Despite the fact that previous studies have extensively investigated the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth nexus, those studies have not considered the role of terms of trade as a proxy for international competitiveness and structural changes. This paper investigates the causal nexus...

This paper estimates price and income elasticities for bilateral trade equations between Sweden and her eight major trading partners for the period 1960-2001. The methodology used here is the likelihood-based panel cointegration recently developed in the literature. Evidence is found that...

This article focuses on the determinants of market performance in the car industry. Trade and market patterns are studied using firm-level international data. Econometric models are developed and evaluated for a sample of firms from the major producing countries for the period 1970–1985....

The aim of this study is to explore whether the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) equity markets are informationally efficient with regard to oil and gold price shocks during the period 2006-2008 using daily dollar-based stock market indexes dataset. This paper extends research literature related...

Few studies in the literature have dealt with the causality between fixed investment and economic growth. This study investigates the causal nexus of fixed investment and economic growth for a number of industrialized countries by constructing a vector autoregression (VAR) model for each...

In this paper we use the Johansen and Juselius cointegration technique t examine the long-run convergenCe between the trade balance and the terms o trade, using quarterly data from Sweden. The results show that the trade balance and the terms of trade are cointegrated in the long run and the...