Does uncertainty affect economic growth? An empirical analysis

An Empirical Study of Export and Economic Growth in India since 1960: A Co integration Analysis

Does Employee Alignment Affect Business-it Alignment? an Empirical Analysis

The aim of this paper is to investigate if employee alignment will influence the business-IT alignment in organizations. We measured employee alignment through perceived organizational trust, perceived communications on business-IT strategies to employees, perceived employee commitment to business-IT strategies and perceived knowledge on business-IT strategies. Structural equation modelling (SE...

How Does Inflow of FDI Affect Economic Growth in East Asia?

In this paper, we address the question that does FDI alone affect economic growth or interaction of FDI and human capital is required to boost economic growth. We develop the model with an expanding variety of products. We estimate the model using some advanced tests utilizing data on FDI flows from developed countries. We find stronger complementary effects between FDI and human capital on the...

Does Democracy Facilitate Economic Growth or Does Economic Growth Facilitate Democracy? an Empirical Study of Sub-saharan Africa

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. As our proxy for democracy we first use the democracy index constructed by Freedom House and then check the sensitivity of our findings using, as an alternative proxy for democracy, the Legislative Index of Electoral Competitiveness (LIEC). We find support for the Lipset hypo...

Financial development and economic growth an empirical analysis for Ireland

This study investigated the relationship between financial development and economic growth for Ireland for the period 1965-2007 using a vector error correction model (VECM). Questions were raised whether financial development causes economic growth or reversely taking into account the positive effect of industrial production index. Financial market development is estimated by the effect of cred...