The study investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment flows and economic growth in Nigeria. The study became necessary because as never before, the civilian governments since 1999 have employed several strategies to ensure increased flow of FDI into Nigeria because of its...

Zusammenfassung Als Hauptursache für die hohe Zahl der Sozialhilfeempfänger in Deutschland wird häufig angenommen, dass sich die Aufnahme einer Erwerbstätigkeit finanziell nicht lohne und viele Menschen deshalb freiwillig in der Sozialhilfe verblieben (sogenannte Armuts- bzw....

Purpose The paper aims to analyse the extent of volatility and generating forecasts of exchange rates of British pound and Indian rupees in US terms. Design/methodology/approach This study applies different combinations of GARCH and EGARCH models suggested in the Econometric literature to...

Summary We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structure where data allows to evaluate the spatial interaction in two dimensions: level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This...

Through the fast development and intensification of the large volume of data via the internet, visual analytics (VA) comes out with the intention of visualizing multidimensional data in different ways, which reveals interesting information about the data, making them clearer and more...

We extend and test two models of asset pricing that feature status-seeking through accumulation of not only financial and real assets but also human capital. We use weak-identification robust tests to confront these models with U.S. aggregate data. Contrary to previous results, we find that the...

Abstract This study investigates the impact of the economic crisis in the late 2000s and early 2010s on European inflation dynamics using a hybrid New-Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) during three distinct periods. The pre-crisis period from 1999 through mid-2007, the crisis period until August...

This paper provides empirical evidence for the widespread belief that a magazine's companion website induces channel competition on its print version. The analysis is based on aggregated quarterly magazine-specific data on circulation, a broad variety of magazine characteristics, consumer...