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This paper investigates the effect of remittance inflows on the real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using annual data from 1980 to 2008 for 34 SSA countries, generalised method of moments by Arellano and Bover (1995) and feasible generalised least squares by Parks (1967) and Kmenta...
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IThis paper analyses the modernisation hypothesis in the sub-Saharan African region. Using a sample of 48 countries from 1960 to 2010 and dynamic panel data analysis, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy, an indication that the hypothesis may not hold in...
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This paper investigates the factors that drive and constrain remittance inflows into SubSaharan Africa (SSA) using annual data for 35 SSA countries from 1980 to 2008, generalised method of moments by Arellano and Bover (1995) and LSDV with Driscoll and Kraay (1998) corrected standard errors. We...
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We study the effects of different levels of education on fertility in 48 sub-Saharan African countries between 1970 and 2010. The results, based on panel data analysis with fi?xed effects and instrumental variables, show how that lower education levels do not have a significant effect on...
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In this paper we evaluate inflation persistence in the U.S. using long range monthly and annual data. The importance of … inflation persistence is crucial to policy authorities and market participants, since the level of inflation persistence … generating process, in order to enhance the robustness of conclusions. Overall, we find that inflation persistence is high from …
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The existing literature on the theoretical relationship between the rate of inflation and real stock prices in an … economy has shown varied predictions about the long run effects of inflation on real stock prices. In this paper, we present … that, in the long run real stock prices are invariant to permanent changes in the rate of inflation. The impulse responses …
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This study investigates the asymmetric and time-varying causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty in South … features of inflation series simultaneously by measuring inflation uncertainty as the conditional variance of inflation …’s hypothesis. This implies that past information on inflation can help improve the one-step-ahead prediction of inflation …
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This paper analyses the empirical relationship between inflation and growth using a panel data estimation technique … time levels, we find that a statistically significant negative relationship exists between inflation and growth for the … inflation rates above the critical threshold levels of 9% and 30% which are endogenously determined. Furthermore, we remedy the …
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We try and detect whether there exists a threshold level of inflation for the US economy over 1801-2013, beyond which … semiparametric (SNP-IV) methods to obtain inflation thresholds for the United States. The results suggest that the relationship … between growth and inflation is hump shaped—that higher levels of inflation reduce growth more. Our results consistently show …
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We compare inflation forecasts of a vector fractionally integrated autoregressive moving average (VARFIMA) model … against standard forecasting models. U.S. inflation forecasts improve when controlling for persistence and economic policy … uncertainty (EPU). Importantly, the VARFIMA model, comprising of inflation and EPU, outperforms commonly used inflation forecast …
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