The article concerns the responsibility of financial institutions, primarily banks, for sustainable development and pro-ecological activities. The aim of the presented study is to identify the scope of activities of financial institutions in the fiel...
Although retail investors’ interest in sustainable investment is constantly increasing, German credit unions and co-operative banks offer few sustainable financial products. The purpose of the study is to explore the current gap between supply and de...
This study examines Cambodian farmers’ demand for weather index insurance (WII), an innovative financial product, for managing climate change-related risks. Rice and cassava farmers in Battambang Province of Cambodia were interviewed to underst...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the extant literature on sustainable financial products (SFP) with a comprehensive understanding of the status quo and research trends as well as characterise the existing SFP in the Latin America banking indus...
Recently, bitcoin-based blockchain technologies have received significant interest among investors. They have concentrated on the prediction of return and risk rates of the financial product. So, an automated tool to predict the return rate of bitcoi...
In an era marked by the expansion of the Internet economy and the intensification of environmental concerns, the convergence of digital finance and green finance has emerged as a significant global trend. China’s Alipay Ant Forest, an innovativ...
Despite the pivotal role of European startups in addressing pressing environmental concerns, the current literature has neglected the dynamic factors that influence startups’ decision-making to implement eco-innovation. This study aims to bridg...
Despite the rather long period of solving environmental issues and research, the problems of attracting green financial instruments as sources of financing and stimulating the development and implementation of clean technologies have not been suffici...
This study examined the relationships between financial literacy, financial product ownership, confidence in financial advisers, and confidence in retirement readiness across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. By using data from the Flash Eurobarometer...
E-finance has brought many challenges while promoting the process of financial inclusion, thus raising users’ requirements for Internet financial services, including recommendation systems. This systematic literature review examines the latest...
This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a probabilistic framework it develops robust (Order-m) time-dependent conditional nonparametric frontier estimators in order to meas...
Despite the importance of financial literacy, particularly in sustaining and improving rural agriculture, it is documented in the literature that little is known about financial literacy, particularly in rural communities in developing countries. Res...
As a new product resulting from the deep integration of the financial industry and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, financial technology (fintech) has a significant impact on the progress of green total factor productivity (GTFP). Based on ci...
As a core business strategy, sustainability has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly evolving world. The improvement of a firm’s total factor productivity (TFP) is necessary for the realization of sustainable development. The...
The dilemma of firms in developing economies was the crux of this study. In probing whether the adoption of organization-wide green strategy would enhance the product quality and the firm’s financial lifeline, while also improving the environment, we...
Global energy production has been on the rise for many years, and reliance on traditional sources of energy remains strong. The extraction and production of energy can serve as an important avenue of growth, particularly for developing economies. To...
Using the slacks-based measure (SBM) directional distance function and constructing the Luenberger productivity index, we measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of China’s provinces under resource and environmental restrictions. At...
10 June 2022
In the past 15 years, China has emitted the most carbon dioxide globally. The overuse of chemical fertilizer is an essential reason for agricultural carbon emissions. In recent years, China has paid more and more attention to financial support for ag...
Improving agricultural green total factor productivity is important for achieving high-quality economic development and the SDGs. Digital inclusive finance, which combines the advantages of digital technology and inclusive finance, represents a new s...
The idiosyncratic and knowledge-intense nature of the financial institutions requires them to rely more on intangible than on tangible resources. Over the past two decades, researchers have been motivated to embark on the relationship between intelle...
The development of inclusive finance brings opportunities for farmers’ income growth. Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2014 to 2023, this study explores the relationship between financial inclusion and two dimensions of finan...
25 July 2022
Large-scale agricultural operations number among the ways to promote the green development of the agricultural sector, which can not only encourage farmers to adopt green innovative technology, reduce the input of chemical fertilizers and pesticides,...
Many green financial products currently have a low financial return level; even so, these products are spreading dynamically. In our study, we explored Hungarian green financial investment preferences and separated consumers of green financial produc...
Innovation and productivity improvements are essential drivers of economic growth, social stability, and sustainable development. As a high-risk, long-term activity, innovation requires external support, especially from the financial sector. In respo...
There have been many research studies that have examined the impact of financial development on economic growth, but few of them have explored this problem from the perspective of financial market information. In this paper, we investigate whether th...
26 November 2021
This paper employs the global Malmquist Luenberger (GML) index and the System Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation method to investigate the influence of both environmental regulation and financial development on green total factor producti...
