Although China has won many plaudits for its rapid transformation from an autarky to theworld’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) and a regional export power-house, some economists –most notablyHuang (2003, 2004)– are less sanguine about the Chinese government’s long-standing policy that encourages export-oriented FDI. Their main concern seems to be that foreign firms, especi...

A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them. The government’s difficulty in discerning the macroeconomic limitations on new initiatives was greatly increased by the unusual circumstances of the first two years: a commodity boom; promises of more aid than eventually arrived; expectations of a pe...

In this paper, we perform an empirical comparison of Italian and U.S. business cycles. After filtering the time series of the main macroeconomic variables of the two countries, through an approximate bandpass filter, we analyze the cross-correlations between each filtered variable and the filtered GDP, indicator of the business cycle. We find heterogeneity in business cycle dynamics as regards ...

Activity is projected to grow by 1.3% in 2023 and 1.7% 2024, after increasing 4.7% 2022. High inflation will curb household purchasing power, but savings accumulated during the pandemic support consumption. With deteriorating demand prospects rising financing costs, private investment expected remain subdued. The slowdown key trading partners dent exports. Inflation peak at 8.6% 2022 then decli...

Four major components influence the growth of the gross domestic product in Chinese provinces: consumption, investment, transnational exports, and inter-provincial exports. By splitting a competitive input-output table into a non-competitive input-output table, this study used an input-output model to measure the contributions of the four components of gross domestic product in various regions ...

in this article, i try to find out what are the effects of financial variablessuch as ratio of private sector deposits to gdp and ratio of bank credit toprivate sector to gdp and value of stocks trade in tehran stockexchange to total current value of stocks and private sector liquidity togdp on total investment.we use two models to test our hypothesis the first is a model for iranand the second...