Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Possibilities of Trade Expansion among the SAARC Countries: Evidence from the Macro-Economic and Regional Trade Link Models
Published 2005-02-01The paper examines the macroeconomic structure of SAARC countries-Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka- individually with a view that this would help policy makers and planners to analyse the impacts of different ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Central Bank Interventions in the Yen-Dollar Spot Market
Published 2004-07-01We test the effectiveness of Bank of Japan (BOJ)’s foreign exchange interventions on conditional first and second moments of exchange rate returns and traded volumes, using a bivariate EGARCH model of the Yen/USD market ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Consumption Risk-sharing within Australia and with New Zealand
Published 2005-05-01quantify how output risks are smoothed within Australia, and between Australia and New Zealand. About 85 percent of shocks were smoothed within Australia through credit and capital markets, with fiscal policy a source of ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Prices and Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
Published 2005-04-01Poverty is an ongoing issue in Ethiopia. The identification of policy options to address the problem primarily requires that poverty be measured accurately. One of the most important ingredients in the measurement of poverty ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Growth and Business Cycles with Imperfect Credit Markets
Published 2003-07-01We study the process of growth and business cycles in an open economy which has access to international financial markets. The financial market imperfection originates from costly state verification and a positive probability ...Open AccessWorking Paper