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A survey of empirical findings on unconventional central bank policies
Stephanos Papadamou, Costas Siriopoulos, Nikolaos A. KyriazisThis paper presents an integrated overview of the empirical literature on the impact of all forms of unconventional monetary policy on macroeconomic variables and on markets.
Determinants of bilateral trade between China and Africa: a gravity model approach
Zhijie Guan, Jim Kwee Fat Ip Ping SheongThe main purpose of this paper is to analyse the different factors affecting Sino-African trade based on the gravity model, and propose some solutions to improve the problems.
Asymmetry cointegration and the J-curve: new evidence from Africa
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Augustine Charles ArizeThe purpose is to assess the asymmetric effects of exchange rate changes on the trade balance using data from African nations.
If you're corrupt, you'd better be free
Oguzhan DincerThis study aims to investigate if the level of economic freedom matters for how corruption affects per capita income in US states.
Long-term unemployment: A question of skill obsolescence (updating existing skills) or technological shift (acquiring new skills)?
Emmanuel Apergis, Nicholas ApergisThis paper empirically explores the role of skill losses during unemployment behind firms' behaviour in interviewing long-term unemployed
Obesity and motor vehicle deaths: a panel-data analysis
Mary J. Becker, Lindsay N. Calkins, Walter Simmons, Andrew M. Welki, Thomas J. ZlatoperThis paper analyzes the impact of obesity on the probability of a motor vehicle fatality (highway death rate) and on its component probabilities: the probability of a…
Effect of debt tax benefits on corporate pension funding and risk-taking
Kozo Omori, Tomoki KitamuraThis study theoretically investigates the impacts of tax benefits on funding level and risk-taking of a corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plan.
Analyst says a lot, but should you listen? Evidence from Russia
Darko Vukovic, Vladislav Ugolnikov, Moinak MaitiThis study aims to examine whether the publication of analyst recommendations has reaction in the Russian stock market. This study also aims to determine the other factors…
The nexus of trade-weighted dollar rates and the oil prices: an asymmetric approach
Abdulnasser Hatemi-J, Youssef El-KhatibThis paper investigates the dynamic relationship between the trade-weighted dollar exchange rates and the oil prices in the world market. Monthly data during 1980–2017 are…
The collapse of credit booms: a competing risks analysis
Vítor Castro, Rodrigo MartinsThis paper analyses the collapse of credit booms into soft landings or systemic banking crises.
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy under different fiscal instruments
Mehrab KiarsiThe paper includes characterizing Ramsey policy in a cash-in-advance monetary model, under flexible and sticky prices, and with different fiscal instruments.
Australian household debt and the macroeconomic environment
Bill KoliosThis paper aims to investigate the effect of labour market conditions and monetary policy on households' attitude towards debt in the Australian context.
The global price of oil, QE and the US high yield rate
Anastasios Malliaris, Mary E. MalliarisQuantitative easing (QE) allowed the US economy to stabilize and return to slow growth. Oil prices increased to $100 during 2010–2013. Then in June 2014, they plunged…
Pension plan funding and market value of the firm: the Portuguese case
Maria Teresa Medeiros Garcia, José Amílcar Neves DomingosThe objective of the paper is to test the existence of a direct effect between the funding level of a firm's pension fund and its respective market price in Portugal, from…
Economic policy uncertainty, R&D expenditures and innovation outputs
Reza Tajaddini, Hassan F. GholipourThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU), research and development (R&D) expenditures per capita…
How does finance influence labour market outcomes? A review of empirical studies
Mark HeilThis paper reviews economic studies on the effects of various aspects of finance on labour market outcomes.
Harnessing foreign aid for the poor: role of institutional democracy
Eric AkobengThis paper examines the relationship between foreign aid, institutional democracy and poverty. The paper explores the direct effect of foreign aid on poverty and…
Credit risk shocks and banking efficiency: a study based on a bootstrap-DEA model with nonperforming loans as bad output
Renyu Li, Li Li, Peijiang ZouThis paper investigates the impact of credit risk shocks on the evolution of banking efficiency in China.
Trade and commodity taxes as environmental instruments in an open economy
Onur A. Koska, Frank Stähler, Onur YeniIn a simple reciprocal dumping model of trade, this study scrutinizes the strategic role of trade and commodity taxes as environmental instruments when consumption of an…
Should we increase average income, or the poor’s income to reduce infant and child mortality?
Johan RewilakThis article examines whether increasing the income of the poor – measured as the income of the lowest quintile – is more beneficial in reducing infant and child mortality…
The impact of the reform of PIS/COFINS on the Brazilian industry
Pedro Gomes Vasconcelos, Nelson Leitão PaesIn an attempt to reduce tax distortions and increase economic efficiency, in 2002 and 2003 Brazil promoted changes in the PIS/COFINS tax, the main federal tax on…
Do fiscal shocks explain bond yield in high- and low-debt economies?
