1817 papers
This study argues that while plurilateral cooperation under Article 6.2 could reduce the transaction costs caused by fragmented bilateral agreements through standardized rules and infrastructure, it introduces new governance burdens, suggesting a bounded pilot approach is more prudent than immediate institutional expansion.
This paper theorizes that institutional trust functions as a differential filter on prepaid contractual forms rather than expenditure levels, demonstrating how the choice between direct deposits and vouchers determines market regimes, reveals risk weights, and shows that custodial mandates are superior to voucher substitution in mitigating true risk.
This study utilizes panel data analysis of 84 KSE-100 listed firms from 2011 to 2020 to investigate how various ownership structures, including institutional, foreign, state, managerial, family, and concentrated ownership, influence Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure in Pakistan, offering insights for investors and policymakers to strengthen CSR regulations.
This paper utilizes a comprehensive suite of econometric, clustering, and machine learning methods on data from 170 economies to demonstrate that water stress is primarily a structural phenomenon driven by female labor force participation and specific governance dimensions like accountability, rather than by overall institutional quality.
Using panel regression analysis on secondary data from selected lower-middle-income African countries, this study finds that while financial inclusion indicators like commercial bank branches and deposit accounts have a statistically significant negative impact on real GDP growth, the research concludes that financial inclusion remains a meaningful determinant of economic growth through credit access, savings mobilization, and increased banking penetration.
Using annual data from 1985 to 2024 and an ARDL framework, this paper finds that while Indian inflation and crude oil prices remain the primary drivers of Nepal's inflation, global geopolitical risk represents an emerging, albeit not yet uniformly robust, transmission channel that warrants monitoring by monetary authorities.
This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of Timor-Leste's 2010–2025 data to demonstrate that fiscal dependence on oil directly and significantly erodes institutional and environmental governance through a "Fiscal Structural Resource Curse" mechanism, rather than through the hypothesized intervening role of political short-termism.
This study utilizes a unique three-decade dataset of forest recreation valuation in Germany and Switzerland to demonstrate that recreational values have increased over time, while highlighting consequentiality and sample selection as key sources of variation and affirming the robustness of open-ended elicitation as a complement to single binary choice methods.
Based on a cross-country analysis of 1,360 SMEs, this study demonstrates that while networking drives internationalization, its impact is significantly mediated by internal capabilities such as decision-making quality, human capital, and domestic market conditions, with online presence playing a comparatively weaker role.
This study of UK-listed firms from 1980 to 2024 reveals that while multinational corporations generally achieve higher returns, their international operations significantly amplify the negative impact of leverage on stock performance, necessitating careful capital structure management.