Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) traps heat from the sun, and thereby prevents oceans from becoming frozen solid to keep the earth habitable. CO 2 emission also stimulates global warming and increases the pace of climate change. For such contradictory influences, researchers across the globe have...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors of growth of a developing country such as China. Because of the existence of domestic distortions, the traditional approach of using the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) to represent economic growth of the economy is not appropriate. This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to simulate the function of foreign trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and regional gross domestic product (GDP) in China, explore how these two variables affect regional GDP together and provide evidence to export‐led growth (ELG) and FDI‐led...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present a methodology for the decomposition of economic growth by industry which allows interindustry comparisons. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the growth decomposition methodology developed by Ivanov and Ivanov and Webster for tourism...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence that the U‐shaped relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) observed in the past literature using a panel of data is not a consequence of longitudinal forces, as has been...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the integrational properties of real GDP for 125 countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies the Kwiatkowski et al. univariate test and a KPSS‐type univariate test that accounts for multiple structural breaks – a test procedure...

Purpose This study aims to explore the effect of Saudi Vision 2030 and its government initiatives on macroeconomic variables related to housing. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study used an empirical–analytical approach. Based on secondary data, a set of hypotheses was contrasted...

Purpose This paper aims to empirically examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors and housing prices in Malaysia from 1991 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach This study was based on annual macroeconomic data from 1991 to 2016. For the model that was constructed, house prices were...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamics between real gross domestic product (GDP), foreign earnings, development assistance and debt servicing in Bangladesh, 1973‐2008, with the incorporation of a structural break after 1990. Design/methodology/approach – A vector...