Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to detect the relationship between finance and growth in the European Union countries, by searching the direction of causations. Design/methodology/approach – The growth of real sector is expressed by real GDP per capita growth (dgdpcap), while the size...

This study proves mathematically that in any bank if the growth rate of sales is higher than the absolute growth rate of bank's lending rate, then bank's profits will not decrease. This mathematical expression can be considered as the condition for keeping a bank profitable. An econometric...

There are various arguments about the impact of firm size on productivity growth. On one hand, it is claimed that large firms could be more efficient in production because they could use more specialized inputs, better coordinate their resources, etc. On the other hand, it is emphasized that...

This paper by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and statistical inference evaluates the citation performance of 229 economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The results are then compared to the 27 “core...