Pro-environmental waste disposal behavior plays a fundamental role in improving rural waste management and rural livability. Recent years have witnessed an increased social, political and academic interest in the influencing mechanism of pro-environmental waste disposal behavior. In particular,...

Prepositioning relief network is an effective strategy to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and public health emergencies, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, designing a proper network is challenging due to limited information and, more importantly, the spatially correlated...

This paper studies tax policy interaction among local governments for both mobile and immobile tax bases. We exploit exogenous changes in the local tax setting of German municipalities due to participation in state debt reduction programs to learn about the size, scope and nature of strategic...

Small area estimation methods have become a widely used tool to provide accurate estimates for regional indicators such as poverty measures. Recent research has provided evidence that spatial modelling still can improve the precision of regional and local estimates. In this paper, we provide an...

As the world's largest energy consumer, it is worth exploring how China can achieve high-quality energy development. This paper aims to assess the role of green finance development in China's high-quality energy development (HED). We develop two indicator systems to measure the level of...

This paper investigates spatial dependence of FDI knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services using spatial panel techniques applied to the 2006-2014 Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus firm-level dataset for Croatia and Slovenia. The paper finds diverse results across the two sectors. The distance...