Annual data from 1983-2008, together with modern time series econometrics methods, is used to examine the factors potentially contributing to growth in passenger rail demand in Perth, Australia. A cointegration approach is used to estimate long-run passenger rail elasticities and an error...

The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors’ concentration based on employment data in the European Union and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport...

This paper has addressed the nature of the casual relationship between national savings and foreign capital in Pakistan over the period 1960 -2010 using the Granger no-causality test based on Toda and Yamamoto (1995) procedure. The results show that no causality is found from foreign capital to...

The many applications of soil survey and GIS based data to agricultural development and agri-environmental research necessitates the development of econometric approaches that allows researchers to combine this fine scale data with larger scale—aggregated—dependent variable choice data while...

In the modern globalized economy there are some concepts which are very important for the current socio-economic system. One of them is competition. A specific field that competition has spread is geography; i.e. competition among territorial units (cities, regions or states). There are scholars...

This paper develops two models - graphical and econometric - of the business environment dynamics on the global scale in the context of the polycyclic theory. Both tools can be applied to explain historical development, forecast and direct future changes in the environment to enable contemporary...

This paper examines the contributions of financial and macroeconomic variables to the revitalisation of a depressed US economy. Using time series data from 1957 to 2011 and a binary logistic regression model, it finds that government consumption expenditure and gross investment, real personal...

The objectives of the paper are to study foreign direct investment dimensions of China and to study causal relationship between exports, FDI and GDP. Vector autoregression model (VAR) is adopted to estimate the long run causal relationship among exports, foreign direct investment and GDP. The...

Remittances have become an effective source of balance of payment sustainability in several small countries in Latin America, and thus a particular concern among developmental economists is the source driving remittances into this region. This paper studies the properties and cyclical nature of...

This paper analyzes the export competitiveness of Egypt's agricultural exports (EAE) in the European Union between 1998 and 2010. The Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index and Comparative Export Performance (CEP) index are applied. An analysis is done to the major subgroups of EAE (fruit &...