This research aims to investigate the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia during the period of 1995–2009. The Engle- Granger cointegration and Granger causality tests are used in order to analyse the causal relationship between energy...

This paper aims to investigate empirically the impact of FDI on economic growth for Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan over the period 1997-2010. The Johansen cointegration and Granger causality tests are used in order to analyze the causal...

This study tries to present the current picture of investment climate of Georgia. This work, we believe, will also fill the knowledge gap in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) research on Georgia. The analysis focuses on major obstacles faced by investors. We first identify and then...

This paper surveys the particularities of monetary policy as a powerful governmental weapon in countries with transitional economies. The paper combines the theoretical analysis with empirical studies. Because in transitional economies the particular channels of monetary policy are diverse,...

Decline in public interest to "pure" economic theory is disturbing fact. This paper considers the main macroeconomic hypothesis through their implementation in practice - macroeconomic policies in the USA, in post-soviet countries (Russia and Georgia) and Turkey as well. Stabilization policy of...

Uluslararası sermaye serbestliğinin derecesini test etmek için yatırım ve tasarruf arasındaki ilişki literatürde sıkça incelenmiştir. Yapılan çalışmalarda yatırım ve tasarruf arasında yüksek korelasyon bulunması sermayenin serbest olmadığını destekleyen bir delil olarak...

Bu çalışmada, 17 ülkenin bütçe açıklarının sürdürülebilirliği dönemlerarası bütçe kısıtı yaklaşımı altında incelenmiştir. Johansen-Juselius eşbütünleşme yöntemi kullanılarak gelir ve faiz ödemelerini içeren gider arasındaki uzun dönemli ilişki test...

This paper re-examines the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis in which the endogenously determined break points are incorporated in thirteen major Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) countries by using official and black market exchange rates data over 1970-1998. We utilize Lagrange...