This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in Australia for the period 1950-2005. Cointegration and a vector error-correction model are used along with Granger causality tests, impulse response functions and forecast error...

There is a growing debate in the emerging market on the choice of an appropriate monetary or exchange rate policy that could lead to a sustainable economic growth. Inflation targeting has become one of these policy alternatives and has recently been implemented in some of the emerging markets in...

This paper estimates the causal relationships between energy consumption and income for India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, using cointegration and error-correction modelling techniques. The results indicate that, in the short-run, unidirectional Granger causality runs from energy to...

This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in Australia for the period 1950-2005. Cointegration and a vector error-correction model are used along with Granger causality tests, impulse response functions and forecast error...

This article deals with the analysis of the positive side of the foreign direct investments in the World´s economy. The importance of this research is derived from the significant role that can be played by foreign investments in industrialized and developing countries. Some countries are still...

The liberalization of FDI is deepening, so have the incentive schemes put in place by anumber of countries. Investment promotion agencies in these countries are seen to beactively promoting their countries as the best locations for foreign direct investment(FDI). With FDI emerging as a fovourite...

Vor dem Hintergrund der bisherigen theoretischen und empirischen Studien untersucht diese Arbeit vornehmlich die kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern.Die wachsenden Zuflüsse ausländischer...

Although the theoretical literature has identified various sizeable benefits from foreign direct investment inflows (FDI), the empirical literature has been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the rates of economic growth of host countries. One reason for this...

Disertacijoje nagrinėjamos tiesioginių užsienio investicijų (toliau – TUI) poveikio ekonomikos plėtrai vertinimo problemos. Kaip liudija įvairūs tyrimai, šalių ekonominės politikos, skatinančios užsienio kapitalo srautus, ne visada tinkamos: kai kuriais atvejais TUI neigiamai...

The thesis attempts to analyse the issues of assessment of the impact of foreign direct investment (hereinafter referred to as FDI) on economic development. According to the results of different research studies, countries’ economic policies stimulating the flows of foreign investment are not...