This study tests the purchasing power parity hypothesis for four South Asian economies and China by employing a recent nonlinear test of stationarity. Besides testing the CPI based PPP, we have also used PPI based real exchange rate in the analysis. The results indicate that nonlinear tests are...

Purpose: This paper first examines how changes in the real effective exchange rate and its volatility affect the exporting activities of firms. Next, it investigates whether exchange rate volatility (EXRV) affects the export behavior of financially constrained and unconstrained firms...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is threefold. First, it aims to empirically study whether firm-specific/idiosyncratic uncertainty, macroeconomic/aggregate uncertainty and political uncertainty have an adverse influence on firms' investment decisions in Pakistan. After establishing this, it...

This study tests the purchasing power parity hypothesis for four South Asian economies and China by employing a recent nonlinear test of stationarity. Besides testing the CPI based PPP, we have also used PPI based real exchange rate in the analysis. The results indicate that nonlinear tests are...