Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between capital regulation and risk-taking behavior (financial stability) concerning the impacts of the recent global (COVID-19) crisis and diverse ownership structure. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis uses an unbalanced panel...

This paper aims at exploring the finance–growth–energy nexus for Pakistan over the 1972–2012 period. By employing the system GMM estimation technique, the study tries to capture the impact of financial development over energy consumption through economic growth channel and includes energy...

What determines public health care expenditures at the national level is an important policy question. Since the pioneering work of Newhouse (J Hum Resour 12(1):115–125, <CitationRef CitationID="CR47">1977</CitationRef>) on the relationship between health expenditures and national income, this area of economic inquiry has received much...</citationref>

Purpose: This research explores the role of economic growth to influence the inter-relationship between capital, liquidity and profitability of commercial banks in selected asian emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach: ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of leverage, regulatory capital and tier-I capital ratios on the ex ante and ex post risk of Japanese banks. Design/methodology/approach: To test the hypotheses,...

This paper empirically examined the causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in two densely populated countries in South Asia, India and Pakistan. The causality analysis was estimated at aggregated and disaggregated level where the focus of the analysis was on the...