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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
72
Citations
18244
World Ranking
427
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ronald MacDonald is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with an emphasis on specific subfields such as economics and econometrics, general economics, econometrics and finance, finance, philosophy, and general health professions.

Their work covers a range of topics including monetary policy and economic impact, global financial crisis and policies, fiscal policies and political economy, economic policies and impacts, hermeneutics and narrative identity, aging, elder care, and social issues, as well as health, medicine, and society.

Among their recent publications are:

  • THE CURRENCY CONUNDRUM FOR AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND, 2022, National Institute Economic Review
  • ADAM SMITH AND THE NEO-LIBERAL PARADIGM: ON THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF TRUST, AND REBALANCING CAPITAL, 2023, National Institute Economic Review
  • Identifying long-run relationships between the exchange rate, interest rates and stock prices, 2023, Applied Economics
  • The Term Structure of Exchange Rate Predictability: Commonality, Scapegoat, and Disagreement, 2025, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • The role of exchange rate for current account: A panel data analysis, 2020, EconomiA

Frequent collaborators in their research have included Paul Hallwood, Flávio Vilela Vieira, Shuo Cao, Huichou Huang, and Douglas Kai Tim Wong.

Ronald MacDonald's work has been published in venues such as the National Institute Economic Review, EconomiA, Journal of International Money and Finance, Applied Economics, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Exchange Rate Economics: Theories and Evidence

    Ronald MacDonald

  • Exchange Rate Economics: A Survey

    Ronald MacDonald;Mark P. Taylor

  • Exchange Rates and Economic Fundamentals: A Methodological Comparison of Beers and Feers

    Peter B. Clark;Ronald MacDonald;Ronald MacDonald;Ronald MacDonald

  • International Money and Finance

    Paul Hallwood;Ronald MacDonald

  • The monetary model of the exchange rate: long-run relationships, short-run dynamics and how to beat a random walk

    Ronald MacDonald;Mark P. Taylor;Mark P. Taylor

  • Concepts to Calculate Equilibrium Exchange Rates: An Overview

    Ronald MacDonald

  • The Monetary Approach to the Exchange Rate; Rational Expectations, Long-Run Equilibrium and Forecasting

    Ronald MacDonald;Mark P. Taylor

  • Long-Run Exchange Rate Modeling; A Survey of the Recent Evidence

    Ronald MacDonald

  • Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies: Taking Stock of the Issues*

    Balázs Égert;László Halpern;Ronald MacDonald

  • Panel unit root tests and real exchange rates

    Ronald MacDonald

  • Do Institutions Matter for Foreign Direct Investment

    Fathi A. Ali;Norbert Fiess;Ronald MacDonald

  • ESTIMATION OF THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE FOR SOUTH AFRICA1

    Ronald Macdonald;Luca Antonio Ricci;Luca Antonio Ricci

  • REGIONAL HOUSE PRICES IN BRITAIN: LONG-RUN RELATIONSHIPS AND SHORT-RUN DYNAMICS

    Ronald MacDonald;Mark P. Taylor

  • What determines real exchange rates?: The long and the short of it

    Ronald MacDonald

  • Testing for the long run relationship between nominal interest rates and inflation using cointegration techniques

    R. MacDonald;P. D. Murphy

  • Long-run purchasing power parity: is it for real?

    Ronald MacDonald

  • The long-run relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials: a panel study

    Ronald MacDonald;Jun Nagayasu

  • Floating Exchange Rates: Theories and Evidence

    Ronald MacDonald

  • EXCHANGE RATE BEHAVIOUR: ARE FUNDAMENTALS IMPORTANT?

    Ronald MacDonald

  • The Role of the Exchange Rate in Economic Growth: A Euro-Zone Perspective

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  • Exchange rate economics

    Ronald MacDonald;Mark P. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Taylor
Mark P. Taylor Washington University in St. Louis
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Luca A Ricci
Luca A Ricci International Monetary Fund
Balázs Égert
Balázs Égert Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development
Lukas Menkhoff
Lukas Menkhoff German Institute for Economic Research
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Casper G. de Vries
Casper G. de Vries Erasmus University Rotterdam
David Peel
David Peel Lancaster University
David Power
David Power University of Dundee
Michel Beine
Michel Beine University of Luxembourg

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