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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…
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…
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.
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.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Income inequality and polity – an empirical analysis of political Kuznets curve
Yongseung Han, Myeong Hwan KimFaced with contradictory outcomes in empirical studies on the relation between democracy and income inequality, this paper attempts to provide empirical relations between…
When does self-employment equalise income? Evidence from developing countries
Sridevi YerrabatiA lack of sufficient gainful employment opportunities in developing countries means that those at the bottom of the income ladder resort to self-employment for survival. While…
Twitter sentiment and stock market: a COVID-19 analysis
Apostolos G. Katsafados, Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos, George N. LeledakisUsing textual analysis the authors study the relationship between social media sentiments and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A model of collusion formation and measurement in the open ascending bid auctions in the agricultural markets
Dipankar DasThis paper gives a model of collusion formation and a method of measuring the degree of it among the traders/bidders in the agricultural commodity markets in India. The important…
Do oil price shocks differently matter for oil exporter and importer developing countries?
Süleyman Değirmen, Cengiz Tunç, Ömür Saltık, Wasim ul RehmanThe authors empirically aim to study the implications of uncertainty generated by oil price volatility on some key macroeconomic variables, including production, exchange rates…
Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade
Joseph KopeckyThis paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade.
Russia–Ukraine conflict and its impact on global inflation: an event study-based approach
Prince Kumar Maurya, Rohit Bansal, Anand Kumar MishraThis study investigates how the conflict between Russia and Ukraine impacts global inflation.
Business cycle transmission between France and United Kingdom
Mateusz DadejThe literature mostly investigates the business cycle transmission of the United Kingdom (UK) and France as a part of a wider group (e.g. European Exchange Rate Mechanism or G7)…
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.
Does happiness raise test scores – does fear lower them – experimental evidence
Charles N. Noussair, Kierstin SeabackThe authors consider whether the emotional states of happiness and fear causally affect test performance using a new experiment. The paper aims to discuss this issue.
Inflation in Iran: an empirical assessment of the key determinants
Maryam Hemmati, Saleh S. Tabrizy, Yashar TarverdiTo study the key determinants of chronically high inflation in Iran.
Revisiting the trade openness–unemployment nexus: an application of the novel JKS panel causality test with static and dynamic panel models
Mudaser Ahad Bhat, Mirza Nazrana BegThis paper documents a robust empirical regularity: higher trade openness is associated with a lower unemployment rate. This paper also examines whether or not the effects of…
Why do households repay their debt in UK during the COVID-19 crisis?
Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Mike G. Tsionas, Steven OngenaIn this paper, the authors investigate whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts household finances, like household debt repayments in the UK.
Does COVID-19 disrupt competition? Evidence from Iran
Kowsar Yousefi, Ali TaiebniaFollowing the COVID-19 outbreak, there are concerns whether economies are becoming farther from equality and competency. While this matters to every economy, it is more crucial…
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…
Public subsidies for credit support, democracy and European female-led SMEs
Graziella Bonanno, Nadia Fiorino, Giampaolo Garzarelli, Stefania Patrizia Sonia RossiThe article investigates whether variety of democracy affects the probability to employ public subsidies for credit support by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) led by…
The Financial Conditions Index as an additional tool for policy-makers in developing countries: the Mexican case
Salvatore Capasso, Oreste Napolitano, Ana Laura Viveros JiménezThe idea of this study is to provide a solid Financial Condition Index (FCI) that allows the monetary transmission policy to be monitored in a country which in recent decades has…
Credit quality determinants of banks: how important are bankruptcy reforms?
Saibal GhoshAlthough several microeconomic and macroeconomic factors driving banks' credit quality have been well-studied in the literature, one aspect which appears to have received limited…
Average-profit efficiency and optimal scale sizes with integer data and undesirable outputs
Somayye Karimi Omshi, Sohrab Kordrostami, Alireza Amirteimoori, Armin Ghane KanafiData envelopment analysis (DEA) is a significant method for measuring the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) that use the least inputs, produce the most desirable…
Economic network dynamics: a structural analysis of the international connectivity of Chinese manufacturing firms
Michele Lo Re, Eleonora Veglianti, Fabrizio Parente, Umberto Monarca, Cosimo MagazzinoThis paper explores international trade of the Chinese manufacturing industries through the lenses of network analysis (NA) to visualise the world trade network of the Chinese…
Should the monetary authorities be sensitive to inequality concerns? Empirical evidence for a panel of 62 countries
Juan Ignacio Martín-Legendre, Pablo Castellanos-García, José Manuel Sánchez-SantosThis paper aims to study, by means of an empirical approach, how monetary policy might affect the distribution of individual income.
Accept or reject a ride? This is the problem
Elaheh Fatemi Pour, Seyed Ali Madnanizdeh, Hosein JoshaghaniOnline ride-hailing platforms match drivers with passengers by receiving ride requests from passengers and forwarding them to the nearest driver. In this context, the low…
Does climate change concern alter individual tax preferences? Evidence from an Italian survey
Alessandro CascavillaThis paper analyzes the role that the climate change concern (CCCi) has on the willingness to accept an environmental tax. The author aims to grasp how individual general tax…
The financial market's ability to forecast economic growth: information from sectoral movements
Hardik MarfatiaFinancial market holds superior information that can give insights into the future trajectory of economic growth. Further, identifying sectors that hold the key to future economic…
Investor bias, risk and price volatility
Ali Yavuz PolatThis study proposes a framework based on salience theory and shows that focusing on one type of risk (idiosyncratic or systemic) can explain overpricing of securities ex ante, and…
Economic growth, poverty traps and cycles: productive capacities versus inefficiencies
Germana Giombini, Francesca Grassetti, Edgar Sanchez CarreraThe authors analyse a growth model to explain how economic fluctuations are primarily driven by productive capacities (i.e. capacity utilization driven by innovations and…
High short interest stocks performance during the Covid-19 crisis: an informational efficacy measure based on permutation-entropy approach
Fotios SiokisThe author examine the performance of a number of high short interest stocks along with the prices of the GameStop stock and three major stock exchange indices, particularly for…
Governmental stability and emigration in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of skills and gender
Cristian Barra, Nazzareno RuggieroUsing data for a set of 32 Sub-Saharan countries over the years 2000, 2005 and 2010, the paper investigates the effects of domestic governmental stability upon emigration and…
Economic policy uncertainty and the UK demand for money: evidence from the inter-war period
Taufiq ChoudhryThis paper empirically investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the UK money demand stability during the inter-war period (1920–1938). Both a narrow…
The effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on the unemployment rate in the US
Pradyumna DashThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Federal Reserve's conventional and unconventional monetary policy shocks on the US unemployment rate.
Dynamic association of economic policy uncertainty with oil, stock and gold: a wavelet-based approach
Rajat Kumar Soni, Tanuj Nandan, Niti Nandini ChatnaniThis research unfolds a holistic association between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and three important markets (oil, stock and gold) in the Indian context. To do same, the…
Measurement and determinants of corruption across Indian states
Kumar Shaurav, Badri Narayan RathThe purpose of this paper is to measure and investigate the determinants of corruption across Indian states.
A Russian carol: impact and dependence on global equity markets during the Ukraine invasion
Victoria Ferrández Serrano, Pedro L. Angosto-FernándezThe authors present a study of the short-term impact of the Russian–Ukrainian war on global equity returns. The study aims to show that the conflict was priced into markets and…
Deal or No Deal: comparing individual and group choices in a risky context
Andrea Morone, Marco Santorsola, Paola TiranzoniThe authors believe that comparing individuals to groups' decision making is crucial provided that many important choices in society are made by groups, i.e. committees, governing…
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