Using a large sample of 25 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, we provide evidence that the growth of equity and credit markets promotes cleaner energy (biomass renewable energy, non biomass renewable energy, and total bio and non-bio renewable energy)...

We study the effect of overall globalization on economic growth in a neoclassical macroeconomic growth model. We further assess our model by considering the decomposed measures of globalization including economic, political and social globalization components. To this end, weestimate panel data...

The abundance of natural resources can hinder economic diversification. Russia’s heavy reliance on natural resources has not thoroughly been examined to determine whether a resource extraction boom promotes or stifles economic diversification. This study uses a dynamic DiD event approach to...

The objectives are to discern how the three financial sectors' CDS spreads interrelate to each other and with three other risks under the full sample and two subperiods: The 2007 Great Recession, and the 2009 recovery, and to assess the impact of QE1 on those risks in the second subperiod. The...