Exchange rate forecasts are generated using some popular monetary models of exchange rates in conjunction with several estimation techniques. We propose an alternative set of criteria for evaluating forecast rationality which entails the following requirements: the forecast and the actual series...

Background: External debt is the loan amount borrowed from the international level,payable with interest and principal. It is the major source of financing budget deficit ina developing country. Debt accumulation for productive investment is a viable strategyfor long-term development. To escape...

An MLE of the unknown parameters of co integrating vectors is presented for systems in which some variables exhibit higher orders of integration, in which there might be deterministic components, and in which the co integrating vector itself might involve variables of differing orders of...

Regime shifts in different economic time series may be interconnected in various ways, some of which are investigated within a Markov-switching modeling framework. We derive restrictions implied by the lead-lag relationship and the conditional independence, estimate the restricted models, and...

Economic historians have been concerned with the evolution of international capital markets over the long run, but empirical testing of market integration has been limited. This paper augments the literature by investigating long- and short-run criteria for capital mobility using time-series and...

This study investigates the influence of relevant macroeconomic variables on unemployment in the Philippines. Specifically, it aims to: find a coefficient that would characterize the relationship of the between unemployment and GDP using a standard cointegration approach; investigate relevant...

Price stability is one of the major goals of monetary policy and the key indicators of macroeconomic stability. Pursuing of price stability is primary to long-run growth and development; it should be the concern of every economy. This study examine the factors in determining inflation in...

This study investigates asymmetry in the impact of domestic inflation drivers in the Baltic States, focusing on the output gap and unemployment gap. We aim to reveal how positive and negative changes in these economic activity indicators affect the inflation rate by employing a nonlinear...

A number of recent studies have attempted to test propositions concerning "long runt" economic relationships by means of frequency-domain time series techniques that concentrate attention on low frequency co-movements of variables.The present paper emphasizes that many of these propositions...