Kerk Phillips

Working Papers

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• BYU Economics Department
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• BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
• BYU Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho
• BYU International Relations Blog/Bulletin Board

Finished Working Papers

• "Regional Growth in China: An Empirical Investigation using Province-level Panel Data," joint with Baizhu Chen, under journal review.
• "A General Equilibrium Model of Specialization and Market Development as Engines of Economic Growth," under journal review.
• "The Economic Reunification of Korea: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model," joint with Scott Bradford, under journal review.
• "Bootstrapping Structural VARs: Avoiding a Potential Bias in Error Bands of Impulse Response Functions," joint with Dave Spencer.
• "What is the Shape of Real Exchange Rate Nonlinearity?," joint with Steve Norman.

Papers in Progress

• "Economic Reform and Openness in North Korea: A General Equilibrium Model," joint with Scott Bradford & Dong-jin Kim.
• “The Economics of Sleep: An Intertemporal Model of Sleep Choice,” joint with James Cardon, Eric Eide & Mark Showalter.
• "How Well Do Structural VAR’s Identify Temporary vs Permanent Movements?" joint with Dave Spencer.
• "OLG Life Cycle Models: New Solution Methods and Applications," joint with Rick Evans.
• "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Internationalization of the Japanese Labor Market."
• “A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Korean Immigration."
• "Cross-Class Nuptiality Patterns in Traditional Korea," joint with Mark Peterson."