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There are a lot of studies that test Ballasa –Samuelson hypothesis also known as Harrod-BalassaSamuelson effect directly via the effect of productivity, one possible explanation is that PER Capita GDP is not good explanation for productivity (.i.e. Labor productivity) differences; an increase...
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This paper presents the empirical evidence on purchasing power parity (PPP) for Pak-rupee vis-à-vis US-dollar exchange rate using Johansen (1988) and Johansen and Juselius (1990) multivariate cointegration and bound testing approach to cointegration (Pesaran et al., 2001) over the period...
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Indeed, the specification of equilibrium in the world economy depends on the exchange rate regime and thus, the early … foreign exchange markets. However, the world has known several exchange rate systems beginning with the fixed-gold standard … exchange was deregulated, independent traders finally had access to the biggest trading market of the world; and these forex …
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perspectives, following the recent developments of the Marxist theory of world money. The paper treats the US Dollar as a primus … inter pares quasi-world money and challenges the argument of the US hegemony by exploring the behavior of major capitalist … hierarchical structure of the corresponding quasi-world moneys. Although part of a vast literature on international reserves, the …
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The trading between currencies in Islam when both parties’ responsibilities are postponed to the future has been regarded as non-halal or un-islamic. Since there are many controversies in the area of currency, there have been suggestions to enhance investments in gold to avoid the element of...
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Investment in gold has been in demand for the past few years especially in hedging strategies. At the same time, various calls for gold to go back to its historical function even before the coming of Islam have been popular among Islamic scholars due to its characteristic of having intrinsic...
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An exchange rate between two currencies can be materially affected by shocks emerging from a third country. A US demand shock, for example, can affect the exchange rate between the euro and the yen. Since positive US demand shocks have a greater positive impact on Japanese interest rates than on...
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world known as the Pax Americana. Nowadays, the weakness of the US dollar is making specialists wonder if we are witnessing …
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Using an improved statistical methodology including tests designed for heterogeneous panels, this paper tests for mean reversion in monthly US Dollar based real exchange rates for nine East Asian countries, including those that were severely affected by the 1997 Asian financial crises. The...
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A simple stylised model, that incorporates transaction costs, is developed. The Law of One Price (LOP) is assumed to hold with regard to a reference market that is not taken into account in the empirical testing of the Law. It is shown that under these assumptions the empirical tests of the LOP...
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