The debate on how corporate social responsibility (CSR) responds to and reacts to the increasing economic policy uncertainty (EPU) is still unsettled. The present study sheds light on the curvilinear relationship between EPU and CSR, employing the pr...
This study investigates the relationship between corporate financialization and innovation investment in Chinese manufacturing firms under the backdrop of economic policy uncertainty (EPU). We systematically examine the dual mechanisms through which...
This study applies a panel threshold regression model to reconcile the inconsistent findings about returnee chief executive officer (CEO) effects on enterprise innovation using the environmental uncertainty as the threshold variable and panel data fr...
This study measured the economic resilience of 269 prefecture-level cities in China by constructing an indicator evaluation system for the resilience, adjustment, and responsiveness of the economic system under external shocks. A dynamic spatial Durb...
Unabsorbed slack resources are critical for organizational innovation, but research concerning the relationship between unabsorbed slack and corporate innovation has resulted in controversial findings. Using the data of all A-shared listed companies...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a vital instrument for corporations to integrate sustainable development principles into business operations. Against the dual backdrop of disruptions in the international order and e...
In the digital and low-carbon economy context, climate policy uncertainty’s (CPU) influence on corporate technological innovation has attracted increasing attention. However, prior studies mainly focused on the negative cost effects or singular...
This study investigates the relationship between Effective Strategic Alliances (ESA) and Competitive Advantage among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in resource-constrained environments. Situated in the West Bank, Palestine, where family ow...
The organic working fluid journal bearing is expected to enhance organic Rankine cycle system compactness significantly. In order to serve the practical application of organic working fluid bearings, this study analyzes the influence of key design pa...
This study investigates the asymmetric effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on food security in Nigeria, utilizing annual time series data from 1970 to 2021. The study used descriptive statistics, unit root tests, the nonlinear autoregressive...
The study investigated the threshold effects of economic-policy uncertainty on food security in Nigeria, covering the period from 1970 to 2021. Summary statistics and unit root tests were employed for preliminary analysis, while the threshold regress...
Proactive defense planning in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critically constrained by two intertwined types of uncertainty: epistemic uncertainty, arising from the defender’s limited observability of the system state and incomplete knowle...
Cost-effectiveness analyses of new cancer treatments in real-world settings (e.g., post-clinical trials) inform healthcare decision makers about their healthcare investments for patient populations. The results of these analyses are often, though not...
This article investigates the effects of global geopolitical risk acts and threats on exports of key inputs, such as machinery and equipment, in China, the world leading exporter of these goods, considering the role of oil price uncertainty in this r...
Apparent power and power factor are crucial metrics for evaluating the energy transmission efficiency and reactive power management in power systems. The increasing complexity of power load structures, driven by evolving energy production and consump...
Against the backdrop of unprecedented global FDI volatility—with flows declining 34.7% in 2020 and a further 12% in 2022—and China experiencing its first sustained capital outflow since reform, with foreign enterprises withdrawing over US...
Methods to handle uncertainty in economic evaluation have gained much attention in the literature, and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve (CEAC) is the most widely used method to summarise and present uncertainty associated with program costs...
Based on the definition of tsunami risk, we quantitatively evaluated the annual expected tsunami loss ratio (Tsunami Risk Index) and clarified the quantitative effects of epistemic uncertainties in tsunami hazard assessments on the tsunami risk of bu...
This study employs the TVP-VAR-DY model to examine the risk spillover effects and dynamic interactions between traditional energy markets and green financial markets across both time and frequency domains. Furthermore, it evaluates the influence of c...
Amid the ongoing transformation of global climate governance, climate policy uncertainty has emerged as an increasingly important factor influencing both energy and agricultural commodity markets, with direct implications for energy and food security...
During the health crisis, it is vital to protect not only the critical sectors of the economy, the assets, technology, and infrastructure, but first and foremost, it is fundamental to protect jobs and workers. The current COVID-19 pandemic has had a...
We investigate the statistical entropy of black holes within the framework of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) by employing effective metrics that incorporate leading-order and all-order quantum gravitational corrections. We construct thre...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a typical biological environmental process to influence leaf temperature, crop water requirement, and greenhouse microclimate. Affecting factors of ET include air temperature, air relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiat...
This study examines the determinants of non-performing financing (NPF) using country-level Islamic banking system aggregates for the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, with particular attention to the role of global economic policy uncerta...
The traditional covering problem has two assumptions: “all or nothing coverage” and “individual coverage”. There are settings where the two assumptions may be unrealistic. In this research, we relax the two assumptions and stu...
