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Dr Rakesh Bissoondeeal

Rakesh Bissoondeeal

Lecturer

Economics and Strategy Group

Teaching

  • BS2241: Principles of Macroeconomics
  • BS2242: Principles of Microeconomics
  • BS3354: Macroeconomic Policy

Research Interests

  • On the improvement of the specification of money demand functions.
  • The implications of the specification of money demand functions for inflation and exchange rate forecasting.
  • The effect of the stock market on the demand for money and the economy.
  • FDI and its links to macroeconomic variables.
  • Modelling and forecasting of macroeconomic variables.

Journal Publications

 

  • Bissoondeeal, RK, Karoglou, M and Gazely, AM (2011)  Forecasting the UK/US exchange rate with Divisia monetary models and neural networks, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 58, 127-152.

  • Bissoondeeal, RK, Jones, BE, Binner, JM and Mullineux, AW (2010)  Household sector money demand for the UK, Manchester School, Supplement, 90-113.

  • Bissoondeeal, RK. (2009). Trade Balance and Real Exchange Rate: New Evidence from Mauritius-UK Trade, Global Business and Economic Review, 11, 167-179.

  • Binner JM, Bissoondeeal, RK, Mullineux AW, Jones B and Elger, T (2009) Admissible Monetary Aggregates for the Euro Area. Journal of International Money and Finance, 28, 99-114.

  • Bissoondeeal RK, Binner JM, Elger T (2009) Monetary Models of Exchange Rates and Sweep Programs, Applied Financial Economics, 19, 1117-1129.

  • Bissoondeeal, RK (2008) Post-Bretton woods evidence on PPP under different exchange rate regime, Applied Financial Economics, 18, 1481-1488.

  • Bissoondeeal RK, Binner JM, Gazely A and Bhuruth M (2008) Forecasting Exchange Rates with Linear and Nonlinear Models, Global Business and Economic Review, 10, 414-429.

  • Binner JM, Bissoondeeal RK, Elger T, Gazely AM and Mullineux AW (2005)  A Comparison of Linear Forecasting Models and Neural Networks; An Application to Euroinflation and EuroDivisia, Applied Economics, 37, 665-680.

  • Binner JM, Bissoondeeal RK and Mullineux AW (2005) A Composite Leading Indicator of the Inflation Cycle for the Euro Area, Applied Economics, 37, 1257-1266.

Employable Graduates; Exploitable Research