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27 Citations
8,199 Views
10 Pages

This paper investigates the interaction between stock prices and real exchange rates by applying monthly data from Turkey for the period between January 2001 and September 2016. This study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and the...

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108 Citations
8,448 Views
14 Pages

Utilizing natural resources wisely, reducing pollution, and taking other environmental factors into account are now critical to the prospects for long-term economic growth and, by extension, sustainable development. We investigate the impact of total...

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  • Open Access
111 Citations
8,283 Views
17 Pages

Geopolitical Risk and Energy Transition in Russia: Evidence from ARDL Bounds Testing Method

  • Ehsan Rasoulinezhad,
  • Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary,
  • Jinsok Sung and
  • Nisit Panthamit

30 March 2020

One of the current debatable global problems is climate change or global warming as crucial geopolitical risks. The progress of energy transition by considering geopolitical risk has not been considered seriously yet. This paper contributes to the li...

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12 Citations
10,369 Views
18 Pages

High dependency on traditional primary agricultural commodities and recurrent world market price fluctuations had exposed Ethiopia to foreign earnings instability. To reduce the high dependence on primary agricultural commodities and the associated v...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,160 Views
16 Pages

Energy–Finance–Growth Nexus in ASEAN-5 Countries: An ARDL Bounds Test Approach

  • Masnun Mahi,
  • Seuk Wai Phoong,
  • Izlin Ismail and
  • Che Ruhana Isa

18 December 2019

This study examines the relationship between energy consumption, financial development and economic growth for ASEAN-5 countries, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, over the period from 1980 to 2017. Finance–gr...

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164 Citations
40,074 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2019

A vast number of the energy-growth nexus researchers, as well as other “X-variable-growth nexus” studies, such as for example the tourism-growth nexus, the environment-growth nexus or the food-growth nexus have used the autoregressive dis...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,782 Views
17 Pages

Short and Long-Run Causal Effects of CO2 Emissions, Energy Use, GDP and Population Growth: Evidence from India Using the ARDL and VECM Approaches

  • Duraisamy Pachiyappan,
  • Yasmeen Ansari,
  • Md Shabbir Alam,
  • Prabha Thoudam,
  • Kuppusamy Alagirisamy and
  • Palanisamy Manigandan

10 December 2021

This paper investigates the nexus between CO2 emissions (CO2E), GDP, energy use (ENU), and population growth (PG) in India from 1980–2018 by comparing the “vector error correction” model (VECM) and “auto regressive distributed...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,990 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2022

The key goal of this research was to figure out the short and long run relationship between environmental degradation caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and energy consumption, the level of GDP economic growth, and urbanization in the Visegrad...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
18,544 Views
17 Pages

This paper investigates the causal links between domestic capital investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1970–2015 by using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing to cointegr...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,202 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2016

This paper examines the relationship between stock market evolution and sustainable economic growth in Nigeria. The study employs Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)-bounds testing approach and a combined stock market indicators index to examine t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,934 Views
19 Pages

13 April 2023

This empirical study investigates the dynamic interconnection between fossil fuel consumption, alternative energy consumption, economic growth and carbon emissions in China over the 1981 to 2020 time period within a multivariate framework. The long-t...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,509 Views
17 Pages

Analysis on Bioeconomy’s Contribution to GDP: Evidence from Japan

  • Xuezhou Wen,
  • Daniel Quacoe,
  • Dinah Quacoe,
  • Kingsley Appiah and
  • Bertha Ada Danso

29 January 2019

This study analyzes seven bioeconomy sectors with the aim of establishing the leading contributing sectors to gross domestic product (GDP), and also determines the future relationship between bioeconomy and the national economy in Japan. We use data...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,669 Views
14 Pages

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of some prominent macroeconomic factors on the Turkish Stock Market index, BIST-100 (Borsa Istanbul-100). For centuries, and mostly since the 20th century, stock markets are at the heart of economie...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,838 Views
22 Pages

The current health crisis has several socioeconomic influences that could be compared to those experienced during the 2008 economic and financial crisis. Governments around the world are making great efforts to sustain markets as there are signs show...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,604 Views
21 Pages

27 January 2023

This study examines the cointegration and short- and long-run causal relationships between economic growth and CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and the amount of freight transported by road transport in the Visegrad Group countries between 1990 and 20...

