This paper implements recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and Seemingly Unrelated regression (SUR) methods … October 2008, and from January 1996 to December 2007, our investigation shows that there is evidence for cointegration of oil … stock prices, except in Saudi Arabia. -- GCC stock markets ; oil prices ; panel cointegration analysis …

The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession …

rates ; causality-in-variance ; cointegration …

and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence …

little evidence for them. We argue that this outcome could be due to episodic failure of cointegration, possible two …

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a … spend-and-tax strategy, implying adjustments of fiscal behaviour. -- panel causality ; fiscal policy ; EU …

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …