Pakistan Economic and Social Review - Lahore

PAKISTAN ECONOMIC and SOCIAL REVIEW

School of Economics, University of the Punjab, Lahore
ISSN (print): 1011-002X
ISSN (online): 2224-4174
Abstract

This study tries to empirically investigate two theoretical propositions for Pakistan's economy. The first one is the Keynesian output gap and its deterministic impact on the inflation and the second one is the impact of real interest rate gap on inflation proposed by Wicksell. ARDL approach has been utilized to identify the association among the specified series during selected sample period 1974 Q1 to 2017 Q4. The natural rate of interest and potential output are extracted using Uni-variate Unobserved Component Model. The results are suggestive of weak association between inflation and interest rate gap in the short run while strong association has been found in case of output gap. Further, a long run co-integration is found existent among the inflation, interest rate gap and output gap.

Author(s):

International Institute of Islamic Economics, International Islamic University, Islamabad

Pakistan

  • waqqas.qayyum@iiu.edu.pk

BABER AMIN

Lecturer

International Institute of Islamic Economics, International Islamic University, Islamabad

Pakistan

  • baber.amin@iiu.edu.pk

SHAHID ADIL

Director

Punjab Economic and Research Institute (PERI), Government of the Punjab, Lahore – Pakistan

Pakistan

  • shahidadil313@hotmail.com

Details:

Type: Articles
Volume: 58
Issue: 2
Language: English
Id: 605dbccb162fc
Pages 333 - 353
Published December 31, 2020

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