 | Commodity Prices and Exchange Rate Volatility: Lessons from South Africa’s Capital Account Liberalization Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Elena Dumitrescu, Andreas Freytag, Marc Quintyn. Release Date:June, 2012 We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980-2010. Our main findings is that prior to capital account liberalization the more...
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| Natural Resources, Volatility, and Inclusive Growth: Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Mustapha K. Nabli. Release Date:May, 2012 This paper takes stock of the economic performance of resource rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past forty years. While those countries have maintained high levels more...
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 | Beyond the Curse : Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources Author/Editor: Amadou N Sy, Rabah Arezki, Thorvaldur Gylfason. Release Date:January, 2012 Countries with an abundance of natural resources, many of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, often show a record of relatively poor economic performance compared with non-resource-rich countries. The more...
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 | The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices : A Reappraisal Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman, Hongyan Zhao. Release Date:December, 2011 This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in international trade data from the United States over the period 2002 to 2011. The more...
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| Are there Spillover Effects From Munis? Author/Editor: Bertrand Candelon, Rabah Arezki, Amadou N. R. Sy. Release Date:December, 2011 This paper studies the spillover effects both within the bond markets for individual U.S. states and between the latter and the market for U.S. Treasury securities. We perform the Forbes and Rigobon more...
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| What Drives the Global Land Rush? Author/Editor: Harris Selod, Klaus W. Deininger, Rabah Arezki. Release Date:November, 2011 This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with more...
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| Rainfall, Financial Development, and Remittances : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Markus Bruckner. Release Date:July, 2011 We use annual variation in rainfall to examine the effects that exogenous, transitory income shocks have on remittances in a panel of 42 Sub-Saharan African countries during the period 1960-2007. Our more...
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| Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions Author/Editor: Kazim Kazimov, Kirk Hamilton, Rabah Arezki. Release Date:June, 2011 We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during more...
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| Food Prices and Political Instability Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Markus Bruckner. Release Date:March, 2011 We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main more...
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| Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers : Evidence From the European Debt Crisis Author/Editor: Bertrand Candelon, Amadou N. R. Sy, Rabah Arezki. Release Date:March, 2011 This paper examines the spillover effects of sovereign rating news on European financial markets during the period 2007-2010. Our main finding is that sovereign rating downgrades have statistically more...
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