The author applies the IS-MP-IA model (Romer, 2000) to examine short run economic fluctuations for Latvia. The results show that equilibrium GDP is negatively associated with the expected inflation rate and the US federal funds rate and positively influenced by real depreciation and stock prices...

This article extends the IS-MP-IA model (Romer, 2000) and applies the GARCH process (Engle, 1982, 2001) to study output variations in Slovenia. Equilibrium GDP in Slovenia is found to have a positive relationship with real depreciation and the world output and a negative relationship with the...

The demand for real M2 in Estonia is positively influenced by real income, real stock prices and the depreciation of the kroon, and negatively associated with the deposit rate, the euro interest rate and the expected inflation rate. Hence, a higher euro interest rate would help raise Estonian...

This article considers potential impacts of the intended and unintended federal funds rates on the slope of the Treasury yield curve during 1987.M8 to 2006.M1. A third-order autoregressive model is employed in empirical work to correct for serial correlation. The positive significant sign of the...

This article applies the extended Box-Cox model to test functional forms of purchasing power parity (PPP) for nine new EU countries. It finds that the widely used double-log form for PPP can be rejected for eight countries except for the Czech Republic and that the unitary elasticity can be...

This article examines the potential impacts of monetary policy on the yield of Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS). A quadratic relationship is confirmed for all four types of TIPS. It suggests that Fed easing would not lower TIPS yields when the federal funds rate is below certain...