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Do Political Connections Seek Green Rent? Only When Safe

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how and under what conditions political connections shape firms’ responses to environmental policies. Exploiting the staggered rollout of China's Low‐Carbon City Pilot (LCCP) policy, we find that firms connected to higher‐level governments engage in greater rent‐seeking under this weakly enforced policy.
Tianxi Wang, Ruoran Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

Alcanzar la Utopía: la búsqueda del Preste Juan en los reinos ibéricos en el otoño de la Edad Media

Cuadernos del CEMYR
La figura del Preste Juan pervive, como personaje utópico, e con plena vitalidad envuelto en diferentes significados en el otoño de la Edad Media. Reúne en su persona todas las virtudes que se esperaban de un rey cristiano, justo y generoso, además de ...
Víctor de Lama de la Cruz
doaj   +1 more source

Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
wiley   +1 more source

The road to hell is paved with good intentions: A review and research agenda on rebound effects and win–win strategies

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract Rebound effects describe how efficiency improvements in energy or resource use can increase demand, thereby partially or fully offsetting expected environmental savings. This dynamic complicates win–win strategies that aim to improve environmental and financial performance.
Jozef Cossey, Aurélien Acquier
wiley   +1 more source

The Interactive Impact of Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Values on Technology Adoption: Renewable Energy in the EU

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract How can diverse sources legitimize new technology when it lacks economic parity? Government policies that endorse nascent technologies play a central role through regulatory legitimation. Yet, we know less about whether inducement policies that incentivize adoption or imposition policies that mandate it are more effective, and how that ...
Raquel Antolín‐López, Jeffrey G. York, Theodore L. Waldron, Javier Martínez‐del‐Rio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unhappy Regions and Cities? Urban Agglomeration and Individual Happiness in Spain

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how individual subjective well‐being varies across space in Spain, with a particular focus on the roles of city size and long‐term population growth. Using individual‐level data from multiple waves of the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research surveys between 2013 and 2025, adjusted measures of area‐level happiness are ...
Rafael González‐Val
wiley   +1 more source

National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic‐ and language‐based nationalism, thus being linked to negative views. We examine citizens who identify with both a minority nation and a nation state.
Victoria Finn, Antoine Bilodeau, Raül Tormos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Heterogeneous Regional Employment Effects of Environmental Policies

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of Environmental Policies—measured by the OECD Environmental Policy Stringency Index (EPS)—on employment in 349 regions across 26 countries from 1990 to 2020. We find that more stringent EPS have short‐term negative effects on regional employment, which disappear in the medium term.
Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Fabio Mazzola, Pietro Pizzuto, Khatereh Yarveisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Better VAT for Both Explicit and Implicit Financial Fees

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, several countries have initiated reforms on their VAT regimes to include financial services, following the emergence of various methods for taxing both implicit and explicit fees. This article provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of these reforms.
Guillermo Peña
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source