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2026, month October, vol 53

Remittances under siege: how democracy and militarization shape economic growth in the world's top recipient nations pp. 334-351

Ayesha Iqbal, Min Bai and Abhishek Mukherjee

Task assignment and restaurant output: a simulation analysis pp. 352-363

Ernesto F. L. Amaral and Raymond Robertson

Digital financial inclusion in Europe: the roles of digital infrastructure, socioeconomic structure and institutional quality pp. 364-379

Adhiraj Sodhi and Aleksandar Stojanovic

2026, month September, vol 53

Clean job creation versus dirty job destruction: labor market dynamics and business cycles pp. 306-333

Francesco Busato, Gianluigi Cisco, Nicoletta D'Alterio and Maria Ferrara

2026, month June, vol 53

Climate risk, sectoral technological progress and corporate profitability in the US: an ADL-MIDAS forecasting approach pp. 132-149

Kazeem Isah and Sin-Yu Ho

2026, month May, vol 53

Political influence and firms’ perception in the framework of transition risk: evidence from a survey of EU enterprises pp. 115-131

Marco Quatrosi

2026, month April, vol 53

Locus of control and volunteering among older individuals in Europe pp. 80-96

Mohammad Almomani and Ilke Onur

Credit, inflation, and the supply side: a theory and global evidence from a new LRAS-leaning barometer pp. 97-114

Shuhrat Yarashov

Dissecting the investor space pp. 1309-1325

Nikhil Jaisinghani

2026, month March, vol 53

Inflation targeting and financial stability: a cross-country comparison of emerging and developed economies pp. 57-79

Nicholas Ngepah, Tsholofelo Kekaye and Charles Shaaba Saba

Fuzzy Adomian decomposition method for solving the Black–Scholes equation pp. 877-891

Sumitra Panda

A new value strategy in the UK stock market pp. 892-911

Le Quy Duong

Sustainable investing and herding behavior: sectoral insights from High-ESG firms pp. 1187-1208

Mondher Bouattour, Amine Ben Amar and Mariem Brahim

2026, month February, vol 53

The unspoken bargain: household decision-making and its link to emotional violence against women in developing countries pp. 38-56

Mohammad Al-Masaeid

2026, month November

Tourism uncertainty and the behaviour of travel and leisure stocks in Europe, the UK and the USA pp. 1-16

Afees Salisu and AbdulHameed AbdulHakeem

Analyst following and environmental performance: evidence of a bidirectional association pp. 1-20

Habiba Al-Shaer, Ali Uyar, Cemil Kuzey and Abdullah S. Karaman

2026, month October

Sustainability reporting readability, stock liquidity and the role of corporate governance: evidence from an emerging market pp. 1-21

Fatemeh Bahramnezhad, Farzaneh Nassirzadeh and Davood Askarany

Beyond linear and quadratic specifications: wage share and economic growth in OECD countries pp. 1-19

Cristóvão Duarte da Silva Leal

Remittances, real exchange rates and Dutch disease: evidence from Albania, 1995–2023 pp. 1-16

Adela Karapici

Does combatant status matter? US banks and fintech firms' equity responses to the Iran–Israel war and Operation Epic Fury pp. 1-14

Atul Kumar and Biswajit Nag

The impact of demographic aging on government debt pp. 1-20

Andrew Mastrone and Khandokar Istiak

Corruption, institutions and economic growth in South America: evidence from multi-dimensional governance indicators pp. 1-20

Dimitrios Asteriou, Pablo Andrés Rocha Vélez and Konstantinos Spanos

Association between women's autonomy and their health outcomes in India: evidence from NFHS-5 pp. 1-17

Mansift Kaur, Puneet Kumar Arora and Virender Kumar

Chasing US financial instability: spillovers between financial conditions and the AI market pp. 1-17

Brahim Gaies

2026, month September

Is digital finance associated with household financial portfolio diversification? Evidence from India's AIDIS 77th round pp. 1-17

Jivan Biradar and Vandana Sehgal

Do climate shocks induce technological change? Firm-level evidence from wildfire exposure and robot adoption pp. 1-17

Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate and Gonzalo Hernández Soto

Trust, remittances, and the shadow economy: institutional and financial heterogeneity in a country-wave panel pp. 1-21

Kamal Kasmaoui

2026, month July

Impacting business confidence: the role of public debt expectation updates in OECD economies pp. 1-20

Helder Ferreira de Mendonça and João Dantas

Digital tax enforcement and reported labour compensation within firms: evidence from China's Golden Tax Phase III reform pp. 1-19

Xu Weichen and Igor A. Mayburov

2025, month December, vol 53

Is digitalization leading to CO 2 emission cutting? pp. 1-18

Robin van Emous and Rytis Krušinskas

Economic policy uncertainty and shifting systematic risk in the Chinese equity market pp. 19-37

Abbas Valadkhani, Hazem Marashdeh and S.M. Miraj Ahmmod

2025, month November, vol 53

Profitability and risk in cryptocurrency markets: testing the Halloween effect and investment strategies pp. 839-860

Evangelos Vasileiou, Christos Floros and Konstantinos Gkillas

Drivers of bank stability in Vietnam's emerging economy: an advanced machine learning, regularization and explainable AI approach pp. 975-994

Thuy Tu Pham

Macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in the presence of the informal sector: a DSGE analysis pp. 1514-1537

Tehseen Iqbal and Sadaf Majeed

Gender differences in job satisfaction across Europe: do men and women experience work differently? pp. 1608-1632

Nunzia Nappo

Innovation in the face of crisis: how substantive innovation helped firms thrive during COVID-19 pp. 1633-1654

Zhe Sun, Xingchen Yan, Juanxi Wang and Dimitrios Asteriou

The asymmetric effect of commodity price returns on economic growth: evidence from net-commodity-exporting countries during inflationary times pp. 1655-1669

Salem Boubakri

2025, month October, vol 53

Borrower’s perception on the profitability of solidarity microcredits from microfinance sector: an experience based on Cameroonian women’s groups microentrepreneurs pp. 1118-1132

Ntieche Adamou and Fabrice Nzepang

Does formal working capital for informal enterprises impact performance? The role of digital adoption pp. 1356-1373

Anil Verma, Khanindra Ch. Das and Pooja Misra

Role of digital technologies in financial inclusion: a bibliometric analysis pp. 1481-1496

Pavneet Singh

The role of monetary policy and financial constraints in domestic energy price increases: a DSGE approach pp. 1538-1556

Seyed Ali Madanizadeh and Mehran Mahmoudi

Impact of interest rate liberalization on the income structure of Chinese commercial banks pp. 1557-1572

Yantsing He

Financial inclusion and the role of patience pp. 1573-1590

Saibal Ghosh

Artificial intelligence, automation and employment dynamics: empirical evidence from G7 economies pp. 1591-1607

Fatih Okur and Enes Özdemir

2025, month September, vol 53

Health, wage rate and the optimal treatment strategy pp. 912-923

Maria Rosaria Alfano, Salvatore Ciucci and Nicola Spagnolo

Genuine savings as a measure of sustainability and its relation to the Dutch disease pp. 1172-1186

Carlton Thomas, Roger Hosein and George Saridakis

The effects of financial inclusion and openness on economic growth: evidence from Asian countries pp. 1209-1222

Sujata Saha

Balancing short-term recovery to long-term sustainability: evaluating the role of stimulative monetary policy in Saudi Arabia pp. 1223-1237

Nadia Yusuf, Haitham Khoj and Chokri Kooli

Investment thresholds and trade competitiveness: a comparative study of public, private, and PPP models of emerging economies in SSA pp. 1238-1258

David Aboagye Danquah and Emmanuel Mensah

The double-edged sword of inflation: analyzing its impact on Turkish firms’ financial performance pp. 1259-1275

Metin İlbasmış

Spillover effects and fractional co-movement dynamics between asset purchase programs of FED and ECB pp. 1276-1291

Stephanos Papadamou and Alexandros Tsioutsios

Branch banking in the USA: a bank level analysis, 2003–2023 pp. 1293-1308

Russ D. Kashian and Robert Drago

Stock market’ reaction of global e-commerce listed firms: an event study for different phases of COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1326-1339

Susana Cró, Pedro Correia, Ricardo Gouveia and António Miguel Martins

The effect of institutional quality on economic efficiency: evidence from European countries pp. 1340-1355

Cristian Barra, Anna Papaccio and Nazzareno Ruggiero

Economic effects of US protectionism: event study evidence from an emerging market pp. 1374-1389

Dharen Kumar Pandey

Market reactions to the US-Houthi conflict: an event study of the US stock market pp. 1390-1409

Rizky Yudaruddin, Dadang Lesmana, Nurhadiansjah Nurhadiansjah, Yanzil Azizil Yudaruddin and William Ginn

Systemic risk and economic sectoral interdependencies in the Tunisian stock market: a Random Matrix Theory approach pp. 1410-1430

Sirine Ben Yaala and Jamel Eddine Henchiri

The role of social-media in shaping financial market dynamics: key insights and effects pp. 1431-1445

