This paper examines the time series properties of the domestic agricultural terms of trade, the external net barter terms of trade and the ratio of the agricultural to the external terms of trade in Bangladesh with annual data for the period 1952-2005. The ADF and the KPSS tests results suggest...

This book reviews key aspects of central banking and monetary policy in selected Muslim-majority countries. While reviewing country-specific experiences and issues in inflation and monetary policy, and analysing them from an historical context, emphasis is given to the evolution of Islamic...

This book of case studies is a contribution to monetary macroeconomics in which country-specific experience and issues in inflation and monetary policy are reviewed and analysed in an historical context. In doing so, the key ideas and views on the sources and dynamics of inflation and...

This timely book reviews the modern literature on inflation and monetary policy, and highlights contemporary issues in the design and conduct of monetary policy for price stability in developing Asia.

This paper investigates the aggregate export demand behaviour in Indonesia with annual data for the period 1963-2005. Both the Pesaran bounds testing and the Johansen cointegration tests results suggest that there exists a long-run relationship between real exports, world income and the relative...

This paper analyses the trends and movements of, and the relationship between, the agricultural and the external (net barter) terms of trade in Bangladesh for the period 1952-2006. The Pesaran bounds testing results suggest the presence of a cointegral relationship between the agricultural and...

This paper reviews the evolution of exchange rate policy and examines the real exchange rate behaviour in Bangladesh over the period 1972-2008. It deploys Pesaran’s bounds testing approach to cointegration to determine whether there exists a long-run equilibrium relationship between the real...

This article presents an overview of monetary policy in Australia and highlights the persistence and volatility of inflation under successive monetary policy regimes, 1950-2010. A series of unit root tests specified both linearly and nonlinearly investigate whether inflation persistence has the...

: This paper deploys the Johansen cointegration approach to investigate the presence of a long-run broad money demand relationship in Australia, using annual data for the period 1970-2008. The empirical results suggest the presence of a long-run relationship between real broad money balances,...

This paper highlights the role of price stability in the integrity and sustainability of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) while investigating the sources of inflation and its volatility in nine Muslim-majority countries which have introduced IBF since the late 1970s. The empirical results,...