We investigate the effects of US federal spending news on the S&P 500 stock price index using a Mixed Frequency Time-Varying Parameters Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive (MF-TVP-FAVAR) model. Unlike previous studies that rely on media coverage of spending changes and use indirect spending...

Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...

Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...

This paper presents one of the first empirical studies that employ the regression kink model with an unknown threshold to estimate the turning point in the relationship between inflation and economic growth. To deal with the asymptotic non‐normality of the regression function, we use a...

The study set out to investigate whether China’s rise complements or competes with Africa’s manufacturing sectors, using a system GMM estimator. The findings reveal that imports of intermediate manufactured goods from China boost manufacturing production in African economies but that total...

We use a Capital Asset Price Model (CAPM) model to derive the formula of user cost for foreign monetary asset whose rates of return are subject to foreign exchange risk premia. Our formula shows that only domestic non-monetary asset can be used as the benchmark asset. In fact, under...