The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal relationships between defence spending and economic growth using the Toda-Yamamoto approach to Granger causality test in the case of selected NATO countries for the period of 1949-2006. NATO countries spend biggest proportion of defence...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze cointegration and causality relationships between spot and futures markets in Turkish foreign-exchange markets. Design/methodology/approach – The research employs Bounds cointegration test and Toda-Yamamoto causality test to detect a possible...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze cointegration and causality relationships between spot and futures markets in Turkish foreign‐exchange markets. Design/methodology/approach – The research employs Bounds cointegration test and Toda‐Yamamoto causality test to detect a...

Asymmetric information is a factor that decreases the efficiency of markets. The aim of the study is to expose whether asymmetric information causes problems in credit markets. The monthly datas between 1986:01 – 2010:12 is analyzed with the causality tests (Toda ve Yamamoto,1995) to examine...

This paper investigates the relationship between reel macroeconomic variables and stock prices in Turkey. Consumption expenditures, industrial production index, employment level and fixed investments are used as indicators of real economic activity and consumption price index as an indicator of...