General assumption of this study is that the banks performance represents their abilityto generate sustainable profitability and that banks‘ profitability is one important issue ofcontemporary banking field, grace to its role in emphasizing of the financial soundness of banks,abreast to others...

This study developed models that relate trip lengths to the land-use characteristics at the trip ends (both production and attraction ends). Separate models were developed by trip purpose. The results indicate several statistically significant and intuitively reasonable effects of land-use...

In the literature there is a great debate on the growth effects of international financial integration. It is argued that the direction and the magnitude of the effect of financial integration on growth depend on some structural and economic characteristics of the economies. This implies that...

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of inflation on agricultural prices. The empirical model developed in that respect was estimated for a panel of twenty eight developed and eighty three developing countries over the period 1980-2007 using panel smooth transition regression...

This paper contributes new empirical evidence and nuanced analysis on the gender difference in access to extension services and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity. We employ a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression method...

The capital structure of an enterprise represents one of the most debated subjects in theoretical and applied finance. In the current period of deep financial disturbances at macro and microeconomic levels, capital owners select investment with much more attention, by comparing the dividend...

This study revisits the sectoral shifts hypothesis for the US for the period 1948 to 2011. A quantile regression approach is employed in order to investigate the asymmetric nature of the relationship between sectoral employment and unemployment. Significant asymmetries emerge. Lilien’s...