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Factor proportions and international business cycles
Positive investment comovements across OECD economies as observed in the data are difficult to replicate in open-economy real business cycle models, but also vary substantially in degree for individual country-pairs. This paper shows that a two-country stochastic growth model that distinguishes sectors by factor intensity (capital-intensive vs. labor-intensive) gives rise to an endogenous channel of the international transmission of shocks that first, can substantially ameliorate the “quantity anomalies” that mark large open-economy models, and second, generate a cross-sectional prediction that is strongly supported by the data: investment correlations tend to be stronger for country-pairs that exhibit greater disparity in the factor-intensity of trade. In addition, three new pieces of evidence support the central mechanism: (1) the production composition of capital versus labor-intensive sectors changes over the business cycle; (2) the prices of capital-intensive goods and labor-intensive goods are respectively, procyclical and countercyclical; (3) a positive productivity shock in the U.S. tilts the composition of production towards capital-intensive sectors in other countries
Factor Proportions and International Business Cycles
Positive investment comovements across OECD economies as observed in the data are difficult to replicate in open-economy real business cycle models, but also vary substantially in degree for individual country-pairs. This paper shows that a two-country stochastic growth model that distinguishes sectors by factor intensity (capital-intensive vs. labor-intensive) gives rise to an endogenous channel of the international transmission of shocks that first, can substantially ameliorate the "quantity anomalies" that mark large open-economy models, and second, generate a cross-sectional prediction that is strongly supported by the data: investment correlations tend to be stronger for country-pairs that exhibit greater disparity in the factor-intensity of trade. In addition, three new pieces of evidence support the central mechanism: (1) the production composition of capital versus labor-intensive sectors changes over the business cycle; (2) the prices of capital-intensive goods and labor-intensive goods are respectively, procyclical and countercyclical; (3) a positive productivity shock in the U.S. tilts the composition of production towards capital-intensive sectors in other countries.International business cycles, international comovement, composition effects
Nonlinear Electromagnetic Quasinormal Modes and Hawking Radiation of A Regular Black Hole with Magnetic Charge
Based on a regular exact black hole (BH) from nonlinear electrodynamics (NED)
coupled to General Relativity, we investigate its stability of such BH through
the Quasinormal Modes (QNMs) of electromagnetic (EM) field perturbation and its
thermodynamics through Hawking radiation. In perturbation theory, we can deduce
the effective potential from nonlinear EM field. The comparison of potential
function between regular and RN BHs could predict their similar QNMs. The QNMs
frequencies tell us the effect of magnetic charge , overtone , angular
momentum number on the dynamic evolution of NLED EM field. Furthermore we
also discuss the cases near extreme condition of such magnetically charged
regular BH. The corresponding QNMs spectrum illuminates some special properties
in the near-extreme cases. For the thermodynamics, we employ Hamilton-Jacobi
method to calculate the near-horizon Hawking temperature of the regular BH and
reveal the relationship between classical parameters of black hole and its
quantum effect
Integrated Sensing and Communication Beamforming Design Based on Mutual Information
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies radar sensing and
communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy and
hardware. In this paper, we investigate the ISAC beamforming design in a
downlink system with a communication user and a point radar target to be
perceived. The design criterion for radar sensing is the mutual information
between the target response matrix and the echo signals, while the single user
transmission rate is used as the performance metric of the communication. Two
scenarios without and with interference from the communication user are
investigated. A closed-form solution with low complexity and a solution based
on the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) method are provided to solve these two
problems, respectively. Numerical results demonstrate that, compared to the
results obtained by SDR based on the CVX toolbox, the closed-form solution is
tight in the feasible region. In addition, we show that the SDR method obtains
an optimal solution
Testing the anisotropy of the universe using the simulated gravitational wave events from advanced LIGO and Virgo
The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) provides a powerful tool to
constrain the cosmological parameters. In this paper, we investigate the
possibility of using GWs as standard sirens in testing the anisotropy of the
universe. We consider the GW signals produced by the coalescence of binary
black hole systems and simulate hundreds of GW events from the advanced Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo. It is found
that the anisotropy of the universe can be tightly constrained if the redshift
of the GW source is precisely known. The anisotropic amplitude can be
constrained with an accuracy comparable to the Union2.1 complication of type-Ia
supernovae if GW events are observed. As for the preferred
direction, GW events are needed in order to achieve the accuracy
of Union2.1. With 800 GW events, the probability of pseudo anisotropic signals
with an amplitude comparable to Union2.1 is negligible. These results show that
GWs can provide a complementary tool to supernovae in testing the anisotropy of
the universe.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
A GaN-based wireless power and information transmission method using Dual-frequency Programmed Harmonic Modulation
Information transmission is often required in power transfer to implement control. In this paper, a Dual-Frequency Programmed Harmonic Modulation (DFPHM) method is proposed to transfer two frequencies carrying power and information with the single converter via a common inductive coil. The proposed method reduces the number of injection tightly coupled transformers used to transmit information, thereby simplifying the system structure and improving reliability. The performances of power and information transmission, and the method of information modulation and demodulation, as well as the principles of the control, are analyzed in detail. Then a simulation model is set up to verify the feasibility of the method. In addition, an experiment platform is established to verify that the single converter can transfer the power and information simultaneously via a common inductive coil without using tightly coupled transformers.Web of Science8498564984
The Joule--Thomson and Joule--Thomson-like effects of the black holes in a cavity
When a black hole is enclosed in a cavity in asymptotically flat space, an
effective volume can be introduced, and an effective pressure can be further
defined as its conjugate variable. By this means, an extended phase space is
constructed in a cavity, which resembles that in the anti-de Sitter (AdS) space
in many aspects. However, there are still some notable dissimilarities
simultaneously. In this work, the Joule--Thomson (JT) effect of the black
holes, widely discussed in the AdS space as an isenthalpic (constant-mass)
process, is shown to only have cooling region in a cavity. On the contrary, in
a constant-thermal-energy process (the JT-like effect), there is only heating
region in a cavity. Altogether, different from the AdS case, there is no
inversion temperature or inversion curve in a cavity. Our work reveals the
subtle discrepancy between the two different extended phase spaces that is
sensitive to the specific boundary conditions.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figure
Exothermic isospin-violating dark matter after SuperCDMS and CDEX
We show that exothermic isospin-violating dark matter (IVDM) can make the
results of the latest CDMS-Si experiment consistent with recent null
experiments, such as XENON10, XENON100, LUX, CDEX, and SuperCDMS, whereas for
the CoGeNT experiment, a strong tension still persists. For CDMS-Si, separate
exothermic dark matter or isospin-violating dark matter cannot fully ameliorate
the tensions among these experiments; the tension disappears only if exothermic
scattering is combined with an isospin-violating effect of f_n/f_p=-0.7. For
such exothermic IVDM to exist, at least a new vector gauge boson (dark photon
or dark Z') that connects SM quarks to Majorana-type DM particles is required.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
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