Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106827
{"title":"The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: A short and long-term comprehensive analysis including FDI","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study thoroughly assesses the impact of Brexit through trade, combining a static and dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and a structural gravity model. Our analysis allows us to shed light on the role of trade and the potential effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), which has received less attention in the context of Brexit. We simulate a hard Brexit and the new trade and cooperation agreement negotiated by Boris Johnson. We analyse several reductions in the United Kingdom's (UK) capital stock, consistent with the empirical evidence on potential reductions in the FDI capital stock after Brexit. This approach allows us to disentangle the effects of trade's static (short-term) impact from its dynamic (long term) impact. We focus on the impact for the UK but offer macro-economic results for the European Union (including individual countries), the United States, China and the rest of the world. The gravity model estimates considerably larger contractions in the UK's gross domestic product but a smaller role for FDI than the CGE. UK services sectors are affected more negatively than what previous analyses of Brexit focusing on trade suggest.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141852558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106829
{"title":"Understanding the heterogeneity of interest rate adjustments to monetary policy: Evidence for Colombia","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106829","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106829","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A fundamental problem in macroeconomics is understanding how changes made by a country's central bank to its interest rate affect the rates that people and businesses actually experience. In this study, we used Colombian bank-level interest rate data from loans and deposits between 2010 and 2019 to assemble panel data of 35,000 observations to analyze how banks adjust their rates when the central bank changes its rate. We applied a model based on industrial organization theory to estimate each bank's strategic complementarity, a measure of the bank's market power. We found that banks tend to split their rate adjustments into one that directly responds to the central bank's changes and another that responds to how rival banks react. The rates offered by banks for deposits adjust less steeply than those applied to loans. These rates vary heterogeneously depending on the bank's characteristics, with large domestic banks showing the most significant strategic complementarity and small or foreign banks showing the least. Our results showed that bank margins (profits) increase by 0.2% for every 1% increase in the policy rate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141839422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106826
{"title":"Industrialization, environmental externality, and climate mitigation strategies","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study proposes a 12-region global modeling framework that integrates industrialization into climate–economy interactions and applies it to explore national strategic interactions and long-term policy outcomes. In this regard, three policy regimes are considered: a non-cooperative Nash equilibrium and two cooperative regimes that maximize the weighted sum of regional welfare. Negishi weights, ensuring uniform carbon price, and equal weights are applied in cooperative setting. Based on the results, global unmitigated emissions will peak around 2040. Given the future industrialization process, developing countries will make greater mitigation efforts under all regimes, whereas the strategies of developed countries will only be affected under the uniform carbon price regime. In the two cooperative regimes, a clear separation of mitigation efforts is observed between developed and developing countries. Moreover, when accounting for industrialization, the global averaged carbon price should grow faster in the first half-century, followed by a period of slower growth. Sensitivity analysis implies that with the support from developed countries, accelerated industrialization in the developing world can help alleviate its environmental strain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141850129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106825
{"title":"Tournaments and contracts under asymmetric information","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106825","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106825","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a principal–agent model, we compare tournament and contract schemes, which are both common methods of inducing effort. We assume that an agent’s type, which was private prior to contracting, becomes public during a tournament due to players’ interactions. We show that first-best effort levels can always be achieved in an efficient tournament scheme (ETS), where each agent can upgrade the prize by paying a fee to the principal. Furthermore, we provide sufficient and necessary conditions for the ETS to generate a higher payoff for the principal than the optimal contract scheme (OCS), with examples under mild conditions. In the absence of performance shocks, we provide a rationale for using a combination of tournaments and contracts in the presence of asymmetric information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141849373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106824
