Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...

This paper explores relationships between gender, mobile phone ownership, education, age, urbanity, job type, poverty group and ownership of official identification on determining financial inclusion. Financial inclusion is defined as a person using either their own registered bank account or...

The aim of this article is to examine the threat of systemic risk posed by speculative OTC derivative financing to financial institutions and the efforts made by the regulators to reduce such risk. A critical and comparative analysis of the Anglo-American approach to regulate OTC derivatives is...