In 2013, Summers (2015) revived the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic picture faced by developed economies. This dissertation assesses this claim. Taking into consideration the inputs from several authors, w…
This dissertation investigates three inter-related issues in Indonesian Capital Markets. The first issue is to examine the dynamic linkages and information transmission of stock prices and macroeconomic variables using the cointegration analysis and the innovation accounting of …
This study investigates the dynamic interactions among key aggregate macro variables in three South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. In particular, several monetarist's hypotheses and relative strength of supp…
This dissertation analyzes the nature of price setting behavior and inflation dynamics in Mexico and Turkey. The first chapter provides an overview, of the dissertation. The second chapter presents econometric estimates of the relative importance of forward versus backward looki…
Irrigation water shortages have lately been a main area of concern for policy makers and planners in Pakistan. Current literature on the country's water resources predicts an alarming situation regarding the availability of irrigation water in the future due to declining water t…
The main objective of this study is to provide information that may help the Canadian chicken (turkey) industry in finding additional opportunities in the international market. Currently, the international market is regulated with trade restrictions (different countries have dif…
If there is one thing economists agree on, probably it is that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Money also is thought to be related to the output level of the economy. The consensus among economists, however, does not go any further, and views differ on the characteristics of…