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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. (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. Forecasting Exchange Rates with Linear and Nonlinear Models (2008), Global Business and Economic Review, 10, 414-429

  • Bissoondeeal RK, Binner JM, Elger T, (forthcoming) Monetary Models of Exchange Rates and Sweep Programs, Applied Financial Economics

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

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

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