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201644: The Links between Crude Oil Prices and GCC Stock Markets: Evidence from Time-Varying Granger Causality Tests

Mehmet Balcilar, Ismail Genc and Rangan Gupta

201643: The Effect of Gold Market Speculation on REIT Returns in South Africa: A Behavioral Perspective

Omokolade Akinsomi, Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201642: Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Data Analysis

Kafayat Amusa, Nara Monkam and Nicola Viegi

201641: Housing Market Spillovers in South Africa: Evidence from an Estimated Small Open Economy DSGE Model

Rangan Gupta and Xiaojin Sun

201640: Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Carolyn Chisadza and Manoel Bittencourt

201639: Components of Economic Policy Uncertainty and Predictability of US Stock Returns and Volatility: Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantile Approach

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Clement Kyei

201638: The Effect of Investor Sentiment on Gold Market Dynamics

Mehmet Balcilar, Matteo Bonato, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201637: Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Forecast Real Housing Returns in a Panel of OECD Countries? A Bayesian Approach

Christina Christou, Rangan Gupta and Christis Hassapis

201636: Structural Breaks in Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Bai and Perron Break Test Application

Jaco Weideman and Roula Inglesi-Lotz

201635: Are Housing Price Cycles Asymmetric? Evidence from the US States and Metropolitan Areas

Christophe André, Rangan Gupta and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

201634: Can Weather Conditions in New York Predict South African Stock Returns?

Nicholas Apergis and Rangan Gupta

201633: Dynamic Inconsistency, Falling Cost of Capital Relocation and Preferential Taxation of Foreign Capital

Kaushal Kishore

201632: A Note on Home Bias and the Gain from Non-Preferential Taxation

Kaushal Kishore

201631: Does U.S. News Impact Asian Emerging Markets? Evidence from Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test

Mehmet Balcilar, Esin Cakan and Rangan Gupta

201630: Are Preferential Tax Holidays Dynamic Inconsistent?

Kaushal Kishore

201629: Price Convergence Patterns across U.S. States

Christina Christou, Juncal Cunado and Rangan Gupta

201628: The Political and Economic Dynamics of Foreign Aid: A Case Study of United States and Chinese Aid to Sub-Sahara Africa

Kafayat Amusa, Nara Monkam and Nicola Viegi

201627: A Time Series Analysis of Long Island Sound Lobster Fishery

Zinnia Mukherjee, Dipak Dey and Rangan Gupta

201626: Do Terror Attacks Predict Gold Returns? Evidence from a Quantile-Predictive-Regression Approach

Rangan Gupta, Anandamayee Majumdar, Christian Pierdzioch and Mark Wohar

201625: Testing the Efficiency of the Art Market using Quantile-Based Unit Root Tests with Sharp and Smooth Breaks

Goodness Aye, Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Yi Chen, Rangan Gupta and Mark Wohar

201624: Periodically Collapsing Bubbles in the South African Stock Market

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Charl Jooste and Mark Wohar

201623: Emerging Multinational Corporations: A Prominent Player in the Global Economy

Mustafa Sakr and Andre Jordaan

201622: Forecasting Equity Premium in a Panel of OECD Countries: The Role of Economic Policy Uncertainty

Christina Christou and Rangan Gupta

201621: Pareto Optimality and Indeterminacy of General Equilibrium under Knightian Uncertainty

Wei Ma

201620: Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: The Role of US Economic Policy Uncertainty

Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta and Renee van Eyden

201619: The Relationship between Commodity Markets and Commodity Mutual Funds: A Wavelet-Based Analysis

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Tsangyao Chang, Juncal Cuñado and Rangan Gupta

201618: An Analysis of the Relationship between U.S. State Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Health Care Expenditure

Nicholas Apergis, Rangan Gupta, Chi Keung Lau and Zinnia Mukherjee

201617: Market Efficiency of Baltic Stock Markets: A Fractional Integration Approach

Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta, Olanrewaju Shittu and Olaoluwa Yaya

201616: Convergence Patterns in Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads: Evidence from the Euro Area

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Christina Christou, Juncal Cuñado and Rangan Gupta

201615: Do Terror Attacks Affect the Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate? A Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Analysis

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Christian Pierdzioch and Mark Wohar

201614: Productive Efficiency of Connecticut Long Island Lobster Fishery Using a Finite Mixture Model

Rangan Gupta, Zinnia Mukherjee, Mike Tsionas and Peter Wanke

201613: The Term Premium as a Leading Macroeconomic Indicator

Vasilios Plakandaras, Periklis Gogas, Theophilos Papadimitriou and Rangan Gupta

201612: The Role of Current Account Balance in Forecasting the US Equity Premium: Evidence from a Quantile Predictive Regression Approach

Rangan Gupta, Anandamayee Majumdar and Mark Wohar

201611: Impact of Activity Tax in the Property-Owning and Subletting of Fixed Property Sectors on the South African Economy: A CGE Analysis

Lumengo Bonga-Bonga, Jean Luc Erero and Rangan Gupta

201610: The Efficiency of the Art Market: Evidence from Variance Ratio Tests, Linear and Nonlinear Fractional Integration Approaches

Goodness Aye, Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and Mark Wohar

201609: Do Sustainable Stocks Offer Diversification Benefits for Conventional Portfolios? An Empirical Analysis of Risk Spillovers and Dynamic Correlations

Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

201608: Terror Attacks and Stock-Market Fluctuations: Evidence Based on a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test for the G7 Countries

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Christian Pierdzioch and Mark Wohar

201607: Revisiting the Twin Deficits Hypothesis: A Quantile Cointegration Analysis over the Period of 1791-2013

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Juncal Cuñado, Rangan Gupta and Mawuli Segnon

201606: LPPLS Bubble Indicators over Two Centuries of the S&P 500 Index

Qunzhi Zhang, Didier Sornette, Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Zeynel Ozdemir and Ibrahim Yetkiner

201605: Time-Varying Correlations between Inflation and Stock Prices in the United States over the Last Two Centuries

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Rangan Gupta and Aviral Tiwari

201604: Emerging Multinational Corporations: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Mustafa Sakr and Andre Jordaan

201603: Forecasting South African Macroeconomic Variables with a Markov-Switching Small Open-Economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Kevin Kotze

201602: Dynamic Comovement between Social Infrastructure, Economic Growth and Inequality in South Africa

Sixolile Jafta and Goodness Aye

201601: Effect of Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Inequality in South Africa: A SEM Approach

Itumeleng More and Goodness Aye

201599: Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Predict Exchange Rate Returns and Volatility? Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Clement Kyei and Mark Wohar

201598: On Exchange-Rate Movements and Gold-Price Fluctuations: Evidence for Gold-Producing Countries from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Christian Pierdzioch

201597: Causality between Per Capita Real GDP and Income Inequality in the U.S.: Evidence from a Wavelet Analysis

Shinhye Chang, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

201596: Predicting South African Equity Premium using Domestic and Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices: Evidence from a Bayesian Graphical Model

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Mampho Modise and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

201595: Causal Effects of the United States and Japan on Pacific-Rim Stock Markets: Nonparametric Quantile Causality Approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Duc Khuong Nguyen and Mark Wohar

201594: On International Uncertainty Links: BART-Based Empirical Evidence for Canada

Rangan Gupta, Christian Pierdzioch and Marian Risse