In the article we examine what determines the Polish sovereign Credit Default Swap dynamics. We consider not only measures of changes of the economic situation of the country, but also the impact of the international data. We find that the dynamics of the Polish sCDSs is very vulnerable to the...

We develop an econometric modelling framework to forecast commodity prices taking into account potentially different dynamics and linkages existing at different states of the world and using different performance measures to validate the predictions. We assess the extent to which the quality of...

In this study we model the monthly and the daily US, Euro Zone, UK and Australian exchange rates in India using the symmetric (sGARCH) and the asymmetric (GJR-GARCH and EGARCH) volatility models with the normal, the student t and the skewed student t error distributions. We also investigate the...

Sri Lankan tourism market consists all regions of the world. The Asian region is the highest tourist producer to Sri Lankan market. Short term forecasting plays a vital role in the process of operational level decision making in the tourism industry. It is a known fact that the expectations of...

We use the monetary model of exchange rate determination to generate in-sample and out-of-sample forecasts of the Rupee-Dollar exchange rate. The assumptions of flexible prices and maintenance of Purchasing Power Parity implies that the domestic price level and the exchange rate are endogenously...

Official Chinese GDP growth rates have been remarkably smooth over the past decade, in contrast with alternative Chinese economic data. To better identify Chinese business cycles, we construct a sparse partial least squares (PLS) factor from a wide array of Chinese higher-frequency data,...

This draft is a summary of the paper entitled: Forecasting Fuel Prices with the Chilean Exchange Rate. In that paper we show that the Chilean exchange rate has the ability to predict the returns of oil prices and of three additional oil-related products: gasoline, propane and heating oil. The...

Assessing the global economic outlook is a fundamentally important task of international financial institutions, governments and central banks. In this paper we focus on the consequences of the rapid growth of emerging markets for monitoring and forecasting the global outlook. Our main results...

The purpose of this study is to select the most accurate time series model for forecasting international tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka and generate short-term forecasts that add some benefits for policy makers and decision makers in both the public and private tourism sectors in Sri Lanka....

Evidence in favor of the monetary model of exchange rate determination for the South African Rand is, at best, mixed. A co-integrating relationship between the nominal exchange rate and monetary fundamentals forms the basis of the monetary model. With the econometric literature suggesting that...