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This study first assesses recent misalignments of the real effective exchange rate (REER) of the euro area and of the Harmonized Competitiveness Indicators (HCIs) of its main economies, based on a quarterly Behavioural Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) model. Next, it draws a comparison with...
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In Africa, a number of countries like South Africa have adopted inflation targeting. In Nigeria, different monetary … policy regimes have been adopted over the years with rather unsatisfactory success. This study examines inflation targeting … 2016. The study unravels evidence of a significant response of inflation and squared inflation to policy interest rates in …
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries in ation into country-specific (idiosyncratic) and region-wide (common) components. To do so, we propose a exible empirical framework based on dynamic factor models subject to drifting...
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costs across product groups. We show that, after the referendum, inflation increased by more for product groups with higher …
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries inflation into … quarters of the past six years, especially in turning point periods. Our main results indicate that headline inflation in euro … inflation this increasing sensitivity is solely reliant on a sustained surge in the degree of comovement, for energy inflation …
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The effect of the euro exchange rate on inflation has taken on significant importance recently, with the application of …-up in expected euro area inflation. However, the subsequent depreciation, since February 2018, might reflect factors related … movements to overall consumer-price inflation in the Spanish economy has increased slightly in recent years, owing mainly to the …
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries inflation into … over the past six years – especially in turning points periods. Our main results indicate that headline inflation in euro … sensitivity relies solely on a sustained surge in the degree of comovement for headline inflation, it is also based on a higher …
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The geographic structure of the Magharib countries necessitates its political and economic partnership. However, there were many hindrances that curtailed further mutual benefits in the past decades. That minimized its economic cooperation in many ways. The emergence of the WTO adds to questions...
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This paper empirically tests an augmented gravity model of international trade, using four digits disaggregated data under the Harmonized System, in order to investigate the impact of AFTA to the volume and direction of intra and extra ASEAN trade of textiles and clothing. Several model...
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This paper introduces an oil price-distance interaction variable in a gravity equation to explain how trade behaves due to oil price changes. The findings are that as oil prices increase, international trade becomes more localized, in that countries begin trading relatively more with their...
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