This note investigates the empirical pattern of suicides across Italy over the last 15 years. Typically, a country shares similar basic cultural and social macro-features. Yet in Italy there are marked variations across the regions such that it provides a useful setting to examine the economic...

Technical efficiency (TE) is an important measure of farm performance. This study measured the TE of wheat farms across six states in the U.S. Western Great Plains based on production and farm management-specific variables. Significant factors positively influencing efficiency were insecticide...

This study analyzes how export duration affects firms' export product quality. On the basis of Chinese firms' micro data, we find that export duration has a significantly positive effect on the export product quality of firms by promoting their productivity and innovation ability. This study...

This paper examines how the corporate life cycle affects credit scoring. Previous empirical studies have shown that the life cycle has an impact on financial policies, creditworthiness, risk and performance. This study utilizes panel data of U.S. listed companies for the period 1985-2017. The...

Combined with data from the Broadband China pilots, panel data on financial fraud in prefecture-level cities from China Judgments Online are used to examine the impact of internet technology on financial fraud. We find that internet technology has significantly increased city financial fraud....

The problem of zombie enterprises originated in Japan's bubble economy around 1990. Afterward, after China's oversupply problem in 2016, it gained attention and received policy support from the Chinese government in solving related problems. The contribution of this measurement is to integrate...

Can all types of tax burdens negatively affect corporate innovation activities? The Chinese Environmental Protection Tax Law provides a chance to investigate the impact of environmental taxes on corporate green innovation. Using a large sample of Chinese listed firms for the 2015-2019 period and...

This paper uses nighttime lights imagery and gridded population datasets to estimate 2000-2020 rural poverty rates for Venezuela at the state and municipality levels. Then, I examine if there has been a significant change in rural poverty during the economic collapse ongoing since 2013-2014. The...