This paper aims at examining the validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) both in absolute and relative terms with reference to the long run behavior of the real exchange rate of Bangladesh Taka relative to USA dollar. In doing so, the paper tests the presence of mean-reversion in the real...

The question whether an asset class is a good hedge against inflation is extensively investigated in the finance and economics literature; however, most of these are concentrated on stock returns from developed countries perspectives with little or no evidence on either from alternative asset...

This paper investigates the effect of inflation and inflation uncertainty on equity returns for the data of 41 countries. A GARCH based measure of volatility is used to model inflation uncertainty. The empirical results shows that the effects are not statistically significant in most of the...