Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of aggregate suicides in 15 OECD countries during 1960-2010 using an economic model where changes in the welfare of consumers play the critical role for determining the number of suicides. Design/methodology/approach The...

In this paper we propose to augment the traditional relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rates (RERI) by adding the stock market equilibrium condition to it. We introduce the relative dividend yield as the new information variable. In the empirical analysis we use recent...

We examine exchange rate pass-through into aggregate import prices for several industrialized countries in view of Taylor's (2000) suggestion that the degree of pass-through is dependent on importing country inflation. Extending the standard mark-up pricing model under monopolistic competition...