Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 51 Issue 2

Are green and socially responsible funds more efficient than conventional funds? A DEA approaches

Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves, Maria do Castelo Gouveia, Adriana Martins, Joaquim Carlos da Costa Pinho

The main goal of this paper is better understand the risk/return trade-off of investing in socially responsible investment funds (SRIF) and green investment funds (GIF).

The real exchange rate and economic growth: a meta-analysis

Masagus M. Ridhwan, Affandi Ismail, Peter Nijkamp

Empirical studies regarding the impact of the real exchange rate (RER) on economic growth are extensively available. However, the literature as a whole appears to report varying…

Current earnings, persistence and schooling returns

Corrado Andini, José Eusébio Santos

The aim is to study the impact of schooling on between-groups wage inequality beyond the lens of the standard approach in the literature.

Analyzing the impact of positive and negative remittance inflow shocks on economic growth of India

Imran Khan

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the impact of remittance inflows on sustained economic growth in India.

Herding behavior before and after COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Vietnam stock market

Yen Vy Bao Nguyen, An Hoang Kim Vo

The priority of this study is to contribute to the literature by examining herding behavior at different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this study aims to…

Shadow economy–financial sustainability nexus: the case of Palestine

Mohammad Kamal Abuamsha, Lana Majdi Hattab

The present research aims at identifying the latent factors that are driving the rise of the shadow economy in Palestine, assesses its magnitude from 1998 to 2021 and investigates…

Shirking and capital accumulation under oligopolistic competition

Haiwen Zhou, Ruhai Zhou

The purpose of the paper is to study how technology choice is affected by capital accumulation when there is unemployment and firms engage in oligopolistic competition.

Business activity and business confidence: a new volatility transmission relationship

Athanasios Tsagkanos, Dimitrios Koumanakos, Michalis Pavlakis

The purpose of this study is to examine the transmission of volatility between business confidence index and stock market indices in Greece. The country remains the riskiest…

Housing price convergence: new evidence from Indian cities

Vaseem Akram, Rohan Mukherjee

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the convergence hypothesis of House Price Index (HPI) in the case of 18 major Indian cities for the period 2014–2019.

Pensions and retirement systems research: a retrospective assessment from 1910 to 2022 using bibliometric analysis

Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu, Regina Mensah Onumah, Amanda Efua Essel-Donkor

This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of research on pensions and retirement systems over the past 100 years. The study examines the intellectual structure and…

Business cycles, stock market wealth, and gambling at the racetracks

Cyrus A. Ramezani, James J. Ahern

As digital technologies expand access to new forms of legalized gambling, including sports betting and online gaming, it is important to assess the impact of macroeconomic and…

The effect of population aging on environmental degradation: new evidence and insights

George Hondroyiannis, Evangelia Papapetrou, Pinelopi Tsalaporta

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries are facing unprecedented challenges related to climate change and population aging. The purpose of the…

On a regime switching illiquid high volatile prediction model for cryptocurrencies

Youssef El-Khatib, Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

The current paper proposes a prediction model for a cryptocurrency that encompasses three properties observed in the markets for cryptocurrencies—namely high volatility…