Designing an efficient global climate policy turns out to be a difficult yet crucial task since there are noteworthy cross-country differences in energy and carbon intensities. In this paper, the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is tested for carbon dioxide ( 2 CO ) emissions and the...

Le plan carrière de 2008 a permis une revalorisation des salaires des Maîtres de Conférences nouvellement recrutés ainsi qu'une hausse significative des taux de promotion, ce qui s'est traduit par un nouvel écrasement des hiérarchies salariales pour les enseignants-chercheurs. La...

This paper focuses solely on the energy consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth nexus applying the iterative Bayesian shrinkage procedure. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is tested using this method for the first time in this literature and the results...

This paper focuses solely on the energy consumption, carbon dioxide ( 2 CO ) emissions and economic growth nexus applying the iterative Bayesian shrinkage procedure. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is tested using this method for the first time in this literature and the results...

Much of the existing literature on the relationship between nuclear energy consumption and gross domestic product (GDP) deals only with the causal links between these two variables. However, very little attention has been paid to the structure and form of this relationship. This paper first uses...

Remittances have historically been a stable source of funding which has played a key role in the development efforts of many nations worldwide. As a consequence of the Covid crisis and the lockdown measures imposed to counteract the spread of the disease, the World Bank estimated a drop of 20%...

mewto is an R package that allows users to experiment with different thresholds for classification of prediction results in the case of binary classification problems and to interactively visualize model evaluation metrics, confusion matrices, the ROC and PR curves. It can also calculate the...

After the 2008 global financial crisis, the development of macroprudential instruments capable of reducing systemic risk was placed at the forefront of the Basel III implementation agenda. Central Banks worldwide sought to enhance their capabilities to monitor and prevent the accumulation of...

The Hodrick-Prescott filter is a technique commonly used to smooth macroeconomic data such as the GDP. It consists in separating short-term, cyclical movements in the data from the long-term trend. Although the HP filter has received numerous critiques, recent studies show that alternative...

This paper investigates if a firm's ethical issues, in conjunction with its governance, affect its standing within financial markets. A firm's ethical reputation arises from its involvement in ethical violations and incidents while a comprehensive index proxies for governance. We assess a firm's...