This paper examines the validity of the purchasing power parity between each of the twelve new EU countries vis-à-vis the Eurozone. Using the Johansen cointegration methodology for a period that begins from the mid-1990s and allowing for a structural break for the countries that joined the EU...

(This paper is in Turkish) This study investigates the stability of the relationship between demand for real money, real income, and interest rates in Turkey using quarterly data for the period from 1988:I to 2005: IV. According to conventional stability tests the demand for money is subject to...

A test for the cointegrating rank of a vector autoregressive (VAR) process with a possible shift and broken linear trend is proposed. The break point is assumed to be known. The setup is a VAR process for cointegrated variables. The tests are not likelihood ratio tests but the deterministic...

This paper deals with the analysis of inflation in Latin America across the 20th century. We use annual data from 18 countries using a methodology based on fractional integration. However, given the structure of the inflation rates in these countries, we allow for the possibility of a structural...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the impact of China's export expansion on Malaysian monthly trading with to her 12 major trading partners over the liberalization era. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical framework comprises of both the export and trade balance models. Unit root...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effect of deregulation of government securities market on the cost of market borrowing of 14 major states in India. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical models explaining changes in interest rates on market borrowings of the Indian states under...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-run equilibrium relationship between developed, emerging and frontier markets of the Asia-Pacific region during January 2000 to June 2016. Design/methodology/approach Zivot and Andrews’ unit root test is used to examine the existence...

Oil economies in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) region, with geographical proximity to each other, are usually impacted by some common risk factors, which make their country risks closely correlated. This paper focuses on correlation between country risks and investigates the spillovers of...

This paper finds evidence that the Indian stock market has become weak-form efficient, off-late. We proceed by, first, locating structural breaks in the index using Bai-Perron's method for endogenous multiple structural changes. Four structural breaks are identified for the period 1991 to 2008...