Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways in the last two decades. Along with other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking and today central banks, to maintain credibility, respond contemporaneously to structural shocks that might make inflation deviate from the target...

Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways during the last two decades . Along with the other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking, and the central banks respond contemporaneously to structural shocks that are expected to make inflation deviate from the future targets....

This paper describes how to specify, estimate, and test multipleequation, fixed-effect, panel-data equations in Stata. By specifying the system of equations as seemingly unrelated regressions, Stata panel-data procedures worked seamlessly for estimation and testing of individual variable...

This paper examines whether the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing standard augmented gravity model as well as stochastic frontier gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and...

This paper shows that the estimates in the spot return regression in the foreign exchange markets may not convey valid information if exchange rates are generated from the present value model with the near unit discount factor and unit root fundamentals. The main reason is that the present value...

These routines support the diagnosis of groupwise heteroskedasticity and cross-sectional correlation in the context of a regression model fit to pooled cross-section time series (xt) data. Copyright 2001 by Stata Corporation.