Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to generate three types of forecasts, namely, historical, ex-post and ex-ante, using the world famous Box-Jenkins time series models for motor, mash and mung prices in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – The models on the basis of which these...

This study investigates how the additional capital and liquidity requirements of Basel III would increase the resilience of banks. In particular, using panel data from 2007 to 2014, we examine the resilience of banks in the BRICS economies. Our results suggest that a 10% increase in capital...

Despite gold having no official role in the global monetary system, major central banks still hold large gold reserves and emerging country central banks such as the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) have significantly increased their gold holdings in recent years. Interestingly, Chinese commercial...