This paper discusses the choice of an optimal external anchor for oil exporting economies, using optimum currency area criteria and simulations of a simple model of a small open economy pegging to a basket of two currencies. Oil exporting countries .in particular those of the Gulf Cooperation...

The theoretical valuation model has been shown to be mathematically equivalent to a price-earnings approach to stock valuation. The theoretical model explicitly includes estimates of long-run dividend (or earnings) growth. Because the price-earnings ratio approach is equivalent, it also...

This paper reviews the experience of the use of computable equilibrium models. The range of issues on which CGE have had an influence is quite wide, and includes structural adjustment policies, international trade, public finance, agriculture, income distribution, and energy and environmental...