The paper studies the statistical correlation between the return on assets and some measures of financial balance. The research relies on the assumptions that the financial balance influences most of the indicators of performances of a company. Therefore, we chose the return on assets as dependent variable, as it represents the final result of the company’s business. As independent variables, m...

Sustainability for a society means long-term viability, but also the ability to cope with economic crises and disasters. Just as with natural disasters, we can minimize the chance of them occurring and set in place policies to protect the world’s citizens against their consequences. This paper is concerned with the impact of economic crises on the inequality of resources and with the impact of ...

The current economic crisis appears to be the worst since the Great Depression. Severe problems in the financial sector have spread to the rest of the economy and resulted in falling exports, rising unemployment, government budget deficits and economic contraction in many countries. Research has shown a significant relationship between unemployment and poor health at both the level of the popul...

The first part of this paper provides a broad evaluation of the performance of the Indian economy (including cross country comparisons) and highlights the economic crisis faced by India in June, 1991. This crisis proved to be a turning point for the economy, providing the impetus for the initiation of revolutionary though studied and pragmatic economic reforms by the then Congress government. A...

The global financial crisis that began in 2008 exposed weaknesses in Taiwan’s industrial structure and in the structure of its foreign trade; it also pointed out the importance of industrial upgrading and transformation if Taiwan is to remain economically competitive. The aim of this paper is to explore the strategies that Taiwan has adopted in response to the global economic crisis, and themed...

From 1992 to 1994 life expectancy for Russian males dropped from 62.0 to 57.6 years. Female life expectancy dropped from 73.8 years to 71.2 years. This drop in life expectancy coincided in time with the introduction of painful economic reforms in Russia, leading to a rapid decrease in real wages and pensions, nearly complete loss of personal savings, and a tremendous increase in the poverty rat...

There is considerable controversy over why sluggish economic growth persists across many advanced economies six years after the onset of the financial crisis. Theories include a secular deficiency in aggregate demand, slowing innovation, adverse demographics, lingering policy uncertainty, post-crisis political fractionalisation, debt overhang, insufficient fiscal stimulus, excessive financial r...

This study looks at the network model of the MNE from the dynamic capability perspective. This study compares the performance of subsidiaries between economic crisis and stable periods to examine in which environment the multi-country linkages matter the most. We argue and find that, during times of economic crisis, the enhanced flexibility associated with the greater multi-country linkages inc...

In this article, we collect consumer delinquency data from several economic shocks in order to study the creation of stress test models. We leverage the Dual-time Dynamics modeling technique to better isolate macroeconomic impacts whenever vintage-level performance data is available. The stress test models follow a framework described here of focusing on consumer-centric macroeconomic variables...

INTRODUCTION Since 2008, Spain has been in the throes of an economic crisis. This recession particularly affects the living conditions of vulnerable populations, and has also led to a reversal in social policies and a reduction in resources. In this context, the aim of this study was to explore intimate partner violence (IPV) service providers' perceptions of the impact of the current economic ...