In this paper, we examine the relationship between crude oil and natural gas prices. Using smooth transition regression modelling approach, we find that both the long-run and short-run relationships between oil and gas prices are more aptly modelled by simultaneous structural breaks and...

Many macroeconomic models try to explain consumption and its relationship with income. The rational expectation-permanent income hypothesis of consumption suggests that consumption and disposable income are co-integrated. In this paper we use the Engle-Granger methodology to test for...

Investments in both public and private are essential to Pakistan's economy. Public investment is crucial for any nation's economic development, but private investment serves as a catalyst for the creation of jobs and income. The primary purpose of this study is to empirically examine the...

Market integration is a metric for market efficiency, notably pricing efficiency. This paper examined the type and degree of market integration in Bangladesh using latest available weekly rice market price data from the six district markets in Bangladesh from January 2014 to December 2018. The...

This paper aims to identify factors that drive US clean-energy stock price movements in the short and long term, using a wide range of variables representing the carbon emission market, non-green financial assets, non-renewable commodities, macroeconomic fundamentals, investor attention and...

Purpose With heterogeneous findings dominating the growth and natural resources relations, there is a need to explain the variances in Africa's growth process as induced by robust measures of factor endowments. This study used a comprehensive set of data from the updated database of the World...

Purpose: Remittance is essential to economic wellbeing, Realising this fact, this study examined, within the optimist theoretical framework, whether international remittances significantly impact per capita economic growth in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: Employing annual time series...