The current study explored the dynamics between economic growth and overseas investment, using time series annual data from China. For empirical analysis, we utilized asymmetric ARDL technique, which documents the potential asymmetric effects of outward foreign direct investment on economic...

Using the Granger methodology, this paper presents the causal relationship between scientific research activity, expressed as the number of significant publications, and gross domestic product (GDP). With causality tests, this relationship is investigated from two points of view: for each...

Countries pass through different stages of structural transformation. In the early stage of development, economic activity is dominated by agriculture and mining. As a country develops, firms adopt new technology and move toward industrialization and faster economic growth. Eventually, the...

Typischerweise zählen die Importe zu jenen Größen in der Konjunkturprognose, die die größten Prognosefehler aufweisen. Neben der erheblichen Volatilität der Importwachstumsraten ist dies dem Umstand geschuldet, dass bis dato kein bewährter Vorlaufindikator für die Importe Deutschlands...

With the rapid development of China's economy, China's energy consumption is increasing. There has always been an objective contradiction between economic development and environmental pollution control. Green finance is an important tool to solve the problem. After testing that there is...

This paper characterizes economically optimal investments into Africa's road network in partial and general equilibrium - based on a detailed topography of the network, road construction costs, frictions in cross-border trading, and economic geography. Drawing from data on 144 million...

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an occupational general equilibrium model with heterogeneous...

This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...