Global population aging trends are intensifying, presenting multifaceted economic and social challenges for countries worldwide. As the world's largest developing country, China has entered a phase of extreme demographic aging, posing significant questions about its impact on the ongoing...

This Special Issue comprises original research contributions on the changing landscape of sustainability policies and their economic and social impacts. The first paper duscusses the 'green growth' and 'de-growth' recipes for global climate change. The other ten papers address the transition...

Economic theory dating to Domar and Musgrave (1944) suggests that the tax treatment of gains and losses can affect firmsf incentives to undertake high-risk investments. Exploiting a 2002 tax law change in Japan that allows business groups to adopt a consolidated taxation system (CTS) and using...

This paper contributes new empirical evidence and nuanced analysis on the gender difference in access to extension services and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity. We employ a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression method...