: This paper investigates the relationship between changes in oil prices and the UK s manufacturing and services sectors performances. Only a few studies have been conducted at the sector level; the goal of this paper is to contribute in that direction. In a more detailed analysis, three sets of...

This paper present empirical evidence on how financial development is related to income distribution in a panel data set covering 22 African countries for the period between 1990 to 2004. A dynamic panel estimation technique (GMM) is employ and the findings indicate that income inequality...

This paper investigates whether the South-Eastern European (SEE) stock markets of Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey are integrated with their developed counterparts in Germany, the UK and the USA. Using static cointegration analysis, we find that the SEE markets are cointegrated...

This paper explores the forecasting performance of several non-linear models, namely GARCH, EGARCH, APARCH, which further utilize three distributions, namely the Gaussian normal, the Student-t and Generalized Error Distribution (GED). In order to evaluate the performance of the competing models...

In this article we test the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) equity markets for the period 1999–2009. To test weak-form efficiency in the markets, this study uses autocorrelation analysis runs test and variance ratio test. We find that...

The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly following the contributions of Zvi Griliches and others to microeconometric work in late 1970s and early 1980s. This study aims to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD...