The present study investigates the role of information in price discovery function and volatility spillover in Nifty and S&P CNX Nifty futures by employing two-step TGARCH procedures. First, the study examines short and long-run relationship between S&P CNX Nifty index and Nifty index futures in...

: Today, the world economy is melting like an ice cube on hot stove. Governments and Central Banks of respective countries around the world have initiated various measures to mitigate the impact of global meltdown such as bailout packages, injecting liquidity into the system. The impact of...

There has been a plethora of studies concerning the relationship between budget deficit and trade deficit. The overall findings can be classified under two broad hypotheses. One is known as the twin deficit hypothesis , which implies that there does exist a relationship between budget deficit...

: Generally it is believed that the central monetary authority can, and should, exercise control over the exchange rate only in case of fixed/pegged exchange rate regime. However, such a regulation is essential even in an economy that has adopted floating exchange rate policy. This is because no...

: Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon. In this study, globalization is defined as a process of growing interdependence between all nations of the world. This linkage is encouraged by market liberalization, and information, communication and transportation technologies. Iran s economy has...

: The Einstein relation which is known as the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) theorem in physics is applied to financial time series data in this paper. The fundamental equation for the time series is the generalized Langevin equation with colored noise. The autocorrelation function and the...

The present paper empirically investigates the validity of the question whether financial sector s development contributes to economic growth in a small developing economy like Pakistan. The paper employs a relevant measure of financial development that meets the requirements of the...

This paper empirically analyzes the business cycle transmission between the two African countries and their largest economic partners. The empirical results show that business cycles in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States induce the economic fluctuations in Madagascar and...

This study examines the role of foreign debt, trade openness and labor force in the economic growth of Sri Lanka, by employing the Johansen maximum likelihood approach of cointegration. It analyzes the data for the period, 1950-2006. The study finds that there is a cointegration relationship...

: By extending Wong and Tang s (2007) study, this paper aims at further exploring the causal relations between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI ), exports and imports. There is a unique long-run causal relationship running from exports as well as imports to FDI. A bidirectional causal relationship...