This paper investigates whether terms of trade have an impact on real exchange rates for commodity exporters and oil exporters. To this end, we estimate a long term relationship between the real effective exchange rate and economic fundamentals, including the commodity terms of trade. The...

This paper investigates the relationship between energy prices and the real effective exchange rate of commodity-exporting countries. We consider two sets of countries: 10 energy-exporting and 23 commodity-exporting countries over the period 1980-2011. Estimating a panel cointegrating...

L'organisation de l'UEM repose sur plusieurs principes: l'independance de la Banque central a la quelle on affecte l'objectif d'inflation, l'absence de coordination des politiques budgetaires entre elles et avec la politique monataire, enfin l'encadrement de la politique budgetaire par des...

Le premier objectif de l'etude est de mettre en evidence les reseaux regionaux du commerce international, en mesurant la "proximite commerciale" entre les pays. Les coefficients d'intensite relatives bilaterales des echanges permettent une telle mesure. Ils comparent chaqueflux bilateral observe...

GeoDist makes available the exhaustive set of gravity variables used in Mayer and Zignago (2005). GeoDist provides several geographical variables, in particular bilateral distances measured using citylevel data to assess the geographic distribution of population inside each nation. We have...