1780 papers
This paper introduces a consensus backbone method for directed economic networks to reveal a sparse, hierarchical spillover structure, demonstrating through a 36-country analysis that sovereign risk transmission is dominated by concentrated bilateral channels among emerging markets while advanced economies exhibit diffuse, symmetric spillovers.
This study demonstrates that combining financial aid with entrepreneurial training and managerial capacity-building significantly enhances income, capital growth, and resilience for small-scale family firms in Burundi's Merankabandi program, despite challenges like illiteracy and weak market alliances.
This study finds no statistically significant evidence that renewable energy consumption drives economic growth or exhibits regime-dependent effects across Sub-Saharan African economies, suggesting that aggregate renewable share metrics are inadequate for policy evaluation due to the confounding influence of traditional biomass.
This paper analyzes pricing and ordering decisions in a two-echelon supply chain with multiplicative demand and product returns, demonstrating that while revenue-sharing contracts fail to coordinate the channel without shared return costs, cost-revenue sharing can achieve coordination and that retailer-managed returns become optimal for both parties once a critical sharing ratio threshold is exceeded.
Using New Zealand's SoFIE panel data from 2002 to 2009, this study finds that divorced and widowed retirees face significant financial inadequacy risks when liquidating assets to rent, with divorced women, widowed Māori/Pacific Islanders, non-homeowners, and those in multi-dwelling units being the most vulnerable groups.
This study of Taiwanese firms from 2020 to 2024 demonstrates that while substantive ESG performance leads to more favorable bank loan terms, banks actively penalize greenwashing by imposing stricter contract conditions when they detect inconsistencies between a firm's disclosure willingness and its actual ESG conduct.
This paper demonstrates that in clustered longitudinal settings, the choice of predictive validation target (individual firm-years versus entire firms) fundamentally alters the reference frame of residual-based proxies by shifting the weight of Bayesian model selection between firm-specific and population-level benchmarks, thereby materially changing the classification of abnormal behavior.
Based on a study of 1,032 Indonesian student entrepreneurs, this paper argues that business sustainability is driven solely by execution capabilities rather than institutional support or regional economic conditions, urging policymakers to shift from motivational campaigns to rigorous, standardized skills development.
This study analyzes 23 utility-scale solar projects in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to reveal that while exceptionally low electricity tariffs coexist with significant public equity participation, their true interpretability is hindered by uneven disclosure of contractual terms, financing milestones, and risk allocation.
This study of pastoral households in Ethiopia reveals that while formal humanitarian food aid is significantly constrained by distance from distribution centers, informal food sharing effectively bridges this spatial gap, particularly during droughts, suggesting that humanitarian strategies should leverage this complementary redistribution to ensure broader access.