EconomiA: Volume 24 Issue 1 , Open Access

Healthcare expenditure, good governance and human development

Banna Banik, Chandan Kumar Roy, Rabiul Hossain

This study aims to investigate the consequence of the quality of governance (QoG) in moderating the effect of healthcare spending on human development.

Economics as a rhetorical language game

Raquel Mesquita Almeida

This paper aims to argue that Economics is not a neutral science.

Yellow corn wholesale price forecasts via the neural network

Xiaojie Xu, Yun Zhang

Forecasts of commodity prices are vital issues to market participants and policy makers. Those of corn are of no exception, considering its strategic importance. In the present…

Investor reaction to ESG news sentiment: evidence from South Africa

Kingstone Nyakurukwa, Yudhvir Seetharam

Utilising a database that distinctly classifies firm-level ESG (environmental, social and governance) news sentiment as positive or negative, the authors examine the information…

From Austrian theory of capital to dissent: Nicholas Kaldor, Friedrich A. Hayek and the way to disequilibrium

Keanu Telles

In the early 1930s, Nicholas Kaldor could be classified as an Austrian economist. The author reconstructs the intertwined paths of Kaldor and Friedrich A. Hayek to disequilibrium…

Workers’ mobility across occupations: Complementary insights from the human capital, migration and social stratification literature.

Ben Hur Francisco Cardoso, Dominik Hartmann

A growing body of literature shows how intragenerational occupational mobility affects economic dynamics and social stratification. In this article the authors aim to carry out a…

Stock market prediction, COVID-19 pandemic and neural networks: an SCG algorithm application

Himanshu Goel, Bhupender Kumar Som

This study aims to predict the Indian stock market (Nifty 50) by employing macroeconomic variables as input variables identified from the literature for two sub periods, i.e. the…