The relationship between government revenue and government expenditure has been an important topic in public economics, given its relevance for policy especially with respect to the budget deficit. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between government revenue and...

This article considers savings, investment and economic growth for India using annual time series data for the period 1950/51 to 2003/04. The analysis uses Perron's innovational outlier model to conduct unit root tests which endogenously determines structural break. The empirical results show...

In this paper, we consider the minimum Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root test with one structural break in intercept and trend. This paper complements the earlier work of Lee and Strazicich (2003), who consider the minimum LM unit root test with two breaks. The asymptotic properties are...

Purpose – Investigating the characteristics of the transformation of China's agricultural growth and the institutional reforms during the whole transition period in the 1980s will help to understand China's economic and agricultural reform and offer some successful experiences to other...

In this paper, we attempt to determine the effect of real exchange rate on the trade balance for the Turkish economy by regarding to different commodity groups. By using monthly data for the period of 1995:1-2004:4 and advanced time series techniques, the following results were achieved: 1)...

The paper analyses the sharp divergence in the nineties between capital formation in the main euro area countries, on the one hand, and the United States, on the other. We have used data from the OECD's International Sectoral Data Base (ISDB), which includes data comparable across a certain...

This paper revisits the impact of OBS activities on Canadian banks risk-return trade-off. Recent studies (Stiroh and Rumble 2006, Calmès and Liu 2007) suggest that increasing OBS activities do not necessarily yield straightforward diversification benefits. However, adding a risk premium to...

This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the presence of a structural break at unknown date. Our...