This paper analyses the empirical relationship between inflation and growth using a panel data estimation technique, Multiple Regime Panel Smooth Transition Regression (MR-PSTR), which takes into account the nonlinearities in the data. By using a panel data set for 10 African countries that...

This empirical study uses a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model to investigate the nonlinear relationship between top management team (TMT) heterogeneity and corporate performance based on a sample of 117 publicly traded companies in China from 2000-2012. The results show that there...

The objective of this paper is to describe cross-country similarities and differences in national pride and to explain national pride variations on the individual and country levels. The analysis in this paper is applied to different measures of national pride, with some of them being relatively...

In the energy-growth nexus, due to structural change that cannot be accounted for in the linear model this study considers the possibility of the nonlinear model. Using dataset for fifteen countries in Africa for the period 1980-2010, we found that linear model has misspecification error, thus,...

The aim of the study was to investigate the challenges to regulation compliance by Deposit Taking Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (D.T.S) in Kenya. Further, since the D.T.S are ranked according to size, the study analysed the compliance level in these groupings. The objective was to...

The aim of the study was to investigate the challenges to regulation compliance by Deposit Taking Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (D.T.S) in Kenya. Further, since the D.T.S are ranked according to size, the study analysed the compliance level in these groupings. The objective was to...

We estimate regime switching models where the strength of the response of monetary policy to macroeconomic conditions depends on the level of risk associated with the inflation outlook and risk in financial markets. Using quarterly data for the Greenspan period we find that: i) risk in the...

В статье поставлена гипотеза, что систему внутреннего маркетинга предприятия, которая формируется в плоскости установления взаимосвязей и построения...

The paper focuses on the analysis of real convergence process in the Visegrad Four countries. The aim of the paper is to verify concept of β-convergence at regional level in the case of new Member States of the European Union. The theoretical background of the paper defines the methodological...