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Purpose – The paper aims to analyse the drivers of changes in European equity tail risk. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, the paper uses a panel data model with fixed effects based on five explanatory variables including the VIX, the variance risk premium (VRP), the one-year...
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Purpose – This paper aims to establish a relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the context of the developing countries. This study has proposed a new measure of trade openness to the literature, as the available measures are flawed. Design/methodology/approach –...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between participation in further training courses and job satisfaction, focussing in particular on gender differences. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a Probit-adapted OLS...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore whether temporary jobs are a port of entry into permanent employment and to argue that the answer crucially depends on the type of temporary contracts being considered. Design/methodology/approach – The paper bases its empirical evidence on a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the size of government and public debt on real economic growth, for a panel of 175 countries around the world. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes the fixed‐effects and random‐effects techniques to estimate the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how trade openness affects the structural vulnerability of developing countries. The analysis is conducted on both the entire sample of 105 countries as well as two sub-samples, namely least developed countries (LDCs) and non-LDCs....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of structural economic vulnerability of developing countries on their public indebtedness. Design/methodology/approach – The authors perform the analysis by the use of fixed effects technique where the standard errors are corrected...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of public and private health expenditures on selected maternal-child health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes panel data on 40 SSA countries spanning the period 2000-2010. The data...
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Purpose As the world began to witness an unprecedented rate of environmental destruction, economists and international institutions have been toiling away for decades, making every effort to dissect the dynamics of the relationship between the environment and the economy. Many claims have...
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The relationship between the quality of political institutions and the performance of regulation has recently assumed greater prominence in the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure industry reforms. Taking the view that political accountability is a key factor linking political...
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