Productivity Growth and Inflation - A Multi-Country Study

Ball and Moffitt (2001) present a theory implying that the gap between productivity and wage aspirations can shift the traditional Phillips Curve. We examine their theory within the OECD. The results show that there is no clear cross country evidence for the theory. Although Ball and Moffitt’s model works well in the U.S., it cannot, in general, be applied to other OECD countries. The time- varying NAIRU can better explain the economic performance for the OECD overall, and the UK in particular, during the late 1990s. In Germany, traditional Phillips Curve still kept its explanatory power during this period.

Measuring the NAIRU – A Structural VAR Approach

We calculate the NAIRU for the U.S. in a framework where inflation and the unemployment rate can respond to each other. The NAIRU is defined as the component of the actual unemployment rate that is uncorrelated with inflation in the long run. Using a structural VAR approach, the NAIRU and core inflation can be estimated simultaneously. Our estimation results show that the NAIRU falls dramatically at the end of 1990s and the long run vertical Phillips Curve shifts back from 6.8 per cent before 1997 to 4 per cent afterwards.

Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the People\u27s Republic of China

Based on theoretical analysis of effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the wage gap between foreign firms and domestic firms in the host country, we use data from Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database to measure these effects. Theoretical results show that the wage gap between foreign firms and domestic firms in the host country caused by the FDI labor transfer effect and technology spillover effect tends to increase then decrease, which implies an inverted U curve track. The empirical results show that the FDI has significant effects on the wage gap in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during the observed time period. The contribution of the FDI to change of the wage gap is above 10%, which is in the second position among all observed factors. From the overall point of view, the contribution of the FDI tends to decrease. The reason is that the wage gap caused by the FDI has stepped into the decreasing stage. This means the wage gap between foreign firms and domestic firms currently has been on the latter part of the inverted U curve. The Chinese government should expand fields for FDI so as to decrease the wage gap between foreign firms and domestic firms. This policy implication should be helpful for the PRC to step over the “middle-income trap”

What Is Mortal Shall Be Swallowed Up by Life (2 Cor 5:4): A Critical and Constructive Engagement with John Hick\u27s Theology of Death in Death and Eternal Life (1976)

The springboard for my investigation is John Hick’s theology of death or “par-eschatology” in Death and Eternal Life (1976), a postmortem soteriology rooted in Irenaeus’ teleological framework of person-making. I organize my project around the two constitutive aspects of human existence: time and space, or temporality and embodiment. Regarding postmortem temporality, I present: 1) new scholarships in the New Testament, early Christianity, and Reformation studies, and 2) recent developments in ecumenical dialogues and the Justification-Sanctification Debate. Through this, I demonstrate a widely emerging emphasis–the centrality of sanctification in the Christian understanding of salvation. I argue that this crystalizing consensus lends logical support for Hick’s insistence on the non-finality of death in the grand temporal process of salvation. Regarding postmortem embodiment (and embodiment in general), I introduce George Berkeley’s sacramental Idealism as a better alternative to Hick’s conception of the body under Dualism. I show how philosophical and theological difficulties in both the Physicalists’ and the Dualists’ explications of “resurrection” are resolved within Berkeley’s framework. Moreover, Berkeley’s version of embodiment not only does not contradict relevant Christian orthodoxies, it in fact better conveys their theological underpinnings. Lastly, I highlight the unique strength of Berkeley’s Idealism for understanding embodiment by describing: 1) how it helps overcome the current impasse between Dualism and Physicalism in the Mind-Brain Debate in philosophical anthropology, and 2) metaphysical writings of many founders of Quantum Physics which cast sympathetic votes for Berkeley. In the constructive portion of my dissertation, I lift from the Scripture a biblical theology of death which consistently underscores the causal connection between sin and death, holiness and life, and sanctification and resurrection. I then clarify that these well-known biblical themes are not metaphorical but metaphysical: the causalities are immanent. My effort here is to explicate a Metaphysic of Sanctification based on Aquinas’ teleological ontology originated from Augustine’s earlier notion of evil as “non-being.” Overall, my dissertation is an attempt to respond to the continuous call for Christians to give a coherent and credible account of the Resurrection Hope (1 Pt 3:15-16) that is faithful to the Gospel and relevant for our time

Analysis on Human Blockage Path Loss and Shadow Fading in Millimeter-Wave Band

Millimeter-wave (Mm-w) is the trend of communication development in the future; users who carry mobile communication equipment could be blocked by others in a crowded population environment. Based on Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) method and setting up different orientation receivers (RX), population density, and people fabric property at 28 GHz and 38 GHz, simulating experimental scene similar to station square by Wireless Insite software, we use least square method to do linear-regression analysis for path loss and build path loss model. The result shows that the path loss index has a certain change in the different frequency, orientation receivers, population density, and people fabric. The path loss index of RouteC1 and RouteA2 has an obvious change in the central transmitter (TX). Each route shadow fading obeys Gaussian distribution whose mean is 0. This paper’s result has a theoretical guiding for designing the communication system in a crowded population environment

Precise Tide-independent Bathymetric Survey and Application to the Inshore Monitoring of Seabed Evolution

Due to the influences of tidal water level, vessel attitude and wave motion, the traditional bathymetric method of reducing depths by the tidal level makes it difficult to meet precise engineering requirements in the vertical direction. Therefore a precise method, termed a tide-independent bathymetric survey, is presented in this paper. In this method, the quality of the sounding and positioning solution, the influences of time offset and vessel attitude as well as height transformation are considered by taking a series of measurements. The tide-independent method has been used for inshore monitoring of the seabed sediments. The statistical parameters acquired by comparing the traditional method with the tide-independent method used in the monitoring show that the latter is accurate and credible.Debido a las influencias del nivel del agua de las mareas, la actitud de los buques y el movimiento de las alas, el metoda batimetrico tradicional de reduccion de profundidades mediante los niveles de las mareas dificulta el cumplimiento de los requerimientos precisos de ingenieroa en la direccion vertical. Asf pues, en este articulo se presenta un metoda preciso, denominado levantamiento batimetrico independiente de las mareas. En este metoda, la calidad de los sondeos y la solucion del posicionamiento, las influencias del desfase horario y de la actitud de la nave, asl como la transformacion de las altura son consideradas mediante la toma de una serie de mediciones. El metoda independiente de las mareas ha sido utilizado para el control costero de los sedimentos del fonda del mar. Los parametres estadisticos adquiridos comparando el metoda tradicional con el metoda independiente de las mareas utilizado en el control muestran que este ultimo es exacto y creible.En raison de l'influence du niveau de la maree, de l'attitude du navire et du mouvement de l'eau, la methode bathymetrique traditionnelle de reduction des profondeurs par le niveau de l'eau rend difficile la satisfaction d'exigences precises d'ingenierie dans la direction verticale. Cet article presente done une methode precise, appelee leve bathymetrique independant des marees. Dans cette methode, la qualite du systeme de sondages et de determination de la position, les influences des decalages temporels et l'attitude du navire ainsi que la transformation de la hauteur sont pris en compte dans une serie de mesures. La methode independante des marees a ete utilisee pour le controle cotier des sediments du fond de la mer. Les parametres statistiques obtenus en comparant la methode traditionnelle a la methode independante des marees utilisee montre que cette derniere est exacte et credible

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