Drawing on agency theory, this study explores how the geographical distribution of institutional shareholders affects corporate ESG rating disagreements. A higher geographical concentration of institutional shareholders is found to correlate with reduced ESG rating disagreements, as...

The operational phase of a building consumes a significant amount of energy, making energy efficiency a priority for a sustainable built environment. This study examines operational energy-saving opportunities of Ethiopian urban housing through a cluster analysis of 927 sample units in Addis...

Industrial agglomeration is an inevitable path for the energy storage industry to develop on a large scale. Based on the database of listed companies in China's A-share market, the data of upstream and downstream enterprises in the energy storage industry chain from 2015 to 2020 are collected...

The research develops an open innovation roadmap which enables Latvian regions to use carbon dioxide. The research combines stakeholder collaboration with spatial analysis and performance evaluation, environmental impact assessment, and economic feasibility studies. The roadmap evaluates several...

This study investigates spatial crime patterns in the municipality of Matelândia, Brazil, with the aim of optimizing the placement of police facilities through an enhanced clustering approach. We use an unsupervised machine learning technique, and we introduce a refined k-Means methodology...

Personality prediction has become an increasingly important area in psychological computing and human-centered AI, especially with the rise of user-generated textual data from social media platforms. However, current approaches - primarily based on supervised learning - face major challenges in...

We examined the internationalization process of business promotion organizations. We focused on the key stages and strategies and how the networks formed during this process can support their partners, particularly SMEs, in facilitating international expansion.The theoretical lens: We combined...

The vulnerability of the global financial system to systemic risk-related adverse events has become more evident in recent years, as shown by the 2008 financial crisis and the global pandemic. This study examines systemic risk and its contributing factors using network analysis to understand how...

This note summarizes the results and lessons learned from piloting cluster competitiveness initiatives (CCIs) in Upper Egypt. It aims to help World Bank staff and practitioners who are grappling with enabling subnational and sectoral private sector development decide whether and in what form...

We examine the urban learning and schooling premium in Peru using two approaches: 1) estimating the effect of local population density on pupils' value-added in learning between grades two to eight, 2) quasi-experimental Census estimations on the effects of the duration of urban exposure in...

Purpose This research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on tourism industry revenues in Spain. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the Bureau van Dijk's...

The Indonesian government has implemented poverty alleviation programs, including assistance programs for the poor. Despite these efforts, the number of impoverished individuals in South Sulawesi continues to rise. To address this issue, a statistical method is necessary to cluster the poor...

Regional wage gaps persist, and understanding them is crucial for policy design and for comprehending phenomena such that agglomeration. This article analyzes regional wage differences in Colombia by incorporating the composition of skills and specialization patterns into the analysis. To do...

This paper shows that global inflation dynamics have a sizable regional component. Using a balanced panel of 61 countries that starts in 1970, we document that while the global factor, defined as the dominant principal component, explains a large portion of inflation variation in advanced...

Background: Growing disparities in development, governance, and logistics performance across countries pose challenges for global policymaking and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) monitoring. This study proposes a classification of 137 countries based on multiple structural dimensions. The...

High-speed railway (HSR) impacts the economic growth and industrial spatial structure of the cities along the line. The extant literature discusses the influence of HSR on the agglomeration of the service industry but pays little attention to that of the manufacturing industry. This article...

Almaty Agglomeration is a large territory in Central Asia, located in a region with a sharply continental climate characterized by cold winters and dry summers. The area includes diverse ecological zones ranging from deserts to mountain meadows and forests, creating varied microclimates and...