Article
Economics
Khuong Vu, Nobuya Haraguchi, Juergen Amann
Summary: This study finds that deindustrialization is a persistent pattern that underwent significant changes, particularly in the post-1990 period, with globalization acceleration, labor productivity, population size, and trade deficit being closely related factors.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2021)
Article
Social Issues
Ankita Rathore, G. Mahesh
Summary: This article systematically reviews the factors influencing public perception and attitudes towards nanotechnology in developed and developing countries based on research papers published during 2001-2020. It provides an in-depth comparative analysis of risk-benefit, knowledge, trust in science, religiosity, and demographics in shaping public perception of nanotechnology. The article also contrasts the media representation of nanotechnology in developing countries with that in developed nations.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mehrshad Radmehr, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo
Summary: This research examines the impact of health expenditure and sanitation on life expectancy in Mediterranean countries, taking into account other factors such as CO2 emissions and economic growth. Through the use of moment quantile regression, the study finds that economic growth, health expenditure, and sanitation have a positive effect on life expectancy across all quantiles. Additionally, CO2 emissions have a negative impact on life expectancy across all quantiles. The findings suggest that policymakers should implement effective environmental and public health measures to reduce CO2 emissions and promote economic expansion and productivity.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Lucia Echeverria, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Alberto Molina
Summary: This study explores the socio-demographic profile of individuals performing green travel and identifies cross-country differences in green travel behavior. The results indicate that walking as a mode of travel exhibits a more consistent profile compared to the use of public transport and cycling across countries. Our findings help in understanding who is committed to green mobility, while revealing interesting systematic differences across countries.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tzu-Wei Yang, Chi-Chih Wang, Wei-Cheng Hung, Yu-Hsiang Liu, Wen-Wei Sung, Ming-Chang Tsai
Summary: The study explored the relationship between health care expenditure, human development index (HDI), and MIR changes. It found that Asia had the highest number of new gastric cancer cases, Africa had the highest MIR, and North America had the lowest. Results indicated that increased HDI, CHE per capita, and CHE/GDP are associated with improved gastric cancer outcomes.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Arif Eser Guzel, Unal Arslan, Ali Acaravci
Summary: The study investigates the feasibility of achieving UN SDG3 and SDG17 in low-income countries, finding that globalization and democracy have a positive impact on life expectancy, while GDP is positively correlated with life expectancy.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ghulam Mujtaba, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
Summary: The study found a positive relationship between renewable energy and healthcare spending, with investment in renewable energy helping to reduce air pollution, improve healthcare conditions, and promote economic growth.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Zahid Hussain, Cuifen Miao, Zhihao Zhao, Yingxuan Wang
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between the economy, public health, and the environment, investigates the impact of healthcare and environmental expenditures on economic efficiency, and provides recommendations.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daria K. Benden, Fani Lauermann
Summary: Mathematics-intensive fields like physics and math face high student dropout rates in postsecondary education. Motivational decline after the transition to postsecondary education greatly contributes to students' difficulties in academic achievements and decisions to leave these fields. Through examining the changes in students' expected success and different task values, we found that these motivational factors predict academic success and course dropout, with increasing overlap and convergence over time. Moreover, there is a significant shift in the importance of expectancies and values after the transition to postsecondary education, indicating a critical period for interventions. Pre-existing achievement, socioeconomic, and gender differences lose some of their unique predictive power toward the midpoint of the semester.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Economics
Beata Gavurova, Jaroslav Belas, Katarina Valaskova, Martin Rigelsky, Viera Ivankova
Summary: The research emphasizes the importance of tourism innovation in the economy, with ICT innovation playing a dominant role in tourism spending, while innovations in other infrastructure areas should not be neglected. Strengthening innovation activities is expected to increase tourism spending and drive economic development.
TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Bo Yang, Muhammad Usman, Atif Jahanger
Summary: This study examines the impacts of industrialization, economic growth, and globalization on ecological footprint and healthcare expenditures in the top ten countries with the highest healthcare expenditures. Findings suggest that industrialization, healthcare expenditures, and economic growth contribute to increased pollution levels, while globalization and urbanization processes reduce environmental damage. Additionally, there are bidirectional causal relationships between healthcare expenditures, urban population, industrialization, and ecological footprint.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Khosrul Alam
Summary: This study focuses on the importance of female health outcomes in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Using various models, it was found that access to electricity, female education rate, public health expenditure, and other factors have significant impacts on female life expectancy and adult mortality rate. The urbanization rate was found to have a significantly positive impact on female life expectancy, with one-way causal relationships between variables also identified.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Khosrul Alam
Summary: This study examines the effects of globalization, energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth on life expectancy at birth in Australia. The findings show that globalization, renewable energy use, information and communication technology, per capita GDP, education rate, and financial development have increased, while non-renewable energy use has reduced life expectancy at birth. The study also reveals unidirectional causal associations between the variables and life expectancy at birth.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wenpeng You, Frank Donnelly
Summary: This study reveals a correlation between nurse density and the percentage of population over 65 years of age (65yo%). The relationship remains significant even after considering other factors such as economic affluence, physician density, fertility rate, obesity, and urban advantages.
Article
Economics
Nahed Trabelsi, Younes Boujelbene
Summary: This paper focuses on analyzing the impact of public sector efficiency on economic growth. The study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) and generalized method of moments (GMM) to examine the relationship. The findings suggest that increasing government expenditure reduces economic growth in developing countries. However, when government expenditure is interacted with public sector efficiency, efficiency can amplify the impact of public spending on economic growth. Moreover, higher efficiency leads to a lower optimal size of government expenditure required for maximizing growth.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Business
Maria del Carmen Valls Martinez, Pedro Antonio Martin-Cervantes, Maria del Mar Miralles-Quiros
Summary: Sustainable development is a priority for the United Nations, with investment managers considering environmental, social, and governance scores in portfolios. Gender equality is a key goal in the 2030 Agenda, and some European countries have implemented gender quotas on corporate boards. Empirical studies on the influence of women directors on CSR have shown mixed results, especially in developing countries. This article investigates the impact of gender diversity on corporate boards on CSR performance in developed and emerging European markets, finding a positive influence with greater significance in developed countries, suggesting the need for legislation to promote gender policies.
EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Javier Sanchez Garcia, Salvador Cruz Rambaud
Summary: Vector autoregressions (VARs) and their variants are standard models in economic and financial research, but estimating high-dimensional models presents challenges. This paper explores machine learning regularization methods as an alternative to traditional methods, finding that they perform better in forecasting and impulse response analysis. Regularization structures allowing for high-dimensional models outperform standard Bayesian methods in nowcasting and forecasting.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Javier Sada Bittini, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Joaquin Lopez Pascual, Roberto Moro-Visconti
Summary: This study primarily examines whether the business models of Spanish FinTechs, InsurTechs, and PropTechs are related to the existence of sustainability plans. Through multinomial logit regression and discussions on other factors, such as the closeness to sustainable development goals, sensitivity to domestic and European regulations, and perceptions of FinTechs towards European regulations, conclusions are drawn and suggestions for future research agenda are made.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Simona Andreea Apostu, Iza Gigauri, Mirela Panait, Pedro A. Martin-Cervantes
Summary: Climate change and limited resources have led to paradigm shifts in economic, social, and environmental policies and strategies. Sustainable development and the circular economy have become global priorities. This research aims to explore the path toward sustainable development in European countries by examining the relationship between green environment, economic growth, and circular economy issues. The study analyzes specific variables such as energy consumption, GDP, emissions, and waste generation for 31 European countries from 2009 to 2020. The results suggest that certain factors contribute to reducing waste generation, while others lead to an increase. This study provides insights for economic policy measures to facilitate the green transition process and promote the circular economy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Javier Sanchez Garcia, Salvador Cruz Rambaud
Summary: In this paper, a two-step approach is proposed for conducting statistical inference in financial networks of volatility, focusing on a network of European sovereign debt markets. The static results reveal that southern European bonds, which experienced the most volatility during the European debt crisis, were not necessarily net transmitters within the network, contrary to intuition. Furthermore, it is found that targeting low inflation and low financial stress are the most effective monetary and macroprudential policy stances for achieving low volatility transmission. The dynamics of the model suggest that the central bank should adjust its targeted variable based on the time period.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Viviana Ventre, Cruz Rambaud Salvador, Roberta Martino, Fabrizio Maturo
Summary: This paper uses the framework of behavioral finance to analyze the main anomalies in intertemporal choice. The author relates these anomalies to the four categories of temperaments and provides an empirical application to complement the theoretical analysis.
