This study investigates the impact of Airbnb announcements on hotel stock prices across ten countries, distinguishing between exact- and general-location announcements. We found that while general announcements have minimal impact, those with exact locations consistently reduce hotel stock...

This Data Note is a brief explanation of a dataset compiled for a study on the relationship between social cohesion and Covid-19. The innovative variable in this cross-country dataset is social cohesion, which appears as a consolidated index and as two sub-indices on, respectively, the...

The potential of FinTech algorithms to decrease gender bias in credit decisions is limited by the impartiality of the data used to train them. If the data is partial or biased, the algorithmic decision-making process may also be discriminatory, exacerbating existing inequalities. In this study,...

A large body of literature studies the relationship between corruption and economic outcomes, including government revenue mobilization, but there is little evidence on how this relationship changes during times of crisis. Using a comprehensive panel dataset covering up to 194 countries in the...

We investigate whether climate change affects the efficiency of monetary policy. We use temperature shocks, calculated as temperature deviations from historical average temperatures, to proxy climate change, and utilize a threshold vector autoregression model (TVAR) to estimate the impact of...

This study employs a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model to investigate the dynamic relationship between changes in monetary policy and inflation expectations within various sectors. The analysis encompasses data from the financial, business, and trade union sectors, spanning the first quarter...

Enhancing green innovation is the key to realizing high-quality development and the "dual-carbon" goal. This paper takes the data from Chinese cities from 2000 to 2018 as a sample to test the impact and mechanism of local governments' competition for the environment on urban green innovation....

This study investigates the impact of uncertainty on income inequality in developing countries. Unlike prior studies, we analyse the role that the fiscal policy could play in the relationship. Using a sample of 66 developing countries over the period 2000-2020, we find at several levels of...