This paper presents an integrated approach to wage and employment determination combining microeconomic evidence with macroeconomic theory. More specifically, we first develop an efficiency wage model with labor turnover and show that the worker’s decision problem gives rise to a quit-rate function. We then use microeconomic data to estimate this quit-rate function and to test the specification...

This is the third paper of a series of macroeconomic modeling that tries to model macroeconomic dynamics on the basis of the principle of accounting system dynamics developed by the author. Money supply and creation processes of deposits were modeled in the first paper, while second paper built dynamic determination processes of GDP, interest rate and price level. In this paper, these two separ...

On the basis of Dunning’s Investment Development Path (IDP) hypothesis, this paper tests the macroeconomic determinants of Chinese Offshore Direct Investment (ODI) from a home-country perspective. We review the recent firmand country-level studies on determinants of Chinese ODI. We propose a model and test seven home-country macroeconomic variables as determinants of Chinese ODI. Our results re...

Collective bargaining and dispute resolution mechanisms facilitate coordination. Coordination is increasingly seen as an influential determinant of labor market and macroeconomic performance. This paper provides a systematic review of the relevant literature with a specific focus on the role that collective bargaining plays in shaping macroeconomic performance. We focus on comparative studies o...

F ollowing World War II, the quantity and quality of macroeconomic data expanded dramatically. The most important factor was the regular publication of the National Income and Product Accounts, which contained hundreds of consistently defined and measured statistics that summarized overall economic activity. As the data supply expanded, entrepreneurs realized that a market existed for applying ...

there are different ideas and opinions about the effects of macroeconomic variables on real and nominal variables. to answer the question of whether changes in macroeconomic variables as a political tool is useful over a business cycle, understanding the effect of macroeconomic variables on economic growth is important. in the present study, the bayesian vector autoregresive model and seasonali...

In the paper we study the relationship between macroeconomic and stock market volatility, using S&P500 data for the period 1970-2001. We find weak evidence of long memory in volatility once structural change is accounted for and a twofold linkage between stock market and macroeconomic volatility: macroeconomic volatility explains the persitent dynamics in stock market volatility, while stock ma...