The export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH) is an interesting field of research in applied economics. The paper investigates the role of education on the ELGH in India during 1951-2009. Using cointegration and error correction model technique, it finds the feedback effect between education and...

The study examines the nexus between government spending and economic growth in the seven SAARC countries, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, for the period 1970-2007. Using panel cointegration and panel causality, the paper finds that government spending...

This paper investigates statistical relationships between economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade openness, using panel-VAR methods in relation to ten significant OECD countries: Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between...

The paper investigates the casual relationship between government expenditure, GDP and exports for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the period between 1960 and 2010. Using cointegration and Granger causality, the results suggest that there exists...

This paper examines the long-term relationship between financial development, social development and economic growth in 15 Asian countries for the period from 1961 to 2012. Using principal component analysis to construct development indices and a panel vector auto-regressive (VAR) model to test...

The paper explores the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the trade-led growth hypothesis in three countries, namely Australia, Canada and Israel for the period 1965-2009. The empirical investigation is based on panel co-integration and causality tests. The results provide clear support...

This paper investigates the impact of stock market development, money supply and inflation on economic growth in India during the post-globalisation era of the 1990s, especially during the period from 1994 to 2012. Using autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach, the study...

The paper investigates the causal relationships between penetration rate, an indicator of telecommunications development, and economic growth of 34 OECD countries during the period 1960-2010. The panel model is used in this study. Based on the panel cointegration test results, is found that...

This paper examines dynamic interactions between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth using panel-data cointegration and causality tests. We present our results for 34 Eurasian countries for which previous research on this subject has not hitherto been performed. We find that that...

This article investigates short-run as well as long-run relationships, and also causality relationships between banking sector development and the economic growth of India for which empirical analysis is performed using annual data. We use a new data set of banking sector development indicators...