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Economics
Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu, Manh-Hung Nguyen
Summary: The paper examines the impact of pollution on disease transmission, finding that pollution increases the likelihood of infections. It also discusses the differences in health and economic outcomes between decentralized economy and socially optimal outcomes, considering incentives to reduce pollution.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Charis M. Galanakis, Gianluca Brunori, David Chiaramonti, Robert Matthews, Calliope Panoutsou, Uwe R. Fritsche
Summary: This article discusses how the bioeconomy can enhance the resilience and sustainability of biobased, food, and energy systems in the post-COVID-19 era by integrating technological innovations, environment, culture, arts, and other sectors to promote economic and social innovations.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Giuliano Sansone, Flavio Santalucia, Davide Viglialoro, Paolo Landoni
Summary: Blockchain technology shows promise in driving social innovation, but more research is needed to understand its relationship with social innovation. This study explores how ventures can utilize blockchain for social good and proposes a framework for stakeholder involvement. The challenges associated with using blockchain for social good are also discussed.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Amin Jan, Anas A. Salameh, Haseeb Ur Rahman, Mohanad M. Alasiri
Summary: The relationship between manufacturing firms and the green environment is unavoidable. Blockchain technology can provide real-time, shareable, and transparent green environmental-related information, helping transform traditional supply chain management practices and ensure compliance with environmental SDGs.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Michael Vardon, Paul Lucas, Steve Bass, Matthew Agarwala, Andrea M. Bassi, Diane Coyle, Anthony Dvarskas, Catherine A. Farrell, Oliver Greenfield, Steven King, Martin Lok, Carl Obst, Brian O'Callaghan, Rosimeiry Portela, Juha Siikamaki
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic and economic emergencies have led to increased public spending and global debt. Economic recovery presents an opportunity to rebuild natural capital and achieve long-term societal benefit. However, current decision-making prioritizes economic imperatives and overlooks society's reliance on natural capital and ecosystem services. New international standards for natural capital accounting (NCA) integrate environmental information into government decision-making, enabling the identification, implementation, and monitoring of green recovery pathways.
Article
Economics
Weina Fan, Muhammad Khalid Anser, Muhammad Hamid Nasir, Raima Nazar
Summary: With the Covid-19 outbreak, changing prices of natural resource raw materials are driving up industrial costs, limiting output, and jeopardising economic growth. To encourage the revival of the green economy, fiscal and budgetary policies must focus on fostering innovation and growth. This essay investigates the incentives and mechanics of innovation as a recovery strategy by looking at the impact of tiny tax cuts on energy.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Gudrun Erla Jonsdottir, Jordan Mitchell, Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson, Ahmad Rahnema Alavi
Summary: Carbfix, an Icelandic green tech pioneer, has gained global attention for its innovative solution to combat climate change by capturing and storing CO2 in basalt rock. This study examines the impact of responsible ownership on sustainable technology commercialization and finds that an effective ownership strategy enhances the focus on climate action. It also highlights how responsible ownership drives long-term innovative green tech solutions for CO2 reduction and commercialization. The study contributes to the literature on responsible ownership in innovation and technology for a sustainable future.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2023)
Article
Transportation
Kaitano Dube, Godwell Nhamo, David Chikodzi
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the global aviation industry, leading to ratings downgrades, liquidation, and bankruptcy of many airlines and airports due to severe cash burn. Despite the industry reopening, the recovery process is slower than anticipated, necessitating relevant support to prevent further airline failures and job loss.
JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Suparak Suriyankietkaew, Suthep Nimsai
Summary: This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 on sustainable development and identifies challenges and opportunities for possible sustainable recovery solutions. The findings reveal various pandemic effects, challenges, and opportunities for cooperative regional sustainability development and recovery strategies, such as intra-trade strategy, green economy, and public-private-people partnerships. Overall, the paper aims to contribute to advancing understanding in this realm and benefit diverse stakeholders toward sustainable futures.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Moustafa Mohamed Nazief Haggag Kotb Kholaif, Ming Xiao, Ahmed Hamdy
Summary: Despite the challenges caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, it has also provided opportunities for promoting green supply chain management and sustainable environmental performance by generating interest in cleaner production and sustainable business practices. This study examines the connection between the pandemic's uncertainty-anxiety, green supply chain management, and sustainable environmental performance, while also exploring the moderating effect of innovative technologies like big data analysis capabilities and blockchain technologies. The findings suggest that the uncertainty-anxiety of the pandemic positively impacts green supply chain management, with big data analysis capabilities moderating this relationship. However, blockchain technologies do not moderate this direct link. Additionally, green supply chain management has a positive effect on a firm's sustainable environmental performance. These results have significant implications for the management of SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to existing theories on the positive influence of uncertainty-anxiety on green supply chain practices and the moderating effect of innovative technologies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Qiang Wang, Rui Huang
Summary: This study examines the impact of COVID-19 on sustainability and finds that research on this topic is extensive but lacks depth, with a dominance of studies from developed countries. The pandemic poses greater challenges to sustainable development in developing countries. Negative effects are seen on 17 SDGs goals, while opportunities may arise for another 14 goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Byomkesh Talukder, Gary W. VanLoon, Keith W. Hipel
Summary: COVID-19 is a result of degraded planetary health drivers and has wide-ranging implications in social, economic, and environmental realms. This paper examines sixteen planetary health drivers and their influences on the emergence and spread of COVID-19. It also evaluates the impacts of COVID-19 on planetary health and its hindrance to sustainable development goals.
