Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards' conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of...

The crystal habit controls the microstructure heterogeneity of the crystalline rocks that significantly affects their mechanical behaviors. However, thus far, this effect has not been quantitatively characterized. Here we establish a grain-based model to investigate the effect of crystal habit...

Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards' conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of...

Developing a sustainable economic system in the wake of unprecedented environmental challenges is the major cry of the day. This study aims to investigate the impacts of financial development, technological innovation, globalization, trade openness, and renewable energy consumption on the...

The hydroelectric power sector has significant standing in the global energy mix, and its intersection with financial development and economic progression has substantial implications for realizing sustainable development. To this end, this study aims to unravel the relationship among...

The literature reveals that most of the comparative studies have been conducted in the field of conventional versus Islamic banks while as much focus has not been paid to analyze comparative performance of Islamic banks across the countries and literature is scant in this area. This study...

Climate change poses a pressing and urgent peril to the overall welfare of the planet, with far-reaching implications for human livelihoods. The aim of this research is to explore the influence of environmental technologies, environmental taxes, and FDI in B&R economies on increasing renewable...

This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the lifetime experience of individuals rather than simply taking a static or cross-sectional perspective. Our approach follows the theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which...

We present a relatively detailed analysis of the persistence probability distributions in financial dynamics. Compared with the auto-correlation function, the persistence probability distributions describe dynamic correlations non-local in time. Universal and non-universal behaviors of the...