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Banking on Sustainable Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks for SME Finance in the EU and African Union

Thunderbird International Business Review, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 455-471, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how legal and institutional frameworks influence bank financing for sustainable innovation among SMEs in the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU). Using institutional theory, it analyzes how coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures interact across international, regional, and domestic levels to shape green lending ...
Priscilla Akua Vitoh
wiley   +1 more source

Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Earth observation: human rights and the EU AI act. [PDF]

AI Ethics
Gevaert CM, Šćepanović S, Bernaz N, Taubenböck H, Kochupillai M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fragmentation Risk: What Is It and Should the ECB Care?

Economic Notes, Volume 55, Issue 2, July 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2022, the ECB introduced a new policy tool, the Transmission Protection Instrument, to reduce the risk of financial fragmentation in the euro area, following the normalization of monetary policy. This paper aims to clarify what is meant by fragmentation risk, where it comes from, how it affects the real economy and what can be done about it.
Ivo J. M. Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Learning‐Based Loan Approval Automation: Enhancing Efficiency, Accuracy and Fairness in Credit Decision‐Making

Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Traditional loan approval processes are manual, time‐consuming and susceptible to human bias. This research develops a machine learning‐based system to automate loan eligibility assessment while enhancing efficiency, accuracy and fairness in credit decision‐making. We developed and compared multiple supervised ML models—including Random Forest,
Mani Ghahremani, Hellen Amimo Otieno, Mishanil Kazreen, Stavros Shiaeles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SMART: Structured Missingness Analysis and Reconstruction Technique for credit scoring. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Han S, Jung H, Yoo PD.
europepmc   +1 more source

Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries. [PDF]

Am Econ Rev, 2023
Macchi E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Endogenous Distress Contagion in a Dynamic Interbank Model: How Possible Future Losses May Spell Doom Today

Mathematical Finance, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 595-619, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We introduce a dynamic and stochastic interbank model with an endogenous notion of distress contagion, arising from rational worries about future defaults and ensuing losses. This entails a mark‐to‐market valuation adjustment for interbank claims, leading to a forward‐backward approach to the equilibrium dynamics whereby future default ...
Zachary Feinstein, Andreas Søjmark
wiley   +1 more source

African experiments in infrastructure financialisation: an urbanisation of debt in Malawi. [PDF]

Financ Space
Lane M, Mwathunga E, Robinson J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Foreign Exchange Regimes in (Normal Times and) Times of War: Insights From Ukraine

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT On February 24, 2022, as Russia invaded, the National Bank of Ukraine switched from a flexible to a fixed‐exchange rate regime. Was this optimal? We develop a tractable but carefully calibrated open‐economy model of Ukraine with nominal rigidities and frictions in international financial markets.
Oliver de Groot, Yevhenii Skok
wiley   +1 more source

A study of blockchain-based liquidity cross-chain model. [PDF]

PLoS One
Han Y, Wang C, Wang H, Yang Y, Wang X.
europepmc   +1 more source