{"title":"The post-COVID inflation episode","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106824","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106824","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined the recent inflation episode in the US using an estimated NK-DSGE model with endogenous unemployment fluctuations. We find that the US price inflation accelerated due to a sudden wage increase during the COVID-19 lockdown, the 2021 expansionary monetary policy, and price-push shocks in the quarters of a global surge in energy costs. The disinflation path predicts that further indexing prices or wages to lagged inflation will lead to higher wage inflation and slower price disinflation. Moreover, severely tightening the Fed’s monetary policy will only slightly reduce inflation but increase unemployment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999324001810/pdfft?md5=c56a52da157c2d5ec9faef5503db51ba&pid=1-s2.0-S0264999324001810-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141846818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106823
{"title":"Macroprudential capital requirements, monetary policy, and financial crises","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How should bank capital requirements be designed in order to reduce the frequency and severity of financial crises? What is the role of monetary policy in this context? To answer these questions, we develop a New-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model in which the economy endogenously switches between normal times and financially turbulent times. Banks do not internalize that lower leverage contributes to the stability of the entire financial system. This creates a role for bank capital regulation. The proposed model replicates many of the dynamics observed during US financial crises. Basel-III-style capital buffers reduce the probability and length of financial crises while also reducing the size of the financial and non-financial sectors. Monetary policies that are more accommodative during financial crises can moderate economic downturns, thereby lowering the durations of financial distress. A combination of a small countercyclical capital buffer accompanied by a relief measure and an accommodative monetary policy during crises increases welfare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999324001809/pdfft?md5=7dc1f02abd92016a96c7b418c20a5e01&pid=1-s2.0-S0264999324001809-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141852328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106816
{"title":"Unpacking migration costs: Heterogeneous effects in EU labor markets","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106816","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106816","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I employ a tractable two-country search model of unemployment with endogenous migration decisions for workers and apply the model to the context of the European Union. I find that migration costs for workers are important factors in determining migration, unemployment and wages. Increasing migration costs increase unemployment and decrease migration, wages and welfare. This headline result is disaggregated into heterogeneous effects across workers with different countries of origin and migration histories. Workers who move more times, or for longer spells, are more affected by costs than workers who move less or not at all, though non-migrating workers experience changes to their labor market outcomes due to the externalities imposed by migrant workers. Using EU data, I find that costly migration lowers welfare by 11%–60% relative to free mobility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141707088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106822
{"title":"Editorial of the special issue on contemporary issues in tourism economics","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106818
Yue Liu , Rong Luo
{"title":"Entry cost, fixed cost and markup: Theory and evidence from the impact of corruption on prices","authors":"Yue Liu , Rong Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106818","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The welfare costs of markups are large. We analyze the impact of firm’s <em>entry</em> cost, <em>fixed</em> cost, and <em>variable</em> cost on markups using a general equilibrium model. The results show that <em>entry</em> cost induces higher markups, whereas <em>fixed</em> cost reduces markups with a stronger effect in low-income countries and for high-quality goods. As an empirical application, we examine the impact of corruption on the prices of identical products across countries. We find that the prices and markups are higher in more corrupt countries, and the effect is stronger in low-income countries and for high-quality products. These results suggest that corruption causes higher <em>entry</em> costs and <em>fixed</em> costs, leading to a fewer number of firms and more misallocations among firms in equilibrium. Therefore, the model is useful for distinguishing <em>entry</em> and <em>fixed</em> costs empirically, and it highlights the importance of identifying the nature of the cost to better understand their impact on markups and welfare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141606498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic ModellingPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106821
Lixia Wang , Haiyun Liu
{"title":"Quota removal, gender-specific export shock, and female labor force participation in China","authors":"Lixia Wang , Haiyun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106821","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a lack of consensus on how trade liberalization affects female labor force participation (FLFP), primarily due to challenges in identifying exports of female labor-intensive products. In this study, we construct a unique gender-specific export shock by examining the removal of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) trade quotas in 2005, which targeted the female labor-intensive textiles and clothing (T&C) industry. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach, we find that MFA quota removal significantly increases FLFP in China, which is attributed to the heightened demand for female labor in the T&C industry and related services. Increased demand not only boosts women incomes but also significantly reduces fertility rates. Furthermore, it disproportionately benefits four specific female groups: well-educated women, young women, unmarried women, and those without young children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141594176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}