Previous studies have focused mainly on the effect of corruption on pollution. The results of these studies show an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and pollution. In addition, some researchers have suggested that corruption plays an important role in determining pollution....

The vector autoregression (VAR) method of variance decomposition and impulse response function analysis was applied to analyze dynamic relationships among foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, unemployment, and trade in Taiwan. The analysis results show that both economic growth and...

The goal of this paper is to estimate the effect between exchange-rate uncertainty and unemployment in South Korea and Taiwan. We use a vector autoregressive model to provide an efficient estimation between exchange-rate uncertainty and unemployment. We found that a long-run equilibrium...

This paper uses a threshold model to estimate the regime-specific marginal effect of trade liberalization and other determinants of environmental degradation in regimes with different levels of corruption. The results show that increasing trade liberalization leads to an increase in carbon...

Extending Sadorsky (2010), this paper focuses on nonlinear effects of financial development and income on energy consumption. Utilizing five alternative measures of financial development, it employs a panel threshold regression approach to reexamine the effect of financial development and income...

Various social and leisure websites have a great impact on users, and some websites even affect user emotions. Website-related happiness includes user emotions and satisfaction. This study uses psychological happiness theories to explore these website-related emotional and satisfaction issues to...