We exploit the information in the successive vintages of gross domestic expenditure (GDE) and gross domestic income (GDI) from the current comprehensive revision to obtain an improved, timely measure of U.S. aggregate output by exploiting cointegration between the different measures and taking...

Information on price transmission from crude oil to value-added fuels can disclose underlying market structures and behaviors, such as competitiveness and market power, which are relevant for developing energy outlooks and policy. Many studies have investigated price interdependences in...

The primary contribution of the current paper is to explicitly take into consideration the role of asymmetries in oil prices when studying the nexus between oil price shocks and the real exchange rates across 13 countries in three regions of Asia. To achieve this contribution, the nonlinear...

Background: This study investigates the cross-country long run relationship between suicides and macroeconomic variables (unemployment, per capita income, and inflation). It is hypothesized that while inflation level and unemployment level stimulate suicide and intentional self-harm in a...

World coffee prices may have crucial implications on domestic prices of coffee. However, empirical evidence on the effect of world coffee prices on the price of coffee traded at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is very scant. The main objective of this study is to analyze the response of...

The aim of this study was to see the direction of causality and to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship between income inequality and economic growth in Ethiopia. The study has employed annual time series data over the period of 1980 up to 2017. This study is conducted by...