International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 17 Issue 8

SEZs and poverty reduction: evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Aradhna Aggarwal, Ari Kokko

The present study evaluates the impact of special economic zones (SEZs) on poverty, both rural and urban with special reference to Andhra Pradesh in India, using household…

Does crime-tourism nexus hold for Pakistan?

Muhammad Ahad, Zaheer Anwer, Wasim Ahmad

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the linkage of tourism and crime for Pakistan along with exchange rates, terrorism and domestic prices in the presence of…

Islamic stock-sukuk indexes' correlations: does financial uncertainty matter?

Fatma Alahouel, Nadia Loukil

This study examines co-movements between global Islamic index and heterogeneous rated/maturity sukuk. It tests the impact of financial uncertainty on these movements.

The role of market power in driving innovation and productivity: a firm-level study of emerging ASEAN

Jianhua Zhang, Mohammad Shahidul Islam

The primary purpose of the study is to examine the role of market power in driving innovation and productivity of intangible intensive firms of eight emerging economies of the…

Inflation forecasting in an emerging economy: selecting variables with machine learning algorithms

Önder Özgür, Uğur Akkoç

The main purpose of this study is to forecast inflation rates in the case of the Turkish economy with shrinkage methods of machine learning algorithms.

Capital requirements, institutional quality and credit crunch in the MENA region

Ali Awdeh, Chawki EL-Moussawi

The introduction of Basel capital adequacy standards (I, II and III) has provoked a large body of empirical and theoretical literature that aimed to detect the consequences of…

Outward FDI and productivity spillovers in China: an industrial perspective

Usman Ali, Yanxi Li, Jian-Jun Wang, Zhen Chen

Prior research demonstrated that China's Outward FDI (OFDI) is aimed at sustaining long-term economic growth by promoting industrialization and technological upgrading in the…

Are financial derivatives tax havens? Evidence from China

Wanyi Chen

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the use of financial derivatives by business enterprises can avoid taxes and whether tax authorities can detect and effectively…

Ownership structure and corporate financial performance in an emerging market: a dynamic panel data analysis

Shahab Ud Din, Muhammad Arshad Khan, Majid Jamal Khan, Muhammad Yar Khan

This study examines the impact of ownership structure on firm financial performance, for 146 manufacturing firms listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the period…

Sensitivities of Southeast Asian industries to the local and global business cycles

Javed Iqbal

This paper estimates the sensitivities of the output of the manufacturing industries of the four Southeast countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore) to both the…

An empirical investigation of N-11 countries as successors of BRICS using panel data modeling

Priya Gupta, Parul Bhatia

For more than four decades, persistent economic activities and a focused growth strategy resulted in significant infrastructural and other favorable economic and institutional…

Systemic risk in ASEAN-6: a new empirical investigation

Trung Hai Le

The authors provide a comprehensive study on systemic risk of the banking sectors in the ASEAN-6 countries. In particular, they investigate the systemic risk dynamics and…

Do political and business relations help emerging markets' SMEs in their national and international expansion? Evidence from Brazil and China

Gaston Fornes, Guillermo Cardoza, Maria Altamira

This study aims to understand whether business and political relations help emerging markets' SMEs to overcome the challenges posed by low institutionalization in their national…

On the dynamics of exchange rate pass-through: asymmetric evidence from India

Javed Ahmad Bhat, Sajad Ahmad Bhat

This paper attempts to examine the transmission of exchange rate changes into the domestic prices together with other important determinants of later, in case of a developing…