Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 49 Issue 5

Exploring the motivations of using companies registered in tax havens to invest in UK housing market

Cornelia Agyenim-Boateng

The study is intended to identify the macroeconomic factors that drive the use of companies registered in tax havens to purchase properties in the UK housing market.

Fiscal adjustments, income inequality and economic growth: an empirical analysis of Japanese prefectures

Patricia Kako Ouraga

This paper investigates the joint relationship between economic growth, income inequality and fiscal adjustments using a panel of 47 Japanese prefectures from 1998 to 2017.

Income and healthcare financing system in the United States: an asymmetric analysis

Mehdi Barati, Hadiseh Fariditavana

The purpose of this study is to first assess how the US healthcare financing system is influenced by income variation. Then, it examines whether or not the impact of income…

Assessing the impact of Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey with a novel economic uncertainty index

Erhan Mugaloglu, Ali Yavuz Polat, Hasan Tekin, Edanur Kılıç

This study aims to measure economic uncertainty in Turkey by a novel economic uncertainty index (EUI) employing principal component analysis (PCA). We assess the impact of…

Are firms' expectations on the availability of external finance rational, adaptive or regressive?

Dimitrios Anastasiou, Stelios Giannoulakis

This study investigates which expectation formation mechanism governs Eurozone firms regarding their expectations on external finance availability.

Liquidity management and monetary transmission: empirical analysis for India

Vikas Charmal, Ashima Goyal

A change in monetary operating procedures provides a natural experiment which is used to evaluate, first, whether Indian monetary policy transmission is better when durable…

Government failures and non-performing loans in European countries: a spatial approach

Ferdinando Ofria, Massimo Mucciardi

The purpose is to analyze the spatially varying impacts of corruption and public debt as % of GDP (proxies of government failures) on non-performing loans (NPLs) in European…

The excessive gaming and gambling during COVID-19

Theodoros Daglis

By combining econometrics and multifractal methods, utilizing a financial framework, this paper will examine with objectivity the economic, financial and social impact of…

Economic policy uncertainty and company's human capital

Iuliia Naidenova

The research aims to examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on a company's behaviour concerning its human capital. Additionally, the difference in effect for…

Interest rate forecasts in Latin America

Ibrahim Filiz, Jan René Judek, Marco Lorenz, Markus Spiwoks

This paper aims to assess the quality of interest rate forecasts for the money markets in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela for the period between 2001 and 2019…