Purpose: This study examines potential causal interactions between a dominant economy and its trading partners, with the view of verifying surmised economic contagion effects traditionally presumed to emanate from dominant economies toward trading partners. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Purpose: This study aims to empirically examine how economic policy uncertainty emanating from three major global economic blocks (the US, the Chinese and the European Union) and volatility in global oil prices influence international trade. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses quarterly...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the extent to which volatility associated with corporate performance could be attributed to specific adverse macroeconomic conditions in a bivariate causality analysis. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses the Toda–Yamamoto...

Purpose This study aims to explore potential paradigm shift in how “global economies” react to adverse macroeconomic conditions from key dominant economies such as the US and the Chinese economies. This is done by examining how economic activities within key economies around the world react...

Purpose This paper aims to augment existing literature by examining how specific macroeconomic conditions (economic policy uncertainty and inflation expectations) influence micro-level (instead of macro-level) behavioral dynamics exhibited by the average consumer. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose This study aims to examine short- and long-run effects of specific macroeconomic conditions on risk premium estimates on lending. Design/methodology/approach Empirical estimates are based on error correction and autoregressive distributed lag models. Findings The results suggest that, in...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the impact of commodity price changes (crude oil, cocoa, coffee, cotton and gold) on the international market on development (development proxied by the human development index) (HDI) among emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)....