Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 44 Issue 6

Non-price competition in the US airline industry: a VAR model

Carl E. Enomoto, Karl R. Geisler, Sajid A. Noor

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which major US airlines respond to one another in quality of service improvements.

The Great Leveraging in the European crisis countries: Domestic credit and net foreign liabilities

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Karsten Staehr

The Great Leveraging was an episode of rapid credit growth and booming housing markets leading up to the global financial crisis. It is important to identify the key drivers of…

Clicks business of deposit-taking institutions: an efficiency analysis

Farkhanda Shamim, Nobuyoshi Yamori, Shahid Anjum

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the direct and indirect effects of automated teller machines (ATMs) on the performance and scope economies of the Japanese…

Tax compliance in a developing country: Understanding taxpayers’ compliance decision by their perceptions

Stephen Korutaro Nkundabanyanga, Philemon Mvura, David Nyamuyonjo, Julius Opiso, Zulaika Nakabuye

The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between perceived grounds for tax non-compliance or compliance behaviors and perceived tax compliance factors.

Have electronic benefits cards improved food access for food stamp recipients?

Nicholas Lovett, Yuhan Xue

The purpose of this paper is to investigate electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card reforms in California’s Food Stamp Program, and its impact on food insecurity.

Public investment, inflation persistence and central bank independence

Stephanos Papadamou, Eleftherios Spyromitros, Panagiotis Tsintzos

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, both theoretically and empirically, the institutional setting of monetary policy making that mitigates the effects of productive…

FDI outflows, exports and financial development

Long Zhao, Zuanshi Liu, William Wei, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

The purpose of this paper is to argue that financial development, measured by private credit in the economy, affects exports in an inverted U-shaped manner. The authors use the…

Modeling and forecasting oil price risk: the role of implied volatility index

Anupam Dutta

While numerous empirical studies have tried to model and forecast the oil price volatility over the years, such attempts using the crude oil volatility index (OVX) rarely exist…

Stages of diversification in high performing Asian economies

Don P. Clark, Luiz Renato Lima, W. Charles Sawyer

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the evolution of industry structure in the World Bank’s eight high performing Asian economies (HPAEs) displays the U-shaped…

Institutional quality and foreign direct investment inflows: evidence from Asian countries

Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Arshad Khan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by focusing on institutional and economic factors among South Asian Association for…