Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 32 Issue 6

How sensitive are Britain's inpayments and outpayments to the value of the British pound

Mohsen Bahmani‐Oskooee, Claire Economidou, Gour Gobinda Goswami

To avoid aggregation bias by using trade data at bilateral level so that we can determine how sensitive are Britain's inpayments and outpayments to the value of the British pound.

The contribution of remittances to growth: A dynamic approach and empirical analysis

Nicholas P. Glytsos

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of exogenous shocks of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output in five Mediterranean countries.

Performance measurement in tax offices with a stochastic frontier model

Carlos Pestana Barros

The aim of this paper is to call the attention of public entities for the econometric frontier models which allows benchmarking the tax offices accurately. In the context of the…

Money volatility and output volatility: any asymmetric effects?: Evidence from conditional measures of volatility

Nicholas Apergis, Stephen Miller

To investigate whether monetary volatility in the US exerts any asymmetric impact on output volatility over the period 1974‐2002.

An exploration of earnings whispers forecasts as predictors of stock returns

Rebecca Abraham

To test the Miller Price Optimism Model using a new proxy for heterogenous expectations and to examine if high differential stocks behave like glamour stocks and low differential…

Labour market reforms and economic growth – the European experience in the 1990s

Karl Aiginger

The purpose of this paper is to reassess the relative impact of labour market regulation on economic performance. Inflexible labour markets combined with high welfare costs are…