Article
Environmental Studies
Zhiying Liang, Jian Chen, Dayang Jiang, Yunpeng Sun
Summary: This paper aims to study the global green innovation network, which is mainly centered in North America, Western Europe, East Asia, and Oceania. The analysis reveals that factors such as geographical proximity, good governance, energy consumption, environmental regulation, economic differences, and pandemic have impacts on green innovation efficiency. The study recommends increasing investment in the development and research of green energy, improving green loans and financing tools, and prioritizing the digital economy.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Magdalena Gorzelany-Dziadkowiec
Summary: The primary finding of the study suggests that businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic were more capable of innovating in terms of products and management compared to those that were not affected. The author proposed a business model for enterprises operating in the COVID-19 environment as a theoretical implication.
Article
Economics
Linhao Zhao, YunQian Zhang, Muhammad Sadiq, Vu Minh Hieu, Thanh Quang Ngo
Summary: This study utilizes data envelopment analysis to measure various efficiency indicators of renewable energy firms, finding that government subsidies and tax rebate policies have significant positive effects on the investment efficiency of these firms.
ECONOMIC CHANGE AND RESTRUCTURING
(2021)
Article
Economics
Omneya Abdelsalam, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Oguzhan Cepni, Mustafa Disli
Summary: This paper investigates the effects of COVID-19 pandemic-related uncertainty on the US tourism subsectors, and finds that some subsectors are more affected than others. The study also shows that the COVID-19 uncertainty index has a significant impact on the connectedness of tourism companies.
Article
Economics
Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ali Yavuz Polat, Hasan Tekin, Ahmet Semih Tunali
Summary: Geopolitical risk (GPR) plays a crucial role in investment decisions and stock markets, and recent research indicates its growing importance. Using bibliometric and scientometric analytical techniques, this study finds that authors from Asia dominate the GPR literature, with the journal Defence and Peace Economics having a high number of research and citations on GPR.
DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Mustafa Disli, Ahmet F. Aysan, Omneya Abdelsalam
Summary: This study examines the preference of Islamic banks compared to conventional banks for the MSME credit market segment in Turkey. The results show that Islamic banks are more engaged in MSME financing and generate more revenues from servicing MSMEs. There were no distinguishable patterns observed between Islamic and conventional banks regarding the quality of the MSME lending portfolio.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kinan Salim, Mustafa Disli, Adam Ng, Ginanjar Dewandaru, Malik Abdulrahman Nkoba
Summary: This study examines the impact of corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate social performance (CSP) on the stability of the banking industry. The research finds that CEP is negatively related to bank stability, but the impact is not significant for small banks, large banks, and banks in countries with low environmental scores. Furthermore, CSP does not appear to have a significant relationship with bank stability, except for the aspect of financial product safety. The results are robust to various econometric specifications and have important policy implications for investors, bankers, and regulators.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tamy Al-Binali, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Hasan Dincer, Ibrahim Musa Unal, Serhat Yuksel
Summary: This study examines the implications of merging Islamic and conventional banks, identifying unique opportunities and challenges and offering strategic guidance for future mergers. Using a balanced scorecard-based analysis, the study develops short- and long-term strategic plans for the merged bank. The findings highlight the importance of a well-planned merger strategy in maximizing the benefits and addressing cultural and regulatory differences.
Article
Business, Finance
Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Jonathan A. Batten, Giray Gozgor, Rabeh Khalfaoui, Zhamal Nanaeva
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between economic uncertainty, measured by the Twitter-based economic uncertainty index (TEU), and Metaverse stocks in different time-frequency domains. Using Wavelet Local Multiple Correlation analysis, a significant and statistically positive correlation between TEU and the Metaverse stock market is identified across all time horizons examined. This positive correlation holds even when alternative measures of economic uncertainty, such as crude oil and gold volatility, are considered. The results emphasize the importance of factoring in real-world economic uncertainty in decision-making processes involving virtual reality environments.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Nurullah Gur, Mehmet Babacan, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Selim Suleyman
Summary: This paper investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises in Istanbul managed their financial needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. A unique survey conducted in 2021 was used to analyze the impact of the pandemic on financial conditions and access to finance. The results suggest that micro and small firms tend to rely more on informal financing sources and face difficulties in accessing formal finance opportunities during the pandemic.
