1816 papers
Drawing on public choice theory, this paper argues that domestic political incentives often drive states to overuse geoeconomic leverage for short-term gains, thereby eroding their long-term strategic power unless restrained by domestic opposition from firms bearing the costs.
This paper investigates the suitability of basic payment accounts for fostering financial inclusion among Romania's marginalized population by analyzing the user journey through financial institutions and identifying four key vulnerability types: information, supply, redress, and impact.
This study utilizes a 35-year panel dataset and a two-way fixed effects model to empirically analyze how India's Act East Policy has influenced the sourcing patterns and concentration of its machinery and electrical equipment imports from strategic Asian partners compared to other regional and non-Asian sources.
This paper employs a Bayesian DSGE model grounded in New Keynesian theory to analyze Ghana's monetary policy, revealing that while the Central Bank responds aggressively to inflation with significant transmission lags, the economy is characterized by highly impatient households and a strong link between economic activity and inflation.
This paper demonstrates that Transocean's classification as a "zombie" firm is contingent on the specific diagnostic metric used, revealing that non-bank financing channels and industry-specific structures allow offshore drillers to survive despite failing interest-coverage tests, thereby highlighting the sensitivity of aggregate zombie counts to accounting definitions and the need for targeted policy interventions.
This paper argues that the 2002–2025 distress in the offshore drilling industry was primarily triggered by supply and commodity-price shocks that created structural overcapacity, with credit issues acting only as a lagged amplifier for high-leverage firms, while the persistence of this "zombie" capacity is driven by behavioral anchoring to past price peaks and rigid supply constraints.
This EU-27 panel analysis reveals that higher education system indicators are primarily driven by their own historical persistence rather than AI attention, with the sole exception that public search interest in generative AI predicts a small increase in subsequent research and development expenditure.
This paper analyzes data from World Development Indicators using various statistical methods to demonstrate that while demographic dynamics significantly influence economic development in the Global South, the magnitude and speed of capturing the demographic dividend are critically determined by investments in education, productivity, employability, regional factors, and the pace of fertility decline.
This paper proposes an improved RFM model enhanced by the entropy weight method and K-means clustering to effectively segment e-commerce customer value for differentiated marketing, as validated by empirical data from a Pinduoduo merchant.
Using extensive longitudinal data from China, this study reveals that parenthood creates a significant and persistent gendered income gap, characterized by a substantial 34.2% motherhood penalty driven by reduced labor supply and a modest 6.8% fatherhood premium, thereby linking care responsibilities to labor-market stratification and income inequality.