Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 51 Issue 4

The gender pay gap in the Visegrad Groups

Jakub Harman, Lucia Bartůsková

The gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in labor economics. Based on the 2018 Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), the authors estimate the impact of observable…

Poverty and financial development: an asymmetric and nonlinear ARDL analysis for India

Ishfaq Nazir Khanday, Md. Tarique, Inayat Ullah Wani, Muzffar Hussain Dar

The primary objective of the paper is to examine the asymmetric Cointegration and asymmetric causality between financial development and poverty alleviation on annual data in…

Forecasting expenditure components in Nigeria

Afees Salisu, Douglason Godwin Omotor

This study forecasts the government expenditure components in Nigeria, including recurrent and capital expenditures for 2021 and 2022, based on data from 1981 to 2020.

The nexus between arms imports, military expenditures and economic growth of the top arms importers in the world: a pooled mean group approach

Shreesh Chary

This paper explores whether data back the claim that imports of armaments are inherently bad for economic growth. Regardless of one's point of view, the production and trade of…

Factors determining default in P2P lending

Evangelia Avgeri, Maria Psillaki

The research documented in this paper aims to examine multiple factors related to borrowers' default in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the USA. This study is motivated by the…

Russia–Ukraine war and the impact on Indian economy

Anindita Bhattacharjee, Dolly Gaur, Kanishka Gupta

India is not geographically close to either Russia or Ukraine. However, India's trade relations with them make it vulnerable to the consequences of the war between these…

Bank efficiency and competition: bibliometric analysis of concepts and emerging issues

James Ntiamoah Doku, Gladys A.A. Nabieu

This study provides a bibliometric analysis of bank efficiency and competition over the past years (from 1993 to 2022) to (1) discover the past and current state of knowledge on…

The impact of Credit Suisse takeover on Indian banking and financial services sector stocks: an event study analysis

Priyanka Goyal, Pooja Soni

The present study aims to comprehensively examine the impact of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) takeover of Credit Suisse on the banking and financial services sector in the…

Does central bank credibility from professional forecasters and consumers affect the interest rate and its expectations?

Helder Ferreira de Mendonça, Cristiane Nascimento de Lima

This paper aims to contribute to the analysis concerning how inflation forecasts from different economic agents (professional forecasters and consumers) lead to varying levels of…

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of firm productivity? Evidence of a non-linear relationship from a firm-level analysis in Vietnam

Van Thi Cam Ha, Trinh Nguyen Chau, Tra Thi Thu Pham, Duy Nguyen

This analysis examines the relationship between corruption and firm productivity in Vietnam.

The human consequences of economic sanctions

Francisco Rodríguez

The use of economic sanctions has grown dramatically in recent decades. Nevertheless, many arguments are presented in the public policy space regarding their effects on target…