Currencies of the GCC countries have long been effectively pegged to the US dollar. Since 2003 the GCC countries have formally started pegging their currencies to the US dollar as a first step towards the proposed monetary union in 2010. The prevailing dollar peg and the absence of any...

Price stability is the goal of the monetary policy of the oil-exporting Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Estimation results for the period 1992:1 to 2009:3 indicate that the GCC countries, with the exception of Qatar and UAE during a few quarters of 2007 and 2008, heavily sterilize the...

This paper raises the question whether population growth is exogenous or endogenous with respect to the development process of Bangladesh during the last three decades. The results of an unrestricted vector autoregression model indicate that population growth does not Granger cause real GDP per...