There is an urgent need to re-investigate the functional relationship between globalisation, unemployment, income inequality and poverty in Pakistan. Unemployment accelerates the level of income inequality and poverty within a given society. In spite of the beautiful slogans associated with it,...

We analyzed whether, in democratic open societies, economic and demographic conditions allow sporting success at the aggregate level to be predicted. Theoretical considerations led to the hypothesis that the population size and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita should be important...

This paper assesses the relevance of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the knowledge economy (KE)-finance nexus using the four variables identified under the World Bank's knowledge economy index (KEI) and seven financial intermediary dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Three...

This paper examines macroeconomic interdependency of the Mediterranean countries and the transmission of shocks. Using a non standard VAR model, we were able to jointly model the direct and indirect transmission mechanisms of economic fragilities and to evaluate contagion effects of shocks by...

This study presumes merger waves as a periodical wave phenomenon and fits a continuous function with five parameters to the annual time series data of US mergers over a 116 year period. The function describes the annual number of mergers as the sum of an exponential trend term with a doubling...

The European Journal of Comparative Economics, an online refereed journal for scientific articles publishing theoretical and empirical research in any field of comparative economic studies, is promiting the issue 2 2004 freely downloadable at the website http://eaces.liuc.it/ New submission for...

We focus on new insights of scale invariance and scaling properties usefully applied in the framework of a statistical approach to study the empirical finance. Two stock returns of Sri Lankan stock market indices All Share Price Index and Milanka Price Index index were considered. Central parts...

The European Journal of Comparative Economics, an online refereed journal for scientific articles publishing theoretical and empirical research in any field of comparative economic studies, is promiting the issue 2 2004 freely downloadable at the website http://eaces.liuc.it/ New submission for...

We focus on new insights of scale invariance and scaling properties usefully applied in the framework of a statistical approach to study the empirical finance. Two stock returns of Sri Lankan stock market indices All Share Price Index and Milanka Price Index index were considered. Central parts...

We analyze two versions of a simple queuing model of resource allocation in which an impatient citizen of a transition economy or a developing country wishes to purchase a scarce good, namely, bread. In the first version of the model, our citizen must pay a bribe to obtain bread immediately from...