This paper examines the asymmetric effect of Bitcoin on three altcoins, namely Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) by using Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model for period July 2015 to March 2019. We provide evidence impact altcoins both in short-run long-run. In short-run, a decrease price has greater than an increase prices altcoins. asymmetry is more frequent af...

This paper analyses the relationship between Inflation Targeting and economic growth in 20 countries Middle East North Africa (MENA) region (Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Authority, Bahrain, Djibouti, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen), using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model over pe...

China is currently the country with largest carbon emissions in world, to which, power industry contributes greatest share. To reduce emissions, reliable and timely forecasting measures are important necessary. By using different frequency variables, this study, we used mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) regression model forecast annual of China’s compared a benchmark model. It was found that MIDAS ha...

iran is one of the most concentrated areas of afghan migrants and refugees. most afghans dispersed throughout the country mixed with iranian households. the majority of afghan immigrants are typically unskilled and illegal workers. this study aims at investigating the nature of the causal relationship between afghan immigrants and two main labor market indicators, average wages and unemployment...