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2 Citations
2,888 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2024

It is well established that financial development and innovation promote economic growth through improving the allocation of capital, enhancing risk management, contributing to price discovery, and increasing market efficiencies. While a vast empiric...

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8 Citations
3,510 Views
19 Pages

Currently, global value chains (GVCs) are increasingly shaping the global economy, covering a growing share of international trade, GDP, and employment globally. Global trade is impacted by the emergence of GVCs in areas as diverse as commodities, el...

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29 Citations
15,738 Views
14 Pages

Agriculture as a Determinant of Zambian Economic Sustainability

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Socrates Kraido Majune,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová,
  • Mansoor Maitah,
  • Kamil Maitah and
  • Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi

3 June 2020

For several years, the Zambian economy relied on the mining sector, which has been affected by fluctuations in commodity prices. The new century enhanced the calls for economic diversification, with the agricultural, manufacturing, and services secto...

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4 Citations
6,974 Views
21 Pages

Services as a Determinant of Botswana’s Economic Sustainability

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Aubrey Sakala,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi,
  • Pavel Činčera,
  • Mansoor Maitah,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová and
  • Cathy-Austin Otekhile

In 2015, the services sector contributed about 58 percent to the gross domestic product (GDP) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which was a significant increase from the 47.6 percent observed in 2005, and a shift from the mining, agriculture, and manufact...

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4 Citations
1,403 Views
19 Pages

Agricultural Value Added, Renewable Energy, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from Turkey

  • Neslihan Koç,
  • Özgür Emre Koç,
  • Florina Oana Virlanuta,
  • Orhan Orçun Bıtrak,
  • Uğur Çiçek,
  • Radu Octavian Kovacs,
  • Valentina-Alina Vasile (Dobrea) and
  • Tincuta Vrabie

23 June 2025

In this study, the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions for the period 1968–2022 in Turkey was evaluated within the framework of the EKC (Environmental Kuznets Curve) hypothesis. In addition, the impacts of renewable energy...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
24,622 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2021

The paper features an examination of the link between the behaviour of the FTSE 100 and S&P500 Indexes in both an autoregressive distributed lag ARDL, plus a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag NARDL framework. The attraction of NARDL is tha...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,118 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Agriculture and Energy on CO2 Emissions in Zambia

  • Joseph Phiri,
  • Karel Malec,
  • Alpo Kapuka,
  • Mansoor Maitah,
  • Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi,
  • Zdeňka Gebeltová,
  • Mwila Bowa and
  • Kamil Maitah

10 December 2021

The world has experienced increased impacts of anthropogenic global warming due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which include carbon dioxide (CO2). Anthropogenic activities that contribute to CO2 emissions include deforestation, us...

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1,305 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2025

Agricultural trade not only facilitates the exchange of final products but also leads to the indirect transfer of arable land resources involved in their production processes across countries. These indirect flows are commonly referred to in the lite...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,150 Views
17 Pages

ARDL Bound Testing Approach for a Green Low-Carbon Circular Economy in Turkey

  • Irfan Kadioglu,
  • Ozlem Turan and
  • Ismail Bulent Gurbuz

19 March 2025

This study analyzes Turkey’s development toward a green economy between 1990 and 2022 within the framework of certain green economic indicators. The data consist of secondary data from the official databases of the World Bank and the Turkish St...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,082 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2020

This study examines the impact of the Khartoum Stock Exchange market performance on economic growth in Sudan from Q1 1995 to Q4 2018. The data were collected from the Central Bank of Sudan (CBS) and Khartoum Stock Exchange (KSE). The autoregressive d...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,378 Views
19 Pages

