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Business
Tao Kong, RenJi Sun, Guanglin Sun, Youtao Song
Summary: Digital finance has a significant positive impact on firms' green innovation by alleviating information asymmetry, improving environmental information disclosure quality, and reducing financial constraints.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Bart Vanhercke, Amy Verdun
Summary: The European Semester has become the main institutional vehicle for the Recovery and Resilience Facility, changing the power balance among key actors and giving social actors a stronger voice. The role of the European Commission is increasingly pivotal, while member states also have more options through submitting national plans. The EU's response to the Covid-19 pandemic further solidified its socio-economic governance architecture.
JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES
(2022)
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Economics
Stefano Ponte
Summary: This paper argues that value chain-oriented forms of sustainability governance fail to address environmental issues and instead allow lead firms to extract value from suppliers while creating barriers for smaller and marginalized actors.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Qiang Wang, Shasha Wang
Summary: The study found that the decoupling state of all coastal regions improved, with Guangdong province showing the best decoupling state and strong decoupling progress. Carbon intensity was not only a major contributor to carbon reduction, but also a key driver of decoupling efforts. Industry structure was identified as the primary inhibitor in most coastal regions. All coastal regions made decoupling efforts during the study period, with over half of them making strong decoupling efforts.
Article
Business
Chi-Wei Su, Lidong Pang, Muhammad Umar, Oana-Ramona Lobont
Summary: This article investigates the relationship between the world uncertainty index (WUI) and gold price (GP) using the quantile on quantile (QQ) approach. The findings suggest that the impact of WUI on GP varies in different quantiles and shows cyclical patterns. The positive influence indicates that gold shines during economic or political chaos, while the negative impacts of WUI on GP cannot be ignored. Additionally, the gold market acts as a barometer of global risk according to the compound influence from GP to WUI.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Simon Evenett, Matteo Fiorini, Johannes Fritz, Bernard Hoekman, Piotr Lukaszuk, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Filippo Santi, Anirudh Shingal
Summary: This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020, but also highlights extensive heterogeneity across countries in their use of trade policy measures.
Article
International Relations
James Johnson
Summary: This article analyzes the impact of AI on the strategic decision-making process and discusses the risks and trade-offs of delegating military force to machines. It argues that substituting human critical thinking and intuition with AI can be fundamentally destabilizing, and also considers the use of AI-enhanced social media by non-state and state proxy actors.
JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Business
Liurui Deng, Yiwen Zhao
Summary: In this study, a valuation model was developed to examine the impact of financing constraints and investment time lags on company value. Using data from 622 listed companies in China, it was found that investment has a one-period time lag effect and that cash flow and debt financing costs play a role in determining company value.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Patrick M. Weber, Gerald Schneider
Summary: The European Union, the United Nations, and the United States frequently use economic sanctions. However, from 1989 to 2015, the usage and overall success of sanctions did not grow. While the US is the most active sanctioner, the EU and the UN appear to be more successful.
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Ilias Alami, Carolina Alves, Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Kai Koddenbrock, Ingrid Kvangraven, Jeff Powell
Summary: Despite differences in economic strength, Developing and Emerging Economies (DEEs) are still subordinate in the global monetary and financial system. In order to better understand this phenomenon, the concept of international financial subordination (IFS) is introduced, and a pluridisciplinary research agenda is proposed.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Business
Lean Yu, Rongtian Zhou, Rongda Chen, Kin Keung Lai
Summary: Missing data has become a serious problem in credit risk classification and this study proposes a one-hot encoding-based data preprocessing method to solve this problem. The experimental results suggest that the proposed method performs the best with high missing rates and the random sample imputation method performs better with low missing rates.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Hussam Hussein, Ahmet Conker, Mattia Grandi
Summary: This paper analyzes the trend of massive hydraulic infrastructure construction and how government elites justify their actions, using insights from major transboundary waterscapes. The study identifies four distinctive discursive practices that are efficiently used in the case studies.
MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Randall W. Stone, Yu Wang, Shu Yu
Summary: China exercises significant influence over outward foreign direct investment, particularly through state-owned and globally diversified firms. The government links investments to state policies, uses investment directives and state visits as instruments, and leverages political events and national recognition to shape FDI outcomes. This intervention appears to be systematic and is primarily observed in state-owned enterprises.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Brett Christophers
Summary: The relative profitability of fossil-fuel and renewable-energy production will have a significant impact on future investment trajectories. Europe's three oil and gas majors are facing the challenge of energy transition and its implications for the global energy transition.
NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Karsten Kohler, Engelbert Stockhammer
Summary: This paper contributes to the recent growth models debate through a cross-country analysis of growth drivers before and after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It argues that the dichotomy of export-led versus (debt-financed) consumption-led growth has lost its usefulness since the GFC, and shows that Comparative Political Economy (CPE) needs to broaden its analysis of growth drivers to understand how the GFC transformed growth models.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Kurt Braddock
Summary: Research has shown that attitudinal inoculation is effective in promoting resistance to persuasion. This study addresses the gap in the literature by testing the effectiveness of inoculation in preventing the adoption of beliefs and attitudes consistent with violent extremist ideologies. The results suggest that inoculation reduces support for extremist groups by increasing psychological reactance and decreasing perceptions of credibility. The source of the inoculation message and the ideological focus of the propaganda do not moderate these relationships.
TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, Nelly I. Kadagi, Dyhia Belhabib, Edward H. Allison
Summary: The African Union prioritizes the sustainable use of fisheries resources in developing the Blue Economy. However, the current fisheries governance mechanisms in Africa tend to constrain small-scale fisheries while failing to regulate the industrial fisheries sector, leading to the marginalization of small-scale fisheries. Despite higher incidences of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing in industrial fisheries, governance mechanisms continue to favor the industrial sector over small-scale fisheries.
Article
International Relations
Florian J. Egloff, Max Smeets
Summary: This article describes the process of public attribution and provides a framework to guide and improve state decision making regarding public attribution of cyber intrusions. Public attribution is a complex process that involves trade-offs of multiple considerations. The key to successful public attribution lies in having a strategic, coordinated pragmatic approach and assessing the potential negative counter effects on a case-by-case basis.
JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Economics
Tim Bartley
Summary: Private regulation practices can be explained through a multifaceted analysis of power, focusing on power struggles, corporate power saturation, and the construction of state power. By studying examples from private rules in land and labor and accounts of standards wars, a better understanding of these practices can be achieved.
NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Alessandra Mezzadri, Susan Newman, Sara Stevano
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of social reproduction as an analytical lens for understanding capitalist processes. Drawing on insights from Feminist IPE, Feminist Economics, and Feminist Political Economy of Development, the authors propose using social reproduction as a prism to examine labor and work in the Global South from a feminist standpoint. Insights from these feminist perspectives offer a comprehensive way to analyze the complexities of labor in the Global South and how reproductive dynamics shape the global economy in various ways, including state relations, care provisions, blending of productive and reproductive temporalities, paid/unpaid work within and beyond the household, and global processes of commodification.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
