scholarly journals Does a country’s income inequality affect its citizens’ quest for equality in leisure? Evidence from European men’s football

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Nicolas Scelles ◽  
Aurélien François

Does a country’s income inequality affect its citizens’ quest for equality in leisure? To answer this question, the letter investigates the impact of competitive balance on fan demand (stadium attendance) in European men’s football over the 2006-18 period, splitting leagues into groups depending on their country’s income inequality. Competitive balance has a significant negative impact on stadium attendance in countries with lowest income inequality and a significant positive impact in countries with highest income inequality and the whole sample. Findings suggest that, in leisure, European football fans look for the (in)equality their national economy does not offer.

Südosteuropa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-529
Author(s):  
Kujtim Zylfijaj ◽  
Dimitar Nikoloski ◽  
Nadine Tournois

AbstractThe research presented here investigates the impact of the business environment on the formalization of informal firms, using firm-level data for 243 informal firms in Kosovo. The findings indicate that business-environment variables such as limited access to financing, the cost of financing, the unavailability of subsidies, tax rates, and corruption have a significant negative impact on the formalization of informal firms. In addition, firm-level characteristics analysis suggests that the age of the firm also exercises a significant negative impact, whereas sales volume exerts a significant positive impact on the formalization of informal firms. These findings have important policy implications and suggest that the abolition of barriers preventing access to financing, as well as tax reforms and a consistent struggle against corruption may have a positive influence on the formalization of informal firms. On the other hand, firm owners should consider formalization to be a means to help them have greater opportunities for survival and growth.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
Rana-Al-Mosharrafa ◽  
Md. Shahidul Islam

Bank profitability plays a significant role in the growth and development of an emerging economy. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of bank characteristics, industry concentration and macroeconomics variables on commercial bank profitability in Bangladesh from 2007-2017. Bank profitability is proxied by return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and net interest margin (NIM). The study is based on secondary data and Hausman test has been performed using STATA software in favor of fixed effect modeling. Panel regressions shows that cost efficiency has significant negative impact on ROA and NIM. The positive impact of loan to deposit ratio with ROA suggests that efficient fund management including investment and assessed expenditure should be emphasized. Bank size has significant negative impact on all the measures of profitability, which indicates that monopolistic competition will reduce banking profit. Credit risk has significant positive impacts on ROE. Industry concentration measured by CR3 is positively related with ROE and has significant negative relation with bank profitability (ROA). Among macroeconomic variables inflation has significant positive and bank spread has significant negative impact on ROE. The coefficients of all the macroeconomic variables have been found to be significantly related to bank profitability while measured by NIM. Our study recommends further research with other explanatory variables such as, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and deposit insurance to accelerate the model and construct the econometric model by using structural equation modeling, mediation effect modeling etc.


Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kil ◽  
Radosław Ciukaj ◽  
Justyna Chrzanowska

The aim of the research presented in the article was to analyse the legitimacy of the use of scoring models in banking activities, together with the assessment of the effectiveness of this tool in reducing the high value of the NPL ratio in Polish cooperative banks on the example of banks belonging to the BPS S.A. association in the period between 2004 and 2020. We used a variety of research methods for this purpose including a depth review of the literature, analysis of statistical data regarding the sector of Polish cooperative banks, analysis of financial data of cooperative banks, construction of an econometric panel model, and the designing a questionnaire (which was later sent to the management board of selected cooperative banks). Our research confirmed the significant impact of the use of scoring models in lending activities on the value of the NPL ratio in cooperative banks. The analysed cooperative banks, which used the scoring models proposed by BIK in their lending activity, showed significantly lower values of the NPL ratio in each analysed year than banks that used other scoring models. Our study also confirmed the different direction of the impact of the models offered by BIK and individual scoring models on the value of the NPL ratio. We have also shown that the scoring models proposed by BIK have a statistically significant negative impact on the level of the NPL ratio, and the banks’ own scoring models have a statistically significant positive impact on the level of the NPL ratio.


Author(s):  
Kun Ismawati

ABSTRACT  The research aimed to explore financial performance’s model of the Karanganyar Regency Regional Government. This research tested the impact of size, richness, leverage, and capital expenditure on the financial performance of the Karanganyar Regency Regional Government. Research data were 8 (eight) periods of financial statements. Hypotheses analyzed with multiple linear regression. Analysis results showed that size and richness have a significant positive impact on the financial performance of Karanganyar Regency Regional Government; while leverage and capital expenditure have a significant negative impact on the financial performance of the Karanganyar Regional Government. Those results illustrates that greater size and richness will increase the financial performance; on the contrary, the greater leverage and capital expenditure will decrease the financial performance. The model explored is Y = -75.79 + 109.039X1 + 3.754X2 – 0.582X3 – 0.231X4. Keywords                    : size; richness; leverage; capital expenditure; regional government                                      financial performanceCorrespondence to        : [email protected] ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan menggali model kinerja finansial Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Karanganyar. Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh ukuran, kekayaan, leverage, dan belanja modal pada kinerja finansial Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Karanganyar. Data penelitian ini adalah 8 (delapan) periode laporan keuangan. Hipotesis dianalisis dengan regresi linear berganda. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa ukuran dan kekayaan memiliki dampak positif signifikan pada kinerja finansial Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Karanganyar; sedangkan leverage dan belanja modal memiliki dampak negatif signifikan terhadap kinerja finansial pada Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Karanganyar. Hasil-hasil tersebut menggambarkan bahwa makin besar ukuran dan kekayaan akan meningkatkan kinerja finansial; sebaliknya, makin besar leverage dan belanja modal akan menurunkan kinerja finansial. Model yang tergali adalah: Y = -75.79 + 109.039X1 + 3.754X2 – 0.582X3 – 0.231X4. Kata kunci                  : ukuran; kekayaan; leverage; belanja modal; kinerja finansial                                      pemerintah daerah


