A large number of studies in Nepal have been conducted to identify the factors responsible for inflation based on the different theories of inflation. Although these studies provide insight into the determinants of inflation in the country, there remain some unanswered questions: • Can...

Starting from a set of data series including a number of four macroeconomic indicators and a linear multifactorial model, the validity of the regression model is ascertained, and also the nature and intensity of lonks existing between analyzed indicators. The results achieved with the help of...

By representing a system of budget shares as an approximate factor model we determine its rank, i.e. the number of common functional forms, or factors and we estimate a base of the factor space by means of approximate principal components. We assume that the extracted factors span the same space...