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This study addresses the issue of the presence of a unit root on the growth rate estimation by the least …
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This paper disaggregates energy consumption and GDP data according to end-use to analyze a broad number of developed and developing countries grouped in panels by similar characteristics. Panel long-run causality is assessed with a relatively under-utilized approach recommend by Canning and...
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Causal relationships in econometrics are typically based on the concept of predictability and are established in terms of tests for Granger causality. These causal relationships are susceptible to change, especially during times of financial turbulence, making the real-time detection of...
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Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...
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. Here we provide the necessary tools for EKC analysis by deriving estimation and testing theory for cointegrating equations … consider fully modified OLS estimation, specification tests based on augmented and auxiliary regressions, as well as a sub … modified estimation ; nonlinear cointegration analysis ; environmental Kuznets curve …
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This paper shows that the evolution of the level of Mexico real and real per capita output between 1895 and 2008 can be adequately described through a trendstationary model, affected by 4 structural breaks, which occurred at dates that seem to coincide with domestic institutional arrangements,...
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This research addresses important empirical questions regarding the relationship between natural gas exports and Egyptian economic growth by extending the Dirtsakis's model (Dritsakis, 2004, p. 1834) with the addition of the labor force into the model and further by addressing the issue in a...
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This article analyzes empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth. To do this we implement a threshold nonlinearity test that extends standard linear growth regression models to a dataset on...
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
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