Purpose - The study's objective is to examine the relevance of globalization in affecting the size of the shadow economy in selected African nations. Design/methodology/approach - To do this, the authors employ the KOF globalization index and implement both static and dynamic common correlated...

This paper investigates the threshold effect of environmental degradation on the FDI-poverty nexus in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1986-2018. The study used panel threshold regression for the empirical analysis. The evidence from threshold regression using different measures of poverty and...

We examined the effect of institutional quality and firm-specific factors on corporate investment in Nigeria using fifty-four (54) quoted non-financial firms within the period of 2002-2012. We applied dynamic panel estimator proposed by Arellano-Bond (1991). The results showed that regulatory...

The study examines the impact of the insurance market on economic complexity in 28 OECD nations within a period of 1995-2020. The study also examines whether the impact of life insurance on economic complexity would be different from that of the non-life insurance sector within the insurance...

This paper examines the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on total factor productivity in African economies. The analysis is based on panel corrected standard errors, IV-estimation technique and the novel Method of Moment (MM)-panel quantile regression. The results reveal that...