Islamic banks are characterised by the compliance to Islamic laws and practices, the main ones being the prohibition of interest and loans trading. Remarkably, during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, when a large number of conventional banks have announced bankruptcy, no single Islamic bank...

We estimate the long-run demand for broad money at the Gulf Cooperation Council area level (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)) and at single country level over the 1980-2009 period. Applying time series and panel econometric tests, we first document...

A bootstrap algorithm proposed by Psaradakis (2001) for hypothesis testing in I(1) regressions is discussed and shown to be valid only under the null hypothesis. A simple correction making the procedure valid under both the null and the alternative hypothesis is proposed.

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to examine labour productivity trends in Italy over the period 1981-2004. Design/methodology/approach – To this end, relying on recent developments in the analysis of non-stationary dependent panels, the paper develops a new method for estimating total...

In this paper we test for the existence of a long-run savings-investments relationship in 18 OECD economies over the period 1970-2007. Although individual modelling provides only very weak support to the hypothesis of a link between savings and investments, this cannot be ruled out as individual...

This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labor mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labor market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic labor mobility equilibrates economic conditions across regions. However,...

The relationship between national saving and investment over the long term is examined for six Gulf Arab oil-exporting developing countries -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. We show that, provided some large outliers are properly accounted for, long-run...

<i> Concentrazione e diffusione: la geografia industriale italiana 1981-1991 </i> (di Alberto Brugnoli, Stefano Fachin) - ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to examine the industrial geography of Italy on the basis of the employment data of the last two general censuses (1981-1991). Having first shown...

We develop a sieve bootstrap range test for poolability of cointegrating regressions in dependent panels and evaluate by simulation its performances. The test seems to have good size and power properties even with small cross-sections, moderate time samples, and low heterogeneity.

Variable addition tests for parameter stability are based on the use of test variables constructed as the product of dummy variables and the variables whose coefficient is believed to have changed. The object of this note is to analyze some power properties of this class of tests. The main...