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A. Cooray

h-index: 27
Works: 102
Citations: 2,885

Most-cited papers

Government Expenditure, Governance and Economic Growth
A. Cooray
2009299 citations
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How Does Corruption Affect Public Debt? An Empirical Analysis
A. Cooray, Ratbek Dzhumashev, F. Schneider
2017228 citations Open access
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Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?
A. Cooray, N. Potrafke
2011195 citations Open access
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The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth: Evidence from South Asia
A. Cooray
2012174 citations
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Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination
A. Cooray, F. Schneider
2015Journal of Population Economics140 citations Open access
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Do stock markets lead to economic growth
A. Cooray
2010135 citations
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Financial development, political rights, civil liberties and economic growth: evidence from South Asia
S. Anwar, A. Cooray
2012124 citations
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The Role of Education in Economic Growth
A. Cooray
2009111 citations
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Migrant remittances, financial sector development and the government ownership of banks: evidence from a group of non-OECD economies
A. Cooray
201291 citations Open access
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The role of the government in financial sector development
A. Cooray
201171 citations
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Does corruption throw sand into or grease the wheels of financial sector development?
A. Cooray, F. Schneider
2018Public Choice70 citations Open access
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Estimating and forecasting residential electricity demand in Iran
E. Pourazarm, A. Cooray
201363 citations
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Transparency Pays? Evaluating the Effects of the Freedom of Information Laws on Perceived Government Corruption
K. Vadlamannati, A. Cooray
201762 citations Open access
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Trade Openness and Labor Force Participation in Africa: The Role of Political Institutions
A. Cooray, Nabamita Dutta, S. Mallick
201762 citations
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Asymmetric interest rate pass-through in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia: New evidence from selected individual banks
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
201561 citations Open access
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Economic Freedom and Income Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of Global Economies— A Linear and a Non‐Linear Long‐Run Analysis
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
201757 citations Open access
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The effect of corruption on labour market outcomes
A. Cooray, Ratbek Dzhumashev
2018Economic Modelling51 citations
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Monetary policy and commodity markets: Unconventional versus conventional impact and the role of economic uncertainty
N. Apergis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou, A. Cooray
202050 citations Open access
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What drives FDI policy liberalization? An empirical investigation
A. Cooray, Artur Tamazian, K. Vadlamannati
201446 citations Open access
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Do Energy Prices Affect U.S. Investor Sentiment?
N. Apergis, A. Cooray, Mobeen ur Rehman
201845 citations Open access
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Effects of Male and Female Education on Economic Growth: Some Evidence from Asia Using the Extreme Bounds Analysis
Gazi Hassan, A. Cooray
201343 citations
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Does health capital have differential effects on economic growth?
A. Cooray
201341 citations
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Gender‐Specific Human Capital, Openness and Growth: Exploring the Linkages for South Asia
A. Cooray, S. Mallick, Nabamita Dutta
201439 citations
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Does female human capital formation matter for the income effect of remittances? Evidence from developing countries
A. Cooray, Nabamita Dutta, S. Mallick
201637 citations
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Do gold prices respond to real interest rates? Evidence from the Bayesian Markov Switching VECM model
N. Apergis, A. Cooray, Naceur Khraief, Iraklis Apergis
2019Journal of international financial markets, institutions, and money35 citations Open access
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Public social spending, government effectiveness, and economic growth: an empirical investigation
A. Cooray, Young-sook Nam
2024Applied Economics33 citations Open access
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Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment
K. Wacker, A. Cooray, Isis Gaddis
201733 citations
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Health-system equity, egalitarian democracy and COVID-19 outcomes: An empirical analysis
K. Vadlamannati, A. Cooray, I. de Soysa
2021Scandinavian Journal of Public Health27 citations Open access
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Convergence in sovereign debt ratios across heavily indebted EU countries: evidence from club convergence
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
201427 citations Open access
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New insights on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for Central Asia
Massimiliano Caporin, A. Cooray, B. Kuziboev, In'omjon Yusubov
2023Empirical Economics24 citations Open access
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Export performance of developing countries: Does landlockedness matter?
R. Paudel, A. Cooray
201824 citations
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Asymmetric real exchange rates and poverty: The role of remittances
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
2018Emerging Markets Review24 citations
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The effect of female and male health on economic growth: cross-country evidence within a production function framework
Gazi Hassan, A. Cooray, Mark J. Holmes
2016Empirical Economics22 citations
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Financial flows and per capita income in developing countries
S. Anwar, A. Cooray
201522 citations Open access
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Tax revenues convergence across ASEAN, Pacific and Oceania countries: Evidence from club convergence
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
201421 citations
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The right to be free: is media freedom good news for women's rights?
A. Cooray, Nabamita Dutta, S. Mallick
201720 citations
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New evidence on the remedies of the Greek sovereign debt problem
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
201320 citations
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Does a gender disparity exist in academic rank? Evidence from an Australian university
A. Cooray, Reetu Verma, Lynn Wright
201419 citations
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Suffrage, Democracy and Gender Equality in Education
A. Cooray
201216 citations
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Public Opinion and Immigration: Who Favours Employment Discrimination against Immigrants?
A. Cooray, Abdeslam Marfouk, Maliha Nazir
201815 citations
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The Feldstein-Horioka hypothesis revisited
Ratbek Dzhumashev, A. Cooray
201614 citations
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How useful is growth literature for policies in the developing countries?
B. Rao, A. Cooray
201214 citations
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A test of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates for Sri Lanka
A. Cooray
200314 citations Open access
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Who remits? An examination of emigration by education level and gender
A. Cooray
201413 citations
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Do countries belonging to the same region suggest the same growth enhancing variables? Evidence from selected South Asian countries
A. Cooray, A. Paradiso, F. Truglia
201313 citations Open access
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A model of inflation for Sri Lanka
A. Cooray
200813 citations
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What explains cross-country growth in South Asia? Female education and the growth effect of international openness
A. Cooray, S. Mallick
201112 citations
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Growth literature and policies for the developing countries
B. Rao, A. Cooray
200812 citations
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
N. Apergis, A. Cooray
20199 citations Open access
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Maternal Mortality, Religion and the Enrolment of Girls and Boys: Is There a Link?
A. Cooray, Stephan Klasen
20148 citations Open access
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