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Gabon
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Gabon assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Gabon perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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The Effects of Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention: GARCH Estimation and Change Point Detection
Hillebrand, Eric; Schnabl, Gunther - EconWPA - 2004
We study the impact of Japanese foreign exchange intervention on the volatility of the yen/dollar exchange rate since … show that the success of interventions varies over time. Measured on the total sample between 1991 and 2003 the estimation … results for the impact of foreign exchange intervention on the yen/dollar exchange rate volatility are inconclusive. Sub …
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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. It produces comparable price and volume measures of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure aggregates across...
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Exchange Rate – Relative Price Relationship: Nonlinear Evidence from Malaysia
Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Lau, Evan; … - EconWPA - 2003
Using nonlinear unit root tests developed by Kapetanios et al. (2003), we find strong evidence that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based Malaysian Ringgit – U.S. Dollar (MYR/USD) real exchange rates are nonlinear stationary, implying that MYR/USD nominal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124933
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Exchange Rate – Relative Price Relationship: Nonlinear Evidence from Malaysia
Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Lau, Evan; … - EconWPA - 2003
Using nonlinear unit root tests developed by Kapetanios et al. (2003), we find strong evidence that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based Malaysian Ringgit – U.S. Dollar (MYR/USD) real exchange rates are nonlinear stationary, implying that MYR/USD nominal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124941
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Exchange Rates Forecasting Model: An Alternative Estimation Procedure
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Sen, Liew Khim; Ping, Lim Kian - EconWPA - 2003
This study proposes an alternative procedure for modelling exchange rates behaviour, which is a linear combination of a long-run function and a short-run function. Our procedure involves modelling of the long- run relationship and this is followed by the short-run function. Among all the...
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Exchange Rate and Trade Balance Relationship: The Experience of ASEAN Countries
Liew, Khim-sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Hussain, Huzaimi - EconWPA - 2003
balance. By examining the trade balances between ASEAN-5 countries and Japan for the sample period from 1986 to 1999, this …, Thailand and the Philippines during the period of study, with respect to Japan. Thus, in order to cope with trade deficits, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119300
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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002
In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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Montenegro Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Amidst High Volatility : Systematic Country Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2016
This Systematic County Diagnostics is organized into six parts. The first part presents a brief overview of the country's recent socio-political and economic context. The second part examines the links between poverty, income distribution and economic growth, through the labor market, against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644567
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Indonesia Economic Quarterly, June 2010 : Continuity Amidst Volatility
World Bank Group - 2010
. Further large flows in March and April into liquid Indonesian financial assets reversed during the volatility in global … volatility in global financial conditions and uncertain developed economy outlook has increased the near term downside risks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645686