Although Google is blocked in China, Chinese provinces export significantly more to foreign countries that recently searched for them (up to 12 months prior). This attention premium is found mainly at the extensive margin of exports, larger in products that are relatively homogeneous,...

The multi-staged impact of the high-speed railway site-specific complementary policymaking on urban industrialisation remains subject to controversy. This preliminary report examines whether HSR new town planning constrains urban industrialisation with electricity consumption as a proxy for...

True pricing has progressed from an abstract notion to a real life phenomenon as a way to make consumers aware of the genuine costs to society of products. Our paper analyzes the impact of true prices on competition. Our model uses a straightforward differentiated Bertrand set-up where consumers...

Econometrics in general, and Panel Data methods in particular, are becoming crucial in Public Health Economics and Social Policy analysis. In this discussion paper, we employ a useful approach of Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) to assess if there are statistically relevant...

This paper uses a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model that deterministically accounts for the trends among time-series variables to estimate the size of the informal economy for 15 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries from 1990 to 2019. Among the countries, Mauritius,...

The paper reviews environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Criteria and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within the EU policy framework. It evaluates the integration of the SDGs into existing sustainability reporting frameworks, advocating for more comprehensive and interdisciplinary...

This research introduces a comprehensive system based on state-of-the-art natural language processing, semantic embedding, and efficient search techniques for retrieving similarities and thus generating actionable insights out of raw textual information. The system works on automatically...

This paper explores the dynamic effects of labor unions on economic growth and income inequality in a Schumpeterian growth model with heterogeneous households and endogenous market structure. A representative labor union bargains with a representative employer to determine the labor income share...

Achieving climate-neutrality is a global imperative that demands coordinated efforts from both science and robust policies supporting a smooth transition across multiple sectors. However, the interdisciplinary and complex science-to-policy nature of this effort makes it particularly challenging...

As global commitments to decarbonization intensify, energy-emission models are becoming increasingly vital for policymaking, offering data-driven insights to evaluate the feasibility and impact of climate strategies. These models help governments design evidence-based policies, assess mitigation...