Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleInvestigating the Causality Granger Relationship between the Rates of Interest and Inflation in IranMansour Zarra Nezhad, Ruhollah ZareaWith regard to the importance of the rates of interest and inflation in economy, this paper aims at investigating the Granger causality relationship between the rates of interest and inflation in Iran’s economy. Toda and Yamamoto’s Granger test of causality as well as ARDL approach were used to test the hypothesis that the rate of interest is the Granger cause … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2007 · 7,696 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsStationarity and Cointegration between Health Care Expenditure and GDP for JordanRasha M.S. Istaiteyeh, Mohd Tahir IsmailThis paper explores the Granger-causality relationship between real GDP per capita and real health care expenditure per capita for Jordan during 1995 through 2013. The findings point out that the dominant type of Granger-causality is unidirectional. Furthermore, income elasticity of health expenditure is less than 1, which means that health care is a necessary good in Jordan. To this end, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 7 · 22 Jun 2017 · 7,820 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAn Investigation of Causality between Advertising and Operating Activity: Macro and Micro Evidence from JapanKosei FukudaThe relationship between advertising and operating activity is one of the topical issues in marketing and economic research. However, micro data have not been analyzed. In this paper, causality between them is empirically examined by using macro and micro data and applying four models-conventional Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model, vector error correction model, homogeneous parameter panel VAR model and heterogeneous parameter … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 29 May 2015 · 6,469 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsModeling Tourist Arrivals Using Time Series Analysis: Evidence From AustraliaGurudeo AnandTularam, Victor Siew Howe Wong, Seyed AbdelhamidShobeiriNejadAustralian tourism has a logistic trend as Butler’s model shows. The stagnation has not been reached so opportunities exist to increase tourism. The logistic model predicts 7.2 million tourists in 2015 but time series models of ARIMA and VAR improve the prediction and explain the data. The ARIMA (2, 2, 2) fits well while the VAR lead to Granger causalities … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 10 Sep 2012 · 7,857 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsStock Market Development and Economic Growth an Empirical AnalysisVazakidis Athanasios, Adamopoulos AntoniosThis study investigated the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for Greece for the period 1978-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Questions were raised whether stock market development causes economic growth taking into account the negative effect of interest rate on stock market development. The purpose of this study was to investigate the short-run and … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 12 Jun 2012 · 13,859 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Causal Relationship between Financial Market Development and Economic GrowthAthanasios Vazakidis, Antonios AdamopoulosProblem statement: This study investigated the causal relationship between financial market development and economic growth for United Kingdom for the period 1965-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Questions were raised whether financial market development causes economic growth or reversely taking into account the negative effect of interest rate. The objective of this study was to examine the causal … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2010 · 7,678 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsStock Market Development and Economic GrowthAthanasios Vazakidis, Antonios AdamopoulosProblem statement: This study investigated the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for France for the period 1965-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Questions were raised whether stock market development causes economic growth or reversely taking into account the negative effect of interest rate. Stock market development is estimated by the general stock market index. … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 30 Nov 2009 · 8,361 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsFinancial Development and Economic Growth An Empirical Analysis for GreeceAthanasios Vazakidis, Antonios AdamopoulosProblem statement: This study investigated the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth for Greece for the period 1978-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Questions were raised whether financial development causes economic growth or reversely taking into account the positive effect of industrial production index. Financial market development is estimated by the effect of credit market development … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2009 · 7,749 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsCausal Relationships between Financial Development, Trade Openness and Economic Growth: The Case of TurkeyFatih YucelProblem statement: The main objective of this study was to examine the causality relations between financial development, trade openness and economic growth (GDP) for the Turkish economy. Approach: In time series context, recently developed econometric techniques were used: namely the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) for unit root, Johansen and Juselius (JJ) for cointegration and Granger causality test for causal relationships. Results: … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 9,048 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEmpirical Analysis: Business Cycles and Inward FDI in ChinaQiyun Fang, Yao LiuIt is well-known that the current speeding-up of globalization has been, on one hand, spreading macro economic effects around the world, while, on the other, fueling firms' activities of crossing national borders. Then, are there any links between these two influences? In this paper, we chose China as our subject, to try to clarify it. A set of models for … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2007 · 6,834 accessesView PDFCite