We use a vector autoregressive model with block exogeneity to study the macroeconomic effects of oil price fluctuations for six small open economies in Southeast Asia. Our method has an advantage over those used in the literature in that it allows us to focus on the effects of oil shocks while...

This study investigates the effect of the Bank of Japan’s large-scale exchange-traded fund purchasing program since 2013 on stock prices using a synthetic control method. We use the stock price indexes of 27 OECD countries as a control group and estimate the time-series data of the synthetic...

This study investigates the temporal variation in the safe haven status of the Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and U.S. dollar. Investors prefer to purchase a safe haven currency (SHC) in times of high exchange rate volatility, parametrized herein with time-variant degrees of risk aversion. Until the...