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Tourism and Social Media in the World : An Empirical Investigation
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...
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Tourism and social media in the world : an empirical investigation
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998532
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Homicide and social media : global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
homicide and tailored differently across income levels and regions of the world. …
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Terrorism and social media : global evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Orim, Stella-Maris I.; Nting, Rexon T. - 2019
The study assesses the relationship between terrorism and social media from a cross section of 148 countries with data for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. The main finding is that there is a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010180
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Duration in power and happiness in the world
Avom, Désiré; Ndjokou, Itchoko M. M. Mwa; Tsopmo, … - 2024
This article examines the effect of leader longevity in power on world happiness. To make the assessment, a sample … that longevity in power reduces individual happiness. Furthermore, the negative effect is more amplified in democratic … potential transmission channels through which longevity in power influences well-being. These results invite political …
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Fighting Terrorism : Empirics on Policy Harmonization
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
This paper models the feasibility of common policy initiatives against global terrorism, as well as timelines for their enforcement. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Employed terrorism dynamics are domestic, transnational, unclear and total...
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The Persistence of Global Terrorism
Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study investigates persistence of global terrorism in a panel of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, persistence in terrorism is a decreasing function of income levels...
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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and sustainable development in 122 countries
Omang, Messono O.; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
This study investigates the effects of historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary sustainable development. Previous studies reveal numerous proximate causes of sustainable development, but little is known about the fundamental determinants of this widespread economic concern....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257110
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New Financial Development Indicators : With a Critical Contribution to Inequality Empirics
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 3 (2017) 11, pp. 1-30
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...
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