Innovation plays a crucial role in pursuing long-term economic prosperity. This paper analyses the policies of Singapore and Hong Kong conducive to innovation development and uses specific indicators to illustrate their diverse performances. We find that both cities demonstrate comparable levels...

We develop a two-region Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Macroeconomic model to evaluate the cooperative and non-cooperative cross-border travel arrangements during a pandemic. In a symmetric setting, the Pareto optimal is a cooperative travel arrangement that emphasizes exclusively on domestic...