State Ownership, Socio-political Factors, and Labor Cost Stickiness

Cost Stickiness and Banks Credit Risk

The credit risk in banks is a function of the profitability and quality of bank assets. Moreover, cost stickiness also affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. To achieve the research aims, is to explore relationship between cost stickiness and banks credit risk were tested and analyzed is based on pooling data from 21 banks in duration 2012-2019. The findings show that there i...

Total Cost of Solid State Storage Ownership

Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations∗

We show that differences in the quality of labor relations across countries can help to explain cross-country differences in ownership concentration. Controlling for minority shareholder protection, countries in which labor relations are hostile tend to have more concentrated ownership than countries in which labor relations are cooperative. Union strength, labor regulation, and the political o...

2011Uprising and Tunisian Women’s Socio-political Status

AbstractA street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest after a police officer seized his cart and produce. This embarked a set of social Unrest and demonstrations across Tunisia and the events rapidly exceeded Tunisia to many other Arab Countries. Now, more than six years after the start of uprisings in Arab States, Tunisia is almost the only country that emerged as a dem...

Wage Stickiness and Nonclearing Labor Market in Business Cycles ∗

This paper presents a dynamic optimization model of RBC type augmented by wage stickiness, and nonclearing labor market. Agents are required to adaptively optimize when facing constraints on the markets. Calibration for the U. S. economy shows that the model will produce higher volatility in employment. Moreover, it provides more reasonable cross-correlation of employment and wages with other m...