We study price setting in a variable macroeconomic environment using a unique data set from the Brazilian CPI index of Fundação Getulio Vargas. Our primary data consist of a panel of individual prices for goods and services covering 100% of the CPI for the 1996-2008 period. During this period a number of important events produced substantial macroeconomic variability in Brazil: two emerging mar...

This study, examines the roles of macroeconomic uncertainty, political risk, as well as host country institutions, in affecting FDI inflows into African economies. The past few decades have witnessed a surge of FDI inflows to developing regions. However, FDI inflows to Africa still remain small when compared to other developing regions. What characteristics does Africa exhibit that deter FDI in...

The “Three Arrows” policies adopted by the current Abe administration are a combination of macroeconomic (monetary as well as fiscal) and microeconomic policies. Abe came up with the policy-mix in order to resolve two serious economic troubles that his administration faced when it assumed the top executive role in December 2012. First, since Japan’s asset bubble burst in 1990, the economy suffe...

a r t i c l e i n f o Firms in many developing countries cite macroeconomic instability and political uncertainty as major constraints to their growth. We conduct a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt to measure the impact of insuring microenterprises against this uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high, with a take-up rate of 36.7%. However, purchasing insuran...

Since long the argument has been that both bank specific and macroeconomic factors affect the nonperforming loans and the existing literature on macroeconomic variables suggests that many macroeconomic variables do strongly influence them. Over the last few years the literature that examines NPLs has expanded in line with the interest afforded to understanding the factors responsible for financ...