IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jda/journl/vol.45year2011issue1pp339-358.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Nexus Between Inflation Rates and Institutional Rigidities in Bangladesh: An Overlooked Aspect for the Cause of Inflation

Author

Listed:
  • ABM Nasir

    (North Carolina Central University, U.S.A.)

Abstract

In this study, we argue that institutional rigidities contribute to the inflation rates in Bangladesh. Using annual data covering the period 1982-2005 and incorporating three new measures of institutional rigidities, we estimate an inflation model by ARDL and OLS techniques. The results do confirm our prediction that higher degree of institutional rigidities leads to higher inflation rate in Bangladesh. Evidence also suggests that inflation is unlikely to be "monetary phenomenon" in Bangladesh. The results are reliable and robust to the inclusion of alternative measures of institution, money supply, real economic activities, and estimation techniques.

Suggested Citation

  • ABM Nasir, 2011. "Nexus Between Inflation Rates and Institutional Rigidities in Bangladesh: An Overlooked Aspect for the Cause of Inflation," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 45(1), pages 339-358, July-Dece.
  • Handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.45:year:2011:issue1:pp:339-358
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_developing_areas/v045/45.nasir.html
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sazzadul Arefin, 2019. "Geographic Endowment, Corruption, and Economic Development," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 9(1), pages 1-32, March.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Inflation; Corruption; Bound testing approach;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.45:year:2011:issue1:pp:339-358. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Abu N.M. Wahid (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cbtnsus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.