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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,023 Views
21 Pages

27 July 2024

Climatic change and environmental degradation have become a worldwide discourse. Green innovation is commonly viewed as a means of lowering environmental pollution in the era of climate change. Considering this, the primary purpose of this study is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
25,156 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,695 Views
12 Pages

This research aims to examine the effects of remittance outflows on Saudi’s non-oil economic growth (NOGDP). While few studies have examined the effects of remittance outflows on remitting countries’ economic development, none have looked...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,826 Views
11 Pages

4 August 2020

The paper features an examination of the link between the behaviour of oil prices and DowJones Index in a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) framework. The attraction of NARDL is that it represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,977 Views
36 Pages

The study investigates the safe haven properties and sustainability of the top five cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Monero, and Ripple) and gold for BRICS stock markets during the COVID-19 crisis period from 31 January 2020 to 17 September...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,008 Views
21 Pages

Human Capital Spending and Its Impact on Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: An NARDL Approach

  • Fakhre Alam,
  • Harman Preet Singh,
  • Ajay Singh,
  • Yaser Hasan Al-Mamary,
  • Aliyu Alhaji Abubakar and
  • Vikas Agrawal

19 May 2025

The principal objectives of this study were to determine how government spending on human capital, specifically on education and healthcare, impacts Saudi Arabia’s economic growth and its policy implications for sustained economic growth and de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,802 Views
19 Pages

The Effect of Energy Consumption, Income, and Population Growth on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from NARDL and Machine Learning Models

  • Mansoor Ahmed,
  • Wen Huan,
  • Nafees Ali,
  • Ahsan Shafi,
  • Muhsan Ehsan,
  • Kamal Abdelrahman,
  • Anser Ali Khan,
  • Saiq Shakeel Abbasi and
  • Mohammed S. Fnais

3 August 2023

With population and income growth, the need for energy has increased in developing and emerging economies, which has inevitably led to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions (CO2e). This paper investigates the impact of energy consumption on CO2e in...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
32 Pages

28 January 2026

This study develops an integrated panel econometric framework for modeling investment–output dynamics in circular economy sectors, explicitly addressing dynamic propagation, long-run equilibrium relationships, endogeneity, and nonlinear respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,191 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,842 Views
20 Pages

11 October 2022

The relationship between financial development indicators and non-performing loans (NPLs) has garnered significant attention, especially in emerging countries. The puzzle of whether financial sector development increases or decreases Non-performing L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,120 Views
25 Pages

On the Asymmetric Relation between Inflation and Growth in Mexico: A NARDL Approach

  • José Carlos Trejo-García,
  • Ramón Valencia-Romero,
  • María De Lourdes Soto-Rosales and
  • Francisco Venegas-Martínez

17 January 2024

The effects of various geopolitical tensions, conflicts between countries and the global post-pandemic COVID-19 have caused an acceleration in the price level in many countries around the world. This research focuses on Mexico since its monetary poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,960 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2024

This paper augments the sparse literature on the inflationary impact of foreign debt in Brazil while addressing methodological caveats in previous studies. We depart from the linearity assumption and employ two nonlinear techniques: the nonlinear aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,776 Views
15 Pages

Analyzing the Asymmetric Effect of Renewable Energy Consumption on Environment in STIRPAT-Kaya-EKC Framework: A NARDL Approach for China

  • Youxue Jiang,
  • Zakia Batool,
  • Syed Muhammad Faraz Raza,
  • Mohammad Haseeb,
  • Sajjad Ali and
  • Syed Zain Ul Abidin

This study aims to analyze the asymmetric relation between renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions in China using the STIRPAT-Kaya-EKC framework. To delve into the asymmetric effect of renewable energy consumption on the environment, the non-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,108 Views
29 Pages

6 September 2021

The motivation of the study is to investigate the nature of the relationship between institutional quality, tourism, and FDI in BIMSTEC nations for the period 1996Q1–2018Q4. Exploring their nature of association, the study performed several panel eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,662 Views
16 Pages

Symmetries or Asymmetries: How MSCI Index Advanced European Markets’ Exchange Rates Respond to Macro-Economic Fundamentals

  • Mosab I. Tabash,
  • Muhammad AsadUllah,
  • Quratulain Siddiq,
  • Marwan Mansour,
  • Linda Nalini Daniel and
  • Mujeeb Saif Mohsen Al-Absy

28 November 2024

The purpose of this study is to find symmetries and asymmetries in the exchange rate and macroeconomic fundamentals of advanced European markets, namely Denmark, the Euro Area, and United Kingdom, for the period of 2011 to 2022 via application of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,241 Views
16 Pages

We examine the nonlinear relationship between interest rates on bank risk-taking behavior in South Africa between 2008:q1 and 2022:q3 using nonlinear autoregressive distributive lag (NARDL) and quantile autoregressive distributive lag (QARDL) models....

