Abstract: This paper examines the impact of unexpected public expenditure shocks on income inequality within a sample of middle-income countries. Also, this study investigates how different percentiles are affected by the spending shocks. The...Read More >

Abstract: This study investigates the link between the 1918 Influenza and economic growth in the UK. The pandemic caused about 160,000 deaths in in England and Wales. The study applies an...Read More >

Abstract: The last twelve years have been characterised by a myriad of banking reforms in response to the 2007 to 2009 global financial crisis which propagated rapidly across the world....Read More >

Abstract In this paper, I document the centrality of reproductive rights, and in particular of the abortion right, in women's empowerment process. Limiting access to abortion implies higher rate of...Read More >

Abstract This paper studies clustering behaviours of price and volatility jumps using high-frequency data, modelled using a Marked Hawkes Process embedded in a bivariate jump-diffusion model. Under de-periodisation, we find...Read More >

Abstract Especially among those who lived the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, it is likely that few regulators will instinctively be careless about the above pre-crisis level achieved by the...Read More >

Abstract This study examines the effect of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU) on job searches and labour demand in the United States. We first develop search-based job search indices and find...Read More >