A paper by Xepanadeas and Habib, that estimates dynamic demand models, is shown to contain some serious errors. Careful consideration of the adding-up condition is shown to be necessary when using demand systems with autoregressive disturbances. Misspecification testing should be used in all...

Time series unit root evidence suggests that inflation is nonstationary. By contrast, when using more powerful panel unit root tests, Culver and Papell (1997) find that inflation is stationary. In this article, we test the robustness of this result by applying a battery of recent panel unit root...

This article uses panel data from 1976 to 2003 to investigate the ways in which banking and stock markets influence economic growth in situations of high and low country risk. The mean and Standard Deviation (SD) of country risk are adopted to classify 28 countries into Low Risk Low Volatility...