Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 45 Issue 4

The relationship between manufacturing production and economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Imadeddin Ahmed Almosabbeh, Mohamad Abulkarem Almoree

The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term relationship between the performance of the manufacturing sector and economic growth in Saudi Arabia. It does so by testing…

Bank deserts in the USA and the Great Recession: geography and demographics

Russell D. Kashian, Ran Tao, Robert Drago

The purpose of this paper is to identify bank deserts in the USA in 2009 and 2015, separately for inner city, suburban, and rural areas. It also identifies correlations between…

Is human capital the sixth factor?

Moinak Maiti, A. Balakrishnan

The purpose of this paper is to focus on one of the major emerging Asian economies – India – to examine the role of human capital in asset prices.

Stimulating broadband adoption: state-owned companies versus tax exemptions – the Brazilian case

Carlos M. Baigorri, Wilfredo L. Maldonado

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new methodology to assess the economic and social impacts of policies to promote mass access to the internet in fixed broadband. The…

Political business cycles and economic growth in Africa

Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu, Godfred A. Bokpin

The purpose of this paper is to understand both the incidence and the impact of the African political business cycle (PBC) in the light of a literature which has argued that, with…

Beyond Brexit’s uncertainty: the foreseeable Britain’s innovative stagnation

Alcides J. Padilla, Alexander Garrido

The purpose of this paper is to explore the causes that determine the UK’s civilian research and development (R&D) expenditure to forecast its possible evolution in a post-Brexit…

A random effects multinomial logit model for the determinants of exit modes: Evidence from a panel of US manufacturing firms

Mohd Irfan, Sarani Saha, Sanjay Kumar Singh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors associated with three modes of firms’ exit (voluntary liquidation, involuntary liquidation and acquisition) in a mutually…

Is exit tax a good idea for the taxman?

Darong Dai

The purpose of this paper is to study whether it is a rational choice for a tax authority to impose an exit tax on capitalists.

Do infrastructure and quality of governance matter for manufacturing productivity? Empirical evidence from the Indian states

Rupika Khanna, Chandan Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of infrastructure and governance quality on the state-level productivity of Indian manufacturing for the period 2008–2011.

Evidence of excess volatility based on a new robust volatility ratio

Muneer Shaik, Maheswaran S.

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to propose a new robust volatility ratio (RVR) that compares the intraday high–low volatility with that of the intraday open–close…

Output growth of the Malaysia’s manufacturing sector – do foreign workers matter?

Atif Awad, Ishak Yussof, Norlin Khalid

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of migrant workers on the output growth of 15 sub-industries of the manufacturing sector in Malaysia during the period…