A faster pace of business-efficiency reforms in emerging economies creates a hyper-competitive business landscape, with global firms arriving with significantly better resources posing enormous challenges to incumbent firms. Using a data set of 55,068 firm-year observations from 37 nations...

Media dissemination has an important function in facilitating price discovery. Political pressure that restricts media dissemination can hinder this function and affect investors' perceptions. We investigate the magnitude and economic consequences of China's newspaper censorship, which blocks...

Recently, energy efficiency and the sharing economy have become significant factors for sustainable economic development (SED), which require the attention of researchers and policymakers. Thus, the present research investigates the impact of energy efficiency and the sharing economy on SED in...