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Energy use and economic growth in Africa : a panel Granger-causality investigation

Arouri, Mohamed; BenYoussef, Adel; M'Henni, Hatem; … - 2014

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is...

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Energy expenditure in Egypt : empirical evidence based on a quantile regression approach

Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe - 2021

This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of...

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3-Step analysis of public finances sustainability : the case of the European Union

Afonso, António (contributor); … - 2008

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel...

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Sources of real exchange rate volatility and international financial integration : a dynamic GMM panel approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange … and monetary) can account for volatility of real exchange rates in emerging economies, with international financial … emerging countries. -- emerging economies ; real exchange rate ; volatility ; financial integration ; GMM method ; dynamic …

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Oil prices and GCC stock markets : new evidence from smooth transition models

Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Ben Naceur, Samy; Kanaan, … - 2018

Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price...

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On the exchange rate and economic policy uncertainty nexus : a panel VAR approach for emerging markets

Abid, Abir; Rault, Christophe - 2020

We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …

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Oil price fluctuations and exchange rate dynamics in the MENA region : evidence from non-causality-in-variance and asymmetric non-causality tests

Nouira, Ridha; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, Christophe - 2018

dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries …) to examine the presence of volatility spillover between oil prices and exchange rates return series. The econometric … rates, and ii) there is significant evidence of volatility spillovers from oil markets to exchange rate markets in the …

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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-Connectedness approach

Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024

-exporting countries. Firstly, we estimated the total static spillover index based on vector autoregressive (VAR) models. Secondly, we … contagion spillover volatility by focusing on a sample of major oil-exporting and oil-importing countries using daily data from …; during COVID-19; and during the Russian‒Ukrainian war. Our results confirm the persistence of volatility for the series …

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