Interest increased after the last global financial crisis in 2007, as the crisis revealed the challenges facing central banks in dealing with the financial crises arising from the banking sector, and thus exposing the financial positions of the banking sector to high risks that caused the...

This study examines the international alliance activities of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We find that country-level political and economic factors (e.g., autocracy, foreign ownership restrictions, foreign currency reserve, and industry composition) are the main determinants of SOEs’...

A low frequency factor model regression uses returns computed at a lower frequency than data available. An example is using monthly rather than daily returns to estimate the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I show that when using overlapping observations to estimate low frequency factor model...

While applications of big data analytics have brought many new opportunities to economic research, with datasets containing tens of millions of observations, making usual econometric inferences based on extreme estimators would require huge computing powers and memories that are often not...

This paper deals with LASSO regression in high-dimensional sparse linear models with time series data. We propose heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) and heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation robust (HAR) estimates for the penalty loadings and evaluate the in-sample fitting...

This study proposes a novel expectile regression complete subset averaging (ECSA) method to forecast the downside risk for asset returns. Given a high-dimensional set of covariates, we combine the forecasts from a complete subset of expectile regression models that use a fixed number of...

In this paper, we investigate the antecedents of inertia in capital allocation decisions in organizations. Despite the importance of flexible capital reallocation, empirical evidence points to remarkably high levels of stability in these decisions. Adopting a behavioral perspective, we focus on...

The purpose of this paper is to build a framework for the assessment of the fundamental value of house prices in the largest Ukrainian cities, as well as to identify the thresholds, the breach of which would signal a bubble. House price bubbles are detected using two approaches: ratios and...

In recent years, road construction projects in Egypt have experienced significant cost overruns. This has coincided with a remarkable increase in the volume and capacity of road construction in Egypt over the last two decades. Consequently, there is an urgent need for a systematic analysis of...

Family planning is one of the mitigation factors adopted by the Kenyan Government in achieving its strategic development goals through reducing maternal and child mortality, preventing unwanted pregnancies, preventing STDs, promoting education, and women's economic empowerment. Despite the many...