Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the integrational properties of real GDP for 125 countries. Design/methodology/approach - The paper applies the Kwiatkowski et al. univariate test and a KPSS-type univariate test that accounts for multiple structural breaks -a test procedure proposed by...

Correctly measuring a country’s national income and its growth is essential to the understanding of various aspects of the country’s economy both at present and in the future. The measurement issue is even more important for economies like China whose size-based economic-political power is...

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die kulturellen Ursachen f?r die Marginalisierung des indigenen Volkes der Papua im modernen ?konomischen Bereich der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Den theoretischen Hintergrund der Arbeit bilden Schumpeters Entwicklungslogik und die darauf aufbauende...

This paper uses data that spans different pricing regimes to estimate the aggregateagricultural supply response to price and non-price factors in Zimbabwe. Theautoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration employed here givesconsistent estimates of supply response in the...

Zusammenfassung: Diese Arbeit liefert eine institutionenökonomische Sicht auf den chinesischen Bankensektor des Jahres 2005. Im theoretischen Teil werden etablierte makroprudentielle Indikatoren zur Prüfung der Bankenstabilität in einen Rahmen aus informellen und formalen marktregulierenden...

Aging populations have altered saving and investment patterns in many developed and emerging market economies. The structural changes that have occurred have important implications for financial stability and for the conduct of monetary policy. As assets and borrowing shifted from banks to...