The demand for real M2 in Estonia is positively influenced by real income, real stock prices and the depreciation of the kroon, and negatively associated with the deposit rate, the euro interest rate and the expected inflation rate. Hence, a higher euro interest rate would help raise Estonian...

This article considers potential impacts of the intended and unintended federal funds rates on the slope of the Treasury yield curve during 1987.M8 to 2006.M1. A third-order autoregressive model is employed in empirical work to correct for serial correlation. The positive significant sign of the...

This article applies the extended Box-Cox model to test functional forms of purchasing power parity (PPP) for nine new EU countries. It finds that the widely used double-log form for PPP can be rejected for eight countries except for the Czech Republic and that the unitary elasticity can be...

This article examines the potential impacts of monetary policy on the yield of Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS). A quadratic relationship is confirmed for all four types of TIPS. It suggests that Fed easing would not lower TIPS yields when the federal funds rate is below certain...

This study finds that the real exchange rate in Slovakia is negatively associated with real M2, the US Treasury bill rate, country risk, and the expected inflation rate and positively influenced by deficit spending/GDP ratio and the stock price index. The behaviour of error variance can be...

This study finds that the nominal exchange rate in Estonia is positively associated with the expected exchange rate and negatively influenced by real M1, the foreign interest rate, the expected inflation rate, and the relevant price. The coefficient of the government deficit spending/GDP ratio...