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Sustainability of current account deficit in Turkey

Karahan, Özcan - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 13 (2020) 2, pp. 62-69

Purpose: This study aims to examine the sustainability of the current account deficit in Turkey for the quarterly data between 2003 and 2018. Besides, some policy implications are made to ensure the sustainability of the current account deficit in Turkey’s economy. Design/methodology/approach:...

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Purchasing Power Parity in High Inflation Countries : A Cointegration Analysis of Integrated Variables with Trend Breaks

Zhou, Su - 1998

This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for four high-inflation countries. The method of Zivot and Andrews (1992) is employed to detect the time-series behavior of the exchange rates and consumer price indices of these countries. We find that these variables...

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Are the current accounts of Asian-5 economies mean-reverting? : new evidence from Fourier panel stationarity tests

Husein, Jamal; Kara, S. Murat; Pier, Chuck - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-11

This study offers a novel examination of the mean-reversion properties of the current account balances, expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the Asian-5 economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. While prior studies mainly employed traditional unit-root tests, our...

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Forecasting Macedonian business cycle turning points using Qual VAR model

Petrovska, Magdalena; Krstevska, Aneta; Naumovski, Nikola - Narodna Banka na Republika Makedonija - 2016

This paper aims to assess the usefulness of leading indicators in business cycle research and forecast. Initially we … indicators performs in forecasting turning points of the Macedonian business cycle by employing the Qual VAR approach of Dueker … (2005). In continuation, we evaluate the quality of the selected indicators in pseudo-out-of-sample context. The results …

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A Discrete Time Series Model for High Frequency Financial Data

Mitchell, Heather Eunice - 2012

In this paper a flexible model for correlation in high frequency data is proposed, which maintains the data's discrete nature and captures features such as asymmetry and excess zeros. The model uses an a theoretical approach based on that of an ARIMA model. This model works with price changes...

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The twin deficits hypothesis and reverse causality : a short-run analysis of Peru

Sobrino, César R. - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 18 (2013) 34, pp. 9-15

This study examines causation between the current account and the fiscal surplus and fiscal spending for a commodity-based economy, Peru. Using quarterly data for the open economy, the outcomes reject the twin deficits hypothesis. Instead, the evidence points strongly to reverse causality, that...

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Current account deficit in Turkey : cyclical or structural?

Kara, Hakan; Sarıkaya, Çağrı - 2014

Turkey's high current account deficit has been at the core of macroeconomic policy discussions in recent years. Quantifying the role of cyclical factors in driving the current account fluctuations is essential for designing an appropriate policy response and evaluating the impact of policy...

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60 %, -4 % and 6 %, a tale of thresholds for EU fiscal and current account developments

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2021

We study the relationship between the budget balance and the current account balance for European Union(EU) countries, using quarterly data from1995 to2020. Through the use of panel Granger causality tests and a panel SUR model, we conclude that the relationship is bi-directional for the EU...

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Empirical estimates for the Brazilian total imports equation using quarterly national accounts data (1996-2010)

Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Schettini, Bernardo Patta - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 2, pp. 250-271

This paper presents econometric estimates for the Brazilian aggregate imports over the period 1996-2010. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that uses the Brazilian quarterly national accounts with this goal in mind. Besides estimating a demand equation (canonical model), as it...

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Detecting multiple breaks in long memory : the case of US inflation

Hassler, Uwe; Meller, Barbara - 2011

Multiple structural change tests by Bei and Perron (1998) are applied to the regression by Demetrescu, Kuzin and Hassler (2008) in order to detect breaks in the order of fractional integration. With this instrument we tackle time-varying inflation persistence as an important issue for monetary...

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