Based on the so-called bounds testing approach, the paper studies the long-run effect of capital flows and the real exchange rate on Mexico’s private investment from 1988 through 2008, presenting two main results. First, while capital inflows can potentially increase investment, in practice...

In this study, we look at the relationship between export stability, investment and economic growth in nine Asian countries using time series data. The few previous time series studies in this area have not paid any attention to stationarity and cointegration issues. We find that in most cases,...

The study investigates the relationship between the foreign direct investment (FDI) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the period 1975-2013. Granger causality test & Johansen's co-integration test have been applied to explore the direction of causality & long run relationship between the...

We study the effects of international monetary, income and prices shocks on domestic income through the external trade channel in 16 African countries between 1970 and 2012, using a SVAR Model. The results emphasize that domestic income is exposed to international shocks through the impacts of...

This study analyzes the relationship between foreign trade and economic growth in Myanmar over the period 1990-2014. It covers the annual data of GDP, Export and Import of Myanmar from 1980 to 2014. This study adopts two major methodological approaches – exploratory data analysis and...

Bangladesh’s growing foreign aid has sparked controversy over whether it affects the country’s economic performance. This review assesses foreign aid’s influence on the country’s economic growth with annual data covering the 1989–2018 period. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

Bangladesh’s growing foreign aid has sparked controversy over whether it affects the country’s economic performance. This review assesses foreign aid’s influence on the country’s economic growth with annual data covering the 1989–2018 period. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) data are inevitably surrounded by uncertainty. Disregarding methodological improvements, two main sources of revisions can be distinguished: First, revisions that reflect the incorporation of more comprehensive or more representative, but...

Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) data are inevitably surrounded by uncertainty. Disregarding methodological improvements, two main sources of revisions can be distinguished: First, revisions that reflect the incorporation of more comprehensive or more representative, but...

En este artículo se estudia el comportamiento de la tasa de crecimiento del PIB colombiano entre 1982-2008 a partir de un modelo SETAR (Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive), empleando la metodología propuesta por Tsay (1989) y Tong (1990) para la detección de no linealidades relacionadas...