Purpose: Using survey datasets, the purpose of this work explores the impact of economic freedom on the gender pay gap in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis combines Economic Freedom of the World data with the Understanding Society (USoc) Microdata series. Findings: The results...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between corruption and government debt through a regime-based approach. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical analysis makes use of a panel of 120 countries, spanning the period 1999–2015. The study makes use of the Panel Smooth...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of sentiment shocks based on US investor sentiments, bearish and bullish market conditions. Earlier studies, though very few, only consider the effect of investor sentiments on stock returns of emerging frontier Asian (EFA) markets....

Purpose: This paper empirically explores the role of skill losses during unemployment behind firms' behaviour in interviewing long-term unemployed Design/methodology/approach: The analysis makes use of the Work Employment Relations Survey in the UK, while it applies a panel probit modelling...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how the uncertainty associated with fiscal policy, i.e. government expenditure and tax revenues, can affect the interest rates in a group of eleven countries, comprising high- and low-debt countries: Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal,...

Purpose: This paper explores the role of Airbnb listings on hotel revenues in certain popular Greek tourist destinations. Design/methodology/approach: This paper explores the role of Airbnb listings on hotel revenues in certain popular Greek tourist destinations. The analysis makes use of the...

Purpose: The literature that explores the relationship between human capital and economic growth has produced mixed results. It highlights the puzzle on the correlations between human capital and economic growth. This study contributes to this debate by offering an explanation of the puzzling...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore, for the first time, the relationship between the prices of rare earth materials and economic growth. Renewable technologies and many high-demanded technologies need significant supplies of such materials. Design/methodology/approach: The paper...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the direct and exclusive effects of this rather unconventional monetary policy on financial markets, economic activity and labor markets across the Eurozone. Design/methodology/approach: Using a range of variables, the analysis employed the...

Purpose – To investigate whether monetary volatility in the US exerts any asymmetric impact on output volatility over the period 1974-2002. Design/methodology/approach – For the empirical purposes, the analysis makes use of the multi-variable GARCH (MVGARCH), which allows not only the...