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Due to their functionality, stored value purses based on smart card technology are prominent candidates for being the dominant medium of exchange for micropayments. However, the overall prospects of these payment systems are yet ambiguous, both from the perspective of practice and monetary...
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monetary policy of the European Central Bank. In order to asses this influence, we apply stationarity tests, cointegration …. Johansen cointegration test confirms the existence of long-run equilibrium relationship between Eonia and Eoniaswap rates. …
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Using contemporary models this paper explores the time-series properties of financial infrastructure and economic growth indicators to investigate the nexus between developments in financial intermediation with the economic growth for India over the 1971-2004 periods. Both over short-run and the...
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between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …
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This paper examines the long run dynamics of Mexico’s money demand using Johansen’s cointegration approach with …
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This paper provides evidence for a low frequency relationship between unemployment, inflation and the nominal interest rate. I show that in the United States from 1959.1 to 1991.3, the unemployment rate, the inflation rate and the federal funds rate can be modelled as non stationary time series...
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transmission mechanism, we first establish a long-run relationship between the five countries using cointegration methods. As …
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This paper analyses the monetary policy and its impact on the rate of inflation during the economic structural adjustment programs in Zambia during 1987 to 1993. To avoid the Lucas critique, the focus is on a sample period, 1987 to 1993, which is relevant for analysing inflation and monetary...
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vector autoregression is presented. The large degree of uncertainty in the choise of the cointegration vectors is … incorporated into the analysis through a prior distribution on the cointegration vectors which allows the forecaster to … different cointegration vectors are weighted together in an optimal way. The ideas of Litterman (1980) are adapted for the prior …
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Vector autoregressions have steadily gained in popularity since their introduction in econometrics 25 years ago. A drawback of the otherwise fairly well developed methodology is the inability to incorporate prior beliefs regarding the system's steady state in a satisfactory way. Such prior...
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