May 2023

Do exchange rates influence US poultry exports?

The United States is the world’s largest poultry producer and exports about 18% of its total poultry production. With the global demand for poultry products projected to rise further, understanding key factors in world trade is essential for better trade.  We study the influence of key demand factors, that is, exchange rate, poultry price and income of importing country on US poultry products. We focused...

Author(s): Asirvatham Jebaraj and Mayowa Olaoye

May 2023

The determinants of public debt in the Gambia: Estimates using the autoregressive redistributed lag (ARDL) bound cointegration technique

The main objective of this paper is to examine the key determinants of public debt in the Gambia. To achieve this objective, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARD) method was employed to examine the impact of short-run and long-run selected macroeconomic variables as well as a government effectiveness variable in determining the public debt level of The Gambia during the period 2000 to 2019. The results reveal that...

Author(s): Saikouna Jarju and Matarr Njie

May 2023

Capital, risk and efficiency tradeoffs in Cameroonian banking

This paper analyzes the relationship between capital, risk and efficiency for a sample of 10 Cameroonian banks between 2014 and 2020. To reach the authors’ target, they specify a system of equations and estimate it using the two stage least squares panel data estimator technique. The empirical analysis shows that increases of bank capital do not reduce risk taking in Cameroonian commercial banks. Moreover, cost...

Author(s): Eze Eze Donatien and Otombaye Allandigar