Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 31 Issue 6

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Testing for Granger causality between industrial output and CPI in the presence of regime shift: Swedish data

A. Khalik Salman, Ghazi Shukur

In this paper, we focus on the Granger causality test in the presence of regime shift. We apply a vector autoregressive (4) model on Swedish series of industrial output and…

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Rural poverty in developing countries: an empirical analysis

Minh Quang Dao

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in developing countries. Using data from a sample of 32 developing countries we are able to show that income…

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Corruption: a non‐parametric analysis

Peter McAdam, Ole Rummel

This paper considers the distributional dynamics of a well‐known corruption index. Specifically, we are interested in evaluating whether corruption is best characterized as…

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Eight conjectures about exchange rates

Jocelyn Horne

This paper examines and dissects eight popular conjectures about exchange rates. The conjectures are: there exists a systematic linkage between economic fundamentals and exchange…

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Sweatshops: the theory of the firm revisited

Maryke Dessing

When the labor supply schedule is bending forward at low wage levels, the average cost curve of firms does the same. This leads to the possibility of multiple equilibria, in…

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ISSN:

0144-3585

Online date, start – end:

1974

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee