Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 36 Issue 4

The viability of Fiji's sugar industry

Renuka Mahadevan

This paper seeks to examine the impact of various socio‐economic factors on the viability of sugar production by focusing on the technical efficiency of farm performance.

Testing the impact of inflation targeting on inflation

George B. Tawadros

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of inflation targeting on inflation for 27 countries that have adopted an inflation‐targeting regime.

Rationales for outsourcing domestic services to off‐the‐books workers

Colin C. Williams

This paper aims to evaluate critically the assumption that the main reason for acquiring domestic services from the off‐the‐books economy is to save money.

Equilibrium efficiency in the Ramsey model with utility and production externalities

Manuel A. Gómez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of utility and production externalities on the equilibrium efficiency, and to devise tax policies capable of correcting the…

Electricity consumption, income, foreign direct investment, and population in Malaysia: New evidence from multivariate framework analysis

Chor Foon Tang

This study attempts to re‐investigate the electricity consumption function for Malaysia through the cointegration and causality analyses over the period 1970 to 2005.

Forecasting in inefficient commodity markets

Periklis Gogas, Apostolos Serletis

This paper set out to use an autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH)‐type model to capture the time‐varying conditional variance of Alberta electricity prices. This…

Marginal wage subsidies: a rent‐extracting instrument for employment creation

Andreas Knabe

This paper aims to examine the effects of marginal and general wage subsidies on employment and income distribution.

Economic interdependence and bilateral trade imbalance across the Taiwan Strait

Yi‐Bin Chiu, Chia‐Hung Sun

Despite a growing interest in research, no existing study explores the nature of, and the relationship between, the real exchange rate and trade imbalance between Taiwan and…