Many emerging economies in Asia and elsewhere have been plagued by sharp booms and bust cycles of capital inflows and outflows. The heavily managed exchange rate, current account improvement, and surge of capital inflows inevitably placed significant upward pressure on the domes…
Ancient commercial transactions were often based on the payment of a quantity of silver. This silver was measured out in a two-pan balance to an agreed upon mass. The balance compared the mass of the silver with the mass of known weights in the other pan. Many such balance weigh…
The present study was designed to look at the changing role of metals in the Early Bronze Age economies of North Syria and Anatolia through an analysis of textual, typological, and metallurgical data. This objective is achieved through the study of metal artifacts, specifically …
The purpose of this study is to investigate the main determinants of inflation in the developing oil-export based economies and to see if the main determinants of inflation are similar to other developing and developed economies. This study attempted to include all six Gulf Coop…