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Income and healthcare financing system in the United States: an asymmetric analysis
Mehdi Barati, Hadiseh FariditavanaThe purpose of this study is to first assess how the US healthcare financing system is influenced by income variation. Then, it examines whether or not the impact of…
Liquidity and asset pricing: evidence from a new free-float-adjusted price impact ratio
Huong Le, Andros GregoriouThis paper aims to empirically examine the relationship between stock liquidity and asset pricing, using a new price impact ratio adjusted for free float as the…
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey with a novel economic uncertainty index
Erhan Mugaloglu, Ali Yavuz Polat, Hasan Tekin, Edanur KılıçThis study aims to measure economic uncertainty in Turkey by a novel economic uncertainty index (EUI) employing principal component analysis (PCA). We assess the impact of…
Remittances and food security
Yogeeswari Subramaniam, Tajul Ariffin Masron, Nik Hadiyan Nik AzmanThe continuous and rapid growth of remittances has become one of the sources of income for millions of poor families in developing countries. As such, an increase of…
Education in the times of a pandemic: parental socioeconomic characteristics and time spent educating children
Stefani Milovanska-FarringtonThis research explores the impact of parental educational attainment, race, ethnicity, gender and employment on the time parents spend educating their children during the…
Demographic changes and savings behavior: the experience of a developing country
Ebrahim RezaeiThis paper aims to disclose the savings behavior of Iran's economy in the context of demographic transition.
Evaluating the wage differential between the formal and informal economy: a gender perspective
Colin Williams, Ardiana GashiDespite a widespread assertion that wages are lower in the informal than formal economy, there have been few empirical evaluations of whether this is the case and even…
Does disease outbreak news impact equity, commodity and foreign exchange market? Investors' fear of the pandemic COVID-19
Imlak Shaikh, Toan Luu Duc HuynhMarket volatility is subject to good or bad news and even responses to fake news and policy changes. In this piece of work, the authors consider the effects of the recent…
Uncertainty and nonlinear macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in the US: a SEIVAR-based analysis
Ansgar Belke, Pascal GoemansThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks vary with the degree of macroeconomic uncertainty.
The gender wage gap and the presence of foreign firms in Vietnam: evidence from unconditional quantile regression decomposition
Dao Dinh Nguyen, Xinran Zhang, Trang Huyen NguyenThe objective of this study is to estimate the gender wage gap in Vietnam and its rural and urban areas, especially with the presence of foreign firms.
Effects of economic policy uncertainty and political uncertainty on business confidence and investment
Gabriel Caldas Montes, Fabiana da Silva Leite NogueiraThis study estimates the effects of political uncertainty and economic policy uncertainty on business confidence. Moreover, it also examines business confidence as a…
Attitudes and responses to corruption in tax systems: peer effects and social influences in transition countries
John E. AndersonAnalyze how peer effects and social influences affect attitudes and responses to corruption in tax systems, identifying factors that improve tax morale.
Determinants of working capital: empirical evidence on manufacturing SMEs
Filipe Sardo, Zélia SerrasqueiroThis study seeks to analyse the determinants of working capital of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly the effect of the probability of…
Remittances, electricity consumption and electric power losses in Jamaica
Anupam Das, Adian McFarlaneThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of remittance inflows (remittances) on electricity consumption and electric power losses in Jamaica.
How successful countries are in promoting digital transactions during COVID-19
Hoda MansourThis paper aims to assess whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has encouraged governments to take actions towards fostering digital means of payments…
Bayesian monthly index for building activity based on mixed frequencies: the case of Chile
Byron J. Idrovo-Aguirre, Javier E. Contreras-ReyesThis paper combines the objective information of six mixed-frequency partial-activity indicators with assumptions or beliefs (called priors) regarding the distribution of…
The impact of monetary policy on income inequality: evidence from Eurozone markets
Konstantina Liosi, Spyros SpyrouThis study examines the impact of monetary policy on income inequality in Eurozone countries for the period between 2005 and 2017.