Jairo Stefano Dote Pardo

Hope and optimism gaps among sexual and gender minorities of Canada pp. 1446-1464

Maryam Dilmaghani

Interdependencies among gold, green bond, bitcoin and stock market prices: a structural equation modeling approach pp. 1465-1479

Latifa Gueddes, Aymen Ben Rejeb and Jihene Tizaoui

Does artificial intelligence promote financial inclusion? Evidence from developing countries pp. 1497-1513

Vaseem Akram, Anant Srivastav, Bushra Praveen and Gulnawaz Usmani

2025, month August, vol 53

Identification and prioritization of artificial intelligence applications in FinTech pp. 441-458

Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari, Shahrzad Dinarvand, Mohammad Zand, Yujong Hwang and Esther Hwang

The impact of climate change risks on firm entry: empirical evidence from Chinese enterprise registration data pp. 995-1011

Xiaohong Huang, Jinyue Zhao and Xiaoqi Huang

Cyber risk, market fear and financial instability: hunting down risk through contagion analysis pp. 1012-1032

Brahim Gaies, Najeh Chaâbane and Jean-Michel Sahut

Positional and egalitarian concerns over macroeconomic indicators pp. 1033-1044

Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi and Christoph Weber

Unconditional cash transfer and youth well-being: evidence from a Korean policy experiment pp. 1045-1055

Young Seong Yoo and Hongjai Rhee

Institutional quality, institutional distance and international trade: evidence from 33 trading partners of India using PPML, Heckman selection, and GMM methods pp. 1056-1076

Javed Ahmad Bhat, Md. Sarafraz Equbal and Tariq Ahad Nengroo

Assessing the impact of global crises on Ghana’s financial markets: a Bayesian Structural Time Series analysis pp. 1081-1101

Abass Hamadu Kyeni and Adamu Braimah Abille

A study on the effect of digital transformation on the optimization of labor structure in commercial banks pp. 1102-1117

Yingxin Liu, Chaoliang Han and Qunyong Wang

Exports and labor force participation of women in India: empirical evidence using state-level data pp. 1133-1148

Shruti Shastri, Swati Shastri and Nidhi Kumari

The correlations between poverty and deforestation in Brazilian Amazon region pp. 1149-1171

Marcelo Bentes Diniz, Jorge Eduardo Macedo Simões, Vanessa da Paixão Alves and Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz

2025, month July, vol 53

Inflation persistence in BRICS countries based on fractional integration pp. 703-713

Amir Imeri, Carlos Poza and Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana

Boardroom psychology and stock price crash risk: the mitigating role of corporate governance pp. 802-823

Hamed Soleiymani, Farzaneh Nassirzadeh and Davood Askarany

Has economic agglomeration empowered the development of green logistics? --- Mediating effect based on technological innovation and threshold effect based on science and education expenditure pp. 958-974

Yaling Cui

2025, month June, vol 53

The role of knowledge development and flow of knowledge on the performance of foreign subsidiary companies pp. 546-565

Khaled Shukran, Abu N. M. Wahid and Farhana Rahman

Tech-fueled human development: “role of ICT in enhancing human development - a panel analysis” pp. 628-646

Neetu Kumari

Migrant remittances, international capital flows, and economic growth: a short-run Keynesian model applied to the emerging economies pp. 647-660

Ibrahim Shaikh, Dinesh Gajurel, Muhammad Rashid and Basu Sharma

The impact of non-traditional activities on banks’ efficiency in a low interest rates environment pp. 687-702

Ignacio Jiménez Hernández, Yolanda Durán-Durán and Cristina del Campo

Climate vulnerability in Middle East and North African countries: Do social dimensions shape resilience? pp. 714-730

Imen Khanchel and Naima Lassoued

The carbon tax policy effect on energy intensity in Canada pp. 731-748

Saeed Moshiri and Mahzad Pourmand

Role of climate change in altering global agricultural trade dynamics: an empirical analysis pp. 765-788

Zubair Tanveer, Rukhsana Kalim and Noman Arshad

Traveler vulnerability to extreme events: insights from COVID-19 pp. 789-801

Vladislava Stanková, Raffaele Scuderi and Victoria Mogni

Effect of population aging and economic growth: evidence from the largest 15 countries pp. 824-838

Yongqing Wang

Impact of climate policy transition and physical risk on financial stability of US banks: a focus on top environmental-performing institutions pp. 861-876

