The study examines the uncertainty connectedness between oil and a bouquet of commodities. We construct a news-based index that measures commodity-specific uncertainty at a weekly frequency from January 2000 to May 2021. We examine the uncertainty network between oil and commodities using the...

Using Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality approach, we study causality between energy consumption (EC) and economic growth (GDP) in Pakistan for the period 1972-2015. The study extended the basic production function having labor and capital as the mainstream variables by adding major energy sources...

Russia has become more integrated and dependent on global developments over the last decades, despite being ruled by an increasingly autocratic regime. How does Russian media cover the associated economic and policy challenges? To answer, we use the economic policy uncertainty indexes as proxies...

The cointegrated-based pair trading crucially depends on two key parameters: the length of the formation period and the divergence signal (or opening trigger), which are generally arbitrarily or statistically determined in the literature. In this article, we perform a sensitivity analysis of the...

The ``REtrieval from MIxed Sampling'' (REMIS) approach based on blocking developed in Anderson et al. (2016) is concerned with retrieving an underlying high frequency model from mixed frequency observations. In this paper we investigate parameter-identifiability in the Johansen (1995) vector...

There has been a monotonic increase in research investigating the performance of commercial banks across the globe. This is a recognition that the banking industry has a significant contribution to the service sector and national output. This paper examined the existence of the structure-conduct...

One of the major concerns in todays’ world of economic finance, especially investments in asset classes like stocks and bonds, is whether the returns on these asset classes are linear or non-linear. To test the linearity behaviour, this paper employs the Granger causality test (Granger, 1969)...

We propose a bounds testing procedure (BTP) with a battery of tests for the existence of a non-degenerate co-integrating relationship in levels, for long panels. It is a natural extension to panel data of the respective approach in time series as described by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (2001) and...

This paper attempts to estimate long-run forecasting of Indian GDP for the post-COVID period using the factor error correction model (FECM). The model builds on a dynamic factor model that directly and indirectly captures many dimensions affecting the cycles of a macro variable. The availability...

The study aims at investigating the Export-led growth hypothesis in Pakistan by applying Unit root test, Cointegration, Vector error model and Granger causality tests. Time series data of the selected variables (Real GDP, capital, employed labor force, exports, consumer price index and terms of...