This article investigates international stock market integration in largest (based on nominal GDP and purchasing power parity GDP) four developed namely USA, EMU, Japan and UK and two Asian emerging namely China and India international stock markets over the period June 1994 to June 2009. To model stock market integration we estimate a dynamic version of international capital asset pricing mode...

We estimated the impact on the US export economy of an illustrative infectious disease outbreak scenario in Southeast Asia that has 3 stages starting in 1 country and, if uncontained, spreads to 9 countries. We used 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic-related World Bank estimates of 3.3% and 16.1% reductions in gross domestic product (GDP). We also used US Department of Commerce job data to ca...

Most advanced nations today are witnessing a peace-time public debt surge that match post World War levels. This raises concerns about fiscal financing and liquidation of the stock of debt specially in the face of changing demographics. United Kingdom being one of the advanced nations with a high level of public debt and an aging population is facing similar issues of fiscal financing. This pap...

AIM To evaluate the association between mortality-to-incidence ratios (MIRs) and health disparities. METHODS In this study, we used the GLOBOCAN 2012 database to obtain the cancer incidence and mortality data for 57 countries, and combined this information with the World Health Organization (WHO) rankings and total expenditures on health/gross domestic product (e/GDP). The associations betwee...

Introduction It has now become commonplace to argue that the objective of development is more than just an increase in GDP. There is growing consensus, for instance, that what we seek is improvements in living standards and, more broadly, democratic, sustainable and equitable development. Other important measures of success in development — besides per capita GDP — are health indicators such as...

Nowadays, one of the characteristic orientations in social science studies focusing on cities is the ranking of cities, as well as the definition of the world’s leading cities (world cities, global cities) on the basis of various criteria. Central European countries are given just a minor role in these researches, particularly in comparison with German cities with their considerable economic pe...

Tourism is the most emerging industry in world. Before pandemic, it was very much growing. It has a great contribution to national GDP as well global GDP. According World Travel and Council (WTTC), 2019 tourism sectors have contributed 10.4% of which equal US$ 9.2 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) whereas 2020 5.5% 4.7 (GDP). In created 334 million jobs were total employment but 2020, 62 lo...

More generally, globalization of trade in goods, services, and assets continues to move forward at an impressive pace, despite some indications of increased resistance to that process and the evident difficulties in completing the Doha Round. The volume of trade relative to world gross domestic product has been rising for decades, largely because of decreasing transportation costs and lowered t...

1. Overview In this brief position statement I will describe my own orientation towards the themes of this working group, and a project recently begun at GMD which I feel is relevant to these themes. As a system developer, the notion of a ‘common information space’ has certain connotations, and I will therefore elaborate on my own perspective of a CIS in the following section. Much of the activ...