This paper examines the consumption-smoothing mechanisms of Thai agricultural households using data from the Thai household socio-economic panel surveys conducted from 2005 to 2007. The study finds that households heavily depend on their saving mechanisms when smoothing their consumption in the...

This paper applies Johansen¡¯s cointegration and error-correction model to examine the relationships among a set of economic reform policies, the contribution of external factors, and Thailand¡¯s economic growth. The Johansen¡¯s cointegration results reveal that fiscal reform, openness,...