Global diversification of financial institutions, including the insurance sector, has proven beneficial to many economies by providing them with…

In the last few decades, there has been a global trend of liberalization of the domestic insurance sector. While the United Kingdom and the United…

The New Zealand agri-food system seems to have performed well through the COVID pandemic and various alert levels. There were some hiccoughs – queues…

Preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate that gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to grow by 2.3% in fiscal year 2020 (…

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. Since then, many countries across…

Indonesia and Malaysia are keen to use Chinese investments in industrial parks to foster industrial development in their respective countries. This…

We analyze state-level matching efficiencies in the Indian labor market using stochastic frontier analysis. The key contribution of this research is…

This paper investigates the impact of the effective minimum wage, defined as the log difference between the minimum and the median wages, on wage…

Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies…

This paper characterizes the optimal reciprocal trade policy in the environment of Melitz (2003) with firm productivity heterogeneity. In particular,…

In Georgia, the average cost of a room1 in a 3-star hotel was 124 GEL per night in September 2020, while the average cost of a room in a 4-star hotel…

The COVID-19 pandemic has hindered tourism all over the world. Such a downturn was especially visible in April and May, since which some countries have…