Using annual data and both time series and a variety of panel econometric techniques for 22 OECD countries from the period of 1980-2016 we find that the euro countries as a group, and many of them as individual countries, too, are mainly dependent on their real economic performance regarding...

During the pre-EMU period changes in real effective exchange rate or faster-than-trading-partners growth rates Granger caused changes in trade balance in most of the EMU-12 countries. However, our data driven article provides evidence that after the adoption of euro, these Granger causalities...

We incorporate the division of income between capital and labor into analysis on the relationship between inequality and growth. Using historical data, we document that changes in the top 1 % income shares are positively associated with subsequent growth of per capita GDP when the capital share...

In this paper we propose to augment the traditional relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rates (RERI) by adding the stock market equilibrium condition to it. We introduce the relative dividend yield as the new information variable. In the empirical analysis we use recent...

In this paper we augment the famous Fisher hypothesis by introducing foreign interest rate and exchange rate variables to a tradional Fisherian test equation for the Finnish money market interest rates. Theoretically this augmentation is based on the use of uncovered interest rate parity for...