408 papers
This study analyzes Peruvian microfinance institutions from 2021 to 2025 and finds a U-shaped relationship between lending rates and credit risk, identifying an optimal rate of 29.21% beyond which further rate increases significantly deteriorate portfolio quality.
This scoping review of 40 studies across 17 African countries finds that while cash transfers effectively stimulate local economies and boost employment for ultra-poor households, they also generate complex ripple effects such as inflation and social tensions, underscoring the need for careful recipient selection to maximize benefits and minimize negative spillovers.
This study utilizes diverse econometric models on 2004–2023 panel data to demonstrate that rising Chinese FDI in South Asia significantly boosts per capita income, a positive effect that is strengthened by political stability and anti-corruption measures but weakened by military expenditure.
This paper proposes a streamlined, privacy-compliant model for evaluating scientific productivity in Italian universities by leveraging existing National Scientific Qualification thresholds to generate real-time, adaptable, and transparent indicators for both institutional governance and individual researcher tracking.
Using Bayesian Logistic Regression on data from 82 countries (2002–2020), this study reveals that while green accounting generally promotes economic prosperity and mitigates downturns, its excessive expansion or severe contraction can paradoxically worsen economic declines, highlighting the need for balanced implementation.
Using a difference-in-differences approach on Chinese county-level data from 2000 to 2019, this study demonstrates that ecological compensation policies within National Key Ecological Function Zones significantly boost per capita GDP and employment while promoting industrial upgrading through mechanisms like marketization and alternative industry development, though their impact on foreign investment and tertiary sector growth remains limited.
This study integrates signal verification into an evolutionary game model of collaborative cybersecurity governance to reveal that without sufficient verification precision, the system falls into a "Silence Trap" where monetary incentives fail and penalties risk suppressing valid reports, thereby arguing that governance sustainability depends on capacity-building rather than reward tuning alone.
This study of 94 technology firms in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore reveals that while Relational Capital Efficiency and Innovation Capability drive Corporate Sustainable Growth through Competitive Advantage, Human Capital Efficiency unexpectedly exerts a negative influence on both competitive standing and sustainable growth in the region.
This study of Saudi Arabian firms reveals that ESG pillars exert divergent effects on earnings management—where governance constrains, environmental disclosure acts as camouflage for unprofitable firms but constrains profitable ones, and social disclosure remains neutral—highlighting how firm profitability and mandatory regulation critically reshape these relationships beyond aggregate ESG measures.
This paper develops a continuous-space New Economic Geography model on a unit circle to demonstrate how endogenous infrastructure-induced metric deformation creates "agglomeration shadows" and establishes a critical trade-cost threshold beyond which concentrated, low-frequency investment strictly outperforms uniform investment in maximizing welfare.