The objectives of this paper are threefold. First, we critically survey and analyse the different methodologies that have been adopted in the rankings literature. Second, using journal articles included in the ECONLIT database and on the basis of two criteria - one based on citations and the...

Note: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. Following the study of Feldstein and Horioka in 1980, economists have been studying the relationship between saving and investment with renewed vigor. Most of the recent studies have studied the relationship in the...

This paper provides new rankings for Australian university economics departments for the periods 1988-2000, 1988-1994 and 1994-2000 using the ECONLIT database. We rank economics departments using two different journal ranking criteria - one based on citations and the other based on perceptions...

In this paper, we study the long run relationship between saving and economic growth in Thailand using time series data for 1950-96. We distinguish between private saving and total saving in our paper. We find that there is a long run relationship between per capita GDP and total saving but not...

This paper studies the relationship between saving and investment rates in Japan and other 11 Asian countries. Most previous studies on the topic have almost exclusively focused on OECD countries. The augmented Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron unit root tests indicate that for most of the 12...

Maizels (1968) hypothesizes that exports contribute more to savings than the non-export part of GDP. In this paper, we study the Maizels' hypothesis for 17 African countries using time series data. The study finds general support for the Maizels' hypothesis

This paper looks at the relationship between financial development and economic growth using time series data for eight Asian countries. First, we estimate augmented production functions where a financial development variable is added. Second, we conduct multivariate causality tests between the...

This study ranks Australian and New Zealand economics teaching departments on the basis of the research productivity of its economics professors in economics teaching departments using quality adjusted journal articles listed on the ECONLIT database for the periods 1988-2002 and for 1996-2002....

This paper studies the causal relationship between safety, profitability and the load factor for US airlines taking airline deregulation into account. The results indicate that there is some evidence that profitability and the growth of load factor cause fatalities/accidents. Bivariate causality...