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Smart Solutions for Sustainable Access and Technological Equity: The Effect of Energy Transition, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Economy on Energy Poverty

open access: yesGeological Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The integration of energy transition, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy represents a significant shift in the global effort to combat energy poverty and offers innovative tools and approaches to increase energy access, efficiency, and affordability for underserved populations. This study examines the impact of energy transition,
Abdulmuttalip Pilatin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Communalizing private costs: Ownership concentration, institutions, and corporate environmental performance

open access: yesGlobal Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We extend the property rights theory to show that stronger ownership control incentivizes owners to push for communalizing private environmental costs unless counterbalancing internal and external governance mechanisms are prevalent. Using a sample of 16,286 observations for 3275 firms across 43 countries between 2008 and 2017,
Punit Arora, Tanusree Jain, Ajai Gaur
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze how the abolition of cost‐sharing in health insurance affects pregnant women's gross spending on health care services using an exogenous policy change in Switzerland. Using non‐linear regression, we find that the policy slightly increases average gross spending, contrasting policymaker expectations of no impact on demand.
Philip Hochuli, Christian P. R. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Socio‐Economic Evolution and Tobacco Products Sales in Spain: A Long‐Term Analysis of the Tobacco Kuznets Curve

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between economic development and tobacco consumption in Spain, using the Kuznets Curve framework. Drawing on panel data from Spanish provinces (2002–2021), the findings confirm that GDP has a non‐linear effect on cigarette consumption.
Miguel Ángel Del Arco‐Osuna   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that most moves are (at least partly) voluntary so that the sample of movers is self‐selected. We focus on a natural experiment, the government‐mandated
Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, Thinh Le Van
wiley   +1 more source

A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a simple Watts‐type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively decomposable (i.e., it provides information on the contributions of the various population subgroups of ...
Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu
wiley   +1 more source

Is Public‐Private Partnership a Significant Factor when Achieving Horizontal Equity in Public Healthcare Resources in Spain?

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving horizontal equity in the access and use of public health resources is one of the main goals of the 17 Spanish regions. We analyse geographical inequities in the allocation of human and material resources for specialised care in Spanish hospitals, paying attention to the public‐private partnership.
J. De Haro‐García, A. Caro
wiley   +1 more source

Bank Lending and Policy Interactions—A Comprehensive Assessment for the G20 Countries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the joint impact from supervisory requirements, monetary policies and rescue packages on the supply of bank loans. Evidence is obtained from conceptual considerations and the empirical investigation of G20 banks over the period 1995–2021.
Dieter Gramlich, Meilan Yan, Dalu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

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