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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244155
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Barriers to Retail Competition and Prices; Evidence From Spain
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Why do prices in Spain's regions fail to converge? The prime suspects for this puzzling result are differences in … illustrate the effect of barriers on prices. A unique data set-derived from an extensive analysis of competition policies in … Spain- provides evidence that barriers to entry increase regional prices. The evidence also suggests that, consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826506
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Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy
Lucchetta, Marcella; Nicoló, Gianni De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper presents a modeling framework that delivers joint forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and systemic financial risk, as well as stress-tests of these indicators as impulse responses to structural shocks identified by standard macroeconomic and banking theory. This framework is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519509
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Panel Data Methods vs Seemingly Unrel- A Comparison Using Export Volumes (and Prices)
Greenhalgh, C.; Mavrotas, G.; Wilson, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047889
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Futures commodities prices and media coverage
Almánzar, Miguel; Torero, Máximo; von Grebmer, Klaus - 2013
In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the … commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the relationship between media … correlated with the media coverage of up movements, or increase in prices. The direction of the correlation is robust and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323648
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Preliminary evidence on relationships between agricultural commodities futures prices, spot prices and oil prices using reverse regressions
Cartwright, Phillip A.; Riabko, Natalija - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 777-782
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285361
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How Economic Conditions Changed the Number of U.S. Farms, 1960-88
Gale Jr., H. Frederick - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, 2
1960-74, while prices, land values, and interest rates explain deviations from the trend during 1975-88. Projections of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910468
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EQUITY RISK PREMIA AND CORPORATE PROFIT FORECASTS AROUND THE STOCK CRASH OF OCTOBER 1987.
SIEGEL, J.J. - Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, Wharton … - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245277
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Systemic Real and Financial Risks; Measurement, Forecasting, and Stress Testing
Lucchetta, Marcella; Nicoló, Gianni De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper formulates a novel modeling framework that delivers: (a) forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and systemic financial risk based on density forecasts of indicators of real activity and financial health; (b) stress-tests as measures of the dynamics of responses of systemic risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654174
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Exchange rate pass-through in small, open, commodity-exporting economies : lessons from Canada
Flaccadoro, Marco - 2022
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