This paper investigates the relevance of relative prices and world income as determinants of food exports for the top trading countries in the period 1992-2012 using a panel data framework. A distinction between processed and unprocessed goods is drawn and, within this last category, a specific...

In recent years significant researches have been done to identify what are the determinants of financial development. With regard to this outline, the main objective is to investigate the effect of economic, political and social dimension of institutional quality, as well as the effect of...

The article investigates the investment and financial constraints for French, Hungarian and Slovenian farms using FADN panel data with different econometric estimation approaches. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow implying the absence of soft...

This paper analyses the performances of 22 developed and 18 emerging markets over the period 2003–2010. The performance is assessed each year in a multi-dimensional risk-adjusted return framework using data envelopment analysis, and the trend in the performance is estimated in a fixed effects...

Industrial production is one of the leading indicators of gross domestic product which reflects the overall economic performance of a country. In other words decreases or increases in industrial production point out a contracting or expanding economy. Therefore, changes in prices of oil and...

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

This study aims to investigate the effect of income distribution on poverty reduction and the effect of income distribution on growth elasticity of poverty reduction. It uses panel data of 70 countries during 2001-2010 provided by the World Bank. It applies panel data analysis both fixed effect...

In tradition, experimental economics uses non-parametric statistics to compare means between groups of attendants who attend experiments with different settings to investigate the effect of anticipated mechanism or policy. This statistical analysis limits itself to the effectiveness of the...

The relationship between economic freedom and economic growth has always been discussed and investigated in the economic literature. This study investigates both the relationship among economic freedom, inflation rate, economic growth and, separately, economic freedom indices, inflation rate and...

The objective of the study is to investigate the relationship between economic growth and economic freedom for different income groups. Therefore, the data were collected from 94 different countries belonging to five different income groups in order to cover the period from 2000 to 2010. In the...