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While a number of studies have analyzed the determinants of economic growth in Asia, the research on the synergistic interplay of the quality of governance and the investments in research and development have not received nuanced attention in the sch...

This study investigates whether information and communication technology (ICT) constitutes a sustained driver of economic growth in four Central Asian economies—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—over the period 2000&ndash...

Higher education (HE) funding mechanisms in the European Union (EU) are undergoing substantial reform, with universities facing increasing pressure to improve performance outcomes under constrained public budgets. This study analyses how the design o...

This study examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationship between per capita CO2 emissions and GDP per capita in G7 countries in the presence of uncertainty using 1960–2022 panel data. Our results confirm the existence of an EKC re...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of international tourist arrivals in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) is studied in this paper using the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model comprising a pulse function...

Financial distress prediction models are widely used to support risk management. However, economic turbulence, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can disrupt the relationships between financial indicators and distress, thus threatening the stability and...

This study aims to analyze the effect of remittances on multidimensional poverty in Mexico by comparing them with other sources of household income, such as labor income and social spending from transfers, subsidies, and allocations. Furthermore, eco...

This study explores the applicability of the Laffer Curve in the context of the European Union (EU) by analyzing the relationship between taxation and fiscal revenue across personal income tax (PIT), corporate income tax (CIT), and value-added tax (V...

In this study, we use a structural demand framework rather than simple correlations between taxes and expenditure to investigate whether local taxes in Korea function as a price mechanism for local public goods. We construct a panel dataset for 226 b...

Since its launch in 2009, Bitcoin has become a market disruptor due to its primary function as a virtual currency supported by blockchain technology and the high volume of economic transactions it facilitates. This article examines the key theoretica...