Konstantinos Michail Kapetanakis, Christos Floros and Emmanuel C. Mamatzakis

Modelling emotional contagious effect between US and BRICS-5 pp. 924-939

Rajat Kumar Soni

Environmental protection tax and green innovation: an “open awareness” perspective pp. 940-957

Yang He and Hong Zhu

2025, month May, vol 53

Shaping the savings curve: the diminishing returns of financial depth in Latin America pp. 510-526

Noha Emara, Hicran Kasa and Kubilay Çağrı Yılmaz

Bribery and corruption in the US: the role of political party affiliation, race, living in the deep south and economic mobility pp. 527-545

Gregory N. Price

The impact of exchange rate volatility on economic growth: a meta-analysis approach pp. 566-588

Amirhosein Sheykhi, Reza Taleblou and Parisa Mohajeri

Assessing the regional impact of EAFRD spending in Italy: the role of spillover through trade linkages pp. 589-602

Francesco Frangiamore, Debora Insolda and Marco Maria Matarrese

Unveiling dynamic connectedness: how macroeconomic variables drive consumer and business confidence pp. 603-627

Onur Polat, Hasan Murat Ertuğrul, Sabri Burak Arzova and Bertaç Şakir Şahin

Digital economy development in a less-developed coastal city: a case study in Shanwei, Guangdong, China pp. 749-764

Di Wang

2025, month April, vol 53

Work from home and labor market outcomes in developing economies pp. 378-400

Nikita Céspedes-Reynaga

Exchange-rate stability as a trade union’s discipline device pp. 401-416

Corrado Andini

Imports and finance: first empirical evidence for Indian manufacturing firms pp. 417-437

Nitika Arneja and Chandan Sharma

Economic effects of the 2024 US presidential election: sector-wise insights from India pp. 459-473

Vineeta Kumari, Waleed M. Al-ahdal and Hafiza Aishah Hashim

Bridging the gender wage gap: the role of education in developing economies pp. 474-492

Nguyet Thi Nguyen, Phung Van Anh, Kumba Digdowiseiso and Nur Afni

Internet usage and the shadow economy: a panel threshold regression pp. 493-509

Salvatore Ciucci

2025, month March, vol 53

Effects of financial misappropriation on regional innovation efficiency: new evidence from China pp. 88-106

Syed Hasanat Shah, Sarath Delpachitra, Yingsi Yang and Natan Colombo

How are regulatory efficiency and financial development interlinked? pp. 243-255

Júlio Bastos, Claudio Oliveira De Moraes and Micheli Gargalhone

A note on the link between NPLs and stock-flow adjustments in 69 countries pp. 283-296

Christos Chrysanthakopoulos and Athanasios O. Tagkalakis

How does investor attention with different levels of informational advantage affect market returns? pp. 297-317

Paulo Fernando Marschner and Paulo Sergio Ceretta

Paraguay’s suspension from Mercosur: How does uncertainty affect economic activity? pp. 318-331

Jéssica Pinheiro and Philipp Ehrl

Socially responsible investing and the day-of-the-week effect pp. 332-346

Rattaphon Wuthisatian and Namporn Thanetsunthorn

The determinants of financial economy: inhibiting and encouraging factors pp. 347-358

Savvas Zachariadis

Double-engine growth hypothesis: evidence from India pp. 359-377

Debasis Rooj and Artatrana Ratha

2025, month February, vol 53

Do public sector banks achieve technical efficiency through mergers and acquisition in India? Insights from DEA, Malmquist and SFA pp. 67-87

Jasmine Maani, A. Dunstan Rajkumar and Nirakar Barik

Gender differences in the returns to education and STEM degree in Mexico pp. 107-122

Sofiia Dolgikh and Bogdan Potanin

The impact of economic factors on environmental degradation: price instability, monetary growth and renewable energy investments pp. 123-134

Aslı Aydın

A study on the overall trade structure and drivers of intra-industry trade in the pharmaceutical sector of India pp. 135-156

Adrija Ganguly and Sunandan Ghosh

Unveiling the inflation-income inequality paradox: contrasts across advanced and developing economies pp. 157-170

Nguyen Van Bon

Market dynamics and critical responses of leading European banks to ECB’s expansionary policies pp. 171-194

Nikolaos Petrakis, Christos Lemonakis, Christos Floros and Constantin Zopounidis

Navigating financial interconnectivity: analyzing oil, exchange rates and US market influences on Asia-Pacific equities using the time-varying parameter vector autoregressive connectedness approach pp. 195-213

S. M. N. N. Sarathkumara, S. M. R. K. Samarakoon and Rudra P. Pradhan

G10 cross-country connectedness over US growth pp. 217-242

Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Davi Albuquerque Vieira, Cristiano da Silva and Igor Lucena

