Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine whether an undergraduate business program that rapidly introduced sustainable development into its curriculum, without an overall curriculum revision, was effective in terms of student engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

Ross Levine and David Renelt's (LR) paper [1992] investigate the "robustness" of the relationship between growth, investment, and variables of interest using Leamer's [1985] Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA). LR claim that few economic variables have a robust relationship with either long-run...

This paper considers the observational implications of social influences on adoption decisions for an environment of perfect foresight adopters. We argue that social influences can produce two observable effects: 1) discontinuities in unconditional adoption curves and 2) pattern reversals in...

The paper examined the short- and long-run relationships between short-term external debt and economic growth in Thailand over the period 1970-2003. The ARDL-bounds test procedure to co-integration was used. Results reveal that real STED and real GDP are correlated positively and significantly...

There is much confusion in the economics literature on wage determination and the employment–inflation trade-off. Few model builders pay as much careful attention to the definition and meaning of long-run concepts as did Albert Ando. Expanding on years of painstaking work by Ando, the...

Amid its rapidly increasing usage and immense public interest the subject of Bitcoin has raised profound economic and societal issues. In this paper we undertake economic and econometric modelling of Bitcoin prices. As with many asset classes we show that Bitcoin exhibits speculative bubbles....

The Fama–French pricing model with dynamic factors (DFPM) extracted via the Kalman filter from the six size and book-to-market portfolios has a good performance in understanding stock returns. Using international stock market data, we find that the DFPM significantly improves the...

This study examines the major determinant of cross-border credit flows through global banks across 70 countries. Employing a Bayesian dynamic latent factor model, we decompose volatilities of banking flows into the contribution of a global common factor, regional common factor, and...