Increasing urban-rural disparities with regard to housing are receiving considerable attention in the public debate and in regional policy. The article discusses the extent to which microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) can be used to analyse changes in residential location...

This study examined the relationship between the board characteristics and stock performance of commercial banks. Our analysis is based on a sample of 65 banks across 10 MENA countries and their quantitative data extracted between 2013 and 2022. This research employed pooled OLS, and fixed and...

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of FX interventions in Chile since adopting a fully flexible exchange rate regime in the late 1990s. In particular, we ask whether these interventions have dumped excess exchange rate volatility and reduced its probability of being in a high volatility...

The effect of sanctions, oil revenues, exchange rate, and inflation on different regimes of the Iranian stock market is examined in two cases (with and without considering institutional quality) during the 1984-2020 period, using the threshold Structural Vector Autoregression model (TSVAR)...

The objective of this paper was to analyse the relationship between inflation and economic growth in Burundi and to determine whether there is an inflation threshold or not to allow monetary authority to adopt the optimal policies to deal with shocks. With annual data from 1990 to 2020, the ARDL...

Earnings management (EM) and its association with firm performance has been a subject of research interest for decades. This study re-examines the EM-firm performance nexus in a novel way using a nonlinear framework and introducing macro-economic misery index (MI) as a possible threshold...

Education is a key area that should matter to the whole society. Measuring efficiency in education is a widely discussed academic and professional topic. The presented article focuses on investigating the efficiency of 57 elementary schools in the city of Bratislava. We used a two-step approach....

Examining the relationship between sustainability and economic development was covered by research over the past decades. The initial goal of the present research is to evaluate the contribution of renewable energy sector value added to the national economic development in Denmark. The research...

Purpose: According to the New Institutional View, the main reason for the great difference between countries in terms of growth, development and economic welfare is their institutional structures and foundations. Creating a stable structure in human relationships, institutions reduce insecurity,...

This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the Schumpeter's view that finance spurs growth. The result reveals that financial...