Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the monetary policy transmission mechanism for the Fiji Islands using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model for the period 1975 to 2005. Design/methodology/approach – The SVAR model investigates how a monetary policy shock –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the monetary policy transmission mechanism for the Fiji Islands using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model for the period 1975 to 2005. Design/methodology/approach – The SVAR model investigates how a monetary policy shock –...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the monetary policy transmission mechanism for the Fiji Islands using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model for the period 1975 to 2005. Design/methodology/approach: The SVAR model investigates how a monetary policy shock - defined as a temporary...

Purpose Investigates the influence of society, harmonization and market orientation on the level of non-mandatory disclosures in a developing country context - Fiji. Design/methodology/approach Theoretically, this paper uses legitimacy theory. A content analysis of the non- mandatory disclosures...

The Fiji Islands economy is widely held to be constrained by a lack of market and transport infrastructure. Such infrastructure problems can reduce the efficiency of markets and result in wider than optimal disparities in food prices, both between markets and over time. In this paper we use...

The goal of this paper is to examine evidence of stock price clustering on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, located in Fiji, and explore its determinants. We find that stock prices cluster at the decimal of 0 and 5, with almost half of prices settling on these two decimals. Upon investigating...