Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 47 Issue 1

Female labor participation in Iran: a structural model estimation

Shadi Farahzadi, Mohammad Rahmati

The purpose of this study is to determine why female labor force participation in Iran has been less than 20 percent.

Phillips curve and long-run inflation under commitment

Dario Pontiggia

The purpose of this paper is to study the optimal long-run rate of inflation in the presence of a hybrid Phillips curve, which nests a purely backward-looking Phillips curve and…

US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of the GCC countries

Khandokar Istiak, Md Rafayet Alam

This study aims to investigate the nature and degree of US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of a group of non-conventional economies like the Gulf…

The sibling crowd-in effect of time and cash assistance to elderly parents

Luis J. Gonzalez, Carlos Lopes

The purpose of the current study is to analyze how the assistance that one's siblings provide to their parents impacts one's own contributions. Siblings' assistance is measured as…

Understanding personal contacts: an analysis for metropolitan BrazilḌ

Victor Rodrigues de Oliveira, Wallace Patrick Santos de Farias Souza, Giácomo Balbinotto Neto, Paulo de Andrade Jacinto

This paper investigates the relationship between (1) business cycle and use of personal contacts to obtain job and (2) use of personal contacts to obtain job and wages.

Industry structure, R&D intensity, and performance in New Zealand: New insight on the Porter hypothesis

Rashid Ameer, Radiah Othman

The purpose of this paper is to test the Porter hypothesis using the Structure–Conduct–Performance (SCP) framework for a panel data set of industries in New Zealand.

Growth through export: evidence from Iran’s manufacturing plants

Kowsar Yousefi, Seyed Ali Madnanizdeh, Fateme Zahra Sobhani

Does the long-term growth rate of a firm increase by exporting? If yes, how large is that increase in a developing economy? The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Foreign productivity improvements and domestic welfare effects

Dionysios Karavidas

This paper aims to shed light on two mechanisms that show how foreign productivity improvement affects domestic welfare.

How does foreign direct investment affect growth in sub-Saharan Africa? New evidence from threshold analysis

Oyakhilome Ibhagui

The threshold regression framework is used to examine the effect of foreign direct investment on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The growth literature is awash with divergent…

Assessing Brazilian electric power transmission auctions: A copula-based sample selection model

Washington Martins Silva, Osvaldo Candido

This paper aims to assess all the Brazilian electric power transmission line auctions occurred between 1999 and 2017.

Revisiting the housing market dynamics and its fundamentals: new evidence from Cyprus

Andrew Adewale Alola

Studies have shown that economic expansion is characterized by the activities in the productive and industrial sectors. And, recently, the Republic of Cyprus has consistently…