Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 42 Issue 3

Technical efficiency and its determinants factors in Spanish textiles industry (2002-2009)

Justo De Jorge-Moreno, Oscar Rojas Carrasco

The purpose of this paper is to provide new evidence about the technical efficiency and its determinants in Spanish textile sector during the period 2002-2009. The empirical…

Does dollarization reduce or produce inflation?

Lula G. Mengesha, Mark J. Holmes

The purpose of this paper is to address the unresolved outcome of the research on the impact of dollarization on inflation by examining the partially dollarized economy of…

Bananas, the GATT, the WTO and US and EU domestic politics

Jaime de Melo

The purpose of this paper is to revisit the celebrated conflict that lasted close to two decades and pitted the EU against the USA and against MFN suppliers of bananas. It starts…

Intergenerational links, gender differences, and determinants of self-employment

Dongxu Wu, Zhongmin Wu

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of self-employment, using data from the British Household Panel Survey.

Does the effect of media influence suicide rates?

Paulo Roberto Amorim Loureiro, Tito Belchior Silva Moreira, Adolfo Sachsida

An important question about the determinants of suicide refers to the role of media. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if there are groups of people who…

Corruption, debt financing and corporate ownership

Tesfaye T. Lemma

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived corruption on debt financing and ownership structure decisions of firms within the context of ten African…

Assessing retail market competition for multi-aquaculture products

Abdulai Fofana, Shabbar Jaffry

The purpose of this paper is to investigate market competition for three product types of salmon (smoke, fresh and whole salmon) to understand whether supermarkets are exercising…

The shadow economy as a higher order construct inside European governance

Claudio Quintano, Paolo Mazzocchi

Several dimensions of public governance occur while approaching the Shadow Economy (SE) phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to study the SE by means of the European…

Firing costs in a business cycle model with endogenous separations

Dennis Wesselbaum

The purpose of this paper is to introduce productivity-dependent firing costs into an otherwise standard endogenous separations matching model. The authors suggest an alternative…

Nonlinear ARDL approach, asymmetric effects and the J-curve

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Hadise Fariditavana

Previous research that investigated the effects of currency depreciation on the trade balance assumed that the adjustment of all variables in a given model is in linear fashion…