There is a common belief that currency depreciation worsens the trade balance in the short run and improves it in the long run resulting in the so called J-curve phenomenon. Early studies employed aggregate data and provided mixed results. Recent studies, however, have employed disaggregated...

Begging has always been a major way out for the helpless poor and the disabled. However, not all beggars are poor or motivated into begging by poverty or disability and not all the poor are beggars. This, therefore, necessitates he need to re-examine the concept of begging and related issues...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the connected dynamics of the affected Asian financial markets and global financial market in relation to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We particularly examine the temporal dependence and connectedness of the affected markets with...

The hazard of excessive reliance on using student evaluations of teaching effectiveness, namely, teaching evaluations, has been found to be a contributing factor towards grade inflation. As performance evaluation of faculty members are largely dependent on these teaching evaluations, there is a...

Testing purchasing power parity (PPP) using black market exchange rate data has gained popularity in recent times. It is claimed that black market exchange rate data more often support the PPP than the official exchange rate data. In this study, to assess both the long run stability of exchange...

Testing purchasing power parity (PPP) in the black market has increased in recent years due to the apparent puzzle in the literature by which PPP is largely rejected in flexible exchange rate regimes. Many studies of PPP suffer from the problem of imposing symmetry and proportionality...

Recently the impact of institutional factors on macro variables has been gaining momentum. Researchers have investigated the impact of corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy on economic growth, inflation, investment, productivity, and the real exchange rate. In this article, we investigate...

Till date, few studies have attempted to study the impact of political risk on the purchasing power disparity, The studies conducted thus far have been restricted in terms of the political risk components used, countries examined and time span. We add to the existing literature by being the...

This paper uses Our World data for COVID-19 death count, test data, stringency, and transmission count and prepares a path model for COVID-19 deaths. We augment the model with age structure-related variables and comorbidity via non-communicable diseases for 117 countries of the world for...