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Is crime cointegrated with income and unemployment?: A panel data analysis on selected European countries
Baharom, A.H.; Habibullah, M.S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the causality between income, unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel …. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total crime and various … both income and unemployment have meaningful relationship with both aggregated and disaggregated crime. Crime exhibits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789635
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Defense and Inequality: Evidence from Selected ASIAN Countries
Hirnissa, M.T; Habibullah, M.S.; Baharom, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the causality between military expenditure and income inequality in selected Asian countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, India and South Korea for the period 1970-2005. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260231
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Crime and economic conditions in Malaysia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach
Habibullah, M.S.; Baharom, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Economists recognized that economic conditions have an impact on crime activities. In this study we employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure to analyze the impact of economic conditions on various categories of criminal activities in Malaysia for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836715
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Property crime and macroeconomic variables in Malaysia: Some empirical evidence from a vector error-correction model
Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this study we investigated the long-run relationship between property crime and three macro-financial economic variables in Malaysia for the period 1973 to 2003. In order to avoid what the econometrician term as ‘spurious regression problem’ we estimate the model using the vector-error...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836766
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Crime and Income Inequality: The Case of Malaysia
Baharom, A.H.; Habibullah, M.S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the causality between income inequality and crime in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the impact of income inequality on various categories of criminal activities as well as to (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619997
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Expectations, employment and prices: a suggested interpretation of the new 'farmerian' economics
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims at providing a critical assessment of the new ‘Farmerian’ economics, i.e. the recent Farmer’s attempt to provide a new micro-foundation of the General Theory grounded on modern search and business cycle theories. Specifically, I develop a theoretical model that summarizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021709
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Increasing returns in matching and labour market dynamics: Comments on indeterminacy and search theory
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
the social elasticity of the matching function with respect to unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157018
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A demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations: The new `Farmerian' framework under scrutiny
Gelain, Paolo; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we implement Bayesian econometric techniques to analyze a theoretical framework built along the lines of Farmer's micro-foundation of the General Theory. Specifically, we test the ability of a demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations to match the behaviour of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109526
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On involuntary unemployment: notes on efficiency-wage competition
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper introduces a model of efficiency-wage competition along the lines put forward by Hahn (1987). Specifically, I analyse a two-firm economy in which employers screen their workforce by means of increasing wage offers competing one another for high-quality employees. The main results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109551
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The Cyclical Volatility of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence from Italy
Cardullo, Gabriele; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, we explore the fluctuations of unemployment and vacancies in the Italian labour market over the last … line with previous findings on the unemployment volatility puzzle, we find that the labour market tightness indicator is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111175