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Openness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : Time Series and Cross-Country Analyses

Sanusi, Aliyu Rafindadi - 2016

This paper presents empirical evidence from a cross-section sample of thirty six Sub-Saharan African countries and time-series sample of selected seven. The evidence suggests that countries in the region that open generally tend to grow faster than those that are closed. However, the...

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Political Reforms and Public Policies: Evidence from Agricultural Protection

Olper, Alessandro; Falkowsk, Jan; Swinnen, Johan - 2009

This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a dataset on global agricultural distortions over 50 years (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the period 1955-2005). We employ both difference-in-differences regressions and...

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Inference on Nonparametrically Trending Time Series with Fractional Errors

Robinson, Peter M. - 2009

The central limit theorem for nonparametric kernel estimates of a smooth trend, with linearly-generated errors, indicates asymptotic independence and homoscedasticity across fixed points, irrespective of whether disturbances have short memory, long memory, or antipersistence. However, the...

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The Relationship between Trade, FDI and Economic Growth in Tunisia : An Application of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model

Belloumi, Mounir - 2015

The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness and economic growth in host countries remains one of the most important issues in the economic literature and met with renewed interest in recent years mainly for countries suffering from unemployment problems and lack of...

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Trade and competitiveness between Turkey and the EU : time series evidence

Utkulu, Utku; Seymen, Dilek - 2004

The paper basically aims to clarify the level of price competitiveness of the Turkish firms towards the EU Single Market in aggregate level. Thus it naturally examines the demand for exports and imports for Turkey in relation to the EU. In order to model the trade between Turkey and the EU, we...

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Imperfect competition, returns to scale and productivity growth in Australian manufacturing : a smooth transition approach to trade liberalisation

Oczkowski, Edward A.; Sharma, Kishor - 1999

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Imperfect competition, returns to scale and productivity growth in Australian manufacturing : a smooth transition approach to trade liberalisation

Oczkowski, Edward A.; Sharma, Kishor - In: International economic journal 15 (2001) 2, pp. 99-113

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Globalization and relative wages : some theory and evidence

Francois, Joseph F. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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An alternative conditional asymmetry specification for stock returns

Brännäs, Kurt; Nordman, Niklas - 2001

The paper advances the log-generalized gamma distribution as a suitable generator of conditional skewness. Based on the NYSE composite daily returns an asMA-asQGARCH model along with skewness dynamics is estimated. The results indicate a skewness that varies between sizeable negative skewness...

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A Bayesian analysis of unobserved component models using Ox

Bos, Charles S. - 2011

Estimation of the volatility of time series has taken off since the introduction of the GARCH and stochastic volatility … unobserved stochastic volatility, and the varying approaches that have been taken for such estimation.In order to simplify the … comprehension of these estimation methods, the main methods for estimating stochastic volatility are discussed, with focus on their …

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