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A nonlinear investigation of the twin deficits hypothesis over the business cycle: Evidence from Turkey
Çatık, Abdurrahman Nazif; Gök, Barış; Akseki, Utku - In: Economic Systems 39 (2015) 1, pp. 181-196
In this paper, we analyze the twin deficits hypothesis covering the period from 1994 to 2012 in Turkey. In contrast to previous studies on Turkey, the existence of twin deficits is investigated by regime-dependent impulse response functions and forecast error variance decompositions based on a...
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Three Revolutions in Macroeconomics: Their Nature and Influence
Laidler, David - University of Western Ontario, Economic Policy Research … - 2013
Harry Johnson’s 1971 ideas about the factors affecting the success of the Keynesian Revolution and the Monetarist Counter-revolution are summarised and extended to the analysis of the Rational Expectations - New Classical (RE-NC) Revolution. It is then argued that, whereas Monetarism brought...
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Relationship Between GDP, Inflation and Real Interest Rate with Exchange Rate Fluctuation of African Countries
Abbas, Qaisar; Iqbal, Javid; Ayaz - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) 3, pp. 132-141
This paper tries to explore the relationship between, gross domestic product, inflation and real interest rate with the … variables i.e. inflation, interest rate and Gross Domestic Product were used in order to investigate their relationship which … found that that the GDP has significant relationship with the exchange rate where interest and inflation has non …
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The Role of the Business Cycle in Exchange Rate Pass-Through: The Case of Finland
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Rault, Christophe - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014
in ERPT to CPI inflation for the Finnish economy. Within a logistic smooth transition framework, our investigations …
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Real Interest Rates, Bubbles and Monetary Policy in the GCC countries
Razzak, Weshah; Bentour, E M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
nominal interest rate is equalized with the US federal fund rate, but the inflation rates are independent. High oil prices and … the depreciating US dollar caused inflation to rise and real interest rates to be persistently negative in the UAE and …
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What does futures market interest tell us about the macroeconomy and asset prices?
Hong, Harrison; Yogo, Motohiro - In: Journal of Financial Economics 105 (2012) 3, pp. 473-490
Economists have traditionally viewed futures prices as fully informative about future economic activity and asset prices. We argue that open interest could be more informative than futures prices in the presence of hedging demand and limited risk absorption capacity in futures markets. We find...
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Real Interest Rates, Bubbles and Monetary Policy in the GCC countries
Bentour, E. M.; Razzak, W. A. - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2010
nominal interest rate is equalized with the US federal fund rate, but the inflation rates are independent. High oil prices and … the depreciating US dollar caused inflation to rise and real interest rates to be persistently negative in the UAE and …
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Domestic Versus International Determinants Of European Business Cycles: A GVAR Approach
Boschi, Melisso; Marzo, Massimiliano; Salotti, Simone - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
We investigate the sources of macroeconomic (output and inflation) variability in selected European countries within … currently members of the European Monetary Union and non-members. As for inflation, on the contrary, regional factors are more …
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Oil price shocks in a data-rich environment
Aastveit, Knut Are - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 268-279
This paper examines the impact of different types of oil price shocks on the U.S. economy, using a factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) approach. The results indicate that when examining the effects of oil price shocks, it is important to account for the interaction between the oil market and the...
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Search in the product market and the real business cycle
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Pierrard, Olivier - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2008
This paper develops a search-matching model, where producers provide effort to find customers (e.g. in form of advertising and marketing expenditures). Firms form long-term contractual relationships and bargain over prices. The price bargain results in mark up pricing above marginal cost. The...
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