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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Exchange Rate Management and Economic Growth: A Brewing Crisis in Pakistan

Lahore Journal of Economics
In this article it is argued that Pakistan has had a consistently overvalued exchange rate and the policy with regards to management of the exchange rate has undergone a significant change in recent years.
Naved Hamid, Azka Sarosh Mir
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Monetary Policy in East Asia: The Case of Singapore [PDF]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore conducts policy by adjusting the Singapore dollarfs effective exchange rate so as to achieve macroeconomic goals for the economyfs inflation rate and output gap.
Bennett T. McCallum
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules in a Small Open Economy with Financial Frictions: The Case of Korea

East Asian Economic Review, 2011
This paper first shows an empirical result of VAR that Korean economy has experienced a severe economic contraction to an exogenous country spread shock.
Yongseung Jung
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The Monetary Transmission Mechanism and the Evaluation of Monetary Policy Rules [PDF]

This paper shows that different models of the monetary transmission mechanism lead to surprisingly similar choices about monetary policy rules. In particular, simple rules in which the interest rate reacts to inflation and real output seem to be robust ...
John B. Taylor
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Price Premiums for Single‐Name and Compound‐Name Geographical Indications in Swiss Cheese Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geographical indications (GIs) have become increasingly important in agri‐food markets, especially in Europe. For Swiss cheese imports and exports, we analyze whether GIs are associated with higher trade prices. We find that price premiums can be obtained for both exports and imports. However, this is only the case for cheeses with single name
Judith Irek
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”Fear of Floating” in Albania and Economic Growth

Romanian Economic Journal, 2015
This study endeavours to understand the volatility of the exchange rate in Albania and to see if there are sign of “fear of floating” present. De jure Albania currently applies a flexible exchange rate regime. Traditionally the main argument in favour of
Besart Kadia
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Monetary Policy Independence during Reversal Phases of Domestic-Foreign Interest Rate Differentials

East Asian Economic Review
This study examines how the independence of monetary policy changes in situations where the interest rate differential between domestic and foreign rates inverts, utilizing the trilemma indices.
Kyunghun Kim
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The Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Exchange Rate Misalignments. [PDF]

, 2006
A common feature of exchange rate misalignments is that they produce a divergence between traded and non-traded goods sectors, leading to pressures on monetary policy makers to react. In this paper we develop a small open economy model which features traded and non-traded goods sectors with which to assess the extent to which monetary policy should ...
Simon Wren-Lewis, Campbell Leith
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