... 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...

... 0.02 pp. This result holds for more intense natural disasters as well 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...

... 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 services (Demirgüç...

... savings Latin America Threshold analysis System GMM C23 G21 O43 Figure 3 Financial depth in EMs. Note: The figures show financial depth indicators (mutual funds, pension funds, life and non-life insurance) as percentages of GDP for EMEA, LA and ASIA in 2012 (blue) and 2020 (orange...

...), is importantly driven by both year and quantile parameter heterogeneity. Exchange rates Wages Difference-in-differences Falsification Heterogeneity C23 F41 J31 J50 O43 The second type looks at the impact of exchange rates on domestic macroeconomic variables. This type of studies...

... and developing nations in the fight against income inequality. Van Bon Nguyen can be contacted at: bonnv@hub.edu.vn , boninguyen@gmail.com 09 08 2024 04 01 2025 17 01 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only C23 D31...

... enriching the relevant literature, which supports that credit cycle influences positively NPLs due to loan credit expanding, implying that NPLs can be reduced by large lending through the improvement of banks’ cost efficiency. C23 C51 G21 G2 E32 The business of banking relates...

... time. 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 the target countries to change their policies and follow the goals...

... Dynamic fixed-effects estimator C23 D31 D63 E44 Income inequality has remained at very high levels all over the world (Piketty, 2014 ; Haan and Sturm, 2017 ; Bolarinwa et al., 2021), which could represent several deleterious effects, such as: the spread of destitution...

... (Aiello et al. 2023a, b ; Cisi et al., 2020 ; Kim et al., 2022 ; Li et al., 2015). Family firms Inter-firm networks Productivity Age Generational stage Manufacturing firms D24 G32 L14 C23 The effect of family involvement on firm performance...

... 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 that individuals with more schooling have, on average, higher earnings. Thus, the magnitude of the schooling return is crucial...

... commercial and non-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...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Non-performing loans (NPLs) Government failures Government ineffectiveness Public debt Asian countries C23 D53 G21 H63 N25 A bank loan can be classified as non-performing when payments of principal and interests are 90...

... 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 and regional disparity. Regional disparity can't be ignored as it is closely...

... Mobile cellular Fixed broadband Internet Extreme poverty SSA C23 G21 O43 FinTech could play an essential role in SSA by expediting the region's traditional banking methods, which currently struggle to provide sufficient services to the population. Bank penetration in the SSA region...

... data C23 I12 I18 The Covid-19 pandemic is exacting a very heavy cost in terms of human lives, despite the extraordinary measures adopted to contain its spread. It has also caused far-reaching disruption to society and to the global economy throughout 2020. The economic literature has...

... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Intellectual property rights Patents Foreign direct investment Multinationals C23 F21 F23 O34 Foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs) sits at the heart of economic...

... in designing appropriate monetary policies, as both the employment and inflation targets of central banks around the world are highly dependent on the firm-level decision process. Non-financial corporations Survey-based expectations Expectation formation mechanisms Bank finance C23 C83 D22 D84...