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,493 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Dairy Product Price Transmission in Hungary: A Nonlinear ARDL Model

  • Marwa Ben Abdallah,
  • Maria Fekete Farkas and
  • Zoltan Lakner

This paper addresses the assessment of the price transmission of dairy products in Hungary. Monthly prices are used in testing the hypothesis of asymmetric price transmission between farmers and retailers. The magnitude of short- and long-run asymmet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,346 Views
12 Pages

The study identifies the impact of the changes in human mobility due to the announcement of the state of emergency to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic on the Tokyo gasoline, diesel, and kerosene markets. Indices reflecting the movements in the visits...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,521 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2023

Human health capital is an important factor that affects countries’ economic development. This research explores the nonlinear effect of human health capital on economic growth and assesses the asymmetry over time. We used annual data from 1978...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,154 Views
17 Pages

Asymmetric Effects of the Defense Burden on Environmental Degradation: Evidence from NATO Countries

  • Olcay Çolak,
  • Sevilay Ece Gümüş Özuyar and
  • Ömer Faruk Bölükbaşı

29 December 2022

Rapid industrialization tends to occur at the expense of natural resources. Thus, countries are inclined to control natural resources for their development objectives, which may create conflicts when countries allocate scarce resources to national de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
208 Views
20 Pages

Given the context of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting global logistics, coupled with the Russia–Ukraine war causing global energy price changes, examining both the linear and nonlinear associations between shipping cost and oil price is crucial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,649 Views
23 Pages

14 March 2023

Energy and electricity are critical prerequisites for every nation and critical components of social and economic growth. The monetary policy economist has been debating the issue of relying on core inflation or headline inflation, which includes ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,465 Views
14 Pages

This study is the first to investigate the asymmetric effects of oil price volatility on stock returns for the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE). We utilized weekly series of VN30-Index, WTI crude oil prices, geopolitical risks (GPR) index, and gold...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,228 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2020

This research analyzes non-linear interdependencies between the Polish (WIG20) and the Spanish (IBEX 35) stock market returns with some other relevant international stock market returns, such as the German (DAX-30), the British (FTSE-100), the Americ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,717 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2021

This study aims to examine the asymmetric relationship between trade openness and FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows to Vietnam by using NARDL (nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag) during the period from 1997 to 2019. Our findings show that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,280 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2024

The significance of the transportation sector, notably in terms of the carbon emission factor, is an undeniable fact. Along with this fact, individuals’ transportation preferences depend on their income levels. In this context, when the issue i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,055 Views
21 Pages

21 April 2023

This article aims to uncover the asymmetric labor-market consequences of the long-run civil war in Afghanistan by employing a non-linear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) model and an asymmetric causality technique over the period from 2004Q3 t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,450 Views
21 Pages

This study examines the asymmetric effects of foreign worker employment and low educational attainment on labor productivity across Malaysia’s three main economic sectors—agriculture, industry, and services—from 1991 to 2019 using t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,464 Views
41 Pages

1 September 2025

The transition of South Africa from coal-dependent energy systems to renewable energy alternatives presents economic and environmental trade-off complexities that require empirical investigation. This study employed threshold-switching dynamic models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,236 Views
14 Pages

Yield Spread and Economic Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Japan

  • Mei-Chih Wang,
  • Pao-Lan Kuo,
  • Chan-Sheng Chen,
  • Chien-Liang Chiu and
  • Tsangyao Chang

25 May 2020

In this paper, we adopt the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) model extended by Shin et al. (2014) to investigate the relationship between the treasury yield spread and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in Japan. This model helps us t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,185 Views
17 Pages

Modelling Sectoral Energy Consumption in Malaysia: Assessing the Asymmetric Effects

  • Chung-Siong Tang,
  • Mori Kogid,
  • James Alin and
  • Brian Dollery

5 February 2022

Economic growth, energy prices, technological innovations, and financial depth all play a vital role in sectoral energy consumption. Early studies have extensively examined the interactions among these variables, which are important in developing pol...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,348 Views
4 Pages

This paper investigates the relationship between the gross value added (GVA) of Greece’s agricultural sector and the GVAs of the other sectors. The research considers both the relationship between value levels and the cycles of GVAs. Dynamic an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,847 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2022

