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Fast-food consumption and individual time preferences in Russia: evidence for the social policy
Tatiana Kossova, Maria SheluntcovaThis article aims to investigate the role of socioeconomic factors and individual time preferences in the demand for fast-food in Russia. An individual discount rate shows the…
Investigating the financial efficiencies and productivities of the banking sector
Fazıl Gökgöz, Engin Yalçın, Noor Ayoob SalahaldeenThe banking industry, which is one of the most significant industries when taking into account both deposit sizes and employment statistics in Turkey, is one of the country's…
Assessing the resilience of the US banking sector under a macroeconomic stress testing
Mohamed LachaabThe increased capital requirements and the implementation of new liquidity standards under Basel III sparked various concerns among researchers, academics and other stakeholders…
Trade potential in European Union manufacturing
Lazaros Antonios Chatzilazarou, Dimitrios DadakasThis study deals with changes in European Union's (EU's) trade potential in Machinery (HS 84–85) and Transportation (HS86-89) products.
Fiscal adjustments and TFP dynamics: addressing reverse causality within a heterogeneous panel framework with global shocks
Gianni CarvelliThe purpose of this study is to provide new insights into the relationship between fiscal policy and total factor productivity (TFP) while accounting for several economic and…
Mayday! Mayday! The airlines stock returns are failing. Analysis of the impact of Russia–Ukraine war
António Miguel Martins, Susana CróThis paper investigates the short-term market impact of the beginning of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine (February 24, 2022) on a set of airline stocks listed.
The nonlinear relationship between financial constraints and R&D investment: the mediating role of executive stock options
Sedki Zaiane, Halim DabbouThe current study aims to investigate the mediating role of executive stock options in the nonlinear relationship between financial constraints and research and development (R&D…
US unemployment rate: Federal Reserve versus private information
Hamid Baghestani, Bassam M. AbuAl-FoulThis study evaluates the Federal Reserve (Fed) initial and final forecasts of the unemployment rate for 1983Q1-2018Q4. The Fed initial forecasts in a typical quarter are made in…
Economic policy uncertainty and the Greek economic crisis
Gikas Hardouvelis, Georgios Karalas, Dimitrios Karanastasis, Panagiotis SamartzisThe authors construct an index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) for Greece using textual analysis and analyze its role in the 10-year Greek economic crisis.
The human consequences of economic sanctions
Francisco RodríguezThe use of economic sanctions has grown dramatically in recent decades. Nevertheless, many arguments are presented in the public policy space regarding their effects on target…
Abortion stigma, government regulation and religiosity: findings from the case of Iran
Farzin Rasoulyan, Seyed Reza Mirnezami, Arash Khalili Nasr, Bahar Morshed-BehbahaniExperiencing stigma after abortion may decelerate the accumulation of human capital. Despite the importance of studying the relationship between religiosity and abortion stigma…
Does monetary policy impact income inequality?
Luccas Assis AttílioThis article analyzes the impact of monetary policy on income inequality across 16 advanced economies. The author investigates three key points: (1) the relationship between…
Does central bank credibility from professional forecasters and consumers affect the interest rate and its expectations?
Helder Ferreira de Mendonça, Cristiane Nascimento de LimaThis paper aims to contribute to the analysis concerning how inflation forecasts from different economic agents (professional forecasters and consumers) lead to varying levels of…
Cross country comparisons of environmental efficiency under institutional quality. Evidence from European economies
Cristian Barra, Pasquale Marcello FalconeThe paper aims at addressing the following research questions: does institutional quality improve countries' environmental efficiency? And which pillars of institutional quality…
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of firm productivity? Evidence of a non-linear relationship from a firm-level analysis in Vietnam
Van Thi Cam Ha, Trinh Nguyen Chau, Tra Thi Thu Pham, Duy NguyenThis analysis examines the relationship between corruption and firm productivity in Vietnam.
Banking sector's reaction during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: who reacted the most?
Rizky Yudaruddin, Dadang LesmanaThis study aims to investigate the market reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, specifically in the banking sector.
