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Economic network dynamics: a structural analysis of the international connectivity of Chinese manufacturing firms
Michele Lo Re, Eleonora Veglianti, Fabrizio Parente, Umberto Monarca, Cosimo MagazzinoThis paper explores international trade of the Chinese manufacturing industries through the lenses of network analysis (NA) to visualise the world trade network of the Chinese…
Does climate change concern alter individual tax preferences? Evidence from an Italian survey
Alessandro CascavillaThis paper analyzes the role that the climate change concern (CCCi) has on the willingness to accept an environmental tax. The author aims to grasp how individual general tax…
Does COVID-19 disrupt competition? Evidence from Iran
Kowsar Yousefi, Ali TaiebniaFollowing the COVID-19 outbreak, there are concerns whether economies are becoming farther from equality and competency. While this matters to every economy, it is more crucial…
Does happiness raise test scores – does fear lower them – experimental evidence
Charles N. Noussair, Kierstin SeabackThe authors consider whether the emotional states of happiness and fear causally affect test performance using a new experiment. The paper aims to discuss this issue.
The Financial Conditions Index as an additional tool for policy-makers in developing countries: the Mexican case
Salvatore Capasso, Oreste Napolitano, Ana Laura Viveros JiménezThe idea of this study is to provide a solid Financial Condition Index (FCI) that allows the monetary transmission policy to be monitored in a country which in recent decades has…
Credit quality determinants of banks: how important are bankruptcy reforms?
Saibal GhoshAlthough several microeconomic and macroeconomic factors driving banks' credit quality have been well-studied in the literature, one aspect which appears to have received limited…
Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade
Joseph KopeckyThis paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade.
Inflation in Iran: an empirical assessment of the key determinants
Maryam Hemmati, Saleh S. Tabrizy, Yashar TarverdiTo study the key determinants of chronically high inflation in Iran.
Income inequality and polity – an empirical analysis of political Kuznets curve
Yongseung Han, Myeong Hwan KimFaced with contradictory outcomes in empirical studies on the relation between democracy and income inequality, this paper attempts to provide empirical relations between…
A model of collusion formation and measurement in the open ascending bid auctions in the agricultural markets
Dipankar DasThis paper gives a model of collusion formation and a method of measuring the degree of it among the traders/bidders in the agricultural commodity markets in India. The important…
Do oil price shocks differently matter for oil exporter and importer developing countries?
Süleyman Değirmen, Cengiz Tunç, Ömür Saltık, Wasim ul RehmanThe authors empirically aim to study the implications of uncertainty generated by oil price volatility on some key macroeconomic variables, including production, exchange rates…
Why do households repay their debt in UK during the COVID-19 crisis?
Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Mike G. Tsionas, Steven OngenaIn this paper, the authors investigate whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts household finances, like household debt repayments in the UK.
Russia–Ukraine conflict and its impact on global inflation: an event study-based approach
Prince Kumar Maurya, Rohit Bansal, Anand Kumar MishraThis study investigates how the conflict between Russia and Ukraine impacts global inflation.
When does self-employment equalise income? Evidence from developing countries
Sridevi YerrabatiA lack of sufficient gainful employment opportunities in developing countries means that those at the bottom of the income ladder resort to self-employment for survival. While…
Twitter sentiment and stock market: a COVID-19 analysis
Apostolos G. Katsafados, Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos, George N. LeledakisUsing textual analysis the authors study the relationship between social media sentiments and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Revisiting the trade openness–unemployment nexus: an application of the novel JKS panel causality test with static and dynamic panel models
Mudaser Ahad Bhat, Mirza Nazrana BegThis paper documents a robust empirical regularity: higher trade openness is associated with a lower unemployment rate. This paper also examines whether or not the effects of…
Public subsidies for credit support, democracy and European female-led SMEs
Graziella Bonanno, Nadia Fiorino, Giampaolo Garzarelli, Stefania Patrizia Sonia RossiThe article investigates whether variety of democracy affects the probability to employ public subsidies for credit support by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) led by…
Business cycle transmission between France and United Kingdom
Mateusz DadejThe literature mostly investigates the business cycle transmission of the United Kingdom (UK) and France as a part of a wider group (e.g. European Exchange Rate Mechanism or G7)…
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