This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the possible sources of job creation and destruction. The aim is to explore the dynamics of job creation, destruction and net job creation rates in Egypt and Turkey, including various firm characteristics, besides the firm size...

Business and investment climate indicators are relations between the public and private sectors. They may take the form of formal, regular, and informal interactions and their scope can include the economy as a whole or they may target specific types of firms in specific sectors or certain...

Resource reallocation from low to high productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains with further potential benefits to economic growth. This study examines the productivity and resource misallocation in a sample of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...

This study examines the determinants of profitability using the US Compustat database during the period 1976-2009. The study uses panel data analysis as Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) dynamic panel models and Quantile regressions. Besides the conventional drivers of profitability a...

A broad consensus among the academic, and other national and international institutions is that poverty cannot be measured and simply defined by the lack of monetary resources, but it is a combination of a range of non-monetary factors. These factors may act as constraints on individuals'...

Poverty has been ongoing for many years and still continues to exist in almost all countries around the globe. The objective of alleviating poverty in many nations therefore, remains a significant issue. To comprehend the risks posed by the issue of poverty, its dimension and the process by...

This paper examines the factors that are contribute at the most explained and efficient way to health expenditures in Greece. Two methods are applied. Multiple regressions and vector error correction models are estimated, as also unit root tests applied to define in which order variables are...

This paper examines the estimation and forecasting performance of ARIMA models in comparison with some of the most popular and common models of neural networks. Specifically we provide the estimation results of AR-GRNN (Generalized regression neural networks) and the AR-RBF (Radial basis...

The aim of this paper is to test for and model for non-linearities in the spot exchange rate Greece-U.S.A.. To exploit for non-linear dependencies we apply the Smoothing Transition Autoregressive (STAR) models family and we examine if there is actually a non-linear behavior or not on the...

We examine two stocks of Athens Exchange Stock Market, that of 'Coca-Cola' and 'Compucon'. We analyze the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) model and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and we compare the performance between them. Then we develop a neural network model in Synapse Software with...