Digitalization is increasingly central to economic growth strategies, yet robust macro-level evidence on the role of SME-led e-commerce remains limited. Drawing on the Resource-Based View, this study examines how SME digitalization, internet finance, and platform-based activities influence...

As cryptocurrencies evolve from niche assets to systemic financial components, the banking sector faces a strategic dilemma: displacement or adaptation. Using 27,510 bank-year observations from 2014 to 2023 across thirty-two economies, predominantly within the European banking sector, this study...

This paper examines the effects of public infrastructure spending across Ecuadorian cantons on adequate employment and the multidimensional poverty rate over the period 2008-2022, assessing whether such spending operated as a mechanism of convergence. The analysis is grounded in the hypothesis...

Millions of parents across Europe use mobile baby-tracking applications. These digital aides generate intimate data sets by accessing sensitive information about (un)born babies, pregnancies, and family caregiving routines. Crucially, the tracking infrastructures embedded in these apps enable...

We study how federal information-collection requirements affect public infrastructure spending of local governments. Exploiting the introduction and revision of the federal survey on highway infrastructure, we find that county roads that are randomly sampled by the survey attract more local...

Es werden die kurz- und langfristigen makroökonomischen und fiskalischen Auswirkungen der Bereichsausnahme für Verteidigung und des Sondervermögens für Infrastruktur und Klimaschutz (SVIK) mithilfe des makroökonometrischen Mehrländermodells NiGEM für den Zeitraum von 2026 bis 2050...

Wo Schulen, Kommunalverwaltungen und Krankenhäuser schließen, zieht sich der Staat aus der Fläche zurück. Dieser Rückzug kostet nicht nur gut bezahlte Jobs und Zukunftsperspektiven, sondern auch Vertrauen in den Staat, insbesondere in strukturschwachen Regionen. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich,...

This paper studies the complementarities between energy and digital infrastructure in developing countries. Using geospatial data on power transmission lines, power plants, cell towers, and fiber-optic nodes matched to settlement-level wealth indicators across sub-Saharan Africa, and detailed...

Quality Infrastructure (QI) is defined as the system comprising organizations (public and private), policies, legal and regulatory frameworks, and practices that support and enhance the quality, safety, and environmental feature of goods, services, and processes. The Global Quality...

Cross-border infrastructure projects are pivotal in driving economic growth, poverty reduction, and regional prosperity. For instance, strategic investments in roads, bridges, rail networks, communication networks, and transmission lines that span national boundaries can facilitate trade and...

Building on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and the OECD Prevent‑React‑Rebuild (PRR) framework, this report examines Building Back Better (BBB) as a strategic approach to post‑disaster reconstruction that goes beyond restoring infrastructure to pre‑disaster...

In recent years, Jordan has increasingly strengthened its commitment to enhancing public service delivery through digital public infrastructure (DPI). DPI refers to foundational and reusable digital platforms and building blocks-such as digital ID, digital payments, and data sharing-that...

DPI is an approach to digitalization focused on creating "foundational, digital building blocks designed for the public benefit." By providing essential digital functions at society scale that can be reused across sectors, DPIs enable public and private service providers to build on these...

The aim of this project is to identify the investment requirements for energy infrastructure across each TEN-E infrastructure category, as well as for non-TEN-E electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, in order to enable a decarbonised economy in the EU. It also evaluates the...

Spätestens seit dem Einstieg des chinesischen Schiffskonzerns China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) im Hamburger Hafen wird die Rolle der Investitionskontrolle auch im Bereich maritimer Infrastrukturen öffentlich intensiv diskutiert. Als maritime Infrastrukturen werden gemeinhin...

A robust food traceability system is crucial for ensuring seamless information fow within supply chains. While the current centralised approach, typically led by a supply chain leader, facilitates information exchange, it faces signifcant limitations, such as prolonged tracing processes and a...

Malta's rapid growth over the past two decades has gone hand in hand with a significant expansion of the population. This has created bottlenecks in infrastructure, which will need to be addressed. While capacity in energy and water supply is currently adequate, investments in wastewater...

Purpose - The continuous export challenges due to the inadequate quality infrastructure have brought to the fore the importance of export facilitation-quality infrastructure. Different infrastructure investments have been implemented to facilitate export; however, the outcomes were different...

This paper examines the determinants of the spatial distribution of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Germany, a key element in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Using postcode-level geographic data and regression analysis, we investigate how factors such as population density,...

In der vorliegenden Studie untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen des Stromnetzausbaus von 651 Milliarden Euro bis 2045 auf die künftigen Netzentgelte. Die Analyse zeigt, dass das Finanzierungskonzept eine entscheidende Rolle spielt. Die Finanzierungsoption "öffentliches Eigenkapital" (ÖÖP), in...

Global Value Chain (GVCs) offer vast opportunities for industrialization, economic diversification, and structural economic transformation. However, despite various efforts to become notable actors in the GVC, many African countries remain positioned at the lower end of the GVC spectrum. Hence,...

Tackling climate change in the public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure sector requires radical transformation of projects to make them resilient against climate risks and free from excessive carbon emissions. Types of PPP infrastructure such as transport, power plants, hospitals, schools...