The paper aims to analyze the quality of financial information, by assessing the timeliness of earnings, using information specific to non-financial companies listed on the regulated section of Bucharest Stock Exchange. The study also seeks to assess the symmetry of actions for the timely...

This study analyzes five of the well-known and most cited distress prediction models in the literature. The models are implemented to continuous publicly listed industrial firms in Turkey through their original and re-estimated coefficients in a comparative way to examine their generalizability...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region, and whether diminishing returns occur in the aid-growth nexus, for the period 2000-2015, employing the Generalized Method of...

Anecdotal evidence shows that monetary expansion (excess liquidity) induces inflation in the West African Monetary Zone (Zone). Uncertainty about the nature of inflation persistence often undermines regional convergence due to the asymmetric responses from the monetary authorities. It is against...

The traditional trade literature has largely centered on the removal of artificial and non-artificial barriers to trade. The focus, has, however, in recent times, shifted to the role of logistics on trade flows, necessitating this study. Employing the Hausman-Taylor and system-GMM estimation...

This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in which the instruments for peers' performance are the...

Do input-output linkages of intermediate products affect the spread of sectoral shocks at the aggregate level in Lithuania, a small and open economy? What role does openness play in the empirical exercise? We answer these questions by: (i) constructing the Lithuanian input-output transactions...

The experience of past financial market turmoil suggests that in addition to eroding investor wealth, the severe consequences of rare extreme market events can spillover and impair the broader real economies. In this context, this paper is an evaluation of the methodological and empirical...

In this article, we examine the dynamic currency linkages for BRIS (Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa) and 15 other emerging market economies (EMEs) using weekly data from 2001 to 2018. Using the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation (ADCC)-EGRARCH framework, we find that the average...

This paper develops a dynamic portfolio selection model incorporating economic uncertainty for business cycles. It is assumed that the financial market at each point in time is defined by a hidden Markov model, which is characterized by the overall equity market returns and volatility. The risk...