Author(s):  
Marina N. Khramova ◽  
◽  
Sergey V. Ryazantsev ◽  

The paper provides some results of a study of changes that have occurred in the labor markets of Russian regions during the "first" and "second" waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, it is shown that in 2020 — 2021 there were transformations in the structure of employment of the population of the Russian regions, for example, the number of vacancies in the industries that were most severely affected by the introduction of restrictive measures in the economy decreased, the unemployment rate increased significantly. The negative consequences of the pandemic in one way or another manifested themselves in all Russian regions. However, in a number of regions, which even before the pandemic showed an unstable dynamics of socio-economic development, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had a more significant negative impact. This indicates that during a pandemic, divergence processes have intensified in the national economy. At the same time, during the pandemic, some new forms of employment were developed, associated with the need to switch to a remote mode of work. We believe that these new forms of employment will remain relevant both in Russian and international practice even after the end of the pandemic. The paper also analyzes the main measures of state support for the population, small and medium-sized businesses, and migrants. It is shown that, in general, the measures of state support during the pandemic were timely and made it possible to avoid the collapse of the national economy. It is concluded that support measures should be more regionally differentiated in order to take into account the specifics of the economy of the regions of the Russian Federation.


Jurnal Ecogen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 562
Author(s):  
Aris Agung Wicaksono ◽  
Okki Trinanda

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of service quality in passenger retention in Trans Padang. These researchs were descriptive and quantitative. The study consist of residents in Padang, who frequently use the Trans Padang Pasar Raya – Lubuk Buaya route. The data used were primary and secondary data. We used questionnaires and documents. The sample of this technique was a targeted sample with a total sample size of 100 respondents. This analysis method had been use repeatedly with SPSS version 23 regrression analysis. The hypothesis study uses in this data analysis such as validation, reliability, normality, multicollinearity, heterogeneity, F-test, and T-statistic test at a = 0.05. the result of this study show that 1)Reliability had a significant negative impact on passenger loyality in Trans Padang. 2)Responsibility had a significant positive impact on the loyality of Trans Padang. 3)assurance had a significant positive impact on the loyality of Trans Padang. 4) Empathy had a significant positive impact on the loyality of Trans Padang. 5)Tangible had a significant negative impact on the loyality of Trans Padang passengers.Keywords : reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, tangible and loyalty 


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sa Xu ◽  
Zejun Li

This paper from the perspective of productivity changes examines the impact of innovation activities and foreign direct investment (FDI) on improved green productivity (IGP) in developing countries. We divide the sample into two sub-groups; the BRICS and the other developing countries so as to account for underlying country heterogeneity. The analysis follows a panel data approach over the period 1991 to 2014, and used the global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index to measure IGP. The results indicate that IGP in developing countries has declined. Innovation activities have a positive impact on IGP. FDI has a significant negative impact on IGP. Further study finds that there are threshold effects between FDI and IGP based on innovation activities, when the developing countries with a low-level of innovation, FDI has a negative impact on IGP; when the developing countries innovation activities above the threshold, innovation activities and FDI both can promote IGP.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asad Saleem Malik ◽  
Saher Touqeer ◽  
Shumaila Zeb

This study examines the impact of macroeconomic variables on stock returns of Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka for the period of 1997-2014. GMM approach is used to analyze the impact of macroeconomic variables on stock returns. Variables of the study were T-Bills, Exchange Rate, Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Industrial Production Index (IPI). The results of study show that T-bills rate has significant negative impact while Exchange rate has a significant positive impact on the Stock Returns of the study period.


2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wumi K. Olayiwola ◽  
Johansein Ladislaus Rutaihwa

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of trade liberalization on employment performance of textile industry in Tanzania. The basic issue of concern is that the implementation of trade liberalization has differential impact on employment and wage in many African countries. In addressing this issue as well as achieving the objective, econometric models of employment and wage are estimated using co-integration method of analysis.  The analysis shows that effective rate of protection and export intensity have an insignificant positive impact on demand for labour, but import penetration has a significant negative impact on employment. Also, only import penetration has a significant negative impact on wage. The impact of import penetration is larger than that of export orientation, as the increase in import competition leads to a decline in labour demand. These findings point to the fact that to make trade liberalization to be effectual in Tanzania, the process of trade reform needs to be gradual and also need to be strengthened with appropriate institutional support.


Media Ekonomi ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Aufa Nadya ◽  
Syafri Syafri

<em>This study is analyze the impact of economic growth, education and unemployment on the inequality of income distribution and see which provinces contribute the most to income inequality in Indonesia</em>. <em>This study used Panel regression analysis with the Eviews 8 analysis tool. The data used in this research are Gini ratio, GDRP growth rate, mean of school duration, and open unemployment rate from 33 Provinces within 2007 to 2016 (330 observations).</em> <em>The results show that economic growth has no impact on income inequality, at the same time education has a positive impact and unemployment has a negative impact on income inequality in Indonesia. The results show that Banten is a province with the highest level of income inequality.</em>


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