{"title":"The Regulatory and Institutional Framework of Public-Private Partnership: Cases of France, Germany, and Russia","authors":"Igor Y. Merzlov","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.2","url":null,"abstract":"Globally public-private partnerships (PPP) have become one of the tools for effective infrastructure development. In previous years, there have been few peer-reviewed studies of the PPP framework, namely on elements contributing to the effectiveness of PPP projects and finding interrelationships between them. This study identifies the elements of the regulatory and institutional framework of PPP as: the legal regulation of PPP, units for PPP development, and state policy in PPP. It also reveals their mutual influence. These conclusions were based on an in-depth systematic literature review and a questionnaire survey. The analyses of such PPP-successful countries - France, Germany, and Russia - help to confirm our logical conclusions. Besides this, several good cases concerning the quality of the regulatory and institutional PPP framework are highlighted. The study has also noted four stages of the PPP policy evolution: PPP as a new tool for infrastructure development, PPP as a tool for most projects, PPP as a tool for territorial development, and PPP as a tool to achieve sustainable development goals. This finding remains unknown in peer-reviewed literature before. The results of the study can help PPP practitioners to create more effective national PPP strategies.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116106641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Application of the COVID-19 Global Economic Impact Simulator in China","authors":"M. A. R. Estrada, Evangelos Koutronas","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper establishes conceptual foundations for analyzing the economic dimensions of regional or global emerging and endemic infectious disease events, such as the case of Covid-19. The Covid-19 Global Economic Impact Simulator attempts to identify the Covid-19 transmission parameters and forecast its trajectories. The model introduces seven basic indicators - (i) the Covid-19 contagious spread intensity rate (S.I.), (ii) the treatment level for Covid-19 infected cases rate (T); (iii) the number of Covid-19 causalities rate (-C); (iv) the economic wear from the Covid-19 epidemic rate (-Π); (v) the Covid-19 contagious cases multiplier rate (M); (vi) the total economic leaking from the Covid-19 epidemic rate (-Ltotal); and (vii) the economic desgrowth from the Covid-19 epidemic rate (-δ2019-nCoV). Findings show that Covid-19 exhibits parallel spatial and temporal conditions with the related R.N.A. virus family but carries distinct infection signatures and magnitude of virus replication. Covid-19 ferocity can trigger a severe public health emergency in China with significant impacts on the domestic and world economies.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132109736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative Challenges of Georgian Entrepreneurship and Business Competitiveness","authors":"N. Surmanidze","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no3.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the legal environment affecting entrepreneurship based on theoretical and practical examples, as well as identifies and analyses challenges based on the role of Georgia in international rankings and research on businessmen. Georgia belongs to the group of developing countries, where social problems are acutely on the agenda. A country with a gross domestic product of US$15.8 billion (US$4255.70 per capita), Georgia has great potential for rapid development through growth in entrepreneurship. Creating an attractive environment for businesses should therefore become an important agenda for the government. Based on quantitative research, 11,207 business entities in Georgia have been surveyed to examine the legislative challenges for businesses. The survey results revealed the need to improve the business regulation framework, facilitate institutional change in the business environment, and enact entrepreneurial legislative reform.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134122077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in Myanmar","authors":"A. Baskaran, Thiri Dong, S. Selvarajan","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Like in many other developing countries, microfinance programmes in Myanmar have become an avenue to reduce poverty. This research examines whether microfinance in Myanmar has empowered female clients compared to non-microfinance clients, in terms of: (i) general decision-making (children’s education, family planning, children’s marriage, health care); and (ii) financial decision-making (income utilisation, loan usage, savings, investment). Primary data was collected using a questionnaire survey to achieve the research objectives. The sample of the survey consists of two groups of women living in the Ayeyarwady region, Myanmar: (i) Beneficiaries of microfinance programmes, and (ii) non-beneficiaries of any microfinance institutions. Female clients either started a new business or expanded/diversified an existing business using microfinance, which helped to increase income and savings. Overall, 89.8% of microfinance clients have gained significant empowerment (in making general and financial decisions combined). The discriminant analysis based on four indicators - children’s education, children’s marriage, savings, and investment - shows that the decision-making power of microfinance clients has improved compared to non-clients. The government should actively promote a microfinance ecosystem through robust microfinance institutional frameworks including, microfinance institutions, intermediaries, and local government agencies. Financial literacy awareness campaigns should be organised frequently to promote wider women’s participation in microfinance programmes.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128554951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Tax Avoidance, Deferred Tax Expenses and Deferred Tax Liabilities Affect Real Earnings Management? Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Nera Marinda Machdar","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.5","url":null,"abstract":"The study analyses the effect of tax avoidance, deferred tax expenses and deferred tax liabilities on real earnings management. The samples consist of 152 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX). The study examines the financial statements from 2011 to 2019, ending up with 1,368 observations. The empirical results of this study are as follows. First, tax avoidance affects positively the abnormal discretionary operating cash flows and the abnormal discretionary expenses. However, tax avoidance does not affect the abnormal discretionary production costs. Second, deferred tax expenses affect real earnings management positively, either through abnormal discretionary operating cash flows, abnormal discretionary expenses, or abnormal discretionary production costs. Third, deferred tax liabilities affect real earnings management positively, either by using abnormal discretionary operating cash flows, abnormal discretionary expenses, or abnormal discretionary production costs. The findings of this study may be of interest to regulators and tax authorities, as they highlight how to increase the actual amount of tax payments by reducing the occurrence of real earnings management activities. Regulators need to consider tax audits on companies that have suffered losses but are still operating.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125216815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Chebab, N. Mazlan, M. Rabbani, Lee Chin, Aishatu Ibrahim Ogiri
