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How do oil prices affect the GDP and its components? : new evidence from a time-varying threshold model
Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Saafi, Sami; Rault, … - 2024
Revealing the precise thresholds at which fluctuations in oil prices start to affect gross domestic product and its … oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Existing studies assessing the effects of oil prices on economic activity … allows for the possibility that oil prices will have a time-varying effect on economic activity. We also employ the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527191
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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize … is high. We develop an open economy model with incomplete financial markets to show that headline inflation targeting … headline inflation, assigns zero weight to import prices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307888
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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-connectedness approach
Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024
contagion spillover volatility by focusing on a sample of major oil-exporting and oil-importing countries using daily data from … volatility transmission between oil prices and exchange-rate markets. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian …. This suggests that volatility contagion between these two markets continues to exist, thus emphasising the role of oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494631
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country
Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881574
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On the impact of oil prices on sectoral inflation : evidence from world's top oil exporters and importers
Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, Christophe - 2024
This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing … price on inflation tends to change across sectors and countries. Second, the inflationary effects of variations in oil … and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on the consumer price index using monthly data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454468
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Can price controls be optimal? : the economics of the energy shock in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Weber, Isabella - 2024
In the wake of the global energy crisis, many European countries used energy price controls to fight inflation and to …. In addition, during the energy crisis 2022 inflation rates rose dramatically and real wages dropped more than in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545082
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On the exchange rate and economic policy uncertainty nexus: a panel VAR approach for emerging markets
Abid, Abir; Rault, Christophe - 2020
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239005
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The welfare impact of price changes on household welfare and inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
of households in response to price changes in most years. -- price ; inflation ; equivalent income ; welfare ; linear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306839
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Gender disparities in inflation during the cost-of-living crisis in Europe : a novel decomposition
Sologon, Denisa M.; Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2024
progessivity (affecting higher income households more) of inflation experienced by households between April 2021 and July 2023 …. Despite a growing literature on the distributional impact of inflation, there is limited evidence on gender differentials. We … gender dimension to assess gender differences in inflation regressivity or progressivity, isolate the average inflation rate …
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