A reform in the German state of Hesse selectively shifted the responsibility for overseeing and enforcing a balanced budget rule at the municipal level. Oversight was transferred from politically affiliated county administrators to non-political and potentially more impartial fiscal supervisors...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between language background and labour market outcomes in the bilingual labour market of the Spanish region of Catalonia. The empirical analysis draws on repeated cross-sectional data that allow us to construct a quantitative measure of linguistic...

This paper extends the gravity model to financial markets by examining how distance and bilateral linkages influence stock market correlations between the United States and selected emerging economies. To this end, the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator is used to account for...

This study analyzed the determinants of air cargo volumes between airports using an augmented gravity model. Data from 115 airport pairs in China spanning 2009-2020 were utilized. The findings reveal that economic disparity significantly influences air cargo volumes, with greater economic...

The modern working environment stimulates building collaboration and psychological-oriented management for fruitful knowledge sharing practices, which calls for organization leaders to influence their followers' behaviour to consistently share their knowledge and skills. The purpose of this...

The effects of geographic factors on information dissemination among investors have been extensively studied; however, the relationship between the geographical distance and stock price synchronization remains unclear. Grounded in information asymmetry theory, this study investigates the impact of...