The effects of corruption on growth, human development and natural resources sector: empirical evidence from a Bayesian panel VAR for Latin American and Nordic countries
Dante A. Urbina, Gabriel RodríguezThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption on economic growth, human development and natural resources in Latin American and Nordic countries.
Terrorism, innovation and venture capital
Moshfique Uddin, Ashraful Alam, Hassan Yazdifar, Moade ShubitaThis paper aims to examine the relationship between terrorism and innovation and the moderating role of venture capital.
An examination of calendar anomalies: evidence from the Thai stock market
Rattaphon WuthisatianThe study examines the existence of calendar anomalies, including the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect and the January effect, in the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Does financial inclusion induce poverty, income inequality, and financial stability: empirical evidence from the 54 African countries?
Iftikhar Khan, Ismail Khan, Aziz Ullah Sayal, Muhammad Zubair KhanThe aim of the study is to examine the impact of financial inclusion on poverty, income inequality and financial stability using panel data of 54 African countries.
GDP and population growth: Evidence of fractional cointegration with historical data from 1820 onwards
Luis Gil-Alana, Cecilia Font, Águeda Gil-LópezUsing data from 1820 onwards in a group of seven countries, namely, Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, the UK, Italy and the USA, the authors investigate if there is a…
Stock markets' reaction to COVID-19: evidence from the six WHO regions
Anas Ali Al-Qudah, Asma HoucineThis study investigates the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on daily stock returns for the six major affected WHO Regions, namely: Africa, Americas, Eastern…
Impact of general trust on bank risk-taking: the moderating effect of confidence in banks
Heba Masoud, Mohamed AlbaityThis study examines the effect of general trust (GT) and confidence in banks (CIB) on bank risk-taking. Besides, it explores the moderating role of CIB on the relationship…
Income and factor substitution: an investigation on the Solow growth model under the constant elasticity of substitution
Sedat AlatasThe purpose of this study is to examine whether the elasticity of substitution (ES) varies between developed and developing countries.
A new method to solve fuzzy stochastic finance problem
Jayanta Kumar Dash, Sumitra Panda, Golak Bihari PandaThe authors discuss the value of portfolio and Black–Scholes (B–S)-option pricing model in fuzzy environment.
Measuring contagion during COVID-19 through volatility spillovers of BRIC countries using diagonal BEKK approach
Kunjana Malik, Sakshi Sharma, Manmeet KaurThe outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented shock to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) economy and their…
Impact of foreign direct investment and international tourism on long-run economic growth of Estonia
Amin Sokhanvar, Glenn P. JenkinsInternational tourism and FDI inflows have generated detectable beneficial impacts on the economy of Estonia in the last decades. However, recently, poor international…
Stock market implications of Fed's balance sheet size
Asif M. RumanConsidering the relationship between the central bank balance sheet and unconventional monetary policy after the 2008 financial crisis, it is crucial to see how the…
Self-employment and economic growth in developing countries: is more self-employment better?
Sridevi YerrabatiThe study aims to examine the non-linear relationship between self-employment and economic growth (growth) in the context of developing countries.
The wage premium and market structure: theory and empirical evidence from Chilean manufacturers
Ruohan Wu, Mario Javier Miranda, Meng-Fen YenThis paper aims to examine how the “wage premium,” the percentage by which wages earned by skilled workers exceed those of unskilled workers, varies across industries…
Inefficiency patterns in family-owned banks in Bangladesh
Mette Asmild, Dorte Kronborg, Tasmina Mahbub, Kent MatthewsMulti-directional efficiency analysis (MEA) is an alternative methodology to data envelopment analysis (DEA) that investigates the improvement potentials in each input and…
Distributional effects of distinct aid types on local economic development in Malawi: new evidence
Nixon Shingai Chekenya, Canicio DzingiraiThe anecdote of this paper is to bring the aid effectiveness debate to the sub-national level using the change in night lights as an alternative measure of economic…
Income inequality and financialization: a not so straightforward relationship
Constantinos Alexiou, Emmanouil Trachanas, Sofoklis VogiazasThe authors explore the impact of financialization on income inequality for a panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 2000–2017. The authors control for the effect of…
Evaluating survey-based forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic variables
Athanasios Fassas, Stephanos Papadamou, Dimitrios KenourgiosThis study examines the forecasting performance of the professional analysts participating in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators Survey using an alternative methodological…
International capital flows in club of convergence
Ly Dai Hung, Hoan Nguyen Thi ThuyThe paper analyzes the pattern of international capital flows, accounting for the convergence on economic growth.
