Precedent studies have designed a novel financial mechanism ensuring others access and exploit intellectual capital while protecting the right holder’s profit. By the mechanism, the national central bank would fund the generation and adoption of intellectual capital, e.g., a license fee, and...

The U.S. dollar's nominal effective exchange rate closely tracks global financial conditions, which themselves show a cyclical pattern. Over that cycle, world asset prices, leverage, and capital flows move in concert with global growth, especially influencing the fortunes of emerging and...

Halving the US current account deficit as a share of GDP is likely to impose a burden of $2,350 per capita on the United States, which explains why US policymakers want to postpone adjustment. The rest of the world relies on the economic stimulus of a widening US external deficit, which explains...

Following the latest comprehensive working paper proposal for the Intellectual Property Currency (IPC) at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4160537, we have built a scenario showing a specific example of the IPC framework for better understanding it. The scenario describes a quantitative story...

There has been a longstanding concern about protecting intellectual capital. The legislation awards a generator of the capital with a finite period of a monopoly right to access it.Under the protection, a right holder may exclusively exploit its intellectual capital and assign or license the...

This paper investigates the short-run dynamic impact of foreign currency shocks on the deviations of Latvian lats vis-a-vis US dollar market spot rate from the parity set via lats' peg to SDR for the period from 1994 to 2000. The analysis is based on the standard theoretical model of dynamic...

The study develops a standard representative-agents’ New Keynesian model for macroeconomic analysis in a developing African economy. Using Bayesian estimation techniques and Ghanaian dataset, the core objective of the paper is to determine the best suited monetary policy rule for Ghana. After...

We estimate monetary policy reaction function for Ghana to comprehend the policy behaviour of Bank of Ghana (BOG) over the years using Generalized Methods of Moment technique within wavelet multiscale domain. The empirical results show an overriding evidence of asymmetry monetary policy rule in...

For the academic audience, this paper presents the outcome of a well-identified, large change in the monetary policy rule from the lens of a standard New Keynesian model and asks whether the model properly captures the effects. For policymakers, it presents a cautionary tale of the dismal...

his essay places the first blueprint for the Intellectual Property Currency (IPC) funding that the International Central Bank for Intellectual Properties (ICB/IP) would issue to finance the implementation of intellectual capital and the generation of the next one. The blueprint formulates the...