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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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Stock market volatility is a matter of great interest for researchers and policy makers. The present study examines the volatility of daily, weekly and monthly stock returns in view of economic growth rate. It investigates the hypothesis that high economic growth rate tend to stabilize the...
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This study investigates the causality relationship between defense expenditures and Non Oil economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1970-2012. Using Unit root tests, Johansen’s co-integration test and Granger Causality test. In this paper we found the existence of bi-directional...
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Tourism is one of the growing industries in Sri Lanka in the post war development. Its contribution to the Sri Lankan economy is vital in the same context. The objective of this study is to examine the causal relationship between economic growth and tourism earning in Sri Lanka during 1977-2012....
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Japan’s remarkable postwar growth spurt in the 1960s would not have been possible without Japan’s alliance with the United States. Policy makers, political scientists, economists, historians, and journalists on both sides of the Pacific have made this claim, but no study has yet tested it...
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progress. At the time of independence after centuries of stagnation, even decline, India's confidence and society stood shaken … the global stage in the near future. The plan of this paper is as follows. It provides a historical backdrop for India … contributing to the acceleration in India's growth rate. Section IV outlines India's performance in external trade and section V …
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The paper looks at the India's privatization experiment which began in the early 1990s. The data used for this study …
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caused a significant improvement in India's economic performance. This paper critiques this view. It argues that despite …
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