This paper focuses on the analysis of the long-run response of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) to political risks and tests whether non-economic variables have an impact on RER in 31 emerging and developing countries. We use annual data from the International Country Risk Guide database over the...

Competitiveness and economic growth in the digital economy of Asian countries -- Experimental Democracy: Lessons from Sri Lanka -- Pakistan-United States commodity trade and Asymmetric S-Curve: Evidence from 41 industries -- Bank efficiency across Asian countries -- On the macroeconomic linkages...

This article assesses the impact of the RMB-dollar exchange rate and volatility on U.S. agricultural exports to and imports from China. Two measures of volatility are employed: one based on the moving standard deviation of the real RMB-dollar rate, the other a GARCH-based measure which yields...

Since the advent of revolution in Iran, the Iranian rial has lost its nominal and real values by more than 40 times. What could explain this decline? In this paper, I identify the decline in relative productivity between Iran and her seven major trading partners as the major cause of the decline...

This paper focuses on the analysis of the long-run response of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) to political risks and tests whether non-economic variables have an impact on RER in 31 emerging and developing countries. We use annual data from the International Country Risk Guide database over the...

Conventional wisdom states that currency depreciation in oil-producing countries are contractionary because demand effects, limited by the prevalence of oil exports priced in dollars, are more than offset by adverse supply effects. Iran, however, has experienced a rapid increase in non-oil...