The following Special Issue (SI) seeks to provide a comprehensive exploration of the persistent and evolving nature of inequality and poverty across both developed and developing nations. The SI features a range of studies that address the complex factors contributing to income disparities, such...

This study examines the impact of corporate governance on sustainability-related risk in Indian banks across crisis and post-crisis periods. Using data from 37 public and private banks between 2006 and 2018, it analyzes how board characteristics influence liquidity and solvency risk. Panel...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and bank-specific determinants of nonperforming loans in Romania and selected Central and Eastern European countries. Using a combination of econometric approaches, the study employs fixed-effects panel regressions for 18 Romanian banks over the period...

This study assesses whether wage inequality affects enterprises' operating revenues and whether operating revenues reversely affect wage inequality. To study our research questions, we analyze panel data from Norway and find that wage inequality decreases operating revenues. I.e., increasing...

This study assesses whether wage inequality affects enterprises' operating revenues and whether operating revenues reversely affect wage inequality. To study our research questions, we analyze panel data from Norway and find that wage inequality decreases operating revenues. I.e., increasing...

Higher levels of quota granted can induce and increase exports, but the impact is not the same across all tariff lines. Answers are sought to the question of how the level of exports changes as the quota size of tariff rate quotas changes, thus enabling the investigation of whether unilateral...

This article aims to provide new and robust evidence of the effect of air pollution on migration at the level of 70 European cities in the period 2004-2019. We use factor and regression analysis and panel data conducted from Eurobarometer, Eurostat, national statistical offices, and the European...

This paper uses German microdata to test whether the ECB's quantitative easing (QE) spurred bank lending to non-financial firms. Bank-firm loan data allow me to control for loan demand at firm level. The share of bonds in banks' total assets before QE serves as treatment proxy. While the effects...