This paper characterizes business cycle phenomena in a sample of 22 developed and developing economies using a univariate Markov regime switching approach. It examines the efficacy of this approach for detecting business cycle turning points and for identifying distinct economic regimes for each...

It is investigated the cointegration and causality relationship of the biomass energy consumption and economic growth in the transition countries by the Panel ARDL method and Pedroni cointegration analysis. Analyzed countries are gathered under two group. For Group 1, Pedroni panel cointegration...

In this study, it is discussed whether this crisis is the hegemony war of USA or not, by moving from the idea that the crisis experienced recently can be considered as a great depression. In this discussion, the theoretical structure of the great depression and the historical dimension of the...

The paper aims to investigate the economic relationship between inflation and domestic debt. In countries that experience high inflation, the inflationary process fed on increasing costs of domestic debt. As a result, the increasing debt to GDP ratios led these countries to borrow at higher...

Persistent current account deficits were observed in some developing countries that are received substantial foreign capital in the last decades. This has raised the issue of sustainability and increased the volume of studies about the measures of sustainable current account deficits in the...