A noteworthy characteristic of empirical studies on the economic uncertainty index is that very few published papers depend on normative analysis. Therefore, normative analysis cannot be used to refute the precision of the economic uncertainty index; the lack of precision is simply the outcome...

This paper investigates the dynamic of relationship between real money balances and real income, lending rates, interest rates and inflation rate in ASEAN-5, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore and Thailand. Using sample period for each country spans from 1987 month one through...

A notable feature of the empirical research on the interest rate autonomy is that very few studies seek to determine whether the use of interest rate policy to fine-tune the exchange rate misalignments has been undermined by sterilised foreign exchange intervention. To overcome this deficiency,...