This paper examines the major economic and institutional factors underlying the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Chile during recent decades. It presents econometric evidence for the 1960-2003 period which indicates that market-based economic reforms and major changes in the...

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of ?-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and Paraguay were found to pair-wise converge according to the...

This paper investigated the causality relationship between electricity consumption and output performance in Nigeria and Ghana. We used annual data series from 1970 to 2006 to examine the causal relationship between output per worker, electricity consumption per worker, primary exports per...

During the last few years a large number of economist and institutions have expressed increasing concerns regarding to importance of confidence on economic variables. They believe that increase in economic agents’ confidence will affect economic variables positively. The main objective of this...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between FDI, GDP and the Euro/Hungarian Forint exchange rate in Hungary during the 1995-2012period. Although the question has great significance from an economic policy standpoint, there has been little to no empirical analysis undertaken so far in...

This paper investigates the existence of arbitrage between index linked bonds and conventional ones. Then in a second part we move to study empirically the long-run equilibrium relationship among two French bonds yields (The OAT yields and OATi ). In practice we estimated different VAR-based...

This study investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth for Saudi Arabia for the period 1989-2008 by using fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) approach. Financial market development has been represented by the effect of credit market development (bank...

The paper discusses the evolution of economic development whilst examining the time series properties with two structural breaks for the Libyan economy using annual time series from 1970 to 2007. Both the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and the Lee and Strazicich (2003) unit root tests are used to...

This paper investigates the long-run equilibrium relationship between the real private and public investment in Saudi Arabia by using ARDL cointegration tests. The finding shows the stable long-run relation between private investment and public investment. The results indicate that the...

Developing countries inherited weak and underdeveloped economies from colonial rulers. During the three decades (1950s, 1960s, 1970s) developing countries experimented with diverse development theories. During 1980s these countries faced current account and fiscal deficits problems. World Bank...