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The study finds the impact of foreign direct investment on human capital in Pakistan. It uses foreign direct investment, economic growth rate and government expenditure on education as independent variables and human capital index as dependent variable. ADF, PP, Ng-Perron and Zivot-Andrews unit...
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During last two decades, broadband gained an integral stature in digital infrastructure of countries around the globe. The investigation of broadband and economic growth nexus has been scarce for Asian countries, Mehmood and Mustafa (2014). This paper re-examines the broadband-growth nexus for...
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Non-performing loans has been a limiting factor in smooth growth of commercial banking. To augment the literature in this dimension, this paper subjects the findings of Mehmood et al. (2013) to rigorous statistical treatment and reexamines the relationship found therein. It empirically tests the...
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This study is an attempt to revisit the causal relationship between coal consumption and economic growth in case of Pakistan. The present study covers the period of 1974–2010. The direction of causality between the variables is investigated by applying the VECM Granger causality approach. Our...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of prior year firm’s performance on subsequent year firm’s corporate governance mechanism. We used board size, CEO–Chairman combined structure and audit expenditure as a firm level corporate governance mechanism. The panel data of...
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This study deals with the question whether financial development reduces CO2 emissions or not in case of Malaysia. For this purpose, we apply the bounds testing approach to cointegration between the variables. We establish the presence of significant long-run relationships between CO2 emissions,...
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This study is an attempt to revisit the causal relationship between coal consumption and economic growth in case of Pakistan. The present study covers the period of 1974-2010. The direction of causality between the variable is investigated by applying the VECM Granger causality approach. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111258
This study deals with the question whether financial development reduces CO2 emissions or not in case of Malaysia. For this purpose, we apply the bounds testing approach to cointegration for long run relations between the variables. The study uses annual time series data over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113240