The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on 31 January 2020, following the Brexit referendum of June 2016. One of the central arguments used by "leave" supporters in the run up to the referendum concerned UK sovereignty in the sense of "taking back control" and restoring...

The economic history of the United States is that of Europeans and their institutions. Indigenous nations are absent. This absence is due partly to lack of data but in large measure to a perception that Indigenous communities have contributed little to US growth. This paper argues that this...

Metal raw materials are essential for industrial production. Global metal markets have changed considerably since the start of the twenty-first century, China being the most influential driver of this change. With China's economic rise, metal demand has skyrocketed, and global production shares...

On February 24-25, 2006 an international workshop on “Regional and International Currency Arrangements” was held in Vienna. It was co-sponsored by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bank of Greece, and jointly organized by Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas. Academic economists and...

This is an empirical study based on a large-scale database of North American and Global organizations. The is the first study that has included more than 70,000 and 1,00,000 observations from North American and global firms to measure the impacts of financial leverage and return on investment...

This is an empirical study based on a large-scale database of North American and Global organizations. The is the first study that has included more than 70,000 and 1,00,000 observations from North American and Global firms respectively to measure the impacts of financial leverage and return on...

Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...