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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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Interest rate forecasts in Latin America
Ibrahim Filiz, Jan René Judek, Marco Lorenz, Markus SpiwoksThis paper aims to assess the quality of interest rate forecasts for the money markets in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela for the period between 2001 and…
Exploring the motivations of using companies registered in tax havens to invest in UK housing market
Cornelia Agyenim-BoatengThe study is intended to identify the macroeconomic factors that drive the use of companies registered in tax havens to purchase properties in the UK housing market.
Are firms' expectations on the availability of external finance rational, adaptive or regressive?
Dimitrios Anastasiou, Stelios GiannoulakisThis study investigates which expectation formation mechanism governs Eurozone firms regarding their expectations on external finance availability.
The impact of long-term riskless asset on ensuring liquidity and preventing banking fragility
Mahmoud ShahinThrough portfolio diversification, the author identifies the risk sharing deposit contract in a three-period model that maximizes the ex ante expected utility of depositors.
Political machines and the curse of public resources in subnational democracies
Andrés Cendales, Nestor Garza, Andres ArcilaThis paper argues that decentralization reforms in Colombia, implemented since the 1980s, have led to the decentralization of political clientelism rather than its demise…
Government failures and non-performing loans in European countries: a spatial approach
Ferdinando Ofria, Massimo MucciardiThe purpose is to analyze the spatially varying impacts of corruption and public debt as % of GDP (proxies of government failures) on non-performing loans (NPLs) in…
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…
Liquidity management and monetary transmission: empirical analysis for India
Vikas Charmal, Ashima GoyalA change in monetary operating procedures provides a natural experiment which is used to evaluate, first, whether Indian monetary policy transmission is better when…
Economic policy uncertainty and company's human capital
Iuliia NaidenovaThe research aims to examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on a company's behaviour concerning its human capital. Additionally, the difference in effect…
The excessive gaming and gambling during COVID-19
Theodoros DaglisBy combining econometrics and multifractal methods, utilizing a financial framework, this paper will examine with objectivity the economic, financial and social impact of…
Fiscal adjustments, income inequality and economic growth: an empirical analysis of Japanese prefectures
Patricia Kako OuragaThis paper investigates the joint relationship between economic growth, income inequality and fiscal adjustments using a panel of 47 Japanese prefectures from 1998 to 2017.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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 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…
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