Monetary policy in a small open economy with non-separable government spending
Haytem Troug, Ernil SabajDespite being a flexible tool that can address several macroeconomic issues, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models have been rarely used to analyse the interaction…
A probit-based analysis of the deep stock market drawdowns
Damir Tokic, Dave JacksonThis study is motivated in part by the fact that the unfolding 2022 bear market, which has reached the −25% drawdown, has not been preceded by the inverted 10Y-3 m spread or an…
Mortgage market, wages and homeownership
Gaetano LisiThis study deals with the main issues concerning the interplay between homeownership and labour market outcomes, namely (1) the relation between homeownership and labour market…
Factors determining migration intentions in Bangladesh: from land to factory
Muhammad Kazim Nur Sohad, Giuseppe Celi, Edgardo SicaThis article explores the migration intentions (MIs) embedded in population movements from rural to urban areas in Bangladesh. In this country, urban-centric development policies…
Poverty and financial development: an asymmetric and nonlinear ARDL analysis for India
Ishfaq Nazir Khanday, Md. Tarique, Inayat Ullah Wani, Muzffar Hussain DarThe primary objective of the paper is to examine the asymmetric Cointegration and asymmetric causality between financial development and poverty alleviation on annual data in…
Forecasting expenditure components in Nigeria
Afees Salisu, Douglason Godwin OmotorThis study forecasts the government expenditure components in Nigeria, including recurrent and capital expenditures for 2021 and 2022, based on data from 1981 to 2020.
Asymmetry in the prices of crude oil and diesel and gasoline prices in Brazil
Gerrio Barbosa, Daniel Sousa, Cássio da Nóbrega Besarria, Robson Lima, Diego Pitta de JesusThe aim of this study was to determine if there are asymmetries in the pass-through of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices to its derivatives (diesel and gasoline) in…
The impact of Credit Suisse takeover on Indian banking and financial services sector stocks: an event study analysis
Priyanka Goyal, Pooja SoniThe present study aims to comprehensively examine the impact of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) takeover of Credit Suisse on the banking and financial services sector in the…
The gender pay gap in the Visegrad Groups
Jakub Harman, Lucia BartůskováThe gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in labor economics. Based on the 2018 Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), the authors estimate the impact of observable…
Russia–Ukraine war and the impact on Indian economy
Anindita Bhattacharjee, Dolly Gaur, Kanishka GuptaIndia is not geographically close to either Russia or Ukraine. However, India's trade relations with them make it vulnerable to the consequences of the war between these…
Performance evaluation of commercial bank branches in dynamic competitive conditions: a network DEA model with serial and cross-shared resources
Pejman Shabani, Mohsen Akbarpour ShiraziThis paper aims to evaluate commercial bank branches' performance in dynamic and competitive conditions where decision-making units (DMUs) seek a greater proportion of shared…
Shirking and capital accumulation under oligopolistic competition
Haiwen Zhou, Ruhai ZhouThe purpose of the paper is to study how technology choice is affected by capital accumulation when there is unemployment and firms engage in oligopolistic competition.
Property tax incentives to divorce strategically
Raffaella SantoliniThe paper aims to examine the role played by property tax in influencing strategic decisions regarding marital separation and divorce in Italian municipalities.
Factors determining default in P2P lending
Evangelia Avgeri, Maria PsillakiThe research documented in this paper aims to examine multiple factors related to borrowers' default in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the USA. This study is motivated by the…
Bank efficiency and competition: bibliometric analysis of concepts and emerging issues
James Ntiamoah Doku, Gladys A.A. NabieuThis study provides a bibliometric analysis of bank efficiency and competition over the past years (from 1993 to 2022) to (1) discover the past and current state of knowledge on…
Climate change and agricultural productivity in Asian and Pacific countries: how does research and development matter?
Cong Minh HuynhThis study empirically examines the impact of climate change and agricultural research and development (R&D) as well as their interaction on agricultural productivity in 12…
Asymmetric effects of monetary policy on non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI) assets: a panel quantile regression approach
Mugabil Isayev, Farid Irani, Amirreza AttarzadehThe purpose of this paper is to fill the momentous gap by explicitly investigating the asymmetric effects of monetary policy (MP) on non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI…
Unpacking the dynamics of military spending in a globalized world: economic impacts with a network GVAR model
Claire Economidou, Dimitris Karamanis, Alexandra Kechrinioti, Konstantinos N. Konstantakis, Panayotis G. MichaelidesIn this work, the authors analyze the dynamic interdependencies between military expenditures and the real economy for the period 1970–2018, and the authors' approach allows for…
The non-linear impact of financial development on income inequality: evidence from dynamic panel threshold model
Shobhana SikhawalThis study examines the non-linear impact of financial development on income inequality and analyses the mediators through which financial development affects income inequality.
