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The non-linear effects of fixed broadband on economic growth in Africa
Jean C. Kouam, Simplice AsonguThe study assesses the non-linear nexus between fixed broadband and economic growth. The study focuses on data from 33 African countries for the period 2010 to 2020.
COVID lessons: was there any way to reduce the negative effect of COVID-19 on the United States economy?
Mohammadreza MahmoudiThis paper aims to assess the economic impact of uniform COVID-controlling policies that were implemented by the US government in 2020 and compare it with hypothetical…
The relevance of national culture to policy uncertainty and firm performance: European evidence
Tanveer Ahsan, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi, Ammar Ali Gull, Fazal MuhammadThe purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of policy uncertainty on firm performance and to examine how the different cultural societies deal with the…
Asymmetric and threshold effects of FinTech on poverty in SSA countries
Noha EmaraThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamic asymmetric relationship between financial technology (FinTech) adoption and poverty alleviation on annual data for the…
The dynamic relationship of cryptocurrencies with supply chain and logistics stocks – the impact of COVID-19
Theodoros DaglisThe COVID-19 pandemic is known to have affected the logistics and supply chains; however, there is no adequate empirical evidence to prove in which way it has affected the…
Financial services and firm performance, are there any differences by size? Worldwide evidence using firm-level data
Zakaria Elouaourti, Elhadj EzzahidDo financial services needs depend on the firm size? To highlight the impact of different categories of financial services on firm performance, we establish a…
The impact of influential shareholders on corporate dividend policy: evidence from Russia
Tatiana Ershova, Marina Zavertiaeva, Dmitry KirpishchikovThis study examines the impact of influential shareholders, namely, state and influential businessmen, on the dividend policies of firms. A special focus is made on the…
Social capital, poverty alleviation and complexity in Africa. Evidence from rural areas
Raffaele Scuderi, Giuseppe Tesoriere, Vincenzo Fasone, Giulio PedriniThe aim is to discuss the role of social capital in alleviating poverty in the rural setting of Africa by viewing it as an individual and collective asset.
Portfolio diversification impact of oil and asymmetric interaction between oil, equity and bonds in the global market: fresh evidence from alternative approaches
Abdulnasser Hatemi-J, Eduardo Roca, Alan MustafaIn addition to the seminal approach of Markowitz (1952) that is based on finding the optimal budget shares for minimizing risk, the authors also make use of the approach…
Does hiring a manager improve efficiency – owner vs. non-owner management control of rice mills
Eucabeth Majiwa, Boon Lee, Jonas Månsson, Clevo WilsonIn this study, the impact of owner-operator and non-owner operator rice mills on productive efficiency is investigated.
The political determinants of country crises
Alexandre Hilmário de Oliveira SiqueiraCountry crises can provoke damages to a country's economic activity and citizens in a way that will always demand a deeper understanding of their determinants. Political…
Spillover effects of corruption: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign
Daniel Kim, Lizhe Luo, Domenico Tarzia, Giovanni Vittorino, Andros GregoriouThe authors study the effectiveness of the anti-corruption campaign in all of mainland China's provinces in terms of risk and volatility spillovers.
