The inverse relationship between economic growth and labor market developments in the form of changes in the unemployment rate is known in economic literature as Okun's law. The objectives of this paper are to estimate a regionalized Okun coefficient and its associated (regional) unemployment...

This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a...

The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the effect of renewable energy use and economic growth on pollution within EUROZONE from 2005 to 2013 by utilizing Dynamic Panel Generalized Method of Moments approaches. The empirical results reveal that economic growth positively affects...

In this paper, we revisit the link between currency misalignments and economic growth by taking into account foreign currency-denominated debt dynamics for the CFA zone countries over the period 1985–2011. Relying on a BEER approach and using panel cointegration techniques, we first derive...

This study is the first to apply a newly developed panel smooth transition regression model with the error-correction term (PSECM) to estimate the non-linear relationship among energy consumption, real income and real energy prices for 24 OECD countries. Unlike the existing literature on...