Asymmetric causality between Bitcoin and tech stocks in the US market using mixed frequency data
Abbas ValadkhaniThis study is the first to investigate the causal relationship between Bitcoin and equity price returns by sectors. Previous studies have focused on aggregated indices such as…
Has the heterogeneity of culture, investor sentiment and uncertainty altered bank stock returns in the MENA region?
Syed Faisal ShahThis paper has analysed the impact of cultural dimensions, investor sentiment and uncertainty on bank stock returns. Also, the study examined the influences of the interaction…
From pandemic to war: dynamics of volatility spillover between BRICS exchange and stock markets
Mohit KumarTo estimate the volatility of exchange and stock markets and examine its spillover within and across the member countries of BRICS during COVID-19 and the conflict between Russia…
The role of relatedness in firm interrelationships
Daragh O'Leary, Justin Doran, Bernadette PowerThis paper analyses how firm births and deaths are influenced by previous firm births and deaths in related and unrelated sectors. Competition and multiplier effects are used as…
The effect of population aging on environmental degradation: new evidence and insights
George Hondroyiannis, Evangelia Papapetrou, Pinelopi TsalaportaThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries are facing unprecedented challenges related to climate change and population aging. The purpose of the…
On a regime switching illiquid high volatile prediction model for cryptocurrencies
Youssef El-Khatib, Abdulnasser Hatemi-JThe current paper proposes a prediction model for a cryptocurrency that encompasses three properties observed in the markets for cryptocurrencies—namely high volatility…
The effect of NPLs management in the PIIGS banking efficiency: an approach using non-parametric partial order-m frontiers
Emmanouil G. Chalampalakis, Ioannis Dokas, Eleftherios SpyromitrosThis study focuses on the banking systems evaluation in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain (known as the PIIGS) during the financial and post-financial crisis period from…
Monetary policy and nonperforming loan ratios in a monetary union; a counterfactual study
Ayuba Napari, Rasim Ozcan, Asad Ul Islam KhanFor close to two decades, the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) has been preparing to launch a second monetary union within the ECOWAS region. This study aims to determine the…
Effect of military service on fertility: evidence from the 2001 draft suspension in Spain
Stefani Milovanska-FarringtonMany European countries suspended mandatory conscription after the Cold War, and especially between 2000 and 2010. However, with the changing security situation in Europe, more…
The nexus between arms imports, military expenditures and economic growth of the top arms importers in the world: a pooled mean group approach
Shreesh CharyThis paper explores whether data back the claim that imports of armaments are inherently bad for economic growth. Regardless of one's point of view, the production and trade of…
The dance of dependence: a macro-perspective on financial instability and its complex influence on the Euro-American green markets
Brahim Gaies, Najeh ChaâbaneThis study adopts a new macro-perspective to explore the complex and dynamic links between financial instability and the Euro-American green equity market. Its primary focus and…
Macroeconomic impact of the supply shock during COVID-19 pandemic in India
Apica Sharma, Paras SachdevaThe study focuses on examining the impact of the supply shock on the Indian macroeconomic variables during the COVID-19 period.
Are green and socially responsible funds more efficient than conventional funds? A DEA approaches
Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves, Maria do Castelo Gouveia, Adriana Martins, Joaquim Carlos da Costa PinhoThe main goal of this paper is better understand the risk/return trade-off of investing in socially responsible investment funds (SRIF) and green investment funds (GIF).
Shadow economy–financial sustainability nexus: the case of Palestine
Mohammad Kamal Abuamsha, Lana Majdi HattabThe present research aims at identifying the latent factors that are driving the rise of the shadow economy in Palestine, assesses its magnitude from 1998 to 2021 and investigates…
The impact of anti-COVID-19 restrictions and transitory unemployment insurance policies on unemployment in Russia
Elena KotyrloDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, transitory unemployment insurance (UI) policies substantially increased unemployment benefits (UBs) and the number of eligible groups in Russia. The…
Analyzing the impact of positive and negative remittance inflow shocks on economic growth of India
Imran KhanThe purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the impact of remittance inflows on sustained economic growth in India.
