Retraction to: Journal of Quantitative Economics (2020) 18:403–423 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-019-00185-9

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this Article due to significant overlap with previously published articles by the same authors (Swamy and Dharani 2019; Swamy et al. 2019).

Author Vighneswara Swamy and Author M Dharani do not agree to this retraction.