The integration of financial technology expenditures and green total factor productivity (GTFP) constitutes a critical impetus for sustainable economic advancement. This study employs provincial panel data from China (2012–2020) and uses the SB...
Businesses investing in production digitalization equipment are supposed to benefit from increased productivity, enhanced efficiency, and revenue growth. Despite the increasing use of digital technologies in business, many companies still struggle to...
This study pioneers an investigation into how artificial intelligence (AI)—shaped by financial development and knowledge production—is transforming the energy transition across BRICS economies and paving the way for a digitally enabled, s...
This study empirically analyzes the impact of the shadow banking business (SBB) of non-financial enterprises (non-FEs) on the total factor productivity (TFP) of enterprises using data concerning non-FEs listed in China’s A-share market from 200...
This study provides new evidence on how production digitalization investment affects firm financial performance across diverse European regions. A panel of 14,935 firm-year observations from 30 countries (2012–2022), including a focused Baltic...
Cultivation of species of high growth rates is a key achievement of sustainable aquaculture development, with the aim of increasing animal protein per capita, maintaining food security and preserving freshwater usage. The present study was conducted...
In the pursuit of sustainable economic development, fostering new-quality productivity (NQP) is both an inherent requirement and a strategic priority for advancing a green economy, while digital transformation has emerged as a pivotal driver in recon...
This research identified the optimal scenarios to produce three bioenergy outputs: dual generation (electricity and heat), electricity, and heat in two regions located in the northern part of Costa Rica. Two biomass conversion technologies—boil...
An asset allocation optimization model for key clients and financial products is developed and deployed on a business platform by compiling a program to a module using MATLAB to show how to integrate financial big data and fintech in a real applicati...
Corporate innovation can be subdivided, according to its approach and novelty, into exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation, i.e., ambidextrous innovation. Defined as actions to promote financial inclusion through digital financial service...
Policymakers, governments, and Islamic financial institutions are increasingly focusing on sustainable development, leading to an in-depth examination of current sustainable finance practices, projects, and product portfolios. This study examines the...
Based on the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index and 2011–2018 provincial panel data, this paper discusses the mechanism of digital financial inclusion on agricultural green total factor productivity from both theoretical and em...
Artificial intelligence is changing the world in unprecedented ways and redefining all areas of human activity. In recent decades, the development of AI has progressed at an extraordinary pace. This study examines the scope of implementing AI in the...
Banks distribute intangible services, so that traditional marketing instruments are often limited concerning their effectiveness to reach new clients, especially teenagers and young adults. With respect to this relevant practical problem, we used sur...
The Micro Financial Institutions (MFIs) have been touted as development strategies for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) which merits research into the effect of financial development on the efficiency and sustainability of the MFIs....
Studies consider the impact of financial support on agricultural technology adoption, but do not consider the role of the rapidly evolving Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI). This study analyzes the impact of DFI on farmers’ willingness to adopt...
The study focuses on the effects of imports, exports, financial direct investment inflow and financial direct investment outflow on sustainable economic growth expressed by various macroeconomic indicators (gross domestic product, gross domestic savi...
How does the implementation of ERP solutions influence the financial performance of companies? Using data for 406 of companies from Romania, we assessed the impact of the implementation of ERP solutions on the profitability and productivity of compan...
The 17 sustainable development goals proposed in the 2030 sustainable development agenda are the shared vision of all humanity. The core of achieving the sustainable development goals is to ensure grain security. Although financial inclusion is not s...
We argue that the present crisis and stalling economy that have been ongoing since 2007 are rooted in the delusionary belief in policies based on a “perpetual money machine” type of thinking. We document strong evidence that, since the early 1980s, c...
This paper aims to investigate how financial variables and exogenous crises influence firms’ financial performance, and how these factors may help managers in decision-making to increase their firm’s wealth. The dynamic interactions among variables w...
This paper explores the potential for engineer-to-order (ETO) companies to capitalise financially on their modular product architectures by sharing them with their suppliers. Few scholars have studied product architectures being shared across buyers...
The limited availability of water at low prices and the current scheme for specific supply arrangements (SSA/REA), both determined at the political level, explain that the goal of being self-sufficient in terms of forage consumption is currently unat...
The sustainability of the mask emergency supply chain faces two problems during the current COVID-19 pandemic. First, mask manufacturers are mainly small and mid-size enterprises, resulting in a lack of funds and credit lines for the introduction of...
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