Journal of Financial Economic Policy: Volume 14 Issue 6

The linear and non-linear interactions between blockchain technology index and the stock market indices: a case study of the UAE banking sector

Anwar Hasan Abdullah Othman, Mohamed Alshami, Adam Abdullah

This paper aims to investigate the linear and nonlinear interactions between the blockchain technology index and the UAE stock market index within the context of the Abu Dhabi and…

Labor shortages during the COVID-19 and labor supply based on minimizing effort to achieve a target utility level: confounding economic policies

Richard Cebula, Maggie Foley

The purpose of this analysis is to explain why labor shortages may have appeared during this pandemic. Interestingly, in this COVID-19 pandemic period, the labor supply shortage…

Basic income: a 50-state economic impact analysis

G. Jason Jolley

This paper aims to estimate the economic impact of a basic income for each state in the USA.

The effect of Islamic finance on trade in insurance services in selected countries in the Middle East region

Alya Al-Fori, Azmat Gani

Islamic finance is becoming a core part of the financial services economy in the Middle East countries. There is a strong likelihood that Islamic finance is also driving the…

Another look at banks as lenders of first resort: evidence from the COVID-19 crisis

Matthew Flynn, Yufei Wu

This study aims to provide a fresh look at banks as lenders in and extending past the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on examining the results of recent work by Lei et al.…

Are quantitative easing effects transitory? Evidence from out-of-sample forecasts

Dimitris G. Kirikos

Advocates of quantitative easing (QE) policies have emphasized some evidence that structural models do not predict long-term asset yields as well as naive forecasts, implying that…