This study aims to identify and examine the potential economic factors that determining the ‘net errors & omissions’ (EO) in balance of payment accounts. Two structural specifications are derived from the balance of payments (BoP) constraint, and open economy macro equilibrium...

By extending the well-known twin deficits hypothesis, this study proposes a new testable hypothesis - "triple deficits hypothesis" from the general equilibrium perspective, which considers the third deficit of capital and financial account of balance of payment. An empirical l framework is...

Tourism has been identified as one of the key growth sectors in Singapore economy. Given that the city state has been recognised as one of the most open economies in the world, this study attempts to explore the causality relationships between tourism, openness to merchandise and services trade....

This study extends the analytical framework for the specification of import demand behaviour from the conventional partial equilibrium to a general equilibrium perspective. This perspective emphasises the macro dimension of import demand and the potential influence of financial factors. Two new...

The study examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for Cambodia. The sample covers annual observations between 1972 and 2008. The Granger's non-causality tests support ELG as well as the growth-led exports. Also, there is causality from imports growth to exports growth. The study also...

: By extending Wong and Tang s (2007) study, this paper aims at further exploring the causal relations between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI ), exports and imports. There is a unique long-run causal relationship running from exports as well as imports to FDI. A bidirectional causal relationship...

: This study analyzes the sustainability of balancing item (errors and omissions) of balance of payments accounts of 18 industrial countries employing unit root tests with level shifts. Initially, the descriptive summary suggests that the balancing items of the 18 industrial countries are...

This study empirically examines the sustainability of external imbalances in 22 least developed countries as classified by the World Bank. The study uses the real trade balance series, which captures more precisely the behavior of the external balance. It examines the stationarity of the real...

This study is an extension of the study by Tang (Japan and the World Economy, 15, 419-36, 2003b), which has documented no long-run equilibrium relationship among the Japanese aggregate imports, real income and relative price of imports. This finding, however, is probably due to the bias of...

This commentary is served as an additional light both from theoretical and empirical perspectives, on the study by Duasa (Global Economic Review, 2007, 36, pp. 89-102) who examined the short- and long-run relationships between trade balance, real exchange rates, income, and money supply for...