Assessing the 2010–2018 financial crisis in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Cyprus
Kjell Hausken, Jonathan W. WelburnThe article develops a model to interpret the 2010–2018 financial crisis in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus, and the loan programs from the IL (International…
Output hysteresis in the US: new evidence from a time-varying Verdoorn's law
Pedro Clavijo-CortesThis study aims to contribute to the current and well-documented phenomenon of hysteresis in the US economy after the Great Financial Recession. Compelling reasons lead me…
Imperatives of functioning of the financial market of Ukraine in the global space of debt loading
Natalia V. Trusova, Inna Ye. Yakusheva, Yuliia M. Zavoloka, Alina H. Yefremenko, Yuliia A. Malashenko, Maryna V. SidnenkoThe article deals with the imperatives of functioning of the financial market of Ukraine in the global space of debt loading.
Transboundary air pollution and respiratory disease mortality: evidence from European countries
Jonathan Spiteri, Philip von BrockdorffThe aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of transboundary air pollutants, particularly those related to urban traffic, on health outcomes. The importance of…
Corporate governance and financial performance: evidence from Romania
Mirela Oana Pintea, Andreea Mădălina Pop, Marius Dan Gavriletea, Ioana Cristina SechelThe purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of adopting the principles of corporate governance on the financial performance of companies listed on the Bucharest…
The link between financial stress index and economic activity: prominent Granger causalities across frequencies in Luxembourg
Pejman Bahramian, Andisheh Saliminezhad, Şule AkerIn spite of the certain risk imposed by financial stress on the real economy, the relationship between financial stress and economic activity is complicated and…
The complex relationship between inflation and equity returns
Jinan Liu, Apostolos SerletisTo investigate the complex relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and equity returns.
The impact of economic freedom on the gender pay gap: evidence from a survey of UK households
Nicholas Apergis, Nicola LynchUsing survey datasets, the purpose of this work explores the impact of economic freedom on the gender pay gap in the UK.
Evaluation of changes in alcohol consumption: evidence from Russia
Tatiana Kossova, Elena Kossova, Arina Sitnikova, Maria SheluntcovaThe paper investigates changes in consumption of pure alcohol, vodka, beer, wine and fortified wine by neighboring age classes of Russians.
Are stable cryptocurrencies exempted from impossible trinity?
Dimitrios KoutsoupakisWhile monetary autonomy is self-explanatory for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin with predetermined supply path, it is of great interest to probe into the monetary…
Prioritizing intentions behind investment in cryptocurrency: a fuzzy analytical framework
Swati Gupta, Sanjay Gupta, Manoj Mathew, Hanumantha Rao SamaThe primary objective of this study is to prioritize the main intentions behind investment in cryptocurrency, in spite of its volatile nature and no regulatory framework.