{"title":"The Role of Corruption in Natural Resource-Financial Development Nexus: Evidence from MENA Region","authors":"D. Chebab, N. Mazlan, M. Rabbani, Lee Chin, Aishatu Ibrahim Ogiri","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the literature on resource curse by investigating the impact of natural resource abundance on financial development while accounting for the interactive effect of natural resources and corruption in 11 resource-rich MENA countries over the period of 1987 to 2015. Using pooled mean group (PMG) estimation technique, our results show that abundance of natural resource weakens the pace of financial development in countries with high level of corruption. Thus, resource rich countries in the MENA region will boost the level of financial development through minimising the degree of corruption in their financial sectors. Therefore, policymakers should control the corruption, which plays a significant role to mitigate the adverse effect of natural resources on financial development. This is through building strong institutions, which help to check corruption, enhancing rule of law and protecting investors. Our results are consistent and robust to alternative measures of natural resource abundance and financial development.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114078098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imad Kareem Alaamshani, H. Z. Hamzah, S. Kaliappan, N. Ismail
{"title":"Effects of Trade Facilitation on Trade Costs in Developed and Developing Countries: PPML Analysis","authors":"Imad Kareem Alaamshani, H. Z. Hamzah, S. Kaliappan, N. Ismail","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Trade facilitation reduces trade costs and eases the movement of goods and services. Studies have shown that trade flows increased by improving the trade facilitation process and reducing trade costs. The study aims to estimate the effects of trade facilitation enhancement on trade costs in 111 developed and developing countries over the 2008 to 2014 period using the Poisson-Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator. The findings show that trade facilitation components such as border administration, business environment and transport and communication infrastructure reduce trade costs. This trade facilitation should have helped alleviate the effects of the financial recession and eased world trade recovery. On the other hand, the study finds that additional market access increases trade costs. The most important finding is that the effectiveness of trade facilitation is higher when more countries engage in trade and when those countries are together participating in trade facilitation.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114072453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of Fiscal Decentralisation and Ethnic Diversity on Educational Outcomes – Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Matondang Elsa Siburian","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this paper is to clarify the influence of fiscal decentralisation and ethnic diversity on Indonesia’s educational outcomes using Indonesian provincial-level data from 2001 to 2014 and applying dynamic panel data estimation. This paper takes into account that ethnic diversity mediates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and educational outcomes. The result confirms that the inclusion of the ethnic diversity variable lessens the positive influence of fiscal decentralisation on educational outcomes. The presence of a diversity debit hypothesis in Indonesia overshadowed the local government’s effort in improving regional educational outcomes through decentralisation. This paper proposes a set of policy recommendations based on empirical results to assist the local government in controlling the adverse effect of ethnic diversity on regional educational outcomes.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"95 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120819099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Profitability and the Moderating Role of Funding Patterns in Vietnam","authors":"V. Dang","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigates the effect of monetary policy on bank profitability while also taking into account the moderating role of bank funding patterns. Uniquely, the study focuses on disaggregate components of bank profits in an environment containing various monetary policy tools. Using a dataset of commercial banks in Vietnam, the results show that monetary policy drives bank profitability asymmetrically. Concretely, interest rates (i.e., lending rates and policy rates) exert positive effects on net interest income, but negative impacts on non-interest income. For quantitative-based policy tools, including the central bank’s security purchases and foreign exchange reserves, monetary policy is positively correlated with non-interest income but negatively associated with net interest income. The reaction of banks’ net interest income to monetary policy adjustments is translated into overall bank profits. Further analysis indicates that the monetary policy/bank profitability nexus across different proxies is less pronounced at banks with more diversified funding patterns. This finding sheds light on prior arguments attributing financially weaker banks’ greater sensitivity in facing monetary shocks to the limited alternative funding.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130820970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boris Miethlich, Denis Belotserkovich, Samira Abasova, Еlena I. Zatsarinnaya, Oleg Veselitsky
{"title":"Transformation of Digital Management in Enterprises Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Boris Miethlich, Denis Belotserkovich, Samira Abasova, Еlena I. Zatsarinnaya, Oleg Veselitsky","doi":"10.22452/ijie.vol14no1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol14no1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine changes in enterprise management during the COVID-19 pandemic and develop a universal mechanism for managing digital transformation. Its methodological basis is represented by a terminological analysis of the concepts of automation, digitalisation and digital transformation. Their close consideration enables us to form a conceptual scheme of business digitalisation. In sum, the study process shows that full-fledged and fruitful digital transformation can be achieved through restructuring a company’s business process management system. By comparing the outcomes of using digital platform-based business models, the most promising one was selected for use. Its practical application was studied in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Switzerland using the Network Readiness Index (NRI). The analysis made it possible to form business development strategies for each country reviewed and to develop a universal mechanism for digital transformation management by means of optimisation and modelling. The findings suggest that in pandemic settings, digital enterprise management concentrates on survival, self-learning and cooperation without intermediaries through innovation and the transformation of business processes. The strategies can be used to adopt digital technologies and attract investment. Further research can be directed at detailing the proposed mechanism.","PeriodicalId":393532,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Institutions and Economies","volume":"49 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134263549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}