We compare the economic development of Asia-Pacific countries in the 20th century with world average, and analyse the evolution of education, fertility, population and economic growth in Asia-Pacific countries at the end of the 20th century, showing that, after centuries of slow economic...

This paper analyzes a vector error correction model of economic growth and unemployment in four major European economies, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. We find that unemployment and economic growth are cointegrated, and driven be the same autoregressive unit root present in most endogenous...

According to trade theory trade policy can impact quite differently (positively, negatively, nil) on economic growth depending on the model assumptions such as perfect or imperfect competition due to the existence of economies to scale or externalities. This result is replicated when the impact...

The 45 region ´ 50 commodity ´ 5 primary factor version of the Global Trade Analysis Project's [GTAP] database provides us with the splits of total labor payments into skilled and unskilled labor-presupposing substitution possibilities between them. Given the skilled labor payment shares of...

While various theoretical models predict that openness to international trade accelerates productivity and promotes economic growth, the empirical evidence has been mixed or imprecise. This paper investigates the issue using two panel data sets: one of 56 countries covering the period 1951-1998,...

This paper explores the extent of efficiency improvements achieved by New Zealand banks over the period 1996 to 2002, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), on a time-series, rather than cross-sectional basis. <p> Evidence is found for improvements in bank efficiency through time, some of which can...</p>

This paper presents a comparative analysis of economic development in European and Eurasian countries, focusing on the educational level of population, fertility rates, production by sector and foreign trade. Countries are classified into 5 large areas: three for Western Europe, one for Central...

This paper examines the effects of enlargement of the European Union and the NAFTA on new and non-member countries. <p> The empirical analysis is based on the applied general equilibrium model underlying the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), version 5. The paper shows that expansions of the two...</p>

This articles presents and application of statistical physics to economic relationships, based on the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and the anomalous fluctuation therorem, and the Langevin equation. In the framework of time series which follow the Langevin equation, the interaction of two time...

We examined the causality in both static and dynamic framework between energy consumption, C02 emission and economic growth in India using Granger approach in VAR framework. We found from the VAR analysis that energy consumption, capital and population Granger-cause economic growth not the vice...