Nexus between Nitrous Oxide Emissions and Agricultural Land Use in Agrarian Economy: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

  • Azad Haider,
  • Muhammad Iftikhar ul Husnain,
  • Wimal Rankaduwa and
  • Farzana Shaheen

5 March 2021

This paper analyses the relationship between Nitrous Oxide emissions, agricultural land use, and economic growth in Pakistan. Agriculture largely contributes to Nitrous Oxide emissions. Hence, models of agriculture induced Nitrous Oxide emissions are...

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17 Citations
5,768 Views
16 Pages

Does Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Stimulate Economic Growth in Pakistan? An Application of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL Bounds) Testing Approach

  • Muhammad Salman Ahmad,
  • Elżbieta Izabela Szczepankiewicz,
  • Dai Yonghong,
  • Farid Ullah,
  • Ihsan Ullah and
  • Windham Eugene Loopesco

11 March 2022

The objective of this paper is to ascertain the impact of Chinese FDI on economic growth in Pakistan. This study documents the exploration of the determinants of economic growth in Pakistan by emphasizing the significant role played by Chinese FDI an...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,334 Views
15 Pages

The nexus between Information Communication Technology (ICT) and stock market development has been predominantly based on studies of the developed markets and high-income economies of the world. The objective of this study was to examine the causal r...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,791 Views
19 Pages

23 August 2024

This study investigated the interplay between exchange rate volatility, inflation rates, and real interest rates on Zambia’s economic growth from 1992 to 2022, utilizing annualized time series data. The study was necessitated by the limited pub...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,903 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2021

Rapid urbanization, coupled with income growth, will inevitably cause the residential energy consumption in the North Africa region to continue to increase, with adverse effects on the climate, human health, and the economy. In these regards, this pa...

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3 Citations
7,220 Views
16 Pages

15 August 2023

This paper explores the impact of investment and employment on Egypt’s agricultural growth during the period 1991 to 2021 using annual time series data. We use the ARDL approach to examine the long-run and short-run relationships among agricult...

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  • Open Access
3,705 Views
16 Pages

21 December 2023

According to the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS), Bangladesh aims to achieve a 100% financial inclusion target by 2026 through mobile financing services (MFSs). However, despite several efforts, the financial inclusion score remained onl...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,817 Views
23 Pages

6 December 2019

This study aims to explore the casual relationship between agricultural production, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is applied to examine the relationship between agricultural p...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,921 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Energy Development in Saudi Arabia

  • Mounir Belloumi and
  • Atef Saad Alshehry

27 April 2015

The main objective of this research is to study the role of energy consumption in economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period of 1971–2012 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration procedure, and based on neoclassical growth,...

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69 Citations
6,618 Views
16 Pages

Revising the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Deforestation: An Empirical Study for Bulgaria

  • Stavros Tsiantikoudis,
  • Eleni Zafeiriou,
  • Grigorios Kyriakopoulos and
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis

12 August 2019

The evolution of human societies along with efforts to enhance economic welfare may well lead to the deterioration of the environment. Deforestation is a usual process throughout evolution that poses pressing and potentially irreversible environmenta...

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1,742 Views
44 Pages

12 August 2025

Water, an indispensable resource for life and not a complete substitute, is indispensable for energy production, industry, agriculture, and ecosystem sustainability. In particular, the limited and unequal distribution of freshwater reserves makes wat...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,235 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2021

The financial sector is divided into two broad categories: equity and banking markets. The healthy functioning of these sectors plays an imperative role in any economy. This study aimed to examine the short- and long-term relationship between the Isl...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,189 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2021

Agricultural trade significantly promotes the economic boom in developing countries. Extensive traditional agricultural production methods have increased the pressure on the agricultural environment by expanding agricultural trade, which has attracte...

