This paper investigates the inflation-hedging properties of three asset classes, namely common stocks, bonds and real estate, for thirty-one selected countries which are at different stages of development. Quarterly data for these countries over the period 1973-2017 are deployed for estimation...

Indonesia and Thailand, two major open economies in Southeast Asia operating under managed-float exchange rate systems, have remained susceptible to both external and domestic shocks since the East-Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. This paper investigates the transmission of external...

Bangladesh began implementing trade-reform policies in the mid 1980s, leading to a gradual change in its anti-export-policy. Since then the share of exports in her GDP has been rising steadily with the economy growing at about 5 percent per annum. This growth is associated with structural change...