Gold, crude oil, bitcoin and Indian stock market: recent confirmation from nonlinear ARDL analysis
Suresh Kumar, Ankit Kumar, Gurcharan SinghThis paper investigates the causality among gold prices, crude oil prices, bitcoin and stock prices by using daily data from January 2014 to December 2021. The study also…
CARES and crime
Alexander Robert Henke, Linchi HsuThe US signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020 to alleviate the harsh economic effects of the pandemic and related shutdowns. A…
Managing the job guarantee public policy schemes: a strategic approach
Dipankar DasTo run a job guarantee public policy scheme, it is important to know the aspiration level or the reference point of labor, and accordingly, the labor hour and the wage…
Evaluating the interactive effect of domestic and global stock market variables on the depth of the financial system in Sub-Saharan African countries: a panel ARDL approach
Ebere Ume Kalu, Augustine Chuck Arize, Sylvester Okechukwu Ilo, Ifeoma Ihegboro, Chiamaka Goodness EzeThis study investigated the interactive impact of global and domestic stock market variables on the depth of the financial system in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries…
Equity market integration in emerging economies: a network visualization approach
Aswini Kumar Mishra, Anand Theertha, Isha Mahesh Amoncar, Manogna R LThe authors examine network features such as connectivity, centrality, adjacency matrices, closeness and betweenness measures through a variety of indicators. The results…
Investigating the impact of ICT-trade nexus on competitiveness in Eastern and Western European countries
Özgür Bayram Soylu, Bosede Ngozi Adeleye, Murat Ergül, Fatih Okur, Daniel Balsalobre LorenteSince competitiveness is crucial in international trade, this paper contributes to the literature by interrogating the information and communication technology (ICT)-trade…
High-tech gazelle firms at various stages of evolution: performance and distinctive features
Vladislav Spitsin, Darko Vukovic, Alexander Mikhalchuk, Lubov Spitsina, Daria NovoseltsevaThe purpose of this study is the detection and comparison of distinctive features of Gazelle firms (GFs) at three stages evolution outside the typical boundaries.
Weather, mobility and the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic
Corinna Ghirelli, Andrea Gonzalez, Jose Luis Herrera, Samuel HurtadoThe authors investigate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Symmetric or asymmetric: how is Nigeria's bilateral trade balance responding to oil price and exchange rate changes?
Oliver E. Ogbonna, Hyacinth E. IchokuThe experience of rising trade imbalance between Nigeria and its key trading partners in recent years motivated this study. Previous studies on this issue either ignored…
Nonlinear effects of mobility on COVID-19 in the US: targeted lockdowns based on income and poverty
Hakan YilmazkudayThis paper investigates nonlinearities in the relationship between mobility and COVID-19 cases or deaths based on demographic or socioeconomic characteristics, with a…
The long-run equilibrium in the context of COVID-19 pandemic
Agnieszka Lipieta, Artur LipietaA serious problem in the pandemic days is that in this period many firms face difficulties with remaining on the market. It causes that the entrepreneurs do not undertake…
Credit-to-GDP ratios – non-linear trends and persistence: evidence from 44 OECD economies
Juan Carlos Cuestas, Luis A. Gil-Alana, María MalmiercaIn particular, in this article, the authors investigate the degree of persistence in the credit-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio in 44 Organisation for Economic…
The impact of trade unions and government party orientation on income inequality: evidence from 17 OECD economies
Constantinos Alexiou, Emmanouil TrachanasDespite the existing conceptual analysis on the impact of trade unions on employees' welfare and the wider economy, the mediating effect of political party orientation…
Bubble detection in Bitcoin and Ethereum and its relationship with volatility regimes
Renan Diniz, Diogo de Prince, Leandro MacielThe aim of this paper is to test the existence of bubbles for the daily prices of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum and verify if there is a relationship between…
Financial stability and monetary policy of the Central Bank of West African Countries: a Markov-Switching model
Honoré Sèwanoundé Houngbédji, Nassibou BassonguiThis paper aims to examine the response of monetary policy to financial instability in the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
Dividend policy, its asymmetric behavior and stock liquidity
Fatima N. Ali Taher, Mohammad Al-ShboulThis paper examines the impact of dividend policy on stock market liquidity, and whether the dividend payouts has an asymmetric effect on stock liquidity.
Analysis of the prevalence of extreme poverty in Africa South of the Sahara: do geographical proximity and corruption spillovers matter?
Olumide Olusegun OlaoyeThe paper investigates the prevalence of extreme poverty in a panel of 39 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 2000–2018 while accounting for spillover effects.
On the differential response of loans to shocks in the USA
Gianluca CafisoThe purpose of this paper is to gain insights useful to explain the loan puzzle: the unexpected increase of loans to firms in case of a monetary tightening. To this end…
Interlinkages of cryptocurrency and stock markets during COVID-19 pandemic by applying a TVP-VAR extended joint connected approach
Le Thanh HaThe purpose of this paper is to study the interlinkages between the cryptocurrency and stock market by characterizing their connectedness starting from January 1, 2018 to…
The role of wages, skills development and R&D on productivity: evidence from Thai manufacturing firms
Yot Amornkitvikai, Charles Harvie, Piyapong SangkaewThe objectives of this study are to investigate the role of wages, skills development and R&D on the productivity of Thai manufacturing firms, using data from the 2017…
Good looks and better outlooks: does satisfaction with physical appearance associate with future expectations?
