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Volume 17, issue 6, 2025

Governance and Sustainable Development in WAEMU pp. 1

Augustin Kinda

Real Wage Rigidity and the Empirical Pertinence of the Hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Tunisia pp. 14

Mariem Mejri and Moez Labidi

Volume 17, issue 5, 2025

Do Credit and Employment Exhibit Long-Run Convergence? Empirical Evidence from the State of Santa Catarina pp. 1

Thiago Rocha Fabris and Sílvio Parodi Oliveira Camilo

The Nexus Between Fiscal Deficit and Inflation in Mozambique: ARDL Model Approach pp. 13

Khalilahmad Mussa Bahadur

Navigating Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Investment Over Four Decades pp. 26

Manal M. Alghamdi and Fatimah M. Alshamry

Crypto Currency – Analysis of Bitcoin Performance pp. 43

Munir Hassan

Reassessing the Role of Institutional Quality in Explaining Capital Inflows from 2000 to 2020 pp. 50

Fatimah Alshamry

The Impact of Financial Literacy on Household Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: Evidence from China pp. 65

Ling Zhou, JunHeng Li and Wei Li

Volume 17, issue 4, 2025

Estimation of the Market Competitiveness of Kelp by Municipality in Hokkaido pp. 1

Kunie Mori and Mototsugu Fukushige

Determinants of Interest Rate Spread: Empirical Evidence from Uganda’s Banking Sector pp. 18

Demas Kutosi Lukoye, Amos Sanday, Victoria Kakooza and Clet Wandui Masiga

Economic and Geopolitical Shocks and Their Influence on the Saudi Stock Market, Saudi Aramco, and Bitcoin: Evidence from ARDL and VAR Models pp. 31

Monia Ferchichi, Mariem Talbi, Fatma Ismaalia and Samia Samil

Does Business Model Risk Affect Corporate Labor Policy? pp. 63

Lobna Bouslimi

Recovering Anchor Currencies and Decomposing Exchange Rate Behaviour into Component Regimes pp. 81

Emmanuel Erem

Cryptocurrencies and Economic Community of West African States Stock Markets: An Analysis by the DCC-GARCH Model pp. 111

Kouakou Thiédjé Gaudens-Omer

Volume 17, issue 3, 2025

Is High-Tech Trade a Threat to Employment in Brazil? pp. 1

Rhemanuérick Silva Queirós, Elano Ferreira Arruda and Felipe de Sousa Bastos

The Economics of ‘Spontaneous’ Plan Coordinated Growth under the Decentralised Money and Banking Alternative pp. 17

Robert Wutscher

Determinants of Price Dynamics in African Countries pp. 40

Thomas Niyonzima Gahamanyi and Gérard Tchouassi

Exploring the Roots of Small and Medium Enterprise Financing Issues in Myanmar pp. 58

Ei Ei Thein, Atsushi Niigata and Kazuo Inaba

Conditions, Possibilities, and Limitations for Macroeconomic Degrowth Policies in Peripheral Countries: An Introduction pp. 71

Linnit Pessoa and Vinicius Martinez

The Influence of Job Alienation on Financial Performance, the Mediating Effect of Governance: A Study on the Lebanese Banking Sector pp. 82

Hussein Salloukh, Joumana Younis, Hasan Al-Mousawi and Nader Abou Zeid

The Impact of Governance on Economic Growth in Middle East and North Africa: An Econometric Analysis Using Panel Data pp. 95

Hamid Nounou and Mohamed Karim

Influence of Risk Management Practices on the Financial Performance of Investment Firms Trading at the NSE pp. 106

Norris Kibe Muhia, Agnes Ogada and Jane Muriithi

Brief Survey on Selected Authors on the Impact of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on USA Economy During Covid Pandemic pp. 114

Munir Hassan and Ali Alkazemi

Impact Mechanism in Circular Public Procurement: Empirical Insights from Traditional Public Procurement and Public Private Partnership in China pp. 122

