Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 45 Issue 3

Factors affecting profitability in Malaysia

Ali Saleh Alarussi, Sami Mohammed Alhaderi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting profitability in Malaysian-listed companies. It has been argued that profitability is the main pillar for any company…

Services traded for intermediate and final usage: An analysis of the role of services FTAs and restrictions

Deeparghya Mukherjee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and assess the trends of bilateral services trade in the world segmented by trade for final consumption and intermediate usage across…

Trade space and trade policy: an empirical assessment

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

The purpose of this paper is to examine the behavior of governments in terms of trade policy design when they experience a lack of foreign resources from international trade after…

Households’ financial vulnerability in Southern Europe

Marco Terraneo

The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether and to what extent households living in southern Europe, i.e. Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, experience similar conditions of…

Retirement preparation of men and women in their positive savings periods

Yun Doo Lee, M. Kabir Hassan, Shari Lawrence

This study analyzes financial preparation for retirement of American men and women, using the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). The purpose of this paper is to research the…

Linking bank regulatory capital buffer to business cycle fluctuations: Do revenue diversification, market power and cost of funding matter?

Kolade Sunday Adesina, John Muteba Mwamba

The purpose of this paper is to assist bank regulators in Africa who are currently considering the implementation of Basel III countercyclical capital buffer (CCB) requirement.

A wavelet technique for the study of economic socio-political situations in a textual analysis framework

Habiba Abdessalem, Saloua Benammou

The purpose of this paper is to apply the wavelet thresholding technique in order to analyze economic socio-political situations in Tunisia using textual data sets. This technique…

Is consumption-Laffer curve hump-shaped? The VAT evasion channel

Aleksandar Vasilev

The purpose of this paper is to show a standard RBC model, when augmented with a VAT evasion channel, where evasion depends on the consumption tax rate, can produce a hump-shaped…

Strengthening the stability of exports through GVC participation: The who and how matters

Carmen Díaz-Mora, Rosario Gandoy, Belen Gonzalez-Diaz

Drawing on the literature that has shown the prevalence of short-lived trade relationships, the purpose of this paper is to provide further understanding about this issue by…

Efficiency in banking of developing countries with the same cultural background: A novel distance function frontier model

C.P. Barros, Mike G. Tsionas, Peter Wanke, Md. Abul Kalam Azad

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the bank efficiency in three developing countries, namely Angola, Brazil and Mozambique, aiming to infer differences given that they belong…

Thailand’s trade balance with each of her 15 largest partners: an asymmetry analysis

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Tatchawan Kanitpong

The purpose of this paper is to assess asymmetric effects of exchange rate changes on Thailand’s trade balances.