This article proposes a new portmanteau test based on sample partial autocorrelations. The test statistic is asymptotically χ2 under the null hypothesis of randomness. Simulation results indicate that the proposed test, which utilizes Anderson's mean and variance formulae of sample partial...

Sample partial autocorrelations are one of the main statistical tools of time series analysis. They are especially useful in identifying the order of an AR(p) process. In this note, we show via a simulation experiment that normalizing each sample partial autocorrelation with Anderson's (1993a)...

This paper presents exogeneity tests for the existence (or absence) of a behavioural relationship between financial deepening and economic growth for three high performing economies: Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. The findings suggest that weak, strong and super exogeneity assumptions are...

Tests based on normalized autocorrelation coefficients have been commonly used by applied researchers to examine the randomness of economic and financial time series. This paper investigates via Monte Carlo simulation the finite-sample properties of these tests for randomness, paying special...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptual adequacy of the learning economy and its ability to describe the modern globalised economy. It is argued that unlike many fleeting catchwords and phrases found in economics, the learning economy represents a superior conceptual and...

The aim of the paper is to redress the almost exclusive supply-side focus of the existing studies on the learning economy. We first survey those strands of the economic literature that highlight the importance of the demand-side for long-term growth, following which we narrow our focus to a...