Feng Guo

Volume 17, issue 2, 2025

Assessing the Creditworthiness of Lebanese Banks Using Bayesian Networks pp. 1

Georges Chlela and Hasan Mousawi

Analysis of the Influence Mechanism of Digital Transformation on the New Quality Productivity of Enterprises --The Mediating Role of Financing Constraints and ESG Ratings pp. 15

Yichun Zhang and Xinyi Zhang

Minimum Wage and Effects on Unemployment: The Case of Spain and Its Implications on Simpson’s Paradox and Geographical Mobility pp. 26

Jorge Monray and Juan Morillo

Expectation Shocks: Structural VAR Insights and the Case of Brazil pp. 45

Thiago Drummond de Mendonca Giudici

Bank Specific, Banking Sector, Macroeconomic and Democratic Determinants of Bank Efficiency in CEMAC and WAEMU Countries pp. 55

Mvono Essono Bertrand and Zomo Yebe Gabriel

Development of MENA SMEs: Constraints and Success Factors pp. 74

Ali H. Mohammad

Persistence and Pervasiveness of Tax Evasion: An Evolutionary Analytical Framework pp. 87

Jaylson Silveira, Gilberto Lima and Leonardo Barros Torres

Money as Information: Economical and Philosophical Implications for the Quantity Theory of Money pp. 99

André Rehbein-Sathler

Volume 17, issue 1, 2025

Exchange Rate and Gross Domestic Saving Is There a Relation? Empirical Evidence from Egypt pp. 1

Emad Omar Elhendawy

The Impacts of TV News, Interest Rate, and Exchange Rate on Depositors: The Effects of Russia-Ukraine Conflict in Belarus pp. 10

Kiryl V. Rudy and Eugenia E. Sharilova

Beyond Profit: Ethical Imperatives and the Role of Duty of Care in Sustainable Investment Strategies pp. 22

Emmanuel K Nartey

The Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics and Improvement Paths of China’s Green Finance Level——Empirical Study on Panel Data Based on Dynamic QCA and NCA Methods pp. 48

Xin Tong, Ke Li and Xuesen Li

Determinants of Corporate Tax Evasion in Latin America pp. 66

Luis Rene Caceres

Constructing a Multidimensional Index for Financial Well-Being pp. 84

Jared Martin U. Desello

Theoretical Approaches to the Quality of Public Expenditure: Public Choice, Transparency and Management by Results pp. 98

Jeremias Pereira da Silva Arraes, Antonio Marcio Lopes Bezerra, Yara Carvalho Barros, Lucas Teles De Alcantara, Guilherme Luis Da Costa and Fábio Lúcio Lopes de Mendonça

What Made People Take to the Streets? A Study on the Determinants of Protests in Brazil Based on Google Trends Data pp. 105

Maria Luiza Dias Campos, Márcio da Silva Alves and Andrea Felippe Cabello

An Action Research on the Introduction and Legitimization of Toilet Cleaning Activities in One Japanese Company pp. 117

Shin Ohmori

Volume 16, issue 12, 2024

A Study of the Impact of Financial Resource Mismatches on the Digital Transformation of Enterprises pp. 1

Jinfeng Wang and Luhan Sun

The Impact of Inflation and a Real Interest Rate Gap on the Capital Market and Economic Development - Evidence from Two Behavioral Experiments pp. 15

Christian A. Conrad

Consideration of the Existence of the Value Effect in Japan in Recent Years pp. 26

Brooke Alexandra Maeda

Impact of Socioeconomic and Macroeconomic Conditions on the Financial Literacy of Students Assessed by Pisa pp. 31

Bruno Carvalho Mariatti, Rafhael Marquetti Corrêa da Silva, Flávio Leonel de Carvalho, Daiane Aparecida Pereira Flor de Souza and Naja Brandão Santana

Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulation on Carbon Emissions: Firm-Level Evidence from China's Manufacturing Industry pp. 44

Keminhui Liu

Neutral Real Interest Rate, Monetary Policy and Business Cycle: Using the Kalman Filter and a Counterfactual Structural Approach for a Large Emerging Market pp. 62

Ricardo Ramalhete Moreira

The Moderation Role of Corruption in the Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 73

Gideon Nyamweya Mokaya, Winnie Iminza Nyamute, Kennedy Okiro and Laura Nelima Barasa

Productivity Puzzle of the Mexican Economy, 1994-2023 pp. 79

Benjamin Garcia Paez

Do Non-Traditional Loans Help Beginning and Female Farmers? pp. 94

Denis Nadolnyak and Valentina Hartarska

Evaluating the Effect of Climate Risk on Financial Fragility in Arab Countries pp. 104

Myvel Nabil

Volume 16, issue 11, 2024

Analysis of the Transmission of Oil Price Volatility to ECOWAS Stock Markets: An MSGARCH and GARCH BEKK Approach pp. 1

Prao Yao Séraphin and Mounoufie Koffi Valery

Impact of Bank Deposits and Loans on Increasing Profit After Tax: A Comparative Study for Some Iraq Commercial Banks pp. 16

Waad Hadi Abd

Analyzing U.S. GDP-Debt-Inflation Linkages in the Time-Frequency Domain pp. 27

Paulo Matos, Cristiano da Silva and Antonio Costa

Evaluating the Significance of the Total Value Locked to Market Capitalization Ratio pp. 41

Konstantinos Pantelidis and Ioannis Karakostas

Global Analysis of the Relationship between Environmental Performance, Economic Development, and the Innovation Index Through the Kuznets Environmental Curve pp. 49

Roberta Hoffmann Machado, Everton Anger Cavalheiro, Erico Kunde Correa, Leonardo Betemps Kontz and Jander Luis Fernandes Monks

Does More Corruption Lead to Higher Prices? An Empirical Analysis pp. 66

Marcus Vinicius Santos and Gabrielito Menezes

Relative Efficiency of Monetary Policy Across Countries pp. 79

Rafael Pacheco and Jose Angelo Divino

Domestic and Global Monetary Policy Interactions with the Kuwaiti Stock Market: An Econometric Investigation pp. 97

Ibraheem Alaskar and Musaed S. AlAli

Green Economy and Sustainable Economic Growth: An Econometric Study Using the Panel Data Model during the Period (1998-2022) pp. 106

Shahad Al-ghamdi, Haga El-imam and Vivian Nasrulddin

Volume 16, issue 10, 2024

Global Value Chains, Trade and Structural Transformation in Developing Countries pp. 1

Matthew J. Kromtit

Does Education Influence Housing Choices in Areas with Basic Sanitation? pp. 15

Paulo Loureiro, Mario J. C. Mendonça, Michel Constantino, Tito B. S. Moreira, Joaquim Ramalho de Albuquerque and George H. M. Cunha

The Influence of Non-State Shareholders Board Power on State-Owned Enterprises Internationalization Degree pp. 32

Ning Wang, Puxin Zhang, Yangyuxuan Xie and Huizhong Su

Unraveling Media Dynamics: Investigating Societal Perspectives via Eike Batista’s Case in Brazil pp. 47

Gabriela de Abreu Passos and Mayla Cristina Costa Maroni Saraiva

Analysis of Horizontal Inequality in Brazilian Higher Education pp. 60

Thiago Drummond de Mendonça Giudici and Valéria Lúcia Pero

The Impact of Educational Level on the Unemployment Rate in Saudi Arabia: A Time Series Quantitative Analysis from 2016 to 2023 pp. 74

Mashael D. Matrafi and Rozina Shaheen

The Effect of Political Risk on Financial Stability in MENA Region pp. 82

Myvel Nabil

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investments on the Performance of Egyptian Stock Market Sectors Using Machine Learning Techniques pp. 92