Maryam DilmaghaniThe present paper examines how satisfaction with one's physical appearance associates with hopeful feelings, as well as optimism.
Benchmarking analysis in the health sector: the case of the Community of Madrid 2016–2018
Justo De Jorge-Moreno, Fernando Martín MeanaThis study provides new results on the efficiency on health centers in Madrid (Spain).
The effects of COVID-19 and response measures on poverty, household income and household consumption expenditure in South Korea
Taiwon HaIn response to the pandemic, the Korean government introduced fiscal measures: including the Emergency Disaster Relief Funds which is the first-ever universal benefit in…
A broad analysis of short-term overreactions in the market for cryptocurrencies
Tobias Kellner, Dominik MaltritzThe purpose of this study is to analyze market inefficiencies in the market for cryptocurrencies by providing a comprehensive analysis of short-term (over)reactions that…
Cash holdings and bank profits in periods of uncertainty
Van Dan DangThe paper explores the effect of cash holdings on bank profitability in the context of uncertainty.
Job loss and food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Stefani Milovanska-FarringtonLiving a nutritious lifestyle requires that people get a sufficient amount of nutrients, vitamins and minerals every day. Healthy dietary practices are related to a…
Market overreaction, firm-specific information and macroeconomic variables in US and Chinese markets during COVID-19
Ooi Kok Loang, Zamri AhmadThis study examines the impact of firm-specific information and macroeconomic variables on market overreaction of US and Chinese winner and loser portfolio before and…
Patterns of export shipments
Xuebing YangThis paper studies the frequency and the average size of export shipments at the firm–product–destination level.
Understanding the choice of human resource and the artificial intelligence: “strategic behavior” and the existence of industry equilibrium
Dipankar DasArtificial intelligence (AI) has become an input to the production of goods and services. Therefore, a general question is there that “How the labor hour/human resource…
Layoffs and stock market performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the US
Christos Floros, Maria Psillaki, Efstathios KarpouzisThe authors examine the short-term stock market reaction surrounding US layoffs during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) period. The authors’ specific interest is on…
Impact of COVID-19 on listed European electricity companies: a comparative analysis of investment in renewable and traditional electricity
José Antonio Clemente-Almendros, Florin Teodor Boldeanu, Luis Alberto Seguí-AmórteguiThe authors analyze the impact of COVID-19 on listed European electricity companies and differentiate between renewable and traditional electricity, to show the…
Does the short squeeze lead to market abnormality and antileverage effect? Evidence from the Gamestop case
Evangelos VasileiouThis study examines the Gamestop (GME) short squeeze in early 2021. Using intraday data for the period 4/1/2021–5/2/2021, the author provides empirical evidence that the…
The impact of demographic structure, human capital, migration and environmental degradation on economic growth in Asia
Yot Amornkitvikai, Charles Harvie, Rukchanok KarcharnubarnThis study investigates the impact of demographic structural changes on economic growth using data for Asian economies covering the period 1960–2020. Other factors…
News-based uncertainty measures and returns on prices of precious metals: evidence from regime switching and time-varying causality approach
Opeoluwa Adeniyi Adeosun, Olumide Adeola Adeosun, Mosab I. Tabash, Suhaib AnagrehThe study aims to examine the relationship among economic policy uncertainty (EPU), geopolitical-risks (GPR), the interaction (EPGR) of EPU and GPR and the returns of…
Public debt management and the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies
Wellington Charles Lacerda Nobrega, Cássio da Nóbrega Besarria, Edilean Kleber da Silva Bejarano AragónThis paper aims to investigate the existing relations between the management of public bonds on the dynamics of debt, term structure of interest rates and economic cycle…
Self-employment: a means to reduce poverty in developing countries?
