We develop an algorithm for computing optimal taxes in an open economy extension of the standard one-sector growth model. Typically in the literature on optimal taxation, the first period tax rate is arbitrarily assumed. We construct an example where the first period tax rate is endogenously determined. In addition to computing the exact time path of taxes, the example brings forth some interes...

The sampling window method of Hall, Jing and Lahiri (1998) is known to consistently estimate the distribution of the sample mean for a class of long-range dependent processes, generated by transformations of Gaussian time series. This note shows that the same nonparametric subsampling method is also valid for an entirely different category of long-range dependent series which are linear with po...

Apparently QV involves quantification by a sentential adverb over something. A theory of QV needs to answer, first, what the adverb actually quantifies over, and second, why this quantification has the distribution it does. This paper rejects Berman’s 1991 theory of QV and supports that of Utpal Lahiri (1991, 1998). Berman takes QV to be quantification over the WH variable in the interrogative,...

Concerning a question of Yi [18], we study the problem of uniqueness of meromorphic functions sharing two sets with the notion of weighted sharing of sets and obtain four results which will not only improve the results of Lahiri [12], Lin-Yi [20] but also improve a recent result of the present author [3] and thus provide an answer to the question of Gross [6] in a more compact and convenient wa...

Because the stationary bootstrap resamples data blocks of random length, this method has been thought to have the largest asymptotic variance among block bootstraps (Lahiri, 1999, Ann. Statist.). It is shown here that the variance of the stationary bootstrap surprisingly matches that of a block bootstrap based on non-random, non-overlapping blocks. This argument translates the variance expansio...

Workers who have examined the viability of Vibrio cholera? in water are agreed that whereas the vibrio can live for a short time in untreated natural waters, it survives for longer periods in samples that had been previously boiled. Hankin (1896) attributed the bactericidal effect to the acid reaction of the river waters. d'Herelle (1926) suggested that the disappearance of vibrios from natural...