Impact of institutional and cultural distances on ASEAN's trade efficiency
Nguyen Khanh Doanh, Linh Tuan Truong, Yoon HeoThis paper aims at assessing the impact of institutional and cultural distances and trade barriers on ASEAN's trade efficiency using a panel data set of 65 countries for…
Does infrastructure promote exports and foreign direct investment in selected Southeast Asian economies? An application of global infrastructure index
Faheem Ur Rehman, Abul Ala NomanInfrastructure deficiency in Southeast Asian countries is ever growing and touched to a level where it harms the local economy as well as the international sector of the…
Analysis of the effects of (de)regulation on housing prices in Spain 1977–2019
Virginia De Jorge-Huertas, Justo De Jorge-MorenoThis paper analyzes the regulatory effects on homeownership and rental prices in Spain in the years between 1977m1 and 2019m5, taking into account the economic crisis. It…
Industrial growth in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from machine learning with insights from nightlight satellite images
Christian Otchia, Simplice AsonguThis study uses machine machine learning techniques to assess industrial development in Africa.
Is there a nonlinear relationship between financial development and poverty in Africa?
Segun Thompson Bolarinwa, Abiodun Adewale Adegboye, Xuan Vinh VoThe paper examines whether there is a threshold between financial development and poverty in African economies.
Crisis determination and financial contagion: an analysis of the Hong Kong and Tokyo stock markets using an MSBVAR approach
Haytem Troug, Matt MurrayThe purpose of this paper then, is to add to the existing literature on financial contagion. While a vast amount of the debate has been made using data from the late…
Inbound Australian tourism demand from Asia: a panel gravity model
Sudeshna GhoshThis study attempts to explore the determinants of tourism demand that impact tourist arrivals in Australia from Asia using an augmented panel gravity model.
Monetary policy shock and industrial production: industry-level evidence from the US
Nazneen Ahmad, Sandeep Kumar RangarajuThis paper investigates the impact of a monetary policy shock on the production of a sample of 312 industries in manufacturing, mining and utilities in the United States…
The colonial exports pattern, institutions and current economic performance
Tania El Kallab, Cristina TerraThis paper explores the role of colonial heritage on long-term economic development from a resource-curse perspective. The authors investigate the impact of colonial…
International capital flows with safe assets accumulation
Ly Dai HungThe author studies the role of safe assets accumulation in shaping the pattern of international capital flows.
A panel path analysis approach to the determinants of coronavirus disease 2019 transmission: does testing matter for confirmed cases?
Gour Gobinda Goswami, ARM Mehrab Ali, Sharose IslamThe main purpose of this study is to examine the role of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test on transmission data globally to reveal the fact that the actual…
Determinants of bank profitability: evidence from 47 Asian countries
Abdulazeez Y.H. Saif-AlyousfiThe paper examines the effect of bank-specific, financial structure and macroeconomic factors on the profitability of banks in Asian economies during 1995–2017.
Culture and income across countries: evidence from family ties
Sokchea Lim, Simran K. Kahai, Channary KhunThe purpose of the paper is to examine how much difference in income can be explained by familial culture that persists in different societies.
Was trade openness with China an initial driver of cross-country human coronavirus infections?
Gregory N. Price, Doreen P. AduThis paper aims to consider if an initial driver of the cross-country global coronavirus pandemic was trade openness with China.
The commons problem in the presence of negative externalities
Nahid Masoudi, Donique BowieWhile the commons problem and the issues related to the negative externalities of harvesting have been studied extensively, there remains a need to bridge these two…
The impact of ethnic diversity on the quality of exports: evidence from China
Tuan Anh LuongThe quality of exports is an important indicator of the economic development of a country. It is, therefore, important to understand its determinants. Existing literature…
The dynamic relationships between the female labour force and the economic growth
Durmuş Çağrı Yıldırım, Hilal AkinciIn this study, the relationship between female labour force participation rate and economic growth is investigated in middle-income countries. The study covers the period…
Corporate real estate ownership, cash and credit ratings
Stoyu I. Ivanov, Matthew FaulknerRecently, multiple examples of large firms acquiring real estate have polarized investors. Who are the firms investing in real estate and what are their characteristics…
Factors affecting profitability of pharmaceutical company: an Indonesian evidence
Harianto Lim, Rofikoh RokhimThe purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting profitability of pharmaceutical company in Indonesia. While research and development has been the main…
Internal audit as an antecedent of economic growth
Abdulaziz AlzebanThis paper reports a study that examines the role of the internal audit function as a cornerstone of corporate governance, on economic growth.
