The present study examined the impact of foreign direct investment, trade, final consumption expenditures, exports and imports goods services on Romanian economic growth. used yearly data ranging from 1990 to 2020, stationarity was checked using unit root testing. An asymmetric (non-linear autoregressive distributed lag) technique employed examine relationship between variables with estimation ...

We investigate the time-varying dynamics of precious metal markets. employ a mixed data sampling technique to identify impact macroeconomic and financial drivers from G7 BRICS countries on daily volatility pairwise correlation gold, silver, platinum, palladium. find that U.S. Chinese economies especially influence markets, but in opposite directions. Besides, stock markets trade balance both as...

Macroeconomic policy in Armenia over the past 30 years has led to a slowdown economic growth. This, turn, entails need revise approaches macroeconomic regulation, as well search for key drivers of growth, which state should emphasize future policy. The aim this research is analyze and assess main growth Armenia. We have employed methods statistical comparative analysis, deductive analysis histo...

I evaluate trends in forest loss, population size, economic growth, and corruption within 12 nations that contain the large bulk of Asian tropical forests, and contrast these with trends occurring elsewhere in the tropics. Half of the Asian nations have already experienced severe (>70%) forest loss, and forest-rich countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are experiencing rapid forest destruc...

Starting at least in the 1970s, empirical work suggested that demographic (population) and economic (affluence) forces are the key drivers of anthropogenic stress on the environment. We evaluate the extent to which politics attenuates the effects of economic and demographic factors on environmental outcomes by examining variation in CO2 emissions across US states and within states over time. We...

There is mounting evidence that major improvements in environmental quality high-income countries over the past decades may have been achieved to a large degree through relocation of impacts consumption other, usually poorer countries. While political and academic debates on appropriate policy interventions address this challenge are gaining ground, we still know rather little about drivers int...

— In countries where governments’ disproportionate power over the bureaucracy is coupled with a strong political polarization, can votes for the national incumbent party ‘‘buy” preferential policy treatment and faster regional economic growth? The article tests such question on Turkey’s 81 provinces over 2004–12. Results uncover a link between votes and faster regional growth, as well as a smal...

We report a vehicle-fleet experiment with an economic incentive for keeping within speed limits using a speed-alert device. A traffic insurance scheme was simulated with a monthly bonus during two months reduced by a non-linear speeding penalty. Participants were randomly assigned into four treatment and two control groups. A third control group consists of drivers who had the device and were m...