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Letter
Government deficit and “The World’s smallest macroeconomic model” by Paul Krugman
by Yasuhito Tanaka
Abstract
In his "The World’s smallest macroeconomic model” (Krugman (1999)), Paul Krugman argued that under the assumption of price rigidity, a shortage of money supply leads to underemployment or recession, so increasing money supply can eliminate underemployment and restore full employment. But, how do we increase the money supply? I will show that we need a government def [...] Read more

Letter
The Driving Force of CO2 Reduction in China’s Industries
by Lu Liu  and  Chengzhao You
Abstract
We employ the joint production decomposition model to conduct a full decomposition of CO2 emission among 36 industrial sectors in China from 1998 to 2011, under the framework of growth accounting. The results show that: (1) the average CO2 emission increases at an annual rate of 3.01%, and production technology progression is the main driving force, while the transformation tow [...] Read more

Letter
Analysis of the Mediating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty Affecting Commercial Bank Credit
by Juan Meng  and  Zhe Zhou
Abstract
We analyze the annual microdata of China's 100 commercial banks from 2007 to 2018 using the mediating effect analysis method, analyze the negative impact of economic policy uncertainty on the credit scale of commercial banks, and then verify the intermediary effects of the operational risks and short-term capital liquidity of commercial banks in the impact of economic policy un [...] Read more

Journal Article
Electronic Payments System and Banking Industry’s Return in Nigeria: A Time-Varying Granger Causality Approach
by Abubakar Sani Ibrahim , John Olu-Coris Aiyedogbon  and  Obumneke Ezie
Abstract
The paper is motivated by the growth of the electronic payments system and its relevance in enhancing the banking industry's earnings. Consequently, the paper examines the causal relationship between the electronic payments system and the banking industry's returns in Nigeria. The paper offers some important contributions to the literature involving the use of an approach that [...] Read more

Journal Article
African exchange rates amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
by Turki Rashed Alshammari
Abstract
The study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on African exchange rates, employing a panel dataset over the period 2016-2022 from 13 African economies and employing pooled OLS estimator. The findings reveal a noteworthy positive correlation between COVID-19 levels and exchange rates within the region. However, this association necessitates deeper exploration due to its multifac [...] Read more