Though various studies have examined the energy-growth nexus, the non-linear asymmetry relationship between economic growth and energy use has received little attention. In order to investigate the stratified asymmetric relationship between total, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,952 Views
22 Pages

This article examines the connectedness between Bitcoin returns and returns of ten additional cryptocurrencies for several frequencies—daily, weekly, and monthly—over the period January 2015–March 2020 using a nonlinear autoregressi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,507 Views
12 Pages

Causes of Higher Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Energy Consumption Contribute? Evidence from the Non-Linear ARDL Model

  • Nabila Asghar,
  • Muhammad Asif Amjad,
  • Hafeez ur Rehman,
  • Mubbasher Munir and
  • Reda Alhajj

7 February 2023

The impact of human activities on environmental degradation has been increasing over time, and ecological footprint measures the impact of human activities on the environment. An increase in ecological footprint has created alarming situations around...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,240 Views
17 Pages

Since the appearance of persistent research finding a disconnection between the exchange rate and its macroeconomic fundamentals, the empirical debate has not stopped. Studies employ various methods to explain the presence of the exchange rate discon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,218 Views
19 Pages

Economic Growth Drivers in Romania: Evidence from a NARDL Analysis

  • Milin Ioana Anda,
  • Bușan Gabriela,
  • Ecobici Nicolae and
  • Abdul Rehman

29 March 2023

The present study examined the impact of foreign direct investment, trade, final consumption expenditures, exports and imports of goods and services on the Romanian economic growth. The study used yearly data ranging from 1990 to 2020, and stationari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
5,020 Views
18 Pages

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Performance in EU Agriculture: An Empirical Study in a Non-Linear Framework

  • Eleni Zafeiriou,
  • Ioannis Mallidis,
  • Konstantinos Galanopoulos and
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis

23 October 2018

Numerous linkages among Agriculture and climate change have been identified and validated in global terms. In European Union, the economic performance–carbon dioxide emission relationship has become a particularly high priority issue for Common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,928 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2019

In this paper, the linear and nonlinear effects of oil price on growth for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—3 net oil-exporting countries, namely Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, are investigated. The empirical analysis applies the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,376 Views
17 Pages

26 October 2020

This study aims to explore the connection between the potential effects of energy consumption and technological innovation on economic growth in China from 1980 to 2018. The Non-Linear Autoregressive Distributive Lag (NARDL) econometric approach reve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
19,340 Views
19 Pages

This study is the first to scientifically investigate stock indices and currency exchanges that affect crypto price volatility pre and post the FTX (Future Exchanges) collapse event. Weekly series from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2024 were utilized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
431 Views
23 Pages

Financial Stability Under Climate Stress: Empirical Evidence from Namibia

  • Jaungura Kaune,
  • Andy Esterhuizen and
  • Valdemar J. Undji

2 February 2026

Climate change has emerged as one of the defining risks in recent years. These risks are associated with economic losses and, ultimately, the stability of the financial system. This study examines the impact of climate change on financial stability i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,065 Views
14 Pages

4 July 2022

The paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment and environmental pollution on economic growth in an emerging economy. We used annual data covering the period of 1986–2020 and the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,259 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2022

The primary goal of this analysis was to determine the impact of inflation, poverty, unemployment, and population growth on economic growth in Pakistan using time series data from 1986 to 2020. The stationarity for the variables was tested through un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,728 Views
22 Pages

10 September 2018

This study examines the linkages between Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICS) stock market returns, country risk ratings, and international factors via Non-linear Auto Regressive Distributed Lags models (NARDL) that allow for testing the asymmetr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,047 Views
21 Pages

20 December 2021

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s major producers of oil. The Saudi Government has launched its vision for the coming decade: Saudi Vision 2030 (also known as 2030 Vision). Saudi Vision 2030 aims to diversify economic income and be independent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,412 Views
17 Pages

Exploring the Impact of Air Transport on Economic Growth: New Evidence from Australia

  • Avishek Khanal,
  • Mohammad Mafizur Rahman,
  • Rasheda Khanam and
  • Eswaran Velayutham

9 September 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors of the tourism industry, particularly air transportation. However, air transport remains an important contributor to economic growth globally. Thus, this study examines whether air transport (a proxy for...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,821 Views
25 Pages

1 August 2023

This study empirically investigates the asymmetric effects of spot (future) prices and storage on rig counts in the US natural gas and crude oil markets from January 1986 to May 2020. It adopts the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,445 Views
26 Pages

12 July 2021

Liquid fuels obtained in refining crude oil are one of the most important energies in economic activity. The domestic wholesale market for liquid fuels is of decisive importance for price formation in the national economy. The noncompetitive behavior...

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