The study explores the nonlinear linkage between government expenditure and government revenue using quarterly data from the first quarter of 1965 to the second quarter of 2019. Linear models are first deployed to determine the order of integration of the variables, cointegration, granger...

This study offers a novel examination of the mean-reversion properties of the current account balances, expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the Asian-5 economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. While prior studies mainly employed traditional unit-root tests, our...

Most studies on the effects of debt on growth, particularly following the global financial crisis, have focused mainly on the advanced and emerging countries. Our focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) derives from the recent experience of slow growth at a time of rising debt in the sub-region. This...