The current book introduces an analysis on trade impediments and structural deformities that shape current world commodities. The case study is that of Arabic countries which represent considerable percentage of world's total area, resources and geopolitical conception. However, they still...

Using data for the Philippines, I develop and estimate a heterogeneous agent model to analyze the role of monetary policy in a small open economy subject to sizable remittance fluctuations. I include rule-of-thumb households with no access to financial markets and test whether remittances are...

This paper details the origin and development of the dependent economy model. The model is also known as the ‘Australian model' and the ‘Salter-Swan-Corden-Dornbusch model', but neither title adequately conveys the scope and sequence of contributions that were instrumental to its...

This paper examines the pattern of interaction among Asian exchange rates, and how the pattern changed before and during/after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The empirical tests are conducted using daily nominal exchanges rates based on the US dollar and the Japanese yen from several Far...

This paper studies the behavior of interest rate differentials in Mexico during the 1992-94 period. It shows that the currency risk premia is positively related to the share of peso denominated debt in total debt and that the magnitude of this effect is considerable. For every 1 percentage point...

This paper surveys the main theoretical approaches for analyzing movements in the current account of the balance of payments, from the Mundell-Fleming paradigm to modern intertemporal approaches. It discusses the main implications of these analyses for policymaking, highlighting that modern...

This paper examines the persistence of relative consumer price indices for 15 regions in Korea including 6 metropolitan cities and 9 provinces over the period of 1990-2016. In particular, we ask if relative regional price indices contain a common stochastic trend and find that they are not. We...

I introduce commodities and countries' different commodity trade structures into an otherwise standard two-country model to analyze international business cycles between the U.S. and commodity-exporting countries. In the model, only the foreign country (the commodity-exporting country) produces...

We study how time costs, combined with elasticity of substitution across home and foreign goods, can explain the home bias puzzle in a framework of flexible prices. Using a simple two-country model, we show that introducing time costs to an otherwise standard competitive model improves its...