Investor reactions to sustainability index dynamics: asymmetries from the Asian market perspectives pp. 256-272

Divyam Jain, Ashish Kumar and Kiran Jindal

Enhancing property value prediction: a regression model with fine-grid geographic segmentation pp. 273-282

Hongjai Rhee

The nonlinear relationship between managerial ability and bank liquidity creation in the MENA region: Does institutional quality matter? pp. 665-686

Sedki Zaiane

2025, month January, vol 53

The impact of digitalization on economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-15

Tilahun Molla Emiru and Temesgen Wajebo

Bank stability in the Eurozone: a comprehensive analysis of key determinants (2006–2021) pp. 16-30

Artan Hajdini and Arber Hoti

E-payments in the post-COVID-19: navigating uncertainty and forecasting trends pp. 31-46

Mohamad Ahmadian

Economic winners and losers of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from New Zealand pp. 47-66

Rashid Ameer

2025, month November, vol 52

Paying to tie the knot: Does education make marriage more expensive? Evidence from Jordan pp. 253-273

Mohammad Al-Masaeid and Mohammad Almomani

Digital banking in crisis times: evidence from Swedish banks during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 274-288

Kave Edin

The impact of education on instrumental activities of daily living: evidence from Europe using SHARE data pp. 289-303

Mohammad Almomani and Mohammad Al-Masaeid

2025, month October, vol 52

The role of income of workers on the environment: Does gender matter? pp. 234-252

Arman Yousefi Barfurushi

2025, month September, vol 52

Innovating trade: How high-tech exports, ICT services and R&D expenditure shape global trade patterns with advanced machine learning insights pp. 193-214

Cosimo Magazzino, Lucio Laureti, Alberto Costantiello, Angelo Leogrande and Tulia Gattone

2025, month August, vol 52

Cost-effectiveness and efficacy analysis of biosimilar drugs for lung diseases: a systematic review pp. 174-192

Chiara Alfia Ferrara and Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara

The impact of WTI futures on Shanghai crude futures: identifying spillover effects on crude oil prices using the multiplicative error model pp. 215-233

Antonio Fabio Forgione, Carlo Migliardo, Edoardo Otranto and Luca Scaffidi Domianello

2025, month July, vol 52

Stock market price dynamics in Africa: evidence from 14 countries pp. 146-160

Luis Gil-Alana, Robert Mudida and Caroline Wanjiru Kariuki

2025, month June, vol 52

The role of governance in remittances-access to electricity nexus in sub-Saharan Africa? A rural-urban comparative analysis pp. 69-88

Pius Gamette, Nicholas Odhiambo and Simplice Asongu

RETRACTED: The impact of regulatory quality on the digital economy: new insights from Italian regions pp. 89-110

Luigi Aldieri, Cristian Barra and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Assessing the impact of fiscal consolidation uncertainty on South Africa’s foreign debt pp. 111-145

Eugene Msizi Buthelezi

Does an education experience abroad promote short or long-term international labour mobility? pp. 161-173

Giorgio Di Pietro

2025, month May, vol 52

Wage differentials by fields of study among college graduates in Turkey: a decomposition analysis pp. 48-68

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

2025, month April, vol 52

A research note on the Brexit referendum and regional unemployment in the UK: a synthetic control method approach pp. 36-47

Elissaios Papyrakis, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Luca Tasciotti

2025, month March, vol 52

Barriers to innovation and patenting. Evidence from European family and non-family firms pp. 18-35

Francesco Aiello, Lucia Errico, Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo

2025, month February, vol 52

Ex-post credit risk and the cyclicality of banks’ self-discipline: empirical evidence from US banks pp. 824-839

Athanasios Tsagkanos and Konstantinos Andriakopoulos

2025, month January, vol 52

Impact of state ownership on labour cost stickiness across strategic and non-strategic industries in developing economies pp. 1371-1386

Mohammed Arkan Sahib Tileal, Farzaneh Nassirzadeh and Davood Askarany

Her presence matters – female owners and firm innovation in India pp. 1415-1431

Shreya Biswas

Two different eurozones: disentangling the labyrinth of the European economic dynamics pp. 1471-1486

Celia Gil-Bermejo, Antonio Golpe, Antonio Jesús Sánchez Fuentes and José Carlos Vides González

How law amendments impact women’s economic status and contribute to economic growth pp. 1540-1556

Dewei Zheng

Economic policies, labour unions and voter turnout in the advanced industrial democracies pp. 1557-1571

Shawky Nasser