This research investigates the Australian rental sector during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and considers priorities for governments; tenant experiences and reflections on the effectiveness of assistance and interventions; changing tenant aspirations; and the priorities for emerging...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to broadband, and the federal response included significant funding for this issue. The broadband policy landscape shifted from its traditional emphasis on providing infrastructure to also include subsidizing the costs associated with devices and...

Recently, the number of state interventions and of firm subsidies has largely increased. However, the possible outcome of such interventions is rather am-biguous. This paper investigates the impact of firm subsidies granted by Ger-man regional policy. The long experiences made with regional...

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

Shale energy exploitation often occurs in rural areas. While agriculture dominates surface land use in these regions, energy development competes for inputs such as water and labor, and localized congestion externalities can create bottlenecks in transporting agricultural output. Additionally,...

The U.S. shale boom of the mid-2000s traded off possible environmental damage and negative quality-of-life impacts against income gains and rents captured by workers and property owners. This study measures the effect of local shale oil and gas extraction on local land prices and wages. Using...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie der Wechsel der vertretenen Regierungspartei in der Region und die Absorptionsfähigkeit von FDI das regionale Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt auf regionaler Ebene für den Zeitraum...

This paper evaluates the levels of risk of suffering a natural disaster or socio-economic-political disaster worldwide. This research considers evaluating 234 countries distributed in five continents are Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The main objective of this research paper is to...

The impact of crime on economic growth is obviously substantial, but measuring the degree of its effects on a country's economic performance is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. This paper primarily attempts to close this gap using the economics of crime monitoring model, a new economic...

This study introduces a comprehensive evaluation tool to study the performance of pension schemes. The Pension Scheme Performance Index (PSP-Index) suggests the following factors: education infrastructure growth rate (∆V1); training programs growth rate (∆V2); diet improvement growth rate...