Arusha Cooray

Institution: James Cook University of North Queensland

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/arusha.cooray/

First Publication: 2003

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	0.00	1.18	1.18	37%
Last 10 Years	3.70	6.56	10.26	89%
All Time	6.39	15.14	21.53	94%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 33

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 36.69

Publications (33)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Public social spending, government effectiveness, and economic growth: an empirical investigation	Applied Economics	C	2
2024	Good governance in troubled times: What we know and what experts say	Economic Modeling	C	3
2021	Do immigrants’ funds affect the exchange rate?	The World Economy	C	3
2019	Money Growth and Inflation: New Evidence from a Nonlinear and Asymmetric Analysis	The Manchester School	C	2
2018	The effect of corruption on labour market outcomes	Economic Modeling	C	2
2018	Does corruption throw sand into or grease the wheels of financial sector development?	Public Choice	B	2
2018	The Behaviour of Interest Rate Spreads Prior to and After the Financial Crisis: Evidence Across OECD Countries	The Manchester School	C	2
2018	Export performance of developing countries: Does landlockedness matter?	Review of Development Economics	C	2
2017	How Does Corruption Affect Public Debt? An Empirical Analysis	World Development	B	3
2017	Trade Openness and Labor Force Participation in Africa: The Role of Political Institutions	Industrial Relations	C	3
2017	Economic Freedom and Income Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of Global Economies— A Linear and a Non-Linear Long-Run Analysis	The Manchester School	C	2
2017	The Feldstein-Horioka hypothesis revisited	B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics	C	2
2017	Transparency Pays? Evaluating the Effects of the Freedom of Information Laws on Perceived Government Corruption	Journal of Development Studies	C	2
2016	Do freedom of information laws improve bureaucratic efficiency? An empirical investigation	Oxford Economic Papers	C	2
2016	Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination	Journal of Population Economics	B	2
2016	Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination	Journal of Population Economics	B	2
2016	Do International Flows Increase Enrollment Rates?	Macroeconomic Dynamics	C	1
2015	The dynamics of Greek public debt - evidence from simultaneous and structural VAR models	Applied Economics	C	2
2015	Asymmetric interest rate pass-through in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia: New evidence from selected individual banks	Journal of Macroeconomics	C	2
2014	What drives FDI policy liberalization? An empirical investigation	Regional Science and Urban Economics	B	3
2014	Does a gender disparity exist in academic rank? Evidence from an Australian university	Applied Economics	C	3
2014	Gender‐specific Human Capital, Openness and Growth: Exploring the Linkages for South Asia	Review of Development Economics	C	3
2014	Who Remits? An Examination of Emigration by Education Level and Gender	The World Economy	C	1
2014	Do Low-Skilled Migrants Contribute More to Home Country Income? Evidence from South Asia	B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy	C	1
2013	Do countries belonging to the same region suggest the same growth enhancing variables? Evidence from selected South Asian countries	Economic Modeling	C	3
2013	Estimating and forecasting residential electricity demand in Iran	Economic Modeling	C	2
2013	International business cycles and remittance flows	B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics	C	2
2012	Financial development, political rights, civil liberties and economic growth: Evidence from South Asia	Economic Modeling	C	2
2012	The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth: Evidence from South Asia	Review of International Economics	B	1
2012	How useful is growth literature for policies in the developing countries?	Applied Economics	C	2
2011	The role of the government in financial sector development	Economic Modeling	C	1
2007	The Feldstein-Horioka model re-visited for African countries	Applied Economics	C	2
2003	A test of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates for Sri Lanka	Applied Economics	C	1