Myvel Nabil

Volume 16, issue 9, 2024

Bank Executive Experience in a Financial Crisis pp. 1

Christopher Hoag

Are Presidential Elections Relevant for Local Public Spending? Evidence from Mexico pp. 14

Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez and Benito Alán Ponce Rodríguez

Life Insurance and Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from The MENA Region pp. 23

Mouna Zerriaa

Behavioral Finance: An Application of Prospect Theory to Brazilian Investors pp. 31

Paulo Christian Morais Rodopoulos and Aldery Silveira Junior

Do Bubbles Have Real Effects? Balance Sheet Analysis and Review of Literature pp. 41

Joseph Emmanuel Fantcho and Patrick Konin N'gouan

The Debacle of Archegos and Confirmation Bias pp. 55

Kenneth S. Choie

Volume 16, issue 8, 2024

Identifying the Temporal Dynamics and Macroeconomic Interactions of the US Economy pp. 1

Omar Barroso Khodr, Mathias Schneid Tessmann, Humberto Nunes Alencar and Alex Cerqueira Pinto

Integrating Economic Development, Innovation, and Environmental Performance for Sustainable Futures: Insights from a Global Study pp. 16

Roberta Hoffmann Machado, Everton Anger Cavalheiro, Érico Kunde Corrêa and Leonardo Betemps Kontz

The Impact of Islamic Microcredit on Economic Development of Women in Somalia pp. 31

Mohamud Dahir Hilif, Dayah Abdi Kulmie and Burhan Mohamed Osman

Demand-Side Determinants of Billing Efficiency in India: A Panel GMM Approach pp. 40

Upendra Nath Behera, Asit Ranjan Mohanty and Swastik Routray

Patent Prospecting: Maping of Patent Applications Filings for the Fertilizer Product as Green Technology Over the Last Decade pp. 50

Rosângela Aparecida da Silva Franchi and Eduardo Gomes Salgado

The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Exports: The Case of Canada’s Exports to United States pp. 65

Emmanuel Erem

Financial Development, Governance and Economic Growth: A Causal Analysis pp. 84

James K. Cordor and Genesis B. Kollie

Human Capital, Remittances, and Corruption in Mexico and Central America pp. 101

Luis Rene Caceres

Volume 16, issue 7, 2024

Islamic Financial Institutions and Stability: An Empirical Analysis pp. 1

Ahmed Sameer El Khatib and José Roberto Ferreira Savoia

Export Intensity and Total Factor Productivity in Kenya’s Manufacturing Sector pp. 13

Dorothy Kimolo, Jennifer Njaramba and Laban Chesang

Number of Bank Agencies and Bank Credit Supply in Waemu Zone: A Spatial Econometric Approach pp. 26

Prao Yao Séraphin

Investments as Business Cycle Trigger - Testing Hicks-Model hypotheses with Demand and Interest Rate Changes: Evidence from Two Behavioral Experiments pp. 51

Christian A. Conrad

The Home Bias: Evolution, Determinants, and Financial Crises pp. 60

Rifa Atrous and Ezzeddine Abaoub

Reconciling Socioemotional Wealth with Financial Wealth in Family Firm IPOs pp. 73

Oscar Domenichelli and Camilla Mazzoli

The Impact of Sustainable Investing on Financial Performance pp. 86

Hanan Amin Barakat, Nadine Hossam, Nour Tarek, Sara Mohamed and Jana Emad

Volume 16, issue 6, 2024

China’s Greenfield Investment and African Countries’ Green Growth Under the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 1

Zhaoke Zhang

Nonlinear Dynamic Impact of Electricity Consumption on Economic Growth in Odisha: A Disaggregated Causality Analysis pp. 13

Upendra Nath Behera and Asit Ranjan Mohanty

Research on Asset Inheritance of High Net Worth Family Trust in Recent Years pp. 24

