James Yetman
   Assistant Professor
   School of Economics & Finance 
   University of Hong Kong 
   
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     JYetman@sef.hku.hk

 

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Blog: HongKongMacro (http://hongkongmacro.blogspot.com/)
(No longer updated starting May 2008)

Downloadable Research Papers

Unpublished

"Efficient Filtering with Potential Output Uncertainty." (226KB) An ealier version, incorporating New Zealand data, is available as a Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2005/07 under the title  "Discretionary Policy, Potential Output Uncertainty, and Optimal Learning." (209KB)

Submitted to Journals

"Hong Kong Prices are Flexible."  (229KB)

"The Curse of Irving Fisher (Professional Forecaster's Version),"
with Gregor W. Smith. (162KB)

"Price Adjustment and Exchange Rate Pass-through," with Michael B. Devereux. Revised and Resubmitted, Journal of International Money and Finance. (189KB) 

Published

"The Long-Run Output-Inflation Trade-off with Menu Costs," with Wai-Yip Alex Ho. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming (552KB)

"The Real Effects of Inflation in Continuous versus Discrete Time Sticky Price Models," with Wai-Yip Alex Ho. Managerial and Decision Economics 28(6), September 2007: 633-638. (304KB)

"Explaining Hump-Shaped Inflation Responses to Monetary Policy Shocks."
Managerial and Decision Economics
28(6), September 2007: 605-617. (326KB)

"Currency Unions, Trade Flows, and Capital Flows." Pacific Economic Review 12(2), May 2007: 189-204. (523KB) Stata Dataset (721KB) Also available as HKIMR Working Paper 18/2003.

"Are Speed Limit Policies Robust?" Journal of Macroeconomics 28(4), December 2006: 665-679. (303KB)

"Shock Size, Asymmetries, and State Dependent Pricing,"
with Wai-Yip Alex Ho. Economics Letters 90(3), March 2006: 440-445. (167KB)

"The Credibility of the Monetary Policy "Free Lunch"." Journal of Macroeconomics 27(3), September 2005: 434-451.(379KB) Also available as ECB Working Paper 284.

"Speed Limit Policies and Interest Rate Smoothing." Economics Bulletin, 5(17), October 2004: 1-6. (112KB)

"The Evolution of Consensus in Macroeconomic Forecasting," with Allan W. Gregory, International Journal of Forecasting 20(3), July 2004: 461-473. (140KB)

"Suicidal Terrorism and Discriminatory Screening: An Efficiency-Equity Trade-off."  Defense and Peace Economics 15(3), June 2004: 221-230. (32KB)

"Price Setting and Exchange Rate Pass-through: Theory and Evidence," with Michael B. Devereux. In "Price Adjustment and Monetary Policy: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the Bank of Canada, November 2002," November 2003: 347-371.

"Predetermined Prices and the Persistent Effects of Money on Output," with Michael B. Devereux, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 35(5), October 2003: 729-741. (187KB) Appendix (20KB)

"Fixed Prices versus Predetermined Prices and the Equilibrium Probability of Price Adjustment." Economics Letters 80(3), September 2003: 421-427. (207KB)

"Probing Potential Output: Monetary Policy, Credibility, and Optimal Learning Under Uncertainty," Journal of Macroeconomics 25(3), September 2003: 311-330. (329KB)

"Menu Costs and the Long-Run Output-Inflation Trade-off,'' with Michael B. Devereux, Economics Letters 76(1), June 2002: 95-100. (69KB)

"Identifying a Policymaker's Target: An Application to the Bank of Canada," with Nicholas Rowe, Canadian Journal of Economics 35(2), May 2002: 239-256. (126KB)

"Productivity Growth and Prices in Canada: What can we Learn from the U.S. Experience?” with Tiff Macklem, Bank of International Settlements Papers No. 3 - Empirical Studies of Structural Changes and Inflation, August 2001. (377KB)

"Testing for Forecast Consensus," with Allan W. Gregory and Gregor W. Smith, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 19(1), January 2001: 34-43. (100KB)