Using GMM framework on the data of the US commercial banks spanning over 2002 to 2018, this study shows that banks adjust their regulatory capital ratios faster than traditional capital ratios. Our results show that the speed of adjustment of regulatory capital ratios and traditional capital...

Left-wing and right-wing populist voters differ the most on the issues of immigration, the importance of traditions, religiosity, and the need to dismantle the welfare state. Populist voters from left and right share concerns about economic insecurity, a lack of empathy by politicians, and a...

Ursula Münch, Politische Akademie Tutzing, erklärt, dass Populisten und Extremisten für den eigenen Erfolg die Skepsis der Wählerschaft gegenüber dem parlamentarischen System und das Misstrauen gegenüber den seriösen Parteien für ihren eigenen Erfolg benötigen. Um dem Glaubwürdigkeits-...

Populist parties recently have shaken Western democracies, yet there is no consensus regarding the characteristics of populist voters. By using large-scale surveys from four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the U.K.), we investigate individual determinants of populist voting. Our...

In this paper, we apply the Markowitz portfolio optimization technique based on mean-variance and semi-variance as measures of risk on stocks listed on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, Fiji. We document key market characteristics and consider monthly returns data from SEP-2019 to FEB-2022 (T =...