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61 Citations
5,113 Views
14 Pages

Linking Economic Growth, Urbanization, and Environmental Degradation in China: What Is the Role of Hydroelectricity Consumption?

  • Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo,
  • Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola,
  • Husam Rjoub,
  • Ibrahim Adeshola,
  • Ephraim Bonah Agyekum and
  • Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar

Achieving environmental sustainability has become a global initiative whilst addressing climate change and its effects. Thus, this research re-assessed the EKC hypothesis in China and considered the effect of hydroelectricity use and urbanization, ut...

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67 Citations
4,841 Views
12 Pages

Modeling the Dynamic Linkage between Renewable Energy Consumption, Globalization, and Environmental Degradation in South Korea: Does Technological Innovation Matter?

  • Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo,
  • Manuel Francisco Coelho,
  • Dilber Çağlar Onbaşıoğlu,
  • Husam Rjoub,
  • Mário Nuno Mata,
  • Paulo Viegas Carvalho,
  • João Xavier Rita and
  • Ibrahim Adeshola

14 July 2021

The present research assesses the influence of globalization and technological innovation on CO2 emissions in South Korea as well as taking into account the role of renewable energy consumption and energy consumption utilizing datasets between 1980 a...

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4 Citations
4,825 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2021

The purpose of this paper is to examine the various structural determinants of revenue and tax effort in Tunisia. We used on the empirical study an ARDL model to estimate the dynamic equation of fiscal potential and its structural and non-structural...

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  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,741 Views
30 Pages

This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, financial innovation, and stock market development of Bangladesh for the period 1980–2016. To investigate long-run cointegration, this study used the autoregressive distribute...

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19 Citations
5,755 Views
21 Pages

The Relationship between Financial Development and Energy Consumption in South Africa

  • Palesa Milliscent Lefatsa,
  • Kin Sibanda and
  • Rufaro Garidzirai

21 October 2021

This paper examines the nexus between financial development and energy consumption in South Africa. To determine the long run and short run relationship between financial development and energy consumption in South Africa, the paper uses an Auto Regr...

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4 Citations
10,053 Views
18 Pages

The study aims at examining how fiscal deficits affect the performance of the stock market in India by using annual data from 1988–2012. The study makes use of Ng-Perron unit root tests to check the non-stationarity property of the series; the Auto...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,304 Views
23 Pages

28 May 2021

The aim of this study is to examine the empirical cointegration, long-run and short-run dynamics and causal relationships between carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in 14 Danube region countries over the period of 1990–2019. The...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,827 Views
21 Pages

Assessing Forest Conservation for Finland: An ARDL-Based Evaluation

  • Irina Georgescu,
  • Jani Kinnunen and
  • Ionuț Nica

10 January 2024

Deforestation is a central topic in the ongoing environmental degradation stemming from global economic expansion and population growth. This study delved into the effects of electricity production from renewable sources, GDP per capita, and urbaniza...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,411 Views
18 Pages

Towards Sustainable Agriculture in China: Assessing the Robust Role of Green Public Investment

  • Xincai Gao,
  • Lin Ji,
  • Abbas Ali Chandio,
  • Amber Gul,
  • Martinson Ankrah Twumasi and
  • Fayyaz Ahmad

18 March 2022

This paper reviews the long-term impact of public investments on irrigation and agricultural research and development along with other control variables, including physical capital, irrigated area, fertilizer consumption, level of mechanization, and...

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69 Citations
5,896 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2020

This study analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, industrial structure, renewable and nuclear energy, and urbanization on Korean greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1981 to 2014. The cointegration relationship of th...

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56 Citations
12,177 Views
35 Pages

This paper examines the linkages in financial markets during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak. For this purpose, daily stock market returns were used over the period of December 31, 2019–April 20, 2020 for the following eco...

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5 Citations
8,073 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2024

This study delves into the intricate interplay of economic growth components, specifically focusing on consumption and investment in Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2022. Employing vector error correction models and co-integration techniques, we analyze th...

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