In a policy context established by the European Union's 2050 net-zero aim, we explore the relevance of low-carbon and alternative renewable energy sources to carbon dioxide emissions in EU-27 countries. Renewable energy, particularly hydro and wind, reduces CO2 emissions, making it the best...

This study presents a bibliometric and thematic analysis of economic convergence analysis from 1982 to 2025, based on a corpus of 2924 Scopus-indexed articles. Using VOSviewer and the bibliometrix R package, this research maps the field's intellectual structure, identifying five main thematic...

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and rural unemployment in Brazil and Mexico, incorporating the effects of climate variability and spatial interactions. Okun's Law serves as the theoretical framework, and a dynamic spatial panel model is applied to estimate short-term...

Macroeconomic conditions are often neglected in bank valuation models. We find that economic policy uncertainty significantly reduces bank value by using a panel data regression model with data on the US banks. Economic policy uncertainty also affects bank value through its moderating role in...

Public development banks are mission-oriented financial institutions whose purpose is to finance investments on behalf of the policymakers. After the last global financial crisis and the changes in the regulatory framework, the lending activities of commercial banks have declined, and their...