Sridevi YerrabatiWith self-employment providing earning opportunities to many working poor in developing countries, the study examines its role in alleviating poverty.
Competition, concentration and default-risk in the Indian banking industry
Mohammad Azeem Khan, Wasim AhmadThe study investigates the impact of bank market competition and concentration on the bank default-risk using the data for 36 Indian scheduled commercial banks from 1999 to 2017.
Quadruple wavelet coherence and pairwise cointegration: comparative time-frequency analysis of bank deposit rate
Alper Kirik, Tunc Oygur, Yaman Omer ErzurumluThis study aims to attempt to understand the joint co-movement of bank deposit rate and its main underlying determinants (foreign exchange rate (FX) rate, cross-currency…
Commodity hedging benefits: analyses among different financial assets
Dony Abdul Chalid, Rangga HandikaThis study aims to investigate the benefits of commodity hedging in the global stock index, bond and foreign currency (FX) portfolios.
Macroeconomic fundamentals, institutional quality and shadow economy in OIC and non-OIC countries
Shabeer Khan, Mohd Ziaur RehmanThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals, intuitional quality and shadow economy.
Rent index forecasting through neural networks
Xiaojie Xu, Yun ZhangChinese housing market has been growing fast during the past decade, and price-related forecasting has turned to be an important issue to various market participants…
Real exchange rate synchronization in the NAFTA region
Hamid BaghestaniThe literature mostly investigates the impact of trade and financial integration on business cycle synchronization. The author differs by focusing on the real effective…
An empirical analysis of human trafficking in an era of globalization
Yselle Flora Kuete Malah, Simplice AsonguThe paper explores the dark side of economic openness by examining empirically the nexus between the globalization process and human trafficking. Specifically, it is about…
Banking market structure and efficiency: an assessment of the USA and Canada
Salah U-Din, David TripeThe study aims to analyze the changes in banking market structure and their impact on the bank efficiency.
Natural resources, institutions and the quality-adjusted human capital
Soran MohtadiThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the resource rents–quality-adjusted human capital nexus and the impact of quality of institutions.
Financial globalization and income inequality nexus: panel quantile regression approach
Jeleta Gezahegne Kebede, Vincent TawiahThe general purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of financial globalization on income inequality. The specific purposes are: 1) To examine the effect of overall…
How human capital affects labor income share at the sectoral level?: Evidence from the EU-13 countries and the UK
Orkun ÇelikThe author investigates the effects of human capital on labor income share in the 15 sectors of the European Union (EU)-13 countries and the United Kingdom (UK) over the…
Model selection in time series analysis: using information criteria as an alternative to hypothesis testing
R. Scott Hacker, Abdulnasser Hatemi-JThe issue of model selection in applied research is of vital importance. Since the true model in such research is not known, which model should be used from among various…
A cross-country analysis of the relationship between human capital and foreign direct investment
Madhvi Sethi, Saina Baby, Aarti Mehta SharmaThe Zhang–Markusen (Z-M) inverse U-shape theory uses education as a human capital variable to investigate the impact of educational attainment on foreign direct investment…
Labor supply responses to income tax free and bracket expansions
Panayiota Lyssiotou, Elena SavvaAn important concern of economic policy analysis is how income taxes affect labor supply since this is crucial in assessing the efficiency costs of taxation and designing…
Corn trade simulations of China: reduction in tariffs versus expansion in tariff-rate quotas
Kai Liu, Masato Yamazaki, Atsushi Koike, Yueying MuCorn, which has the highest domestic production, planting area and consumption, is the top cereal in relation to demand and supply in China. However, the comparative…
A non-parametric framework for evaluating governance–efficiency–productivity associations in commercial banking
Navendu Prakash, Shveta Singh, Seema SharmaAgainst the backdrop of an Indian banking sector that finds itself entangled in the triple deadlock of increasing competition, technological changes and strict regulatory…
The effects of COVID-19 on trade, production, environmental quality and its implications for green economy
Dinkneh Gebre Borojo, Jiang Yushi, Miao MiaoThis study examines the effects of COVID-19 on trade, production and environmental quality and provides policy implications on green recovery.
