Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the connection between corruption and ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of variance and regression expectation models were used to identify groups of countries for their similarities and...

Remittances are a transfer from mostly developed countries to less developed countries by the workers that have migrated for work. For some countries the magnitude is huge. In the western hemisphere the remittances flow mostly from the USA to Latin countries. Theoretically, the flow of...

This study provides an analysis of imports demand for Iran. It uses time series methods to determine the imports demand. The idea is to capture and account for volatility of real effective exchange rate. The main models are Autoregressive Distributed Lag model and Generalised Autoregressive...

The paper investigates patterns of differences of some key economic and financial variables among U.S. regions. The grouping of the states into regions is in accordance with the Bureau of Economic Analysis classification (New England, Mideast, Great Lakes, Plains, Southeast, Southwest, Rocky...

This note utilizes a cubic polynomial to model the cyclical behaviour of income inequality in the U.S. from 1947 to 2000. Linear and quadratic models have been used to explain the pattern, but they are not capable of detecting more than one extreme point. The simplest model capable of detecting...

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the connection between corruption and ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of variance and regression expectation models were used to identify groups of countries for their similarities and...

The New EU entrants have face obstacles such as adjusting to a market economy, integration into The EU, and a single currency, to name a few. One major obstacle is the fact that the voting members consist of the six Executive Board members, and the 12 chairmen of the central banks of the...

Since mid-1980s, globalisation has been increasingly the centre of discussion. Especially, trade globalisation has taken the centre stage. However, there are no measures for determining globalisation. This paper provides some alternative globalisation indicators. In particular, we use the...

Have nations embraced globalisation and integrated themselves into the international financial and trading system? We seek to untangle the puzzle of emerging economy dynamics and globalisation, thus, we test the integration/globalisation thesis. We engage the globalisation literature by testing...

The influential weekly The Economist recently proclaimed that emerging economies have reached a milestone by producing more than half the world's GDP. The Economists' argument suggests that emerging economies have embraced globalisation and integrated them into the international economic and...