This paper is making an attempt to examine the long-run relationship between the key labor market parameters employment, aggregate output, real product wages and laboraugmenting technical progress for a sample of 21 OECD countries covering the period from 1970 to 2000. We apply a new panel error...

This paper discusses the link between financial development and macroeconomic volatility by exploring some of the ways through which financial development may affect business cycle fluctuations. To be specific, we examine whether stock market development exerts an unambiguous effect on...

This paper is aimed at exploring how X-efficiency or management quality is associated with one of the most vivid forms of international banking, that is, entering new markets by setting up foreign subsidiaries. The analysis focuses on the supposition that management quality ought to be one of...