This study investigates the impact of certain macroeconomic determinants on stock market returns in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Those factors are: interest rates, oil prices, exchange and money supply. were empirically studied investigated to have an many countries. paper also attempts capture that those market, using a panel set data by implying several tests data, which include unit root ...

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This paper focuses on developing models to study influential factors on the inflation rate for a panel of available countries in the World Bank data base during 2008-2012‎. ‎For this purpose‎, Random effect log-linear and Ordinal logistic models are used for the analysis of continuous and categorical inflation rate variables‎. ‎As the original inflation rate response to variables shows an appar...

This paper takes a step toward identifying the ultimate drivers of productivity growth at the industry level. Based on Neoclassical and New Growth Theory we develop an empirical methodology that allows us to test for the fundamental drivers of industry productivity growth. We present two sets of industry classifications, one based on ICT intensity and another based on innovation types. Using OE...

In this paper, we consider semiparametric estimation in a partially linear single– index panel data model with fixed effects. Without taking the difference explicitly, we propose using a semiparametric minimum average variance estimation (SMAVE) based on a dummy–variable method to remove the fixed effects and obtain consistent estimators for both the parameters and the unknown link function. As...

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Renewable energy, which is the type of energy that plays a major role in development and growth countries, an important today’s world, considering life depleted resources finite. Compared to fossil sources, except its source infinite, noticeable difference carbon dioxide emission seen as reason for preferring renewable sources. Many studies literature investigate relationship between consumptio...

Article history: Received 24 August 2014 Received in revised form 28 February 2015 Accepted 2 March 2015 Available online 10 March 2015 JEL classifications: C93 D01 D82 K42 PsycINFO classifications: 3120 3450 3660