Ya Yujia

Inequality and the Equalization Fund in Brazil: Redefining Strategies pp. 31

Ricardo da Costa Nunes, André Nunes, Celso Vila Nova de Souza Junior and Alexandre Nascimento de Almeida

Prospects of Post-Conflict Foreign Direct Investments in Ukraine Through the Lens of Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm pp. 43

Vivian Nasrulddin

Dynamic of Brazilian Foreign Trade by Technological Intensity pp. 62

Pedro Augusto Machado Neto, Elano Ferreira Arruda and Antônio Clécio de Brito

The Impact of the Active School Search Campaign on Preschool Enrollment Rates in Brazilian Municipalities pp. 78

Luciane Beiro de Souza Machado, Leonardo Secchi and Marcos Vinicio Wink Junior

Improvement in Inflation Forecasting: Ensembling Text Mining with Macro Data in Machine Learning Models pp. 92

Pijush Kanti Das and Prabir Kumar Das

Corruption in Mexico and Central America pp. 102

Luis Rene Caceres

Volume 16, issue 5, 2024

Analysing the Effectiveness of Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Mozambique: A VAR Model Approach pp. 1

Khalilahmad Mussa Bahadur

A Note on the Nonlinearities of Brazilian Monetary Policy pp. 20

Fernando Marques Mansilla, Elano Ferreira Arruda and Roberto Ferreira

Research on the Development of Inclusive Finance in Hong Kong: A Fintech Perspective pp. 28

Chen Xiangshan

How Corporate Liquidity Reacts to COVID-19 Outbreak? Evidence from Listed Corporations in Saudi Arabia pp. 40

Faisal Alnori

On the Economic Sustainable Development Approaches and Prospects of Cultural Heritage—†Cultural Heritage Mogao Grottoes for Economic Development of Dunhuang through Cultural Tourism Cooperation†as an Example pp. 48

Wenjing Yang and Yuqi Sun

Assessing the Viability of the East African Community as a Monetary Union pp. 54

Aberra Senbeta and Subhadra Ganguli

Indirect Effect of Terrorism on Economic Growth pp. 70

Tarek Chenini, Arafet Hamida and Tahar Lassoued

Volume 16, issue 4, 2024

Top Management Team Cognitive Heterogeneity and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance pp. 1

Dan Liu, Zhe Zhou, Qiuju Zhao and Dongsheng Li

Resilience Amidst Turbulence: Unraveling COVID-19’s Impact on Financial Stability through Price Dynamics and Investor Behavior in GCC Markets pp. 22

Mariem Talbi, Monia Ferchichi, Fatma Ismaalia and Samia Samil

Volatility of Precious Metals: The Case of Platinum and Palladium pp. 45

Ioannis Karakostas, Ioannis Papanastasiou, Simeon Papadopoulos and Dimitrios Giantsios

The Impact of Initiating Dividend Payments on Shareholders’ Wealth: Evidence from Egypt pp. 58

Hanan Amin Barakat

Negative Equity Firms Prior to 2008 Great Recession pp. 71

Daniel T. Lawson

Examining the Impact of Baumol’s Cost Disease in Brazilian Municipal Education: A Decade Analysis (2009-2019) pp. 78

Ricardo da Costa Nunes and André Nunes

Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment in Togo: Is There a Relationship? pp. 91

Felix Fofana N′Zué and Durand Koffi Gilbert Adjassou

Significance of Synergetic Strategy of Factors, Infrastructure Development, and Trade in Regional Integration—A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region pp. 103

Chuanjie Li, Yuhan Liu and Hao Chen

Volume 16, issue 3, 2024

Framework Proposal for the Analysis of Tax Illusion, Its Antecedents, and Consequents pp. 1

Jandeson Dantas da Silva, Wênyka Preston Leite Batista da Costa, Clóvis Antônio Kronbauer, Luiz Antônio Felix Júnior, Ernani Ott and Diego López Herrera

