Structural breaks and twin deficits hypothesis in African countries

The Twin Deficits Phenomenon in Some MENA Countries

The main purpose of this paper is analyses the short and long run relationship between budget deficit and trade deficit in some MENA countries. The data cover the period from 1971-2000 (and for I.R. IRAN 1 959-2003).The relationship between these variables will be analyses in short and long run by using Johansen cointegration tests, ECM, and Granger causality test. The empirical evidence provid...

Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis In OIC Countries: Evidence From Panel Unit Root Tests With Heterogeneous Structural Breaks

On the Twin Deficits Hypothesis and the Import Propensity in Transition Countries

This article uses co-integration and related techniques to test for a long-run causal relationship between the fiscal and external deficits of three post-transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, an import propensity model is tested by applying OLS and GMM. All the results reject the Twin Deficits Hypothesis. Instead, the results demonstrate that specific transition facto...

the twin deficits phenomenon in some mena countries

the main purpose of this paper is analyses the short and long run relationship between budget deficit and trade deficit in some mena countries. the data cover the period from 1971-2000 (and for i.r. iran 1 959-2003).the relationship between these variables will be analyses in short and long run by using johansen cointegration tests, ecm, and granger causality test. the empirical evidence provid...

An Empirical Investigation for the Twin Deficits Hypothesis in Pakistan

Pakistan constitutes a valuable case study for investigating the dynamics of persistently high rates of budget and current account deficits. In this paper an attempt has been made to empirically test the twin deficits hypothesis in Pakistan using quarterly time-series data for the period 1975 to 2005. The co-integration results indicate the existence of a longrun relationship between the defici...