Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 43 Issue 2

How does education inequality respond to policy? A method and application to survey data from Albania and Nepal

Satis C. Devkota, Mukti P. Upadhyay

– The purpose of this paper is to measure inequality in education and examine how socioeconomic factors affect education inequality in Albania and Nepal.

Price differentiation and menu costs in credit card payments

Marcos Valli Jorge, Wilfredo Leiva Maldonado

The purpose of this paper is to model a credit card market where the retailers may charge differential prices depending on the instrument of payment used by the consumer…

Exchange rate volatility and exports: a panel data analysis

Flavio Vilela Vieira, Ronald MacDonald

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the role of real effective exchange rate (REER) volatility on export volume and also to address the impact of the…

How useful is the yield spread as a predictor of growth in Australia?

George Chen, Abbas Valadkhani, Bligh Grant

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of the yield spread for forecasting growth in the Australian economy since 1969.

Mood and stock returns: evidence from Greece

Dimitrios Kourtidis, Željko Šević, Prodromos Chatzoglou

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of investors’ emotional state (mood) on their trading behaviour and performance.

How does the minimum wage affect employment statuses of youths?: evidence of Indonesia

Devanto Shasta Pratomo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of minimum wage on youth employment across employment statuses in Indonesia. This study uses the National Labour Force Survey…

Revisiting Okun’s Law in European Union countries

Athina Economou, Iacovos N. Psarianos

The purpose of this paper is to examine Okun’s Law in European countries by distinguishing between the transitory and the permanent effects of output changes upon unemployment and…

Real exchange rate and investment in the Brazilian manufacturing industry

Carolina Troncoso Baltar, Celio Hiratuka, Gilberto Tadeu Lima

– The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the real exchange rate on investment in the Brazilian manufacturing industry.

Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

Two major earthquakes which struck Northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government’s relief efforts were…

Effect of education on migration decisions in Ghana: a rural-urban perspective

Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Louis Boakye-Yiadom, William Baah-Boateng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of education on migration decisions focusing on rural and urban in-migrants by comparing the 2005/2006 and 2012/2013 rounds…