This paper deals with the issue of whether the Government complies with its budget constraint for the case of Sweden during the period 1963-2000 using quarterly data. It is found that government spending and government revenue are nonstationary (integrated) but cointegrated. A random coefficient...

This paper reconsiders the time-series properties of inter-war pound-franc and pound-dollar exchange rate returns in the context of a smooth transition variant of the threshold autoregressive model. It is found that autoregressive structure in returns is largely confined to values in proximity...

The Export-Led Growth Hypothesis (ELGH) is an interesting subject of research in the field of applied economics. This paper investigates the causal links between exports and output growth in the empirical framework of the Greek economy, using error-correction modelling and multivariate Granger...

This paper defines the notion of unbiased aggregation of inputs and provides a necessary and sufficient condition for this to apply.

This paper estimates the effect of a measure of political risk on equity investment flows to developing countries. Using a panel data set that includes a larger number of low-income countries than previous studies, it is found that political risk is an important determinant of the sum of foreign...

Although arranged and love marriages have been around for a long time there seems to be no comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage. As such, the purpose of this note is to conduct a theoretical inquiry into the desirability of...

This study examines the effects of various demand components of real income on money demand, M3 for a small open developing Asian economy. The disaggregated components of real income are final consumption goods, expenditure on investment goods, and exports. Other determinants are domestic...

The application of continuous time Weibull models on discrete unemployment duration data may result in severely biased baseline estimates. The bias can be substantial even for weekly duration data, and it is seriously aggravated if the Weibull model is erroneously mixed with a Gamma distribution...

The response surfaces of MOSUM critical values are computed, from which the finite sample and asymptotic critical values for different moving window bandwidths can easily be calculated. Results also show that the finite-sample critical values originally suggested by Bauer and Hackl and the...

A semiparametric error correction model (ECM) is estimated using US term structure data. We use 5 and 10 year interest rates to predict short-term (1 month to 12 month) interest rates. It is found that the semiparametric ECM model predicts better than the popular linear ECM. These results...