This study examines the long-run relationship between government expenditures and revenues series for Romania. The available quarterly data for these variables covers 1995 - 2007 period. Due to the large economic turbulences in 2008 and 2009 the database will not consider these years. After...

This paper will demonstrate what china was doing, is doing and will do for its economic expansion during and after global crisis. Many thoughts and theories about Chinese economic reforms are analyzed. The road map and goal of Chinese economic growth are examined and outlined in this paper. How...

This paper tests for long-run output convergence between a sample of eight Latin American countries and over the study period 1900-2003. The key contribution of this paper is in terms of the econometric methodology where non-stationarity of log real per capita income differentials is tested...

This paper theoretically analyses the measurement of capital flight scale, and the factors that affect capital flight. Then the basic equation of capital flight is improved by introducing three lemmas. -- capital flight ; equation ; capital control

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

In this study, we used the PSTR (panel smooth transition regression) model to investigate the nonlinear relationship between beta (systematic risk) and returns (world market excess returns) for net oil export and net oil import groups. We set the volatility of world market excess return as the...

In this paper we study the presence of calendar anomalies in the main Latin- American stock markets, for the 1993 to 2007 period. The literature has shown that the detection of those effects may depend on error distribution assumptions (Baker et al., 2008), and that their existence could be due...