Parametric estimation of a gauge function and a measure of technical efficiency
Yongseung Han, Thomas Littlefield, Myeong Hwan KimThis paper proposes the use of a gauge function as a measure of technical efficiency. The measure of technical inefficiency from a gauge function is desirable as the…
Permanent and transitory effect of public debt on economic growth
Attahir Babaji Abubakar, Suleiman O. MammanThis study examines the effect of public debt on the economic growth of OECD countries by disentangling the effect into permanent and transitory components. The study…
Asymmetries in the euro area and TFP growth: evidence from three major European economies
Alessandro Bellocchi, Edgar Sanchez Carrera, Giuseppe TravagliniIn this paper, the authors study the long-run determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in three major European economies over the period 1983–2017, namely Germany…
Does terrorism hamper FDI inflows? A pre and post 9/11 analysis
Imtiaz Arif, Amna Sohail Rawat, Lubna KhanThis research intends to determine the role of terrorism in defying foreign direct investment (FDI) in top terror effected economies.
What is the effect of banking concentration and competition on financial development? An international assessment
Claudio Oliveira De Moraes, José Americo Pereira Antunes, Márcio Silva CoutinhoThis paper analyzes the effect of the banking market (concentration and competition) on financial development.
Intellectual capital and value: testing new IC measures in Russia
Danila Ovechkin, Natalia Boldyreva, Vladimir DavydenkoThe aim of this paper is to propose extended intellectual capital (IC) indicators. The study shows that the essence of IC in the context of value is residual income, its…
Market structure and knowledge acquisition by firms
Pedro Hemsley, Rafael Morais, Karinna Di IulioRecent models in firm theory assume that problems have to be solved for production to take place and that knowledge is the main input for problem-solving. This paper…
Sibship size and educational attainment of Canadian baby boomers
Maryam DilmaghaniThe present study assesses how sibship size affects child quality as measured by educational attainment.
Foreign direct investment, natural resources and economic growth: a threshold model approach
Arshad Hayat, Muhammad TahirThe aim of this paper is to investigate the contingency effect of natural resource abundance on the foreign direct investment (FDI)–growth relationship in a nonlinear…
Asymmetric transport costs and welfare implications through a firm-delocation effect
Dionysios KaravidasWith the use of a two-region monopolistically competitive model, the paper primarly studies how unilateral changes in a country's intra-regional and/or inter-national…
Globalization and female economic participation in MINT and BRICS countries
Tolulope Osinubi, Simplice AsonguThis study examines the effect of globalization on female economic participation (FEP) in MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India…
Consumer default and optimal consumption decisions
Alexandros P. Bechlioulis, Sophocles N. BrissimisThe authors examine the optimal consumption decisions of households in a micro-founded framework that introduces endogenous default. They study default in the context of a…
International trade, non-tariff measures and climate change: insights from Port wine exports
Anthony Macedo, Sofia Gouveia, João Rebelo, João Santos, Helder FragaThe purpose of this study is to investigate international trade determinants, paying special attention to variables related to climate change and non-tariff measures…
The Vietnamese business cycle in an estimated small open economy New Keynesian DSGE model
Phuong V. NguyenThe primary purpose of this paper is to investigate the sources of the business cycle fluctuations in Vietnam. To this end, the author develops a small open economy New…
The 2008–2009 global financial crisis and the cost of debt capital among SMEs: Swedish evidence
Darush Yazdanfar, Peter ÖhmanThe main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the relationship between the 2008–2009 global financial crisis and small and medium-sized enterprises' cost of…
Explaining the informal economy in Western Europe: beyond a rational economic actor perspective
Colin Williams, Gamze Oz-YalamanThe dominant theorisation of the informal economy views participants as rational economic actors operating in the informal economy when the expected benefits exceed the…
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