Journal of Financial Economic Policy: Volume 14 Issue 1

Banking sector openness and entrepreneurship

Amit Ghosh

Using an extensive data set of 137 nations spanning the period 2002–2014, this paper aims to examine the effect of banking sector openness on entrepreneurship, as measured by new…

FDI inflow and financial channels: international evidence before and after crises

Selma Izadi, Mamunur Rashid, Parviz Izadi

Extending on the resource-seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) hypothesis, this paper aims to uncover the potential relationship between financial and non-financial channels…

Did Brexit change asset co-movements?

Shrabani Saha, Anindya Sen, Christine Smith-Han, Dennis Wesselbaum

This paper aims to examine the impact of the Brexit referendum on the risk structure of financial asset prices. Co-movements are analysed using daily price returns of major stock…

The dark and bright sides of policy uncertainty: do too many cooks spoil the broth?

Khanh Hoang, Long Phi Tran, Van Thuy Vu, Minh Duy Vu

This paper aims to investigate the nonlinear relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and economic policy uncertainty (EPU).

Revisiting the impact of organized labor on corporate bottom lines

Dmytro Osiichuk, Paweł Mielcarz, Julia Kavalenka

Relying on an international panel data set, the purpose of this paper is to quantify the economic impact of labor unionization on corporate financial performance.

Firm innovation and access to finance: firm-level evidence from India

Parneet Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Paras Kanojia

Based on 9,281 firm-level survey data on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in India, this study aims to investigate how access to different finance sources and…

Does the degree of debt obligations owed by a state’s pension plan affect a resident household’s utility?

Leobardo Diosdado, Donald Lacombe

The objective of this paper is to examine whether the financial satisfaction (FS) of a state’s residents is affected by the funding ratio of the state’s public pension.