25 articles in this issue
Ade Al-Nimri,Yaseen Altarawneh
The study aimed to identify the most salient and critical factors influencing the Stock yield and causing this sharp fluctuation, and clarifying which factors are more influential than others on the Stock yield in the Amman Stock Market – Jordan. The stud... see more
Lamees Al-Durgham,Mohammad Adeinat
This study examines the technical efficiency of the manufacturing firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange market (ASE) in Jordan over the period 2009-2017. The stochastic frontier approach was used to measure the efficiency. The results show that the firms h... see more
Monika Gupta,Shubhi Bansal
Covid-19 has brought the life of every individual to a standstill. The middle class is in majority in India. The capable members in the family keep earning on monthly basis contributing to the Monthly Household Income (MHI) and keep on managing the activi... see more
Dan Lin,Lu Lin
This study examines the influence of corporate governance on dividend policy based on a sample of Canadian firms listed on the S&P/TSX composite index during 2009-2012. The results show that firms with better governance quality, measured by the governance... see more
Matej Rajšp,Lea Robic Mohar,Matej Požarnik
This paper examines the movement of gross domestic product per capita (GDP per capita) depending on the normalized value of financial incentives in the field of research and development in the EU-28 Member States. It determines the type of dependence of t... see more
Zied Akrout
In the post 2011 revolutionary period, Tunisia was engaged in a strategy of development despite the significant difficulties caused by economic growth and chronic corruption. In fact, an increased effectiveness of the said strategy thus calls for a better... see more
Siongofolo Seydou Soro
In this paper, we examine the main determinants of tax revenues in Côte d’Ivoire, paying attention to institutional factors and the informal economy. To do this, we apply the autoregressive distributed lag model developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) on annua... see more
Daniel Susuawu,Kenneth Ofori-Boateng,John Kwaku Amoh
While many factors influence tax compliance behaviour, this study aims to examine the effect of the quality of tax services on the compliance behaviour of small and medium-sized enterprises. The study used the survey to test those theories with the aid of... see more
Ahmed Al Samman,Mostafa Kotb GabAlla
This study measures the economic content of three different inductors of country risk: political, economic and financial risk indices, and fundamental attributes, such as earning-to-price ratios, and its impact on net foreign portfolio equity investment i... see more
Tarek Bouazizi,Zouhaier Hadhek,Mongi Lassoued
This paper reinterprets the mixed evidence of the relationship and the long-run relationships between the general government budget (GGB) and some macroeconomics variables (current account deficit, fixed investment (FI), gross savings (GS), government con... see more
Wahyudi Wahyudi
This study aims to analyze and verify the relationship between government spending and economic growth. This relationship has been a hot topic for debate among economists, with plenty of research done and being done upon it. This particular study uses pan... see more
Firna Varina,Sri Hartoyo,Nunung Kusnadi,Amzul Rifin
The main objective of the present study is to analyze the technical efficiency (TE) and evaluate its determinant in smallholder oil palm farming in Indonesia. The stochastic frontier analysis was applied to 20,409 selected oil pa... see more
Olfa Chaouachi,Imen Dhaou
The objective of our investigation is to test empirically the existence of the day of the week effect on the Canadian stock market between September 2009 and August 2019. Our findings show that the day of the week effect is present. The highest and lowest... see more
Prashant Sharma,Geetika Arora,Prashant Gupta
Ali Shaddady,Mohammed Alsaggaf
Behavioral financing is an emerging science and a relatively new area for academic research, leveraging investors’ irrational behavior. To a certain degree, most investment decisions are affected by investors’ biases and expectations, which do not follow ... see more
Hassan Tawakol A. Fadol
Studies employ various methods to explain the presence of the Impact of the macroeconomic indicators shocks on non-oil exports, including applying models to the case of emerging economies. However, the non-oil exports have different determinants in some c... see more
Seyhak Khon,Udomsak Seenprachawong
Our study estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) for the dengue fever vaccination program at a national level in Cambodia. A double bounded format with an open-ended question was used in this study to estimate the WTP. The contingent valuation method (CVM... see more
Boureima Sawadogo,Tégawendé Juliette Nana,Maimouna Hama Natama,Fidèle Bama,Emma Tapsoba,Kassoum Zerbo
The impact of economic and trade expansion of China on Burkina Faso's economy is analyzed in this work through three channels: trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and development assistance. To capture the direct and indirect effects of... see more
Xinmeng He,Antai Li,Keda Zhu
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CRSC) requires listed companies to issue CSR report mandatorily from 2008. To examine the effect of mandatory CSR disclosure, we adopt the PSM-DID introduced by the mandatory requirements. We find that mandatory dis... see more
Paulo Vitor Souza de Souza,César Augusto Tibúrcio Silva
In this paper, we analyzed the effects of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic on international capital markets. We used the most representative indexes belonging to the stock markets of 44 world economies in daily time series with data from 01/0... see more
Di Wang,Zhimin Wang,Yuying Xie
One increasingly important political and economic challenge of China’s economy is income inequality. In the past two decades, a series of regulations and policies were enacted to promote its economic growth and reduce income inequality. In this empirical ... see more
Mohammad Ta'Amnha
Employer brand is defined as a package of psychological, functional, and economic benefits provided by employers to distinguish them from other firms. While employer brand is considered vital to the effectiveness of organizations, it has not been clearly ... see more
Godfred Aawaar,Nicholas Addai Boamah,Joseph Oscar Akotey
Daily returns of 224 stocks traded on three distinctively classified markets (stand-alone, frontier, and emerging) within a developing continent context are used, employing the Chang, Chen and Khorana (2000) measure. We provide evidence of the presence of... see more
Hatice Erkekoglu,Aweng Peter Majok Garang,Adire Simon Deng
While various linear and nonlinear forecasting models exist, multivariate methods like VAR, Exponential smoothing, and Box-Jenkins’ ARIMA methodology constitute the widely used methods in time series. This paper employs series of Turkish private con... see more
Alina Okun,Randall Valentine
Asian pharmaceutical firms often take over a decade to develop new patentable technology, with costs running into billions of dollars. It is a widely held belief that the resulting patents determine the future viability of the firm. The purpose of this st... see more