This article examines the effect of GDP growth on bank profitability in China over the period 2003-2009. The one-step system GMM estimator is used to test the persistence of profitability in Chinese banking industry. The empirical findings suggest that cost efficiency is positively related to bank profitability, while lower profitability can also be explained by higher taxes paid by banks. In a...

Socioeconomic status is known to affect dietary profile, and differences in food habits and choice may affect polyamine intake due to significant variations in the concentrations of the polyamines spermine, spermidine, and putrescine present in different foods. The relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and dietary profile, with a focus on polyamine intake, was investigated for 49 di...

This article utilizes a GDP framework to make an assessment of economic growth and change in China’s most advanced region, the Lower Yangzi, from the early modern period to the present It offers a quantitative assessment of the Shanghai-based industrialization in the first three decades of the 20 century through a detailed compilation of a 1933 Lower Yangzi GDP. It shows that the Lower Yangzi i...

sing a computable general equilibrium modelling approach, the author finds that the Mozambican economy will be 14% to 20% smaller in 2010 on account of AIDS. Per capita GDP growth will be between 0.3% and 1.0% lower per annum. The main causes of the growth slowdown are reduced productivity growth, reduced population growth and human capital accumulation, and reduced physical accumulation. Mitig...

Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple theory based on the neoclassical growth model that explains these observations. Specifically, we show that...

in this study, we assess the impact of oil price changes on the macroeconomic variables of some oil importers in oecd countries, including usa, italian, france and japan during the period 1960-2002. the results for different countries imply asymmetric impact of oil price changes on gdp growth rates; moreover, the results show that monetary shocks are an important and noticeable factor explainin...

background: previous studies suggest that adenylate kinase locus 1 (ak1) has an important role in the control of blood glucose level and in the glycation of structural and functional proteins in type 2 diabetes and in the balanced development of feto-placental unit in healthy puerperae (hp). in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the relationship of ak1 with maternal and neonatal par...

Estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) play a significant role in evaluating the economic performance of a country or region. Understanding the spatiotemporal process of GDP growth is important for estimating or monitoring the economic state of a region. Various GDP studies have been reported, and several studies have focused on spatiotemporal GDP variations. This study presents a map spectr...

This paper applies a macroeconomic-based model for estimating default probabilities on Dutch data. The …rst part of the paper focuses on the relation between macroeconomic variables and the default behaviour of Dutch …rms. A convincing relationship with GDP growth and oil price, and to a lesser extent, the interest and exchange rate exists. The second part assesses the default behaviour based o...