1096 papers
This study provides the first causal evidence that membership in Women's Savings and Credit Cooperatives significantly increases annual household income by 36.8% for female-headed households in rural Ethiopia, driven by improved access to financial services, training, and social support.
This study finds that staggered boards significantly promote corporate green innovation in Chinese A-share listed firms by mitigating managerial myopia, encouraging risk-taking, and relaxing financing constraints, particularly in environments with limited external monitoring.
This study demonstrates that an explainable machine learning pipeline, specifically utilizing XGBoost combined with SHAP and LIME techniques on public data, can effectively predict transparent and reproducible Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk scores, offering a viable alternative to proprietary rating systems.
This study analyzes a panel of 212 Chinese cities to demonstrate that university–industry collaboration fosters greater green knowledge recombination distance and diversity, which are associated with reduced urban carbon intensity, particularly when reinforced by regional green innovation efficiency, though the findings represent conditional associations rather than definitive causal effects.
This paper proposes and validates the Clean Energy Manufacturing Finance Framework (CEMFF), a strategic blended capital structure designed to mobilize private investment and close the U.S. domestic clean energy manufacturing gap with China by significantly reducing financing costs and achieving cost competitiveness in 78% of modeled scenarios.
This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of survey data from 393 respondents in Yemen to demonstrate that government policy, economic viability, and good governance significantly drive the adoption of solar panels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels for economic development.
This paper develops a theoretical framework analyzing how information-producing regulations, such as certification and delegated enforcement, shape firms' incentives to invest in private evidence capacity and how the interplay between public and private information influences optimal regulatory design and institutional implementation.
This paper utilizes a quarter-century of World Bank Governance Indicators to demonstrate that political inclusion causally drives prosperity only after surpassing a critical "Prosperity Gate" threshold, whereas prosperity rarely leads to political inclusion, thereby validating the view that democracy is a prerequisite for wealth rather than merely its reward.
Using panel regression analysis on secondary data from selected Low- and Middle-Income African countries, this study finds that commercial bank branches and deposit accounts have a statistically significant negative impact on real GDP growth, despite concluding that financial inclusion generally contributes to economic growth determinants through credit access and savings mobilization.
This study utilizes PLS-SEM on a simulated dataset to demonstrate that FinTech and AI capabilities significantly drive green investment decisions by enhancing digital trust and ESG orientation, with financial literacy serving as a key contextual moderator.