This paper identifies a host of key factors that influence the development of the banking sector as well as enhances our understanding of benchmarking modelling as a means of stimulating economic growth. A novel benchmarking method is utilized that assesses the level of banking sector depth in a...

This study examines the effects of anti-corruption and equity incentive risk on financial misreporting in the context of China’s unique corporate ownership structure and governance regime. Using a sample comprising 2,708 cases of financial restatement over the 2007-2017 period. Our key...

This study revisits the existing relationship between income inequality and population health by subjecting it to a battery of empirical testing using different measures of inequality and health outcomes for 33 high-income OECD countries. Apart from the impact of macroeconomic covariates we also...

By adopting wavelet coherence analysis, we follow Frankel’s (1986) commodity price overshooting model to study the dynamic covariation between the expected real interest rates and six agricultural commodities’ real returns over the period from 2000:1 to 2018:7. We find that US unconventional...