In this thesis, a new univariate-multivariate portmanteau test is derived. The proposed test statistic can be used for diagnostic checking ARMA, VAR, FGN, GARCH, and TAR time series models as well as for checking randomness of series and goodness-of- fit VAR models with stable Paretian errors....

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjami pagrindiniai Baltijos šalių – Lietuvos, Latvijos ir Estijos makroekonominiai rodikliai. Aprašytos Baltijos šalių ūkio dinamikos ir raidos tendencijos. Atlikta pirminė statistinių duomenų analizė, kurios metu nustatyti pagrindinių Baltijos...

Modern societies are facing energy and environmental challenges. In a framework of climate change, escalating global energy consumption, declining fossil sources and uncertainties regarding future supply, one key question of the 21st century is how to secure a clean and efficient power...

The law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit has been at the center of theoretical and empirical debates within Marxian political economy ever since the publication of Volume III of Capital. An important limitation of this literature is the absence of a comprehensive econometric analysis...

The study seeks to re-investigate the role of price, income and health awareness in the evolution of South African cigarette demand over the period 1996 to 2006. At first glance, rising cigarette prices appear to have played an important role in reducing cigarette consumption over the sample...

This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial...

Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to agricultural data for the United Kingdom from 1953...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the time series properties of 26 macroeconomic variables in Papua New Guinea (PNG) over the period 1970-2006. Design/methodology/approach - Both unit root and stationarity tests without a structural break and the Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit...