In this paper, we consolidate two objectives of the financial inclusion literature: producing meaningful measures of financial knowledge and financial attitudes and providing guidance to policymakers in cost-benefit analysis ...

This article shows that financial openness significantly affects corporate and sovereign credit ratings and that the magnitude of this effect depends on the level of development of the domestic financial market. Issuers ...

For a 21st century person, access to quality education, possession of decent housing, access to adequate health services, the possibility of entrepreneurship and investment, quality of life at different stages in the life ...

Spatial dependency has been studied in several research areas, such as environmental criminology, economic geography, environmental sciences, and urban economics. However, it has essentially been overlooked in other subfields ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the 2009 to 2016 financial performance of the US Hockey Inc. using financial effectiveness indicators and financial efficiency ratios. Design/methodology/approach – With ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the 2009 to 2016 financial performance of the US Hockey Inc. using financial effectiveness indicators and financial efficiency ratios. Design/methodology/approach – With ...

An analysis of the Brazilian economic history of the past 50 years shows that the accumulation of foreign debt and its subsequent crisis in the 1980s, the ensuing fiscal adjustments with supervision by the International ...

We use the Hinich (1996) portmanteau bicorrelation test to graphically represent nonlinear events detected in Latin American stock markets. We identity the starting, the ending, the intensity, and the persistence of nonlinear ...

We investigate whether SMEs with demand for credit increase their trade credit usage after they experience a negative shock to bank credit. We base our analysis on a large sample of SMEs from the five biggest European ...