Pandemic bonds can be used as an effective tool to mitigate the economic losses that governments face during pandemics and transfer them to the global capital market. Once considered as an "uninsurable" event, pandemic bonds caught the attention of the world with the issuance of pandemic bonds...

In this article, we study stochastic orders over an interval. Mainly, we focus on orders related to the Laplace transform. The results are then applied to obtain a bound for heavy-tailed distributions and are illustrated by some examples. We also indicate how these ordering relationships can be...

This study offers a novel examination of the mean-reversion properties of the current account balances, expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the Asian-5 economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. While prior studies mainly employed traditional unit-root tests, our...