This article discuses the identification of Generalised Rational Expectations Models. It is shown that the necessary and sufficient conditions for local identification of the Quasi-Structural Form (Q-SF) derive from the first derivatives of the Non-Linear Instrumental Variables (NLIV) criterion....

The Article considers the specification of models used to test Purchasing Power Parity when applied to cross exchange rates. Specifically,conventional dynamic models used to test stationarity of the real exchange rate are likely to be misspecified, except when the parameters of each exchange...

Considerable attention has been directed in the recent finance and economics literature to issues concerning the effects on company failure risk of changes in the macroeconomic environment. This paper examines the accounting ratio-based and macroeconomic determinants of insolvency exit of UK...