growth in Botswana from 1976-2014 by employing a multivariate causality model. Results reveal that it is chiefly investment … to Granger-cause investment. Economic growth Granger-causes investment and savings, both, in the short run and long run …. Further, only bank-related financial development is found to Granger-cause economic growth in Botswana. …

frictions for business cycle volatility. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate that stylised facts suggest that countries … with more developed financial systems have lower business cycle volatility. Financial openness has no strong impact on … business cycle volatility, in contrast. In our theoretical analysis, we use a dynamic general equilibrium model to study the …

The paper examines the effect of inflation on growth in transition countries. It presents panel data evidence for 13 … effect on growth of inflation or its standard deviation, and one that appears to decline in magnitude as the inflation rate … increases, as seen for OECD countries. And the results include a role for a normalized money demand in affecting growth, as well …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate in long run evidence tend to be negatively affected by inflation …. Theoretically, inflation acts as a human capital tax that decreases output growth and the real interest rate, but increases the …. Inflation then decreases the investment rate, and still decreases both output growth and real interest up to some moderately …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate are all found empirically to be negatively affected by inflation … occurrence of all three negative inflation effects, on growth, investment and real interest rates, in a model calibrated to … postwar US data. Here, investment along with consumption are exchanged for within a monetary endogenous growth economy with …

The paper examines the effect of inflation on growth in transition countries. It presents panel data evidence for 13 … find a strong, robust, negative effect on growth, and one that declines in magnitude as the inflation rate increases. These … results include a role for a normalized money demand, by itself and as part of a nonlinearity in the inflation-growth effect …

Understanding the pattern of stock market volatility is important to investors as well as for investment policy …. Volatility is directly associated with risks and returns, higher the volatility the more financial market is unstable. The … volatility of the Zimbabwean stock market is modeled using monthly return series consisting of 109 observations from January 2010 …