This study investigates the causal relationship between power energy consumption, FDI and Economic growth in Pakistan using time series data from 1965 to 2019. Johansen co-integration test is employed for finding out relationship and Granger causality test is used to find the direction of...

Trade openness is considered a medium for economic growth. Economic theory supports the assertion that trade enhances competition, promotes large market, transfers of technology which then propels economic growth. In recent times, developing countries have embraced trade liberalization as a...

Although it is theoretically expected that fiscal decentralization leads to efficient provision of local public services and induces economic growth, there is a mixed outcome of the non-devolved and devolved effect on economic expansion across earlier empirical studies. This could be due to non...

This study investigated the effect of international tourism development on economic growth in Zimbabwe, using time series data spanning over the period 1980 to 2017. The main aim of the study was to examine whether international tourism is a pathway to economic recovery in Zimbabwe. The study...

Since an economic or financial variable may be affected by both stationary andnonstationary variables, this paper proposes a class of augmented cointegrating linear(ACL) models that accommodate these time series of different types. Moreover, thevariables are allowed to be strongly correlated in...

This paper applies recently developed procedures to monitor and date so-called "financial marketdislocations", defined as periods in which substantial deviations from arbitrage parities take place. In particular, we focus on deviations from the triangular arbitrage parity for exchange rate...