Nicholas Apergis, Mobeen Ur Rehman, Arusha CoorayThe purpose of this study is to investigate how the uncertainty associated with fiscal policy, i.e. government expenditure and tax revenues, can affect the interest rates…
The macroeconomic effects of monetary policy shocks under fiscal constrained: An analysis using a DSGE model
Diego Pitta de Jesus, Cássio da Nóbrega Besarria, Sinézio Fernandes MaiaThis paper aims to analyze the macroeconomic effects of a monetary policy shock considering that fiscal policy is under fiscal constraints. For that, a dynamic stochastic…
Does productivity drive the real exchange rate movements? A re-examination of the Balassa–Samuelson hypothesis
Bhushan Praveen Jangam, Badri Narayan RathThe primary purpose of this study is to examine whether the classification of industries into the tradable and nontradable matters for the Balassa–Samuelson (BS) effect.
From cash to central bank digital currencies and cryptocurrencies: a balancing act between modernity and monetary stability
Ansgar Belke, Edoardo BerettaThe paper explores the precarious balance between modernizing monetary systems by means of digital currencies (either issued by the central bank itself or independently…
European intellectual property institutions and Chinese foreign direct investment
Constantinos Alexiou, Sofoklis VogiazasWe investigate the impact of the strength of intellectual property (IP) institutions on Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI).
A small open economy DSGE model with workers' remittances
Muhammad Rehman, Sajawal Khan, Zafar Hayat, Faruk BalliIn this paper, the authors develop and estimate a small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with an enriched micro-founded specification to…
The inflation hedging capacity of Islamic and conventional equities
Zaghum Umar, Dimitrios Kenourgios, Muhammad Naeem, Khadija Abdulrahman, Salma Al HazaaThis study analyzes the inflation hedging of Islamic and conventional equities by employing 26 indices for the period ranging from January 1996 till August 2018. The…
The convergence of carbon dioxide emissions: a survey of the empirical literature
James E. PayneThis survey of the literature on the convergence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions informs researchers on areas for future research by summarizing the countries examined…
Labor demographics and productivity: all-star roster turnover and foreigners
Martin B. SchmidtTalent compression is the labor market phenomenon where the average productivity differential between participants declines and has been used to explain the overall…
Macroeconomic responses to fiscal shocks in Portugal
Elva Bova, Violeta KlyvieneThis study analyses the impact of fiscal shocks on GDP, inflation and interest rates in Portugal over 1995–2017.
Evaluating the forecasting power of foreign Country's income growth: a global analysis
Hardik MarfatiaThe objective of the paper is to explore the out-of-sample forecasting connections in income growth across the globe.
Overeducation, persistence and unemployment in Spanish labour market
Nuria Sánchez-Sánchez, Adolfo Cosme Fernández PuenteThe phenomenon of overeducation and the magnitude and persistence of the imbalance impact are analysed for the Spanish labour market from 2006 to 2013.
The impact of foreign direct investment on trade in Pakistan: the moderating role of terrorism
Syed Hasanat Shah, Hafsa Hasnat, Delpachitra SarathPakistan suffered with the menace of terrorism for long and become a front line state in the “War on Terror”. Terrorism shattered Pakistan economy and rendered her…
Asymmetric impact of exchange rate pass-through into employees' wages in sub-Saharan Africa: panel non-linear threshold estimation
Idris Abdullahi Abdulqadir, Soo Y. ChuaThe purpose of this article is to investigate the asymmetric impact of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) on employees' wages via consumer prices in 15 major oil-exporting…
Market frictions and the geographical location of global stock exchanges. Evidence from the S&P Global Index
Andros Gregoriou, Robert HudsonWe examine the impact of market frictions in the form of trading costs on investor average holding periods for stocks in the S&P global 1200 index to examine constraints…
Split-share reforms and capital structure adjustment in China: a dynamic panel fractional estimation
Tanveer Ahsan, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Bakr Al-Gamrh, Muhammad Zubair TauniThe purpose of this study is to explain the adjustment rate toward the target capital structure of Chinese nonfinancial listed firms and to investigate the impacts of the…
Assessing the trade of digitisable goods: implications for South Asia
Rahul Nath ChoudhuryThe technological progress has made it possible to transform a physical good into a digital one. This development has influenced international trade and a large volume of…
Macaulay’s theory of duration: 80-year thematic bibliometric review of the literature
Syed Alamdar Ali Shah, Raditya Sukmana, Bayu Arie FiantoThe purpose of this research is to propose a framework for research on Macaulay duration and establish future research directions.
