This paper examines the effect of financial deregulation on consumption expenditure in France during the period 1970-1993. A nonlinear model for consumption which allows for liquidity constraints through a time-varying parameter dependent on a proxy for financial deregulation is estimated using...

[eng] Transitory and permanent components of saving and investment: an empirical study of . international capital flows in Japan by Eric Girardin, Lucio Sarno and Mark P. Taylor . This paper presents an empirical study of the difference between the short- and the long-run saving-investment...

We assess the progress made by the profession in understanding real exchange rate behavior through a selective and critical, but nonetheless expository, review of the literature. Our reading of the literature leads us to the main conclusions that purchasing power parity might be viewed as a...