... 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Foreign direct investment (FDI) Corruption Macroeconomic environment Arab countries Panel data analysis C23 D73 E01 F23 Funding: The authors declare that no funding...

... 02 2026 10 03 2026 14 03 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Renewable energy Sovereign credit ratings Nonlinear panel data techniques Africa C23 F3 G24 H63 The global expansion of renewable...

... expectancy Food inflation COVID-19 Political instability Threshold panel estimation O15 P22 D74 C23 Qatar National Research Fund ESC01‐0513‐240021 Funding: This paper was made possible by QRDI grant (ESC01‐0513‐240021) from the Qatar National Research Fund. The statements made...

... Debt sustainability C23 H61 H63 Q54 Empirical research on public debt sustainability remains relatively limited compared to other areas of macroeconomics, such as monetary economics (Rahaman and Mahadeo, 2024). Still, interest in the topic tends to resurface during periods of major...

... Developing countries Panel data model C23 G23 G50 In recent times, artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapidly advancing across the world. According to a recent report published by the World Bank's Global Findex database, approximately 76% of the global population has access to banking...

... savings Latin America Threshold analysis System GMM C23 G21 O43 Recurring crises—such as the 1980s debt crisis and Argentina’s 2001–2002 collapse—have eroded trust in formal institutions and dampened long-term savings. These shocks raise key questions about whether financial deepening...

.... To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that uses individual data to perform a falsification exercise in the field of international macroeconomics and finance. C23 F41 J31 J50 O43 There are two types of studies that typically deal with the topic of exchange rates...

... Developing countries C23 D31 E31 The World Inequality Report 2022, Chancel et al. (2023) highlights global income disparities. The global average annual income is €16,700, but Sub-Saharan Africa earns just 31% of this, and South/Southeast Asia earns 50%. In contrast, Europe...

... efficiently SMEs through the extension of trade credit of large firms to SMEs. Large lending Ex-post credit risk Non-performing loans Business cycle Credit cycle C23 C51 G21 G2 E32 Thus, banks face a higher credit risk, compared to large firms when they lend SMEs (Cassar, 2004...

...). Dynamic threshold panel International policy Labor participation Sanctions F51 F41 J22 C23 Economic sanctions are deployed as a tool of foreign policy and international relations around the world (Ozdamar and Shahin, 2021). There is a belief that sanctions can non-violently force...

... 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Financialisation Income inequality European Union Panel autoregressive distributed lag Dynamic fixed-effects estimator C23 D31 D63 E44 Income inequality has remained...

... firms D24 G32 L14 C23 However, in the context of FFs literature, external collaboration may positively or negatively influence performance. On the one hand, belonging to a network allows firms to innovate and compete in global markets where large companies dominate. Thus, the network...

... 15 05 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Schooling Wages Dynamic models C23 I21 J31 The return to schooling in mean-regression models is an index of between-groups wage inequality. A positive return means...

...-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Financial development TFP Economic growth Agricultural sector Panel VAR C23 O13 Q14...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode 19 06 2022 03 09 2022 14 09 2022 Ferdinando Ofria can be contacted at: ofriaf@unime.it Non-performing loans (NPLs) Government failures Government ineffectiveness Public debt Asian countries C23 D53 G21 H63 N25...

... 04 2022 01 06 2022 09 08 2022 Regional Kuznets curve Regional disparity Economic growth Panel data Semi-parametric analysis Non-parametric analysis R11 C21 C23 O18 The recent regional imbalance has attracted economists to understand the linkages between growth...

... trap can be for years, where many panel datasets have shown that almost half of the population cannot exit it without a strong government intervention (Barrett and Swallow, 2006 ; Barrett and Carter, 2013). C23 G21 O43 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the poorest regions in the world...

... Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Pandemic Covid-19 Coronavirus Weather Mobility Panel data C23 I12 I18 The Covid-19 pandemic is exacting a very heavy cost in terms of human lives, despite the extraordinary measures adopted...

... profitability levels than industries which undertake less R&D and are less concerned with IPR protection. Intellectual property rights Patents Foreign direct investment Multinationals C23 F21 F23 O34 Foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs) sits...

...-use rights only Non-financial corporations Survey-based expectations Expectation formation mechanisms Bank finance C23 C83 D22 D84 The notion of Rational Expectations was a paradigm shift in economics. Muth (1961) was the first who introduced the Rational Expectation...