Influence of Islamic Financial Corporations on Economic Activity: A Case Study of Orphans Fund Development Corporation in Jordan During the Period (2014-2021) pp. 15

Ateyah Mohammad Ateyah Alawneh

A BVAR Note on the J-Curve and the Marshall-Lerner Condition for Brazil pp. 31

Francisco J. S. Rocha, Marcos R. V. Magalhães and à tila Amaral Brilhante

Optimal Capital Account Openness in China pp. 42

Wenyun Zhou

The Transmission Mechanism of the European Central Bank Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Global Assessment pp. 50

Emmanuel Erem

Constructing a Financial Risk Early Warning Model for Chinese Public Hospitals Based on Machine Learning pp. 64

Xi Zhao and Bing Lu

Economic Crisis in Mexico and Central America pp. 73

Luis Rene Caceres

Volume 16, issue 2, 2024

Moving Beyond Silo Thinking: A Deductive Analysis of Financial Literacy, Financial Inclusion, FinTech, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1

Johannes Treu

Flexible R&D Promotion Instruments as a Way to Develop the Space Industry in Brazil pp. 25

D. P. Szimanski, M. C. S. Melo, A. F. Cabello and L. H. M. Freitas

Forecasting of the Waste Generation in Jordan: Alternative Econometric Approaches pp. 35

Omar Jraid Alhanaqtah

Assessment of the Relationship among Climate Change, Green Finance and Financial Stability: Evidence from Emerging and Developed Markets pp. 51

Myvel Nabil

Investment Incentives and Effective Corporate Tax Rate for Manufacturing Firms in Kenya pp. 68

Silas Muyela Nganyi, Jeremiah Koori and Farida Abdul

Does Budget Deficit Crowd Out Private Investment? Cote d’Ivoire As A Focus pp. 86

Yaya Keho

An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of FDI on Domestic Investments in East, Central and Southern Africa Region pp. 99

Esperance Nyinawumuntu and Patrick Muinde

Research on the Problems and Countermeasures in the Economic Integration of the Yangtze River Delta pp. 121

Leifan Pan

Volume 16, issue 1, 2024

Exploring Fallacies and Environmental Responsibilities in the Socio-Environmental Reports of the Brazilian Company Vale S.A.: A Case Study on the Dam Disasters in Mariana and Brumadinho pp. 1

Lavoisiene R. Lima, Fátima S. Freire and Nilton O. Silva

Micro and Macro Determinants of Non-Performing Loan (NPL) in Banking Sector of Bangladesh pp. 15

Mobasshir Anjum

The Role of the Management Control System in Supporting ESG-Focused Transformation in Financial Intermediaries: A Case Study of an Italian Bank pp. 22

Valeria Vannoni, Federica Palazzi, Annalisa Sentuti and Francesca Sgrò

Corruption in Brazil: Perceptions, Causes and Consequences pp. 33

Paulo Loureiro, Mario Jorge Mendonça and Tito Belchior S. Moreira

On the Interest Rate Derivatives Pricing with Discrete Probability Distribution and Calibration with Genetic Algorithm pp. 42

Allan Jonathan da Silva and Leonardo Fagundes de Mello

Public Policies and State and Market Failures Social Economy in the Context of Partnership with Civil Society Organizations pp. 57

José Antonio De França, Sérgio Ricardo Miranda Nazaré, Eduardo Tadeu Vieira, Clesia Camilo Pereira and Paulo César Melo Mendes

New Institutionalism: Public Agents’ Choices Based on Individual Interests pp. 68

Jeremias Pereira da Silva Arraes and José Matias- Pereira

Bank Credit Channel of Monetary Policy in the UEMOA Zone: A TVP-VAR Approach pp. 73

Prao Yao Séraphin and Anzara Xavier Fabrice Méa