Purpose: The purpose is to assess the asymmetric effects of exchange rate changes on the trade balance using data from African nations. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is based on the most recent development in asymmetry cointegration and error-correction modeling. Findings: While...

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Australian equity market is informationally efficient in the semi-strong form with regard to interest rates and the exchange rate shocks during the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – There is evidence...

Since the introduction of the news-based policy uncertainty measure, a few studies have looked at its impact on trade flows by using panel models and aggregate trade data. In this paper we consider the short-run and long-run response of 61 2-digit U.S. exporting industries to Korea and 49...

A comprehensive measure of economic uncertainty, known as "Policy Uncertainty", which was constructed by the Economic Policy Uncertainty Group by searching popular newspapers for uncertain terms associated with economic factors and its impact on macro variables, is gaining momentum. Although...

Very recently, the link between exchange rate volatility and trade flows has entered into a new direction in which researchers assess the possibility of asymmetric response of trade flows to a measure of exchange rate uncertainty. We add to this literature by estimating a linear and a nonlinear...

This study examines whether the long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) holds in transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Russia) using monthly data over the 1995 - 2011 period. We apply a recently introduced panel stationary test, which...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess asymmetric effects of exchange rate changes on Thailand’s trade balances. Design/methodology/approach: The design methodology is based on the nonlinear ARDL approach of Shin et al. (2014). Findings: The authors find strong support for the...