1. School of Economics and Finance, Fiji National University, Suva P.O. Box 3722, Fiji
2. Department of Economics and Finance, The Business School, Saigon South Campus, RMIT University, Ho-Chi-Minh City 700000, Vietnam
3. Department of Global Business and Economics, Changwon National University, Changwon 51140, Republic of Korea
4. Department of International Trade and Finance, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
5. GUST Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally 32093, Kuwait