As a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the global community aims to provide clean and affordable energy to all people by 2030. Despite these efforts, energy poverty remains a reality for billions of people in 2022. Reducing energy poverty is a crucial impediment for public...

With data being generated at an unprecedented rate, the monetization of data has become a paramount issue in this era of the digital economy. A common strategy is to leverage consumer data to improve product or service offerings and increase sales revenue, so-called indirect data monetization....

When does the Federal Reserve deviate from its dual mandate of pursuing the economic goals of maximum employment and price stability and what are the consequences? We assemble the most comprehensive collection of Federal Reserve speeches to-date and apply state-of-the-art natural language...

This study investigates the effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on green bond financing costs using Chinese green bond data from 2016-2021 and discusses the role of green finance pilot zone policies in hedging uncertainty. The results show that EPU significantly raises the financing...

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...

We study how extreme (high) temperatures affect firm dynamics---entry, exit, and (aggregate) productivity---in Chinese manufacturing sectors. Existing studies focus on the effects on incumbent firms (intensive margin), while we examine the effects on entry and exit (extensive margin), and their...

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...