Asymmetry in the business cycle has been recognised as a nonlinear phenomenon by a number of recent studies which have examined unemployment rate series in North America, Europe and Australia. While many of these studies hypothesise that linear modelling techniques are inadequate for modelling...

Corporate community engagement remains an under researched area in sustainability debates. Presenting a case study, based on in-depth interviews and site visits, of how one indigenous company Energia Ltd has formed a strong partnership or bond with the Emu-Ebendo community in the oil rich Niger...

Electricity market price forecast is a changeling yet very important task for electricity market managers and participants. Due to the complexity and uncertainties in the power grid, electricity prices are highly volatile and normally carry with spikes. which may be (ens or even hundreds of...

This paper examines the major driving forces behind the conversion of arable land to non-agricultural uses in china during the reform years (1978-1995). Both graphic techniques, based on a Geographic Information System (GIS), and an econometric modeling approach are employed. It is found that...

This paper investigates exchange rate correlations between the euro (ECU) and other currencies against the US dollar across the EMS and EMU periods to compare the European Central Bank's ability with that of the Bundesbank to achieve internal stability of the euro (ECU). Our results show that...

Will China find its way out of the current predicament without resorting to expenditure-switching policies, and how? This paper attempts to approach the question from three perspectives: First, it discusses economic conditions that exist in China which are favourable to maintaining current...

This paper performs multiple-break unit root tests on the data of China's national and sectoral output and labour productivity, with finite-sample critical values bootstrapped through Monte Carlo simulations. We find strong evidence against the unit-root hypothesis in favour of the...

The rapidly developing online food delivery business is a novel “ecosystem” involving digital platforms, restaurants, delivery-workers, and customers. Continuous expansion of its market size is accompanied by problems of economic fairness such as “wage distribution” and “revenue...

This study investigates whether and how financial technologies (FinTech) influence the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission. We use an interacted panel vector autoregression model to explore how the effects of monetary policy shocks change with regional-level FinTech adoption. Results...