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This paper presents a simple partial equilibrium framework for considering the economic implications of administered protection in Tanzania, against the background of the country’s parallel exchange market and the establishment of the own-funds and open general license (OGL) facilities for...
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This paper presents a stylized general equilibrium model of the Venezuelan economy. The model explains how the recent sharp fall in oil revenue combines with foreign exchange rationing to produce a steep rise in inflation. Counterintuitively, a devaluation of the official exchange rate could...
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This paper examines the relationship between the official and parallel exchange rates, in three Caribbean countries, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods. The official and parallel rates are cointegrated in all...
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This paper examines the relationship between the official and parallel exchange rates, in three Caribbean countries, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods. The official and parallel rates are cointegrated in all...
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This paper examines the employment effect of devaluation in a model with a nontraded good and a black market for foreign exchange. The disaggregative approach reveals, in contrast to an earlier one-sector analysis, that overall employment may change even if the exchange control is such that...
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foreign exchange (“Forex”) regime. In times past, Nigeria has adopted very stringent approach to the regulation of the Forex … (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (“Forex Act”). The foregoing notwithstanding, the Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN …”), in recent times, in addressing the depreciation cum devaluation of the Nigeria's currency alongside the recent blow …
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Based on a simple model, the paper provides an explanation for illegal oil trade between Nigeria and its neighboring … oil constant. Macroeconomic indicators of Nigeria over the period 1986-1993 appear to support the predictions of the model …
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