...Ibrahim Shaikh; Dinesh Gajurel; Muhammad Rashid; Basu Sharma Purpose Economic models highlight that migrant remittances contribute to the “Dutch disease” by appreciating the real exchange rate and reducing export competitiveness. However, empirical evidence demonstrates cases where remittance...

... (ECM) to study the inflationary effects of monetary and fiscal policies as well as exchange rate swings and sanctions intensification. Findings The authors find that increase in money supply, depreciation of nominal exchange rate, increase in fiscal deficit and intensification of sanctions...

...Oliver E. Ogbonna; Hyacinth E. Ichoku Purpose The experience of rising trade imbalance between Nigeria and its key trading partners in recent years motivated this study. Previous studies on this issue either ignored bilateral level or assumed that the effect of crude oil price and/or exchange rate...

... The authors focus on the capital misallocation effects, scale effects and labor misallocation effects. To this end, the authors study how real interest rate shocks, real exchange rate shocks, real wage shocks and changes in labor regulation affected TFP in major European countries over the last decades...

... and their financial markets experts to sovereign states. In this sense, this study investigates whether sovereign credit news issued by CRAs (measured by comprehensive credit rating (CCR) variables) affect the uncertainties about the exchange rate in the future (captured by the disagreement about exchange rate...

... 12 2019 08 12 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Commodity price fluctuation Stock of agricultural goods Sectoral inter-linkage Exchange rate Employment Commodity price fluctuation and its attendant...

...Salvatore Capasso; Oreste Napolitano; Ana Laura Viveros Jiménez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the long-term nature of the interrelationship between interest rate and exchange rate. Design/methodology/approach By employing Mexican data, the authors estimate a non-linear...

... economy under a flexible exchange rate. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a two-sector framework: one sector is traded and another is the non-traded sector that is subject to an effective demand constraint. The current account imbalance arises due to the discrepancy between production...

...Muhammad Ali Nasir; Justine Simpson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the implications of exchange rate depreciation for inflation targeting and trade balance of UK in the context of the Brexit epoch. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a time-varying structural vector...

... to set nominal wages through the bargaining process. The model also shows that the effectiveness of a competitive real exchange rate to promote growth is higher in countries where the share of labour in domestic income is also higher. Research limitations/implications This paper provides a coherent...

...Andrew J. Abbott; Glauco De Vita Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of a menu of country‐pair exchange rate regime combinations upon bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data from 27 OECD and non‐OECD...

...Ella Kavanagh Reveals that Ireland has experienced six major changes in exchange rate regimes over the period 1797 to today. Provides a historical perspective on this experience. Indicates that Irish nominal variables have been affected by the exchange rate regime and that membership of exchange...