The purpose of this study was to determine how political instability influences inbound tourist flows in Ukrainian cities, performance tourism-related businesses, and tourism-based profits general. This allows us present the impact various events on tourism economy Ukraine; however, available secondary data with unobserved component model procedure detection give only a general overview situati...

Abstract In this paper, we revisit and examine the effect of political instability on institutional quality. To end, exploit crackdown government cabinet in 2008 that led to almost two decades pervasive using unique case Slovenia estimate average treatment missing counterfactual scenario for period 1996–2020. Based large-scale Bayesian analysis with Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, extract residu...

A few decades ago, it was said that the debate on nuclear power had “reached an intensity unprecedented in the history of technology controversies” (Kitschelt 1986). However, the controversy over nuclear power has resurfaced today with a similar gravity. Advocates point to nuclear power as a much-needed energy source in an era of rising demand and the need to curb carbon emission levels, and of...

We examine the relationship between different dimensions of the political regime in place and human capital using a two-step structural equation model. In the first step, we employ factor analysis on 16 human capital indicators to construct two new human capital measures (basic and advanced human capital). In the second step, we estimate the impact of our political variables on human capital, u...

The objective of the study is to examine the long-run relationship between political instability, terrorism and tourism in selected SAARC countries over a period of 1995 to 2012. For this purpose, different panel techniques has been used for robust analysis i.e., panel unit root test for stationary process, panel cointegration test for long-run relationship, panel dynamic ordinary least squares...

This paper examines the impact of loan loss provisions of the banks on the performance of the banks operating in Pakistan. Moreover the other factors that affect the banking profitability have been discussed in this study. Our results show that the loan loss provision of the banks is of paramount importance in affecting its profitability. A well-managed bank is perceived to be of lower loan los...

The current instability in Colombia derives from the interaction and resulting synergies of an underground criminal drug economy and the growth of armed challenges to the state’s authority. The first source of instability is reflected in the pervasive influence of drug networks and their infiltration of key societal institutions; the second lies in the growth of guerrilla armies, paramilitaries...

The tumultuous and frustrating escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, particularly since 2000, the continuation of international sanctions against Iraq and its suffering population, the continuing violence in Algeria, and high levels of structural violence committed by authoritarian governments in virtually all states of the region – all these are constant reminders that the ...