This paper closes a gap in the relevant literature by investigating the role of a country's competitiveness on international capital mobility using robust panel multiple regressions with fixed and random effects. In this study, we use the Global Competitiveness Index to measure a country's...

This paper examines the time and frequency co-movement between sovereign credit ratings and economic risk for five Balkan countries, namely Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Romania, and Slovenia, during the 1999Q1 to 2018Q4 period. To the best of knowledge, this is the first study attempt to conduct...

The study addresses the pressing issue of environmental degradation, pinpointing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as its primary driver, posing a threat to global environmental sustainability, including the member countries of the European Union (EU). Global warming problems persist, but previous...