For decades, the conventional wisdom for a developing nation striving to achieve an impressive economic growth has been to carve a niche in the global marketplace. However, empirical findings of various research studies on the “export-led growth†hypothesis do not provide a solid...

The hypothesized trade-off relationship between inflation rate and unemployment rate has been known as the “Phillips curveâ€. Though the Phillips curve has played an important role in the decision-making process on macroeconomic policy, there have been critics who doubted the existence...

This study investigated stationary process in real per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in nine ASEAN countries, namely, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It employed both the ‘first generation' and the ‘second...

This paper chose Singapore as a case study to investigate whether population growth can contribute to economic development. It employed four different single-equation tests for cointegration, namely, 1) ordinary least squares, 2) fully modified ordinary least squares, 3) canonical cointegration...

This paper employs a comprehensive set of “state-of-the-art” unit root tests, including the autoregressive neural network (ARNN) unit root test (Yaya et al. 2021; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics), to investigate unemployment hysteresis in five European countries: France, Italy, the...

This paper initiates a non-linear fractional unit root test also known as autoregressive neural network–fractional integration (ARNN–FI) test. The test is based on a new multilayer perceptron of a neural network process which is applied in Yaya et al. (2021). Further, to investigate the...