Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 46 Issue 7

Macroeconomic effects of consumer confidence shock – evidence for state dependence

Nazneen Ahmad, Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of a consumer confidence shock on GDP and different types of consumer spending during a slack state as well as a non-slack…

Heterogeneous utility from a representative agent model: immigrants vs non-immigrants

Kerk L. Phillips

The purpose of this paper is to infer the welfare of heterogeneous agents using a representative agent model.

Tourism and social media in the world: an empirical investigation

Simplice Asongu, Nicholas M. Odhiambo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.

Economic convergence in the EU and Eurozone

Enrico Piero Marelli, Maria Laura Parisi, Marcello Signorelli

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether several groups of European countries are on track for real “conditional” economic convergence in per capita income and the likely…

Does persistence in internationalization and innovation influence firms’ performance?

Stefano Iandolo, Anna Maria Ferragina

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the joint effect of persistency in innovation and export on firms’ total factor productivity. In particular, the aim is to determine if…

The effect of fiscal transparency on government spending efficiency

Elina De Simone, Mariangela Bonasia, Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Lorenzo Cicatiello

Making citizens able to monitor and evaluate public spending activities is a fundamental issue in public financial management literature. The purpose of this paper is to analyze…

The long-run interrelationship between exchange rate and interest rate: the case of Mexico

Salvatore Capasso, Oreste Napolitano, Ana Laura Viveros Jiménez

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the long-term nature of the interrelationship between interest rate and exchange rate.

Air pollution and public finance: evidence for European countries

Maria Carratù, Bruno Chiarini, Antonella D’Agostino, Elisabetta Marzano, Andrea Regoli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a statistically significant relationship exists between environmental quality, as measured by consumption-related air…

The role of tourism in island economic growth and resilience: A panel analysis for the European Mediterranean countries (2000–2015)

Fabio Mazzola, Pietro Pizzuto, Giovanni Ruggieri

The purpose of this paper is to verifying the economic resilience of islands and, in particular, the role of the tourism sector in the reaction to the most recent economic crisis…