...Son Tran; Đat Nguyen; Linh Tran Purpose This study examines the relationship between the business cycle and bank performance, measured by profitability, income efficiency and cost efficiency, in emerging and developing markets. It also investigates the moderating role of institutional quality...

...Ather Azim Khan; Muhammad Ramzan; Shafaqat Mehmood; Wing-Keung Wong Purpose This paper assesses the environment of legitimacy by determining the role of institutional quality and policy uncertainty on the performance of five major South Asian stock markets (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka...

...Surbhi Gupta; Surendra S. Yadav; P.K. Jain Purpose This study attempts to assess the role that institutional quality (IQ) plays in influencing inflows and outflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for BRICS nations as burgeoning FDI is flowing into and out of these countries. Moreover...

...Sorphasith Xaisongkham; Xia Liu Purpose The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of institutional quality and sectoral employment on environmental degradation in developing countries. This paper also re-examined the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis...

... and institutional quality on the human development in the MENA region, in order to examine if/why the MENA countries fail to efficiently exploit all the available financial inflows to promote human development and boost living standards. Design/methodology/approach This study tests the short- and long-run...

...Haman Mahamat Addi; Attahir Babaji Abubakar Purpose This paper analyzes the effect of institutional quality and economic freedom on investment and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach Focusing on a panel of 27 countries, the study employed the panel fixed...

...Dinkneh Gebre Borojo; Jiang Yushi; Miao Miao Purpose This study is aimed to examine the effects of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. It further aimed to investigate the moderating role of institutional quality on the impacts of EPU on CO₂...

..., capital requirements and three institutional quality variables as explanatory variables, in addition to a set of micro- and macro-economic variables. Findings The study finds that the implementation of higher capitalisation ratios does participate in a significant decline in bank credit supply...