Applied Economic Analysis: Volume 30 Issue 89 , Open Access

Job creation and investment in imperfect financial and labor markets

Silvio Rendon

This paper aims to weigh the restrictions to job creation imposed by labor market imperfections with respect to financial market imperfections. The authors want to see which…

TFP determinants in the manufacturing sector: the case of Ecuadorian firms

Segundo Camino-Mogro

Using a large firm-level data set, this paper examines total factor productivity (TFP) and its determinants in the Ecuadorian manufacturing sector in the period 2007–2018.

Economic policy uncertainty and stock prices in BRIC countries: evidence from asymmetric frequency domain causality approach

Mucahit Aydin, Ugur Korkut Pata, Veysel Inal

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and stock prices during the period from March 2003 to March 2021.

Housing bubbles and land planning corruption: evidence from Spain’s largest municipalities

Antonios Marios Koumpias, Jorge Martínez-Vázquez, Eduardo Sanz-Arcega

The purpose of this paper is to quantify to what extent the housing bubble in the early-to-mid 2000s in Spain exacerbated land planning corruption among Spain’s largest…