The purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of cash distribution options by critically considering the effects of earnings, dividends, firm size, and economic value added. The distribution of cash dividends to shareholders serves as a basic means by which shareholders receive...

Purpose - In this paper, the author assesses if the effect of structural policies, macroeconomic indicators and demographic factors on employment elasticities over the period 2000-2017 can distinguish the former French colonies from the Anglophone ones. Design/methodology/approach – Using a...

Purpose - In this paper, the author assesses if the effect of structural policies, macroeconomic indicators and demographic factors on employment elasticities over the period 2000-2017 can distinguish the former French colonies from the Anglophone ones. Design/methodology/approach - Using a...

This paper revisits the panel autoregressive model, with a primary emphasis on the unit-root case. We study a class of misspecified Random effects Maximum Likelihood (mRML) estimators when T is either fixed or large, and N tends to infinity. We show that in the unit-root case, for any fixed...

This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies on unemployment in the G7 countries using a dynamic panel estimation approach. The analysis covers the period from 2005 to 2020 and incorporates various control variables related to unemployment rates,...