How effective is government spending on environmental protection in a developing country?: An empirical evidence from Iran
Saeed Moshiri, Arian DaneshmandThe objective of this paper is twofold as follows: first, it explores the relationship between economic growth and the environment in the context of the environmental…
Measuring European cultural and creative cities efficiency: a metafrontier DEA approach
Justo De Jorge-Moreno, Virignia De Jorge-HuertasThe purpose of this paper is to conduct a benchmark analysis of European cities based on the estimation of a composite index of efficiency from the dimensions of the…
Testing for a common Phillips curve in common monetary area of Southern Africa
Moeti Damane, Imtiaz SifatThis paper sets out to investigate whether the four members of the common monetary area (CMA) regime experience similar inflation-unemployment dynamics as explained by the…
Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in sub-Saharan Africa
Simplice Asongu, Nicholas M. OdhiamboThis study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance consumption in 42 sub-Saharan African countries using data for the…
A sector-level analysis of output club convergence in case of a global economy
Vaseem Akram, Pradipta Kumar Sahoo, Badri Narayan RathThis paper investigates the per-capita output club convergence in case of 120 countries for the period 1995–2015. Further, we disaggregate per-capita output into three…
On the impossibility of using “the correct” cost–benefit aggregation rule
Giuseppe Munda, Agata MatarazzoThe purpose of this paper is to deal with one of the technical difficulties of private and social cost–benefit analysis, i.e. the choice of the proper cost–benefit…
The effect of card payments on VAT revenue in the euro area: evidence from a panel VECM
George Hondroyiannis, Dimitrios PapaoikonomouA growing amount of micro-data analyses has highlighted the importance of information trails, such as generated by card transactions, for improving tax compliance. Yet…
Personality traits as an engine of knowledge: a quantile regression analysis
Michael PolemisWe use disaggregated survey data set to investigate the impact of personality traits on the level of education in the USA. We attempt to shed light on the contribution of…
Does the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) impact EU-15 imports from Africa?
Aruneema Mahabir, Jingwen Fan, Robert MullingsAt the heart of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) are substantial trade preferences, which coupled with the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) grant a…
Bank efficiency in Bangladesh revisited: a slack-based network DEA approach
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Peter Wanke, Mohammad Zahir Raihan, S.M. Rakibul Anwar, Riduanul MustafaData envelopment analysis (DEA) calculates the efficiency of a business unit if all the inputs are creating outputs within a “black box.” Under traditional DEA, the…
Worked hours, job satisfaction and self-perceived health
Xavier Bartoll, Raul RamosThis study aims to analyse the potential confounding and moderator role of job satisfaction on the effect of working hours on self-perceived health and to analyse the…
Company performance and optimal capital structure: evidence of transition economy (Russia)
Vladislav Spitsin, Darko Vukovic, Sergey Anokhin, Lubov SpitsinaThe paper analyzes the effects of the capital structure on company performance (return on assets). The analysis is conducted in a large sample of high-tech manufacturing…
Are we working less? An examination of changing UK labour supply decisions since the 1990s
Paul S. Jones, Muhammad Ali NasirThis purpose of the study is to examine the labour supply decisions with respect to earnings and considers whether we are willing or indeed able to work less. The authors…
Does higher educational attainment imply less crime? Evidence from the Indian states
Bijoy Rakshit, Yadawananda NeogThe primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of educational attainment on crime rates across 33 Indian states over the period 2001 to 2013…
Macroeconomic and macro-financial factors as leading indicators of non-performing loans: Evidence from the EU countries
Karsten Staehr, Lenno UuskülaLarge or increasing stocks of non-performing loans in the banking sector constitute threats to financial stability. This paper considers to which extent various…
On the performance of US fiscal forecasts: government vs. private information
Zidong An, Joao Tovar JallesThis paper contributes to shed light on the quality and performance of US fiscal forecasts.
Market power and cost efficiency in the African banking industry
Simplice Asongu, Rexon Nting, Joseph NnannaIn this study, we test the so-called “Quiet Life Hypothesis” (QLH), which postulates that banks with market power are less efficient.
