Due to the lack of Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) at regional level, regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures have been traditionally adjusted using national PPPs. The simplifying assumption that all regions of a country have the same cost of living, and implicitly that there are no...

There has been intensive research in the literature of macroeconomics examining the nexus between finance, capital movements, and economic growth to explore the impact of each variable on other variables in the system. One might claim that these researches, needless to say, are seminal and have...