Governance thresholds and the human capital–growth nexus
Nicholas Apergis, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad KhanThe literature that explores the relationship between human capital and economic growth has produced mixed results. It highlights the puzzle on the correlations between…
Does the low-risk anomaly exist in the Indian equity market? A test using alternative risk measures
Asgar Ali, K.N. Badhani, Ashish KumarThis study aims to investigate the risk-return trade-off in the Indian equity market at both the aggregate equity market level and in the cross-sections of stock return…
Which professional skills value more under digital transformation?
Sofia Paklina, Elena ShakinaThis study seeks to explore the demand side of the labour market influenced by the digital revolution. It aims at identifying the new composition of skills and their value…
Tornadoes, poverty and race in the USA: A five-decade analysis
Russ D. Kashian, Tracy Buchman, Robert DragoThe study aims to analyze the roles of poverty and African American status in terms of vulnerability to tornado damages and barriers to recovery afterward.
Price extremes and asymmetric dependence structures in stock returns: the emerging market evidence
Saji Thazhungal Govindan NairEquity research in experimental psychology reveals investors' overreactions to bad news events. This study of asymmetric price structures in equity markets investigates…
Does intellectual property rights protection affect UK and US outward FDI and earnings from FDI? A sectoral analysis
Glauco De Vita, Constantinos Alexiou, Emmanouil Trachanas, Yun LuoDespite decades of research, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and foreign direct investment (FDI) remains ambiguous. Using a recently developed…
Non-linear pricing in E-commerce: an exploration
Dipankar Das, Vivek Sharadadevi JadhavTo understand the new non-linear pricing in E-commerce. The present paper aims to put forth an idea of using tie-in agreement in the electronic commerce market in the name…
Social welfare and bank performance: evidence from a stochastic neural hybrid MCDM approach
Andrew Maredza, Peter Wanke, Jorge Antunes, Roberto Pimenta, Yong TanThis paper investigates the endogenous relationships between banking performance and social welfare in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.
The mechanisms linking the finance-growth relationship in view of the financial crisis: an empirical investigation of the EU countries
Dimitrios Asteriou, Konstantinos SpanosThe paper aims to explore the mechanisms linking the impact of financial development on economic growth and focuses on the long-term post-global financial crisis.
Nonlinearities and asymmetric adjustment to PPP in an exchange rate model with inflation expectations
Christina Anderl, Guglielmo Maria CaporaleThis paper aims to explain real exchange rate fluctuations by means of a model including both standard fundamentals and two alternative measures of inflation expectations…
Effect of multilateral trade liberalization on services export diversification
Sena Kimm GnangnonThis study investigates the effect of multilateral trade liberalization on services export diversification with a view to complementing the recently published work on the…
Do consumer survey data help improve US vehicle sales forecasts?
Hamid BaghestaniThis study is concerned with evaluating the Federal Reserve forecasts of light motor vehicle sales. The goal is to assess accuracy gains from using consumer vehicle-buying…
Monetary and macroprudential policies in the presence of external shocks: evidence from an emerging economy
Alexander Lubis, Constantinos Alexiou, Joseph G. NellisThis paper examines the impact of using the reserve requirements, combined with foreign exchange (FX) intervention, as key instruments in an inflation-targeting framework.
Testing the convergence and the divergence in five Asian countries: from a GMM model to a new Machine Learning algorithm
Cosimo Magazzino, Marco Mele, Nicolas SchneiderThe purpose of this paper is to empirically test the economic convergence that operate between five selected Asian countries (namely Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the…
Share price informativeness and dividend smoothing behavior in GCC markets
Razaz Felimban, Sina Badreddine, Christos FlorosThis paper examines the dividend smoothing (DS) behaviour in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in emerging markets where the response to news and the economic…
Nexus between oil price uncertainty and corporate social responsibility: evidence from US firms
Guenichi Hassen, Khalfaoui HamdiThis paper examines the effect of oil price uncertainty on corporate social responsibility (CSR) for 507 US firms over the period 1985–2019.
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