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Trade and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence From Japan and Korea
It is commonly argued that Japanese trade protection has enabled the nurturing and development internationally competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period 1964 to 1973. Our results also lead us to question whether Japanese exports were a particularly important source of productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to competition than to intermediate inputs. Furthermore our results indicate a reason for why imports are important. Greater imports of competing products spur innovation. Our results suggest that competitive pressures and potentially learning from foreign rivals are important conduits for growth. These channels are even more important as industries converge with the market leader. This suggests that further liberalization by Japan and other East Asian countries may result in future dynamic gains. Our results thus call the views of both the World Bank and the revisionists into question and provide support for those who advocate more liberal trade policies.
Quantum skew divergence
In this paper we study the quantum generalisation of the skew divergence,
which is a dissimilarity measure between distributions introduced by L. Lee in
the context of natural language processing. We provide an in-depth study of the
quantum skew divergence, including its relation to other state
distinguishability measures. Finally, we present a number of important
applications: new continuity inequalities for the quantum Jensen-Shannon
divergence and the Holevo information, and a new and short proof of Bravyi's
Small Incremental Mixing conjecture.Comment: Supersedes 1102:3041, as it contains many new results and
applications. v2: minor modifications, including a streamlining of the
proofs. 32 1/4 page
Spartan Daily, February 13, 2006
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Spartan Daily, February 13, 2006
Volume 126, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10210/thumbnail.jp
Spartan Daily, February 13, 2006
Volume 126, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10210/thumbnail.jp
Can You Hear Me Now? : Expectations of Privacy, False Friends, and the Perils of Speaking Under the Supreme Court\u27s Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
Part I of this article offers a brief history of the development of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence and the Court\u27s articulation and application of what has come to be known as the exclusionary rule, which forbids some (but not all) government use of evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Part II focuses on the false-friend cases, elaborating the Court\u27s reasoning and showing why, although the most famous cases involve varying kinds of activity from electronic recording to eavesdropping to simple reporting of the false friend\u27s observation, the Court\u27s method has united these cases under a single analytical rubric. Part III discusses the unavoidable implication of the Court\u27s approach, and Part IV examines whether there is a principled way out of the dilemma that the Court\u27s reasoning has created. It concludes that there is, but the solution requires recognizing two unstated assumptions that undergird the Court\u27s jurisprudence in this area, assumptions that, when exposed to light, are highly questionable. The Court needs to reconsider how expectations of privacy really work. It has tended to view expectation of privacy as an all-or-nothing proposition, so that for Fourth Amendment purposes, lack of a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to one person connotes that there cannot be a reasonable expectation with respect to anyone else. The Article suggests that this approach does not reflect the way that either those who wrote and ratified the Fourth Amendment or the majority of Americans today think about privacy. The Supreme Court should recognize, therefore, that when the government employs false friends to gather evidence for use in a criminal case, it does no more than to undertake a search with other eyes and ears and a seizure with other hands. It is a government intrusion all the same. Accordingly, the Fourth Amendment\u27s warrant requirement, which demands probable cause and the acquiescence of a neutral magistrate in the proposed search, should apply in full force
Collapse to Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory: II. Comparison with General Relativity
We discuss a number of long-standing theoretical questions about collapse to
black holes in the Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation. Using a new numerical
code, we show that Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse in this theory produces black
holes that are identical to those of general relativity in final equilibrium,
but are quite different from those of general relativity during dynamical
evolution. We find that there are epochs during which the apparent horizon of
such a black hole passes {\it outside\/} the event horizon, and that the
surface area of the event horizon {\it decreases\/} with time. This behavior is
possible because theorems which prove otherwise assume for
all null vectors . We show that dynamical spacetimes in Brans-Dicke theory
can violate this inequality, even in vacuum, for any value of .Comment: 24 pages including figures, uuencoded gz-compressed postscript,
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