The interplay between government economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and bank risk remains a key concern in the financial stability literature. This study advances the field by examining the dynamic, time-varying impact of EPU on bank risk, explicitly...
This study investigates the effect of uncertainty characteristics of renewable energy resources on the flexibility of a power system. The more renewable energy resources introduced, the greater the imbalance between load and generation. Securing the...
In our paper, we test how the social security system affects citizens’ consumption behavior through narrowing the income gap between residents with different social status and decreasing the uncertainty of income and cost. In the theoretical pa...
Weather-related power outages affect millions of utility customers every year. Predicting storm outages with lead times of up to five days could help utilities to allocate crews and resources and devise cost-effective restoration plans that meet the...
Uncertainty, as the predominant characteristic of the contemporary landscape, poses significant challenges and exerts profound influence on individual decision making and behaviors; however, there remains a limited understanding of its impact on univ...
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Abstract: In a follow-up study of mortality among North American synthetic rubber industry workers, cumulative exposure to 1,3-butadiene was positively associated with leukemia. Problems with historical exposure estimation, however, may have distorte...
In some cases, enterprise fears uncertainty more than the policy itself, and this fear can impede innovation. However, this study finds that uncertainty is the source of enterprise’s innovation. We took Chinese A-share listed companies from 201...
This study adopts the Conditional Autoregressive Value at Risk (CAViaR) model to measure the downside tail risks of high-carbon-emission industries. Based on the Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive-BK (TVP-VAR-BK) model, it investigates the...
Route planning to evade potential pollution holds critical importance for aquaculture vessels. This study establishes a fish-feed pollutant drift model based on the Lagrangian particle tracking algorithm and designs four sets of sensitivity experimen...
The study assessed the effect of inflation targeting (IT) policy on inflation uncertainty and economic growth in African and European IT countries. This study contributes to the existing knowledge by analysing and comparing the African IT and Europea...
Epilepsy is one of the most ancient diseases. Despite the efforts of scientists and doctors to improve the quality of live of epileptic patients, the disease is still a mystery in many senses. Anti-epileptic drugs are fundamental to reduce epileptic...
Incorporating economic policy uncertainty into the Melitz and Ottaviano theoretical model, this study systematically examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty on firm markups, contributing to our understanding of how macroeconomic conditions...
The uncertainty associated with probing the quantum state is expressed as the effective abundance (measure) of possibilities for its collapse. New kinds of uncertainty limits entailed by the quantum description of the physical system arise in this ma...
(1) Background: Migration causes effects on the people who migrate and on the societies that receive them, which can be positive or negative, depending on the characteristics of the interaction. One negative effect is the emergence of mental health d...
Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the levels of intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety between individuals who developed vertebral fractures after liver transplantation and those who did not and to examine the effect of pain on the...
Climate risks drive dynamic adjustments to global climate policies, creating significant climate policy uncertainty (CPU). This uncertainty profoundly affects enterprises’ survival and sustainable development. A key question emerges: how do ent...
The global value chain has promoted foreign direct investments in emerging markets. Not only resources but also public policies can affect the inflows or outflows of foreign direct investments (FDI). This study investigates the effect of economic pol...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the buffering (moderating) effect of environmental uncertainty (EU) on the relationship between the critical success factors (CSFs) of public–private partnership projects (PPPPs) and sustainable perf...
In the last three decades computer simulation tools have achieved wide spread use in the design and analysis of engineering devices. This has shortened the overall product design cycle (physical experiments may be impossible during early design stage...
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Contemporary society is characterized by a high level of uncertainty in many domains of everyday life. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a deep economic crisis, exacerbating worldwide feelings of uncertainty and precarity. Individuals with insecure...
Indeterminacy associated with the probing of a quantum state is commonly expressed through spectral distances (metric) featured in the outcomes of repeated experiments. Here, we express it as an effective amount (measure) of distinct outcomes instead...
With China’s proposal of carbon peak and carbon neutral goals, its trend of economic development has shifted from pursuing high-speed economic development to high-quality development. However, for the past few years, with the increasing global...
R&D investment can reduce costs through efficient production technology, which has a positive (+) impact on future performance. On the other hand, R&D investment has uncertainty due to characteristics such as time lag, high cost and non-appro...
To address limitations in existing wind farm energy production calculation and reliability assessment—including simplified wake effects, neglected performance degradation, and over-reliance on large-sample data—this study proposes a belie...
This study examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on sustainable investment returns by using panel data of stock market returns and the EPU index from twelve countries for the period from April 2015 to December 2020. In addition, pr...
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