Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 43 Issue 5

Exchange rate fluctuations and macroeconomic performance: Evidence from four fast-growing emerging economies

Zekeriya Yildirim, Mehmet Ivrendi

Recent turbulence in global financial markets implies that emerging economies are likely to soon enter a new era with greater pressure for currency depreciation and capital…

Oil windfalls and X-inefficiency: evidence from Brazil

Fernando Antonio Slaibe Postali

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether Brazilian municipalities are losing efficiency when collecting local taxes in response to oil windfalls. In particular, the…

Cross-sectoral differences in the drivers of innovation: Evidence from the Irish Community Innovation Survey

Justin Doran, Declan Jordan

The purpose of this paper is to analyse differences in the drivers of firm innovation performance across sectors. The literature often makes the assumption that firms in different…

Active fiscal policy and macroeconomic stability

Cleiton Silva de Jesus, Fernando Motta Correia

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether fiscal policy may be a complementary instrument to monetary policy in the macrostabilization process.

Modeling China’s agriculture support policy effects

Shuquan He

China has shifted its agricultural policy from tax agriculture to support it. The purpose of this paper is to examine the agricultural policy changes of China in recent years…

Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy: Benchmarking IPRs harmonization

Antonio Rodríguez Andrés, Simplice Asongu

The purpose of this paper is to examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts toward harmonizing the…

Gender discrimination and firms’ profit: evidence from Brazil

Wenjun Liu, Tomokazu Nomura, Shoji Nishijima

This paper investigates discrimination against women within the Brazilian labour market using firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey. The purpose of this…

Theoretical approaches on the possible existence of a stabilising economic policy in Europe

Alessandro Morselli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is room for a stabilising fiscal policy, through an analysis of the supporters of the new classical economics and the…

Workers’ health and social relations in Italy

Damiano Fiorillo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether social relations are associated with the health of workers. It uses two types of health status measures – self-reported and…

Differences in increasing returns between technological sectors: A panel data investigation using the EU KLEMS database

João P. Romero, John S.L. McCombie

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to investigate the existence of different degrees of returns to scale in low-tech and high-tech manufacturing industries; and to examine…