BORSA ISTANBUL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Safika Praveen Sheikh, Syed Ahsan Jamil, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Mohd Atif, Mustafa Raza Rabbani, Umar Nawaz Kayani
Summary: This study investigates the impact of factors such as oil prices, gold prices, and volatility indices on the returns of indices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. The findings suggest that volatility indices have a greater influence on index returns during the Covid-19 period, which can be attributed to the rapid impact of the pandemic on global economies. Additionally, the study reveals that oil price volatility has a stronger effect on stock prices compared to oil spot prices.
Article
Environmental Studies
Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Yassine Bakkar, Shajara Ul-Durar, Umar Nawaz Kayani
Summary: The rapid increase in global natural resources since the 1970s has caused significant environmental consequences, with the exploitation of these assets leading to detrimental societal effects. This study aims to identify the relationship between natural resources and governance conflicts, while assessing the role of governance in natural resource management. The results highlight three major governance challenges (related to capacity, connectivity, and knowledge) and three domains of good governance (effectiveness, involvement, and efficiency). The study emphasizes the need for developing countries to have decision-making power, financial and human resources, leadership in addressing resource challenges, and conflict resolution mechanisms, while also addressing policy clarity and alignment of stakeholder institutions' goals in industrialized countries. Overall, this study contributes to the existing literature by summarizing essential organizational capacities and governance frameworks for effective natural resource management.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Roohi Mumtaz, Umar Nawaz Kayani, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Syed Shahwar Hasan, Umer Iqbal
Summary: This research aimed to investigate the significant financial impact of COVID-19 on firms in Pakistan and the United States. Surveys and interviews were conducted with experts in various business disciplines, utilizing convenience and snowball sampling techniques. The statistical analysis using structural equation modeling showed that COVID-19 had a profound effect on the financial and psychological health of workers, with moderators playing a crucial role in mitigating the pandemic's effects. The research also discussed the implications and practical significance of the study.
COGENT SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Umar Nawaz Kayani, Khwaja Naveed, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Salim Khan, Akbar Said
Summary: This research investigates the psychological health of tourism industry's workforce in the midst of COVID-19 in the context of Chinese Tourism Industry. Stress theory was used to predict and analyze financial dissatisfaction as a mediator and quality of marital relationship and family income as moderators. Path analysis, using the ABCX family stress model, was employed to evaluate the relationships. The findings indicate that the tourism industry's workforce has been affected not only economically but also psychologically, impacting their relationships at different levels. The study emphasizes the importance of resilience in the tourism workforce for maintaining stability and harmony in the family, as work-family conflict can arise from both job responsibilities and joblessness.
COGENT SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Economics
Mustafa Disli, Ahmad Khalid Hatam, Shakir Jalaly
Summary: This paper discusses the challenges and prospects of adopting Islamic banking in Afghanistan. It highlights the complexity and multi-layered nature of the challenges, which arise from the legal system, regulatory capacities, mindset, banking services, and public perception. The study emphasizes the need to address these challenges comprehensively to protect the fragile economic and financial sector. The research provides valuable insights for policymakers, regulators, and practitioners in shaping an effective transformation strategy.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Tamy Ahmed Ali Al-Binali, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Hasan Dincer, Ibrahim Musa Unal, Serhat Yuksel
Summary: Determining the right merger strategy is crucial for banks to manage risks and achieve long-term financial performance. This study aims to evaluate alternative merger strategies for banks, using Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-based criteria. The findings highlight the importance of profitability and market share in merger decisions, as they contribute to attracting investors, raising capital, and promoting sustainable development.
Article
Business, Finance
Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Dilek Demirbas, Mustafa Disli, Monica Shirley Chaparro Parra
Summary: This study explores the impact of GDP per capita on the Gini index, a measure of income concentration, in Colombia. It employs an econometric analysis of time series data sourced from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. The findings indicate that, at least during the period under scrutiny, there is no evidence to support the view that GDP per capita serves as an explanatory variable for income distribution patterns in Colombia. The results also concur with the notion that the issue of income inequality goes beyond economic factors and encompasses persistent matters such as politics and history.
JOURNAL OF CENTRAL BANKING THEORY AND PRACTICE
(2023)
