The study examines whether the long-run validity of PPP holds in some major advanced and developing economies. The study employed the smooth time-varying cointegration (TVC) and time-varying detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) methodology, and we are not aware of any study that has applied TVC...

This study empirically addresses claims about the effects of strikes on output growth, inflation, and non-agricultural employment in South Africa using a structural analysis of Bayesian VAR models with a Normal inverted Wishart prior for the period 1982-2018. We find empirical support for a...

Extreme events are ubiquitous in nature and social society, including natural disasters, accident disasters, crises in public health (such as Ebola and the COVID-19 pandemic), and social security incidents (wars, conflicts, and social unrest). These extreme events will heavily impact financial...

Klappentext: Sponsoring zählt zu den etablierten Instrumenten der Markenkommunikation. Angesichts der Kostenexplosion in vielen Bereichen ist die Kontrolle der Sponsoringeffektivität eine dringliche Aufgabe. Bisherige Forschungsarbeiten sind allerdings häufig undifferenziert und...