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Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment:
de Nicola, Francesca; De Pace, Pierangelo; Hernandez, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
energy, agricultural, and food commodities using monthly data between 1970 and 2013. The authors study the extent and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886774
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Chapter 11. Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - In: Handbook of Economic Forecasting : volume 2, part A, (pp. 657-687). 2013
Prediction markets – markets used to forecast future events – have been used to accurately forecast the outcome of political contests, sporting events, and, occasionally, economic outcomes. This chapter summarizes the latest research on prediction markets in order to further their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025538
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Economic development and residential water consumption in Chile
Fercovic, Juan; Foster, William E.; Melo, Oscar - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 1, pp. 23-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113935
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The effects of energy price changes : heterogeneous welfare impacts and energy poverty in Indonesia
Renner, Sebastian; Lay, Jann; Schleicher, Michael - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 2, pp. 180-200
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Kenya; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Like most Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya’s economic growth appears to have been primarily driven by factor accumulation. The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for Kenya examines economic developments and policies. During the last two decades, Kenya has been plagued by...
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The Distributional Consequences of Real Exchange Rate Adjustment
Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The paper focuses on distributional consequences of macroeconomic adjustment. The preferences of economic agents over the level of the real exchange rate derived from standard models are monotonic, with agents favoring either an infinitely appreciated or depreciated rate. To generate less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248306
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Agricultural commodity supply response in Ghana
Ocran, Matthew Kofi; Biekpe, Nicholas - In: Journal of Economic Studies 35 (2008) July, pp. 224-235
commodities, food commodities and exports commodities. Design/methodology/approach – The study used cointegration and error …-run only producers of export commodities were responsive to price incentives. Practical implications – Producers respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081177
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A VAR Analysis of Kenya's Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism; How Does the Central Bank's REPO Rate Affect the Economy?
Cheng, Kevin C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the impact of a monetary policy shock on output, prices, and the nominal effective exchange rate … main results suggest that an exogenous increase in the short-term interest rate tends to be followed by a decline in prices … variations in the short-term interest rate account for significant fluctuations in the nominal exchange rate and prices, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263733
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Sources of Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Peiris, Shanaka J.; Barnichon, Régis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper explores the sources of inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa by examining the relationship between inflation, the output gap, and the real money gap. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration estimation techniques, we estimate cointegrating vectors for the production function and the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263752
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Can Markets Compute Equilibria?
Monroe, Hunter K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Recent turmoil in financial and commodities markets has renewed questions regarding how well markets discover … equilibrium prices, particularly when those markets are highly complex. A relatively new critique questions whether markets can … realistically find equilibrium prices if computers cannot. For instance, in a simple exchange economy with Leontief preferences, the …
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