Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 47 Issue 2

Credit constraint and intra-country production reorganization – Evidence from the unorganized textile industry in Maharashtra

Meghna Dutta, Niladri Sekhar Dhar

Evidence suggests that unorganized manufacturing units are extremely credit-starved. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of such credit unavailability for small…

The fiscal policy and the dynamic of the economic cycle

Huthaifa Alqaralleh

This study seeks to determine in some detail whether the state of the economic cycle matters in considering the effects of fiscal policy shocks on output.

Dynamics of capital controls: panel evidence from Asia

Biplab Kumar Guru, Inder Sekhar Yadav

This study empirically examines the effect of capital controls on the volume and composition of capital flows at aggregated as well as at disaggregated level by different asset…

Endogenous growth, human capital and the dynamic costs of recessions

John Roufagalas, Alexei G. Orlov

The purpose of the paper is twofold: to construct and analyze a novel endogenous growth model, in which unbounded growth is possible without the need to assume increasing returns…

International technology transfer: evidence on foreign direct investment in Albania

Mamica Skenderi Konstandina, Geoffrey Gatharia Gachino

The purpose of this paper is to examine the presumed role played by foreign direct investment (FDI) in transferring technology from home country into a host country. This paper…

Investigating the agricultural competitiveness of ASEAN countries

Viet Van Hoang

This study aims to (1) identify the agricultural competitiveness of ASEAN countries in the global markets; (2) analyze the dynamics of these indicators for the period 1997–2015;…

Ex-post effects of circuit breakers in crisis and calm markets: Long horizon evidence from wide-band Malaysian price limits

Imtiaz Sifat, Azhar Mohamad

Despite regulatory claims of straitening volatility and preventing crashes, evidences on circuit breakers' ability to achieve so are nonconclusive. While previous scholars studies…

Trade credits substitution during crisis period: spatial aspects within developing countries

Fitim Deari, Valeriya Lakshina, Kseniya Lapshina

The purpose of this study is to empirically test the hypothesis about substitution of trade and bank credits during the crisis period among 1,570 firms from 16 developing…

Pricing decisions, competition and liquidity constraints: Evidence from the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector

Chrysovalantis Amountzias

This study investigates the pricing decisions of the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector over 2007–2016 using 19 four-digit level NACE Rev.2 classification…

Risk-adjusted efficiency and bank size in a developing economy: an analysis of Vietnamese banks

Minh Le, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Clevo Wilson, Thanh Ngo

There is ample empirical evidence to show that larger banks are more efficient than smaller banks in developed countries. However, there is very little empirical evidence to show…

Examining a multi-dimensional undeclared work via the REBUS-PLS

Claudio Quintano, Paolo Mazzocchi

This article intends to investigate on the undeclared work (UW) by involving several features, which can be evaluated throughout a set of appropriate variables. The REBUS-PLS…