The scope of this work is to explore whether RCEP would be beneficial to Bangladesh given her strong ties with India and the west.Using extended Gravity equation and data from Head and Mayer (2021) and the Direction of Trade Statistic (IMF, 2021) for Bangladesh with her applicable partner...

Purpose – To avoid aggregation bias by using trade data at bilateral level so that we can determine how sensitive are Britain’s inpayments and outpayments to the value of the British pound.Design/methodology/approach – The method is based on the bounds testing approach to cointegration and...

Purpose – In today’s increasingly globalized world, foreign direct investment (FDI) is a hotbed for discussion. Numerous studies have been undertaken regarding FDI, its determinants and benefits, but very few works provide importance to the effect of political risk on the inflow of FDI. Some...

Bangladesh Government is in the final stage of setting up one nuclear power plant with two units at Rooppur, Ishwardi, each having 1200 MW capacity, to be launched in 2023 to meet the energy shortage urgently. The financial cost of the project is US $12.65 billion. The primary purpose of this...

Political risk or insecurity have been perceived as major deterrents to the trade flow all around the globe. Using a global dataset of countries, drawn from both OECD and Non-OECD lists, this paper examines the role of twelve different types of political risks or insecurities which act as a...

The primary purpose of this article is to conduct the Fourier Nonlinear Unit Root Test to check Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for seven cryptocurrencies traded in seventeen countries from 2010 to 2021. The unit root test provides moderate support to the PPP hypothesis when we use each...

NSU is going to celebrate her recent success in THE ranking 2023. Many of you might be interested in exploring the underlying reasons for successful private-sector higher education in Bangladesh. This recently published research paper may give you some thoughts based on recent research funded by...

Previous research that investigated the relationship between the black market and the official exchange rate employed cointegration analysis to establish the long-run relationship and Granger causality to detect the short-run causality between the two rates (for a small number of countries). In...

In a recent article, with a strong theoretical argument but poor empiricalsupport, military spending was identified to be a determinant of realexchange rate or a factor causing the PPP to deviate from equilibriumexchange rate. The poor empirical results were mostly due to a small numberof...

Till date, few studies have attempted to study the impact of political risk on the purchasing power disparity, The studies conducted thus far have been restricted in terms of the political risk components used, countries examined and time span. We add to the existing literature by being the...