The nonlinear nexus between renewable energy consumption and economic growth in OECD countries: evidence from PTR and PSTR estimates
Afifa Ferhi, Helali KamelToday, the increasing use of fossil fuels, energy security, concerns and the great importance of achieving sustainable economic growth underscore the urgent need to transition to…
Business cycles, stock market wealth, and gambling at the racetracks
Cyrus A. Ramezani, James J. AhernAs digital technologies expand access to new forms of legalized gambling, including sports betting and online gaming, it is important to assess the impact of macroeconomic and…
Housing price convergence: new evidence from Indian cities
Vaseem Akram, Rohan MukherjeeThe main purpose of this paper is to examine the convergence hypothesis of House Price Index (HPI) in the case of 18 major Indian cities for the period 2014–2019.
Can market risk explain the systemic risk? Evidence from the US banking industry
Panagiotis TzouvanasThis paper sheds light on the impact of market risk measures on systemic risk. Market risk, which is captured by the volatility of stock market returns, is also decomposed into…
Business activity and business confidence: a new volatility transmission relationship
Athanasios Tsagkanos, Dimitrios Koumanakos, Michalis PavlakisThe purpose of this study is to examine the transmission of volatility between business confidence index and stock market indices in Greece. The country remains the riskiest…
Financial development, growth and productivity
Cosimo Magazzino, Fabio Gaetano SanteramoIn this paper, the heterogeneity of the linkages among financial development, productivity and growth across income groups is emphasized.
Global impacts of oil price shocks: the trade effect
Saeed Moshiri, Elham KheirandishOil price shocks greatly impact the global economy, but the effects vary among countries. While higher oil prices benefit oil-exporting countries, they harm the economic…
The salience of informed risk: an experimental analysis
Marco Santorsola, Rocco Caferra, Andrea MoroneExpanding on the real-world financial market framework and considering the current market turmoil, with cryptocurrencies (where contracts for difference (CFDs) are extremely…
Herding behavior before and after COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Vietnam stock market
Yen Vy Bao Nguyen, An Hoang Kim VoThe priority of this study is to contribute to the literature by examining herding behavior at different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this study aims to…
The impacts of reforming agricultural policy support on cereal prices: a CGE modeling approach
Harold Glenn A. Valera, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Sumathi Chakravarthy, Sindhu Bharathi, Jean Balié, Valerien Olivier PedeThis paper investigates the effects of the total abolition of all forms of agricultural subsidies to producers and border tariffs on the prices of staple cereals.
Inflation and energy poverty: threshold effect of governance quality in Africa
John Kweku Mensah Mawutor, Freeman Christian Gborse, Richard Agbanyo, Ernest SogahThe purpose of this study is to test the modulating role and threshold of governance quality in the cost of living–energy poverty nexus.
Blockchain, sport and fan tokens
David Vidal-TomásThis paper provides a thorough examination of Socios.com, a blockchain platform that integrates token sales with the fan experience in the sports industry. The study focuses on…
Measuring the economic performance of transition economies: DEA-bootstrapping approach
Milena Jakšić, Ana Krstić Srejović, Marina Milanović, Predrag MimovićThe paper analyzes the relative technical efficiency of the transition economies of the Western Balkans in the period 2007–2021, in comparison with the former countries with a…
The real exchange rate and economic growth: a meta-analysis
Masagus M. Ridhwan, Affandi Ismail, Peter NijkampEmpirical studies regarding the impact of the real exchange rate (RER) on economic growth are extensively available. However, the literature as a whole appears to report varying…
Pensions and retirement systems research: a retrospective assessment from 1910 to 2022 using bibliometric analysis
Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu, Regina Mensah Onumah, Amanda Efua Essel-DonkorThis study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of research on pensions and retirement systems over the past 100 years. The study examines the intellectual structure and…
Current earnings, persistence and schooling returns
Corrado Andini, José Eusébio SantosThe aim is to study the impact of schooling on between-groups wage inequality beyond the lens of the standard approach in the literature.
Homeownership in the equilibrium unemployment theory
Gaetano LisiThis theoretical study aims to clarify the (a priori) ambiguous effect of homeownership on unemployment. In general, in fact, homeownership discourages job mobility, but…
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