The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors (i.e., population growth; urbanization, industrialization, exchange rate, price level, food production index and live stock production index) and renewable energy in Pakistan over a period of 1975-2012. In...

This paper estimates Costa Rica’s Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (ERER) using quarterly data from 1991 to 2003. Cointegration and Unit Root tests are used to determine if the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) applies. The results show that PPP does not stand. The ERER is an unobservable variable;...

The purpose of the study is to explore the determinants of foreign institutional investments in India through the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. Using quarterly time series data, the empirical analysis was carried out for the period from January 2004 to December...

This paper presents the rationale of comparative statics shows the relationships established between important concepts, such as abstract process, cause-effect assumptions, the static economic equilibrium and comparative statics. In turn, presents these categories from the perspective of the...

This study examines the monetary model of exchange rate in Nigeria, using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach over the period 1998Q1 to 2012Q2. The estimation results show that there is long run relationship among variables of the monetary model of exchange rate for Nigeria. That...

Purpose: The macroeconomic variables are crucial for any change in economy for a country. Any abrupt change among these variables has impact on the economy in various ways. In case of any change the regulatory authority take steps and make amendment in their policies that would put the economy...

Predicting currency movements is perhaps one of the hardest exercises in economics as it has many variables affecting its market movement. This study concerns with some of the usual macroeconomic variables which, in theory, are expected to affect the exchange rate between two countries. Indian...

Using two measures of private information and high-frequency transaction data from the leading interdealer electronic broking system Reuters D2000-2, we examine the association between exchange rate return and contemporaneous order flow and the predictability power of lagged order flow on the...

The issue of relationship between exchange rate and stock market is still not conclusive even though many studies have been done and the results are mixed. There is no theoretical consensus on the relationship between stock prices and exchange rates. Thus, this paper aims to examine the...

We examine the relationship between trade balance and net export with both, the official and real effective exchange rates on the J-Curve hypothesis and find evidence to support in favor of the hypothesis, coming from a panel data of 49 developing countries from Africa. Countries can improve...