This article provides evidence of cross-country total factor productivity (TFP) interdependence due to human capital accumulation over time by employing a semi-parametric spatial vector autoregressive technique in the panel. Empirical study covers a set of 15 Asian countries over the time period...

This paper investigates the factors explaining aid allocation by bilateral and multilateral donors. We use data for 146 aid recipient countries over the period 1990-2007 and employ Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates Approach (BACE) approach and find that both the recipient need and donor...

Credit is a crucial instrument in asset price determination, yet existing research has produced conflicting evidence on its real impact, especially during episodes of heightened uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to show that by segregating credit into credit to the real economy and...

When both housing prices and macroeconomic variables possess significant 'long-memory', disregarding this under-identifies demand and supply functions of a housing market. The long-run relationship among variables and the speed of disequilibrium error adjustment are also misrepresented. We...