Purpose: This study aims to delve deeply into the role of infrastructure on economic growth in 59 belt and road initiative (BRI) participating countries from various regions of the world as the main objective of BRI is to encourage the participating countries to improve investment and trade...

This study aims at examining the long-run cointegration relationship for Malaysian stock and bond market indices in the period surrounding the Asian financial crisis based on the Breitung (2001) rank test procedures. The paper argues that the standard cointegration tests do not allow for breaks...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has witnessed a greater volume of the movement of people in the region, with intra-regional labour mobility more than quadrupling since 1995. The region has also become more integrated through trade; though extra-regional trade continues to remain...