Nahuis, Richard, Parikh, Ashok.
Unemployment rates as well as income per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why...
Parikh, Ashok, Van Leuvensteijn, Michiel.
The objectives of this paper are to examine the traditional determinants of interregional migration between regions of Germany after reunification in 1989. The period considered is 1993-95 as the...
Modelling Real Exchange Rate Behaviour: A Cross-Country Study (1998)
Ashok Parikh, Geoffrey Williams
INTRODUCTION The real exchange rate index is often considered to be indicative of international competitiveness and is used as a guide to monetary and exchange rate policy. In a highly competitive...
Are Exchange Rates Determined By Macroeconomic Factors? (1998)
Geoffrey Williams, Ashok Parikh, David Bailey
INTRODUCTION Economic models often rely upon relaionships between macroeconomic variables for the determination of exchange rates. For example, with flexible exchange rate regimes, changes in balance...
Modelling the Behaviour of Exchange Rates in the EMS (1997)
Parikh, Ashok, Καρφάκης, Κωνσταντίνος, Karfakis, Constantinos
Exchange Rate Convergence and Market Efficiency (1994)
Καρφάκης, Κωνσταντίνος, Karfakis, Constantinos, Parikh, Ashok
Uncovered Interest Parity for Major Currencies (1994)
Καρφάκης, Κωνσταντίνος, Karfakis, Constantinos, Parikh, Ashok
A Co-integration Approach to Monetary Targeting in Australia (1993)
Καρφάκης, Κωνσταντίνος, Karfakis, Constantinos, Parikh, Ashok
Price distortions and resource use efficiency in a Pakistani province (1993)
ALI, FARMAN, BAILEY, DAVID, PARIKH, ASHOK
The objectives of this paper are to test the hypotheses of technical and price efficiency through estimating translog profit functions using the 1987–1988 farm level survey data from the North West...
How mobile is capital within the European Union?
The key result of the tax competition literature is that governments set inefficiently low tax rates on income from internationally mobile production factors. Therefore, there is a case for...
Nominal Exchange Rate, Cointegration and Uncovered Interest Parity
The objectives of this study are to test the hypothesis of (modified) uncovered interest parity with risk premium for the dollar-pound exchange rate over the period 1974-87 using monthly data. The...
The European Monetary System and Various Tests of Policy Convergence
Ashok Parikh, David Bailey, David Lovatt
It is now widely known that most economic time series of nominal and real exchange rates, money supplies, nominal and real interest rates, price levels and annual rates of inflation possess the...
Factor Mobility and Regional Disparities: East, West, Home's Best?
Unemployment rates as well as incomes per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why...
A Regional Analysis of Technical Change in Australian Manufacturing.
Doucouliagos, Hristos, Parikh, Ashok
Manufacturing is an important sector to many Australian regional areas. Technical change is important to the economic performance of manufacturing and improvements in competitive advantage. In this...
Probit with heteroscedasticity: an application to Indian poverty analysis
This study argues that in limited dependent variable models, when there is heteroscedasticity, a probit model with a heteroscedastic structure should be estimated. The problem is illustrated using...
"Do Fiscal Deficits Influence Current Accounts? A Case Study of India"
This paper examines the effects of fiscal deficits on the current account deficits in the Indian economy. In many developing countries, fiscal deficits are mostly financed through monetization,...
Uncovered Interest Parity Hypothesis for Major Currencies.
Karfakis, Costas I, Parikh, Ashok
The objectives of this paper are to examine the nominal uncovered interest parity hypothesis for three major currencies against the U.S. dollar using the monthly data for the period 1974-89....
Factor Mobility and Regional Disparities: East, West, Home’s Best?
Unemployment rates as well as incomes per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labor mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why...
A Cointegration Approach to Monetary Targeting in Australia.
Karfakis, Costas I, Parikh, Ashok
Cointegration analysis between real money (M3), output, interest rates and the effective exchange rate indicates the existence of a cointegrating vector which can be used to stabilize nominal GDP in...
Theory and Practice of Decentralized Planning Procedures.
Chander, Parkash, Parikh, Ashok
The paper surveys the theory of decentralized planning procedures, dealing with price-guided, quantity-guided and mixed procedures. Informational and incentive properties of the various procedures...
Household Consumer Expenditure Inequalities in India: A Decomposition Analysis.
Mishra, Padmaja, Parikh, Ashok
The objectives of this study are to decompose household consumer expenditure inequalities in India by regions (states) and sectors (urban-rural) for the years 1977-78 and 1983 based.on the National...
Has liberalization affected profit margins in Indian Industry?
Uma S. Kambhampati, Ashok Parikh
In this article, we analyse the determinants of firm-level profit margins in Indian manufacturing. The model we estimate is rich in its dynamic characterization allowing as it does for lagged terms,...
The paper estimates both long-run reserves and long-run money demand equations using the multivariate cointegration approach. An economic model is constructed, based on the monetary approach to...
Fertilizer Consumption in Bangladesh: Tobit Analysis of Farm Level Data
The objectives of this paper are to test four hypotheses in the context of Bangladesh fertilizer demand using tobit estimation on farm survey data of 457 farms. The hypotheses tested are: (a) Are...
Internal Migration in Regions of Germany: A Panel Data Analysis
Ashok Parikh, Michiel Van Leuvensteijn
The objectives of this paper are to examine the traditional determinants of interregional migration between regions of Germany after reunification in 1989. The period considered is 1993-95 as the...
Factor Mobility and Regional Disparities: East, West, Home's Best?
Unemployment rates as well as income per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why...
How Different Are the Determinants of Population versus Labour Migration in Germany?
Van Leuvensteijn, Michiel, Parikh, Ashok
This paper studies whether population migration data can be used to answer questions on labour mobility between regions. Using regional data of the Statistisches Bundesamt for population and labour...
Disciplining firms: the impact of trade reforms on profit margins in Indian industry
Uma S. Kambhampati, Ashok Parikh
The paper analyses the effects of increased trade exposure on the profitability of firms in Indian industry. While trade reforms are often expected to decrease profit margins as firms struggle to...
Interregional labour mobility, inequality and wage convergence
Ashok Parikh, Michiel Van Leuvensteijn
The objectives of the paper are to examine the determinants of interregional labour migration for German regions using the data on gross flows of labour movements across regions. This is one of the...
The objectives of this study are to examine the impact of liberalization on price elasticities of imports at a commodity level for broad commodity groups and at an aggregate level for the Indian...
Price Distortions and Resource Use Efficiency in a Pakistani Province.
Ali, Farman, Bailey, David, Parikh, Ashok
The objectives of this paper are to test the hypotheses of technical and price efficiency through estimating translog profit functions using the 1987-88 farm level survey data from the North West...
Labour mobility and regional disparities: the role of female labour participation
Sjef Ederveen, Richard Nahuis, Ashok Parikh
Labour mobility, European Union, Panel data methods, F22, J61, C33,
Labour Mobility and Regional Disparities: The role of female labour participation
Sjef Ederveen, Richard Nahuis, Ashok Parikh
Unemployment rates as well as income per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why...
Parikh, Ashok, Stirbu, Corneliu
This is a study of 42 developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in which we first examine the impact of trade liberalisation on economic growth, investment share of GDP, openness, trade...
The objectives of this paper are to study the impact of liberalisation on trade deficits and current accounts of developing countries. It is expected that trade liberalisation would promote economic...
liberalization, panel data, dynamic, terms of trade, oil
The Market Place for Ideas: An Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Academic Journals
Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Parikh, Ashok
econometrics, experimental techniques, economics of science