Article
Business, Finance
Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Joaquin Lopez Pascual, Emilio M. M. Santandreu
Summary: This study examines the microcredit market in the USA, specifically in Florida, due to the large Hispanic population, which allows for generalization to Latin American countries. The objective is to analyze the profile of microcredit holders and their companies from socioeconomic and financial perspectives. The study utilizes multinomial logit regression to assess the relationship between borrower profiles and loan repayment punctuality or default. The significant variables are the borrower's age, positively affecting repayment, and the loan term, negatively affecting it.
FINANCIAL INNOVATION
(2023)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Joaquin Lopez Pascual, Roberto Moro-Visconti, Emilio M. Santandreu
Summary: Crowdfunded microloans are a financing tool that can empower women in both developing and developed countries. This study analyzes the impact of gender on microloans using a large public database from Kiva and multinomial logit regression analysis. The results show that women are the best borrowers in terms of loan amount, repayment method, and recruitment period. These findings are important for promoting financial inclusion and achieving sustainable development goals.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Joaquin Lopez Pascual
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Ignacio Perez Hernandez, Pablo de Frutos Madrazo, Beatriz Rodriguez-Prado, Pedro Antonio Martin-Cervantes
Summary: This study examines factors influencing away fan travel in a professional football league by using data from two seasons of the Spanish league. The results highlight the importance of distance, match day and time, and uncertainty about the visiting team's form. Understanding these factors can help clubs and competition organizers reshape their management strategies to increase away supporters' flow and club revenues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Pedro Antonio Martin-Cervantes, Maria del Carmen Valls Martinez
Summary: This research uses the Random Forests methodology to explore the relationship between the betas and 13 financial and non-financial variables for the stocks listed in the S&P 500 index from 2015 to 2019. The findings indicate that ESG Scores are the main variable influencing the formation, determination, and sign of betas according to the Relative Importance criterion. Additionally, there is a quasi-direct correspondence between betas and industrial sectors, with some heterogeneity observed across the analyzed betas. The utilization of the Random Forests methodology ensures the acquisition of relevant results by inhibiting plausible correlations between the variables considered.
RISK MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Javier Sanchez Garcia
Summary: This paper focuses on subjective time perception in the context of intertemporal choice, aiming to analyze the consistency of decision-making based on a discount function derived from exponential discounting where time is distorted according to psychological traits. The findings of this research are highly relevant in explaining time-related behavior in fields such as finance, psychology, marketing, and sociology.
Article
Business, Finance
Javier Sanchez Garcia, Salvador Cruz Rambaud
Summary: This paper develops a network econometric model to examine the impact of inflation on systemic risk. The study finds a robust inverse relationship that is reversed when controlling monetary policy, indicating that the former effect is caused by monetary policy responses to inflation. It investigates whether this effect stems from overindebtness as in a Minsky moment, but no evidence supports this claim, suggesting that other mechanisms besides excess credit underlie this relationship. The findings presented in this paper are particularly crucial for understanding how monetary policy reacts to inflationary cycles.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Roberto Moro-Visconti, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Joaquin Lopez Pascual
Summary: The objective of this study is to determine the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the financial and economic margins of firms by improving revenues and minimizing expenses. The study uses a business plan and sensitivity analysis to demonstrate the potential of AI in achieving economic and financial sustainability.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Maria del Carmen Valls Marinez, Pedro Antonio Martin-Cervantes, Javier Membrives Salvador, Elena-Isabel Cara Fuentes
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and economic profitability. The results suggest that socially responsible companies may be more profitable, although the differences were not statistically significant. Nonetheless, it is evident that socially responsible companies are at least as profitable as those that are not.
2022 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN APPLIED SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRASET'2022)
(2022)
