[PDF] Top 20 Determinants of West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)countries global export trade: do foreign reserves and independent exchange rates matter?

... The pooled equation coefficient estimate of the foreign reserve holding variable is significant but relatively inelastic; suggesting that the maintenance of adequate pooled reserves by W[r] ... See full document

... Does Foreign Aid inflow matter in West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)? Data from World Bank were sourced from ...on trade volume in selected ...on trade in ... See full document

... of exchange rate policy on the bi-lateral intra- WAMZ and global inter-WAMZ export trade, with a view to gauging its relative veracity among other ...bilateral exchange ... See full document

... of reserves holding, argue in favour of reserve accumulation that it appears that under certain conditions (externalities associated with international trade and/or various kinds of traps in which ... See full document

... effective exchange rate prompts GCC countries to hold higher ...When exchange rate volatility is high, central banks intervene by selling some of their foreign currency in a bid to reduce ... See full document

... Leone, trade being beneficial to its economy, very much depend on its balance of trade as suggested by economic theory whether it is surplus or ...Sub-Saharan African countries has recorded ... See full document

... of exchange rate regime is that countries must choose between one of two extremes, either a free-floating or a firmly fixed ...Asian countries that suffered from the currency crisis adopted either a ... See full document

... fix exchange rate for Macedonia is a more optimal choice in comparison with the unilateral euroisation and flexible exchange ...balance trade (export and imports) and ...on monetary ... See full document

... the foreign direct investment as well as statistically significant at the 1% ...of foreign investors to the member countries of the West African & Monetary Union (WAMU) ... See full document

... and export is taking place to developed counties as demand ...developed countries to meet the needs of the ...the foreign countries are net ...developing countries in an effort to take ... See full document

... ternational trade is the empirical determinants that were most often ...the determinants of FDI in Africa, [6] utilizes, among other variables, the GDP growth rate, illiteracy rate, the ratio of ... See full document

... the African tribal conception, in which the leader of a people could not be ac- cepted as the leader of several others, were enough to make the formation of new nations difficult, with states becoming politically ... See full document

... on, countries all over the World have been taking steps to improve multi- variate trade under the GATT, along with trying to make use of the contribution from regional ...the foreign trade has ... See full document

... The countries concerned by this case are Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea and ...a West African country would not support economic growth; on the contrary, it would contribute to slowdown the economic ...The ... See full document

... between foreign exchange reserves and consumer price index increase; If give LnCPI one unit impact, LnCPI will continue increasing and reach the maximum at t=2 period, this means that when inflation ... See full document

... and exchange rate Fane, ...other countries this will attract foreign capital and cause exchange rate to ...differential exchange rate between Euro area and a broad would bring ... See full document

... challenges countries face in meeting the ...the WAMZ countries has not been established in any previous ...member countries in the ...as WAMZ is concern is whether the capital markets ... See full document

... by exchange rate instability. While the Pula/Rand exchange rate have been stable over the period under review, the Pula/Dollar instability was obvious creating an environment of instability leading to ... See full document

... and export performance has been studied in a large number of theoretical and empirical papers globally, focusing on its regime, extent of volatility and nominal/real ...on export performance of developed ... See full document

... Their main results are that exchange rate appreciation and higher price level in the new EU members is associated with narrower inflation differential vis-à-vis the euro area, while fisc[r] ... See full document