Effects of crime and violence on business confidence: evidence from Rio de Janeiro
André Filipe Guedes Almeida, Gabriel Caldas MontesDue to the fact that crime and violence affect the economy and the business environment, and since the economic environment affects entrepreneurs' expectations and…
Information asymmetry and dividend policy of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Mostafa Harakeh, Ghida Matar, Nagham SayourThe literature of financial economics documents a causal relationship between the level of information asymmetry in the firm and its dividend policy. Nevertheless, this…
The impacts of foreign direct investment and globalisation on economic growth in West Africa: examining the role of political governance
Waliu Olawale Shittu, Hammed Agboola Yusuf, Abdallah El Moctar El Houssein, Sallahuddin HassanThis paper measures the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI), globalisation and political governance on economic growth in West Africa. The empirical analysis also…
Microfinance governance: a systematic review and future research directions
Md. Ali Rasel, Sandar WinThe purpose of this article is to systematically review extant research on the corporate governance (CG) of microfinance institutions (MFIs) from a global perspective. In…
Misallocation and reallocation of resources in Vietnamese manufacturing firms
Phuong Thi Nguyen, Minh Khac NguyenThis research identifies the level of misallocation in Vietnamese manufacturing sector for the period 2000–2015. Meltiz and Polanec dynamic productivity decomposition is…
The nexus of asset pricing, volatility and the business cycle
Rahul Roy, Santhakumar ShijinThe purpose of the study is to examine the dynamics in the troika of asset pricing, volatility, and the business cycle in the US and Japan.
Performance measurement of gas companies with fixed-sum inputs: a DEA-based model
Hamzeh Amirteimoori, Alireza Amirteimoori, Mahdi KarbasianThe paper analyzes the relative performance of provincial gas distribution companies with different types of inputs and outputs. A data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based…
The interaction between housing prices and housing credit: evidence from a country with rapid credit accumulation
Juan Carlos Cuestas, Merike KukkThis paper aims to investigate the mutual dependence between housing prices and housing credit in Estonia, a country that experienced rapid debt accumulation during the…
Expanding higher education and wage inequality in Chile
Yoshimichi Murakami, Tomokazu NomuraThis study aims to analyse the contribution of the expansion and diversification of higher education to Chile's increase in wage inequality from 1992 to 2000 and its…
Firms and export performance: does size matter?
Van T.C. Ha, Mark J. Holmes, Trang M. LeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between export performance and firm size.
Matching in the Kolm triangle: interiority and participation constraints of matching equilibria
Wolfgang Buchholz, Richard Cornes, Dirk RübbelkeIn this paper we show how the Kolm triangle method, which is a standard tool for visualizing allocations in a public good economy, can also be used to provide a…
The impact of institutional proximity, cognitive proximity and agglomeration economies on firm-level productivity
Lisa Noonan, Eoin O'Leary, Justin DoranThis paper analyses the impact of institutional proximity, cognitive proximity and geographical proximity (in the form of agglomeration economies) on the firm-level…
Migration of labor: differential of income between rural and urban trade union workers in Brazil
Cicero Francisco De Lima, Edward Martins Costa, Francisca Zilania Mariano, Wellington Ribeiro Justo, Pablo Urano de Carvalho CastelarThe objective of this work was to analyze the income differential of the rural–urban worker in relation to the rural–rural worker and in relation to the urban–urban worker…
A comparative approach of stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis estimators: evidence from banking system
Kekoura SakouvoguiThe consistency of stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) cost efficiency measures using a sample of 650 commercial and domestic banks in…
Evidence of customer sophistication behaviour in deposit markets: the case of Qatar
Noura Abu AsabThe paper investigates the interest rate policy transmission mechanism and the role of market structure of the banking industry in Qatar.
Intellectual capital and technical efficiency of banks in an emerging market: a slack-based measure
King Carl Tornam DuhoThis paper investigates the impact of intellectual capital and its components on slack-based technical efficiency (SBM-TE) of banks.
Estimating effect of marriage on male wages in Russia
Elena Kossova, Bogdan Potanin, Maria SheluntcovaPurpose of the article is to investigate the effect of marriage on male wages in Russia. The paper provides insight about contribution of observed and unobserved factors…
Economic growth and quality of institutions in 27 postsocialist economies
Constantinos Alexiou, Sofoklis Vogiazas, Nikita SolovevThe relationship between institutional quality and economic growth is revisited.
Role of demographic factors in economic growth of South Asian countries
Kashif Munir, Faqeer Syed Umaid ShahidThis study examines the long-run and short-run impact of demographic factors, i.e. life expectancy, fertility rate and young dependency ratio in determining the economic…
Wage–employment elasticity: a meta-analysis referring to Colombia
Jhon J. Mora, Juan MuroThe article clarifies the wage–employment relation in a developing country. Several years ago, many articles in the United States indicated that the relation between…
Open economy macroeconomics of commodity price fluctuation, sectoral inter-linkage and employment
Moumita Basu, Ranjanendra Narayan NagThis is a theoretical paper in the field of structuralist macroeconomics. The paper focuses on commodity price fluctuation which has emerged as one of the major…
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