We use survey data on Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises collected during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore the relationship between the adoption of work from home (WFH) practices and organizational performance. In so doing, we investigate …

This study investigates the effects of procurement tools to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in public contracts by analysing contract awards for public works published on Tenders Electronic Daily in 2018–2022. Focusing on …

Since the financial crisis, financial networks, such as interbank lending networks, have been highly concerned by regulators in terms of their vulnerability. To study the risk contagion power of financial networks deeply, this paper integrates …

This article revisits the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate misalignments. We aim to test whether undervaluation's impact on growth depends on institutional quality, as suggested in the previous literature. In our analysis, we …

The objective of the paper is to understand the role of workers’ bargaining for the labor share in transition economies. We rely on a share-capital schedule, whereby workers’ bargaining power is represented as a move off the schedule. Quantitative …

This paper proposes a panel Granger causality approach for heterogeneous panels with cross-sectional dependence. We define a panel VAR model with unobserved common factors and apply the PANIC procedure to obtain the de-factored data. We then …

Based on a strongly data-intensive machine learning approach, this study first identifies the most essential globally traded commodities in view of their role for the global macroeconomic performance. At the second stage we estimate a global …

Residential electricity consumption and time spent at home by household members increased while household income decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Using survey data of Japanese households purchasing electricity from the Tokyo …

We propose spatial difference-in-differences (DID) models that are able to incorporate treatment effect spillovers through modeling spatial interactions in the response and spatial correlations in treatment status among individuals. We first …

In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between the novel macroeconomic attention indices (MAI) and commodity market volatility. In-sample analysis indicates that MAI contribute significantly to the volatility fluctuations in …

Lease accounting has often been criticized for being too reliant on bright lines and subjective judgments, as lessees were not required to disclose assets and liabilities arising from operating leases directly on the balance sheet, thereby …

The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often treated as a gold standard when compared to self-reported data. We use factor mixture models to analyse measurement error in …

This study investigates the existence of a calorie gap (CG) within gender, caste, and religion groups utilising an entitlement framework. We employed National Sample Survey data on consumer expenditure spanning from 2004–05 to 2011–12 and applied …

This paper examines whether Euro Area countries would have faced a more favorable inflation output variability tradeoff without the Euro. We provide evidence supporting this claim for the periods of the Great Recession and the Sovereign Debt …

Using insights from the literature on psychology and medicine, we examine the impact of stress induced by terrorism on child sex at birth. The psychological and social stressors associated with terrorist events prior to conception may trigger …

We examine the effect of auditing on dividends in small private firms. We hypothesize that auditing can constrain dividends by way of promoting accounting conservatism. We use register data on private Norwegian firms and random variation induced …

Using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model, we demonstrate that the response of consumer prices in oil-producing Canadian provinces to oil market shocks is similar to that of consumer prices in non-oil-producing provinces, though the …

We examine an extension of the latent class stochastic frontier model (LCSFM) to productivity estimation and the decomposition of productivity change into technical change, output-oriented technical efficiency change, and scale change. We base our …

This paper presents alternative unemployment statistics for China, encompassing the extended unemployment rate (U5), which incorporates marginally attached workers, and the nonemployment index (NEI) proposed in recent literature (Hornstein et al.

In this paper, we study the asymmetric effects of different types of capital-embodied technological change, as proxied by tangible and intangible assets, on relative wages (high- to medium-skilled, high- to low-skilled and medium- to low-skilled …