This paper studies the labour market transitions of female workers from 1993 to 2004, a period of unprecedented … Consumers to investigate the determinants of labour market transitions for female workers. While a number of the customary … support the commonly made claim that globalisation has been responsible for the changing nature of the Japanese employment …

This paper assesses whether the market valuation of gold mining firms contain a premium for the option to close. Tests … of whether observed market values incorporate operating flexibility is central to our understanding of the processes that … drive market values and has implications for the relevance and suitability of known theoretical pricing frameworks. This …

Pakistan for the period January 1999 to September 2006, we link ‘a’ political event to the financial market volatility. We use … high frequency data from three indicators (currency, stock and money market) of the financial market for empirical … estimation. We employ a Markov Switching process to identify the low and high volatility regimes in Pakistan’s financial market …

Recent trends of globalization and financial market internationalization have exposed the vulnerability of many … Asian countries. We also split the sample into three periods (pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis) to verify if market … linkages changed before and after the crisis. The empirical evidence in this paper suggest that currency market linkages …

host market incumbency reduces efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, resulting in over use of inputs. Factors …

interest in the standard set in the foreign market but do not figure in that country’s welfare calculations and may not have …

of global financial market upheaval where financial constraints are universally tighter. …

This study attempts to investigate the financial market contagion in a global perspective. We use a large sample of 26 … daily observations on three financial market indicators namely, the exchange rates, stock prices and interest rates. We … construct a VAR to test the interlinkages among different market and different regions using the Granger causalfiy. Later, we …

With globalisation financial development has spawned across the world creating a two-tiered funds market, developed and … markets as well as suggested factors that may be associated with either status of the market. The statistics from such an … distinguish a capital market to be termed a developed or an emerging market. The financial economics literature has a vast body of …