This study attempts to investigate the evolution of dynamic linkages and volatility spillover between the five countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5) stock markets and China's economic activities. By using the movements and structural breaks of the time-varying...

Background The main objective of this study is to assess the performance of the global health system, emphasising the contribution of people's happiness to health system efficiency across countries. Technical efficiency (TE) scores are estimated using the output-oriented variable returns to...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal inflation targets for an appropriate exchange rate policy in 15 major oil exporting countries in Sub-Saharan African (SSA). Design/methodology/approach - Dynamic heterogeneous panel threshold techniques are used via...

This study attempts to investigate the determinants of industrial output in Syria over the period 1980 - 2010. The ADF unit root test, Johansen cointegration test, Granger causality test, impulse response functions, variance decomposition analysis, and stability tests are used in this study. The...