Journal of Financial Economic Policy: Volume 12 Issue 4

Financing housing and house prices in China

Philip Arestis, Maggie Mo Jia

This paper aims to examine the evolution of house prices in China and especially the effects of different financing channels on China’s house prices.

Absence of the weekend effect and industry-style portfolios

Selma Izadi, Abdullah Noman

The existence of the weekend effect has been reported from the 1950s to 1970s in the US stock markets. Recently, Robins and Smith (2016, Critical Finance Review, 5: 417-424) have…

Financial liberalisation, financial development and financial crises in SADC countries

Clement Moyo, Pierre Le Roux

The impact of financial reforms and financial development on an economy has received considerable attention over the recent past. This paper aims to investigate whether financial…

Financial institutions mergers: a strategy choice of wealth maximisation and economic value

Mohamad Hassan, Evangelos Giouvris

This study Investigates Shareholders' value adjustment in response to financial institutions (FIs) merger announcements in the immediate event window and in the extended event…

Exchange rate exposure and firm productivity in India

Sonali Madhusmita Mohapatra

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linkage between exchange rate exposure and firms’ productivity in India. This study also tries to compare the effects of exchange…

How bank regulations impact efficiency and performance?

Mohamad Hassan

This study aims to examine the impact of regulation and other micro- and macro-economic factors on banks’ productivity growth. It investigates the impact of different regulatory…

Impact of Eurozone crisis on domestic bank lending in India

Vighneswara Swamy

The significant economic weight of the Eurozone in the globe caused the contagion of the Eurozone debt crisis on the emerging markets. The Eurozone debt crisis caused the sudden…

Channels of financial sector development and the inequality widening (narrowing) hypothesis – evidence from India

Atul Mehta, Joysankar Bhattacharya

The study aims to understand how various channels of financial sector development affect the income inequality across Indian states and whether the inequality widening or…

Multinational enterprises motivational factors in capitalizing emerging market opportunities and preparedness of India

Suranjan Bhattacheryay

The purpose of the study is to heighten intrinsic advantages, dis-advantages, being enjoyed by emerging country firms and the motivational factors that influence multinational…

Some dynamic macroeconomic perspectives for India’s economic growth: Applications of linear ARDL bounds testing for co-integration and VECM

Matiur Rahman, Anisul Islam

The purpose of this paper is to study impacts of changes in crude oil price, money supply, fiscal deficit and effective exchange rate on India’s economic growth (expressing all…

Alternative futures for Government of Canada debt management

Corey Garriott, Sophie Lefebvre, Guillaume Nolin, Francisco Rivadeneyra, Adrian Walton

This paper aims to present four blue-sky ideas for lowering the cost of the Government of Canada’s debt without increasing the debt’s risk profile.

Financial inclusion in Africa: does it promote entrepreneurship?

Folorunsho M. Ajide

Financial inclusion policy focuses on bringing the less privileged groups into the formal financial system. Financial inclusion has a lot of benefits in the society. It can reduce…

Fiscal autonomy and stabilization: an empirical analysis of US state governments

Sungchan Kim

Even though fiscal autonomy plays a role as one of the prerequisite conditions for fiscal decentralization, there has been little research into why fiscal autonomy is important or…

An Austrian critique of the Prebisch-singer theory of the deterioration in the terms of trade

Alan G. Futerman, Walter E. Block

This study aims to offer a critique of the theory of the deterioration in terms of trade, developed by Raúl Prebisch and Hans Singer.