This paper investigates the impact of firm leverage on its investment activities. Especially, the research is conducted in the context of the Vietnamese emerging market, an incomplete market in South East Asia with the existence of inefficient market problems such as information asymmetry and...

Government expenditures are procyclical in emerging markets and counter-cyclical in developed economies. We show this pattern is driven by differences in social transfers. Transfers are more countercyclical and comprise a larger portion of spending in developed economies compared to emerging. In...

The present research aimed to investigate the long-run and short-run effects of different sources of financial development on FDI inflow for middle-income economies during the period of study, 1980 to 2020. An annual frequency of data was obtained for the required set of variables from WDI and...

Purpose This research investigates the bond between stock market development and agricultural growth in African emerging economies from 1990 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach Agricultural value added to the gross domestic product measures agricultural growth and market capitalization and...