Purpose: This paper aims to examine herding behaviour among investors and traders in UK-listed Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) within three market regimes (low, high and extreme volatility periods) from the period June 2004 to April 2016. Design/methodology/approach: Observations of...

This paper analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on inflation. We develop an open economy monetary endogenous growth general equilibrium model, with financial intermediaries subjected to obligatory 'high' reserve ratio, serving as the source of financial repression. When calibrated to...

We examine the time-series relationship between housing prices in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. First, temporal Granger causality tests reveal that Los Angeles housing prices cause housing prices in Las Vegas (directly) and Phoenix (indirectly). In addition, Las Vegas housing prices cause...

This paper investigates the ability of the Dornbusch (1976) sticky-price model for the nominal metical-rand exchange rate, over the period 1994:1-2005:4 in explaining the exchange rate movements of Mozambique. Based on the model, the authors find that there is a stable relationship between the...