papers in Open Economy Macroeconomics (and Open Macro blog)
RePEc - Research Papers in Economics, the largest database of econ literature, free of charge.

Victoria University / School of Economics and Finance

"A perfection of means and a confusion of aims seems to be our main problem" - Albert Einstein (other quotes)