1877 papers
Using system GMM analysis of Ethiopian regional data from 2013–2021, this study reveals that regional competitiveness acts as a conditional driver of economic growth, exerting a significant positive impact only after surpassing specific thresholds of 47.11 or 49.05 depending on conflict status, thereby underscoring the necessity of targeted policies tailored to regional development levels.
This paper utilizes macro-level data from 64 countries to demonstrate that profit shifting is primarily driven by institutional, regulatory, and cultural factors rather than standard economic fundamentals, with transparency policies like Country-by-Country reporting proving effective while higher government effectiveness paradoxically correlates with increased shifting due to sophisticated planning strategies.
Despite high digital connectivity among rural producers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, persistent income poverty is driven by a critical gap in market access rather than a lack of digital skills or internet access, suggesting that NGO livelihood programming must shift focus from digital training to direct market linkages and e-commerce integration.
This study analyzes U.S. presidential elections from 1996 to 2020 and finds that severe natural disasters significantly reduce incumbent-party vote share through voter preference shifts rather than turnout changes, with federal disaster declarations and partisan alignment between the president and governor playing key roles in mitigating these electoral losses.
This study of 92 employees in Somali private banks demonstrates that internal audit competency and independence enhance decision-making effectiveness by improving financial reporting quality, which acts as a significant mediating mechanism.
This paper employs an ARDL/UECM model on Albanian quarterly data from 2006 to 2025 to demonstrate that while financing costs significantly negatively impact capital formation, the credit channel reflects leverage and balance sheet stress rather than pure funding availability, highlighting the complexities of monetary transmission in a bank-based, euroized economy.
This quantitative study of Ethiopia's brewery industry reveals that weak regulatory enforcement, fragmented governance, and limited stakeholder pressure drive CSR implementation toward symbolic compliance rather than substantive organizational transformation, with organizational factors emerging as the strongest predictor of this theory-practice gap.
This paper establishes a rigorous theoretical and empirical framework comparing zero-shot time series foundation models against classical long-memory econometric benchmarks for realized volatility forecasting, finding that while foundation models outperform GARCH and EWMA, they ultimately compete closely with HAR-family models that capture most of the exploitable signal in volatility data.
This study develops a Sustainability Business Disclosure Index (SBDI) to evaluate the sustainability reporting levels of Indian public and private sector banks and analyzes their relationship with bank attributes such as foreign association, size, and age, finding that banks disclose more non-financial than financial information.
This study leverages China's phased air quality monitoring network rollout as a quasi-natural experiment to demonstrate that urban–county regulatory disparities trigger a significant spatial reallocation of firms and labor from monitored urban cores to less-regulated county peripheries, ultimately reshaping regional economic landscapes through cumulative factor transfer.