Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 38 Issue 2

On the dynamics of poverty and income inequality in US states

Nicholas Apergis, Oguzhan Dincer, James E. Payne

This study seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Is there a relationship between poverty and income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship…

Monetary policy inertia: case of Jordan

Osama D. Sweidan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the inertia of monetary policy in the Jordanian economy, in which the monetary policy is neutral owing to the adoption of a fixed exchange…

Can imports mitigate racial earnings inequality?

Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa, Carlos Lopes

The purpose of this paper is to extend recent literature regarding the effects of competition on racial earnings by examining the effects of global competition on racial wages of…

Beyond competing theories of the hidden economy: Some lessons from Moscow

Colin C. Williams, John Round

This paper aims to evaluate critically the validity of rival theorisations of the hidden economy that variously read this sphere as a leftover from a previous era, a by‐product of…

How can Iran's black market exchange rate be managed?

Abbas Valadkhani, Majid Nameni

The Iranian currency (rial) depreciated on average 12.2 per cent per annum against the US dollar during the period 1960‐1998 but, despite continued two‐digit rates of inflation…

Public debt and risk premium: An analysis from an emerging economy

Helder Ferreira de Mendonça, Marcio Pereira Duarte Nunes

This analysis seeks to deal with the emerging economies and to reveal that, if the fiscal authority is accountable with a policy that stabilizes the public debt/GDP ratio, the…

Are shocks to national income persistent? New global evidence

Seema Narayan, Paresh Kumar Narayan

This paper aims to investigate the integrational properties of real GDP for 125 countries.