The last sixty years have seen international economic organisations maintain a position at the forefront of promoting economic growth and socioeconomic development. These organisations have not achieved as much against certain benchmarks, and several observers have accused them of being...

In this paper, we analyse Pakistan's political risks and events that have affected the country's stock markets since 1947. We collected data in the form of questionnaires from historians, economists, politicians, government officials, bankers and stock market analysts in Pakistan and make...

This study analyses the efficiency of the Turkish bank system over the period 2000-2005. The estimation showed that inefficiency decreases over the period under consideration and the analysis unambiguously indicates that the Turkish banking system has a large potential for improvement. The state...

This study aims to identify the impact of the economic sectors in the UAE on the non-oil GDP. We analyse the statistical data depending on Arithmetic Means, Correlation Coefficients, and Regression Analysis to test the validity of the proposed statistical model, and to find the impact of...

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth and to boost up the country's economic growth to very...

This paper studies the behaviour of the CZK/USD exchange rate based on four major models. Using the Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE) as a criterion, the IS-MP model performs best, followed by the monetary model, the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) model using the relative Producer Price Index...

Since mid-1980s, globalisation has been increasingly the centre of discussion. Especially, trade globalisation has taken the centre stage. However, there are no measures for determining globalisation. This paper provides some alternative globalisation indicators. In particular, we use the...

This paper examines the J-curve hypothesis for Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Applying the vector error correction model and the generalised impulse response function, this study finds that the trade balance reacts to real depreciation in several different patterns in the short run....

This study aims to identify the impact of the economic sectors in the UAE on the non-oil GDP. We analyse the statistical data depending on Arithmetic Means, Correlation Coefficients, and Regression Analysis to test the validity of the proposed statistical model, and to find the impact of...