This article attempts to investigate the potential relationship and significance of various determinants Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in India for 1980–2016 time period. Specifically, this is achieved two stages. In first, standard growth accounting approach used measure changes TFP. Then, main model establishing TFP estimated using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Our results su...

Wheat is the dominant cereal crop constituting the first staple food in Iran. This paper studies the energy consumption patterns and the relationship between energy inputs and yield for Wheat production in Iranian agriculture during the period 1986 – 2008. The results indicated that total energy inputs in irrigated and dryland wheat production increased from 29.01 and 9.81 GJ ha-1 in 1986 to 44...

Econometric analysis of rational expectations models has been a widely studied topic in the macro-econometric literature. This thesis looks in particular at evaluating Neokeynesian model (NKM) with respect to its conformity with the data. Among the available econometric techniques, this thesis investigates what cointegrated VAR can illuminate about how close the NKM gets to the data. This proje...