This paper investigates the impact of long-run government expenditure and economic growth in different states in South Africa. Economic growth has been below the policy target of 5% stipulated in the National Development Plan Vision 2030, while government expenditure growth has been volatile but...

This study examines the ways in which firms recover from stagnation or sales decline, with a focus on two key aspects: traditional high‑growth companies and growth restarts within the framework of organizational life cycle theory. Analyzing a dataset of 1883 Russian firms from 2013 to 2021,...

The study extends the literature on the nexus between cryptocurrency and uncertainty. This study proxied the cryptocurrencies and global uncertainty, respectively, with the seven most significant and variationally susceptible cryptos and the comprehensive world uncertainty in measuring the...

This study explores the impact of revenue diversification and intellectual capital on the performance of sub-Saharan African banks. The study applied a panel regression technique to a data set containing information on 80 banks from 21 countries from 2000 to 2020. Secondary data was collected...

Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries are under pressure to commit themselves to sustainable environmental activities. This study employed data from 2007 to 2021 using quantile regression to determine the heterogenous effects of industrialisation on environmental degradation in SACU...

This article analyzes the impact of capital structure and bank liquidity on the performance of commercial banks in Vietnam, a transition market in Asia. This research is unique because it is the first study to employ the Bayesian Estimation methods in banking studies. The data includes 463...

The politically motivated replacement in local governments is a pervasive fact in our modern democracies. Whether it has causal effects on the quality of public services, such as education, is a critical question and yet understudied. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) for...

This paper investigates the impact of the money supply in different states of inflation and economic growth in South Africa from 1990 to 2021. The term "states" defines periods of low and high rates of economic variables of interest. Markov-switching dynamic regression (MSDRM) and time-varying...