When to use what: Methods for weighting and aggregating sustainability indicators

X Gan, IC Fernandez, J Guo, M Wilson, Y Zhao… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Context Sustainability indices (SIs) have become increasingly important to
sustainability research and practice. However, while the validity of SIs is heavily dependent …

Disaster governance: Social, political, and economic dimensions

K Tierney - Annual review of Environment and Resources, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely
related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance …

The nexus of financial development, technological innovation, institutional quality, and environmental quality: evidence from OECD economies

D Jianguo, K Ali, F Alnori, S Ullah - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The present study investigates the effect of institution quality, technological innovation, and
financial development on environment quality using 37 OECD nations from 1998 to 2018 …

Foreign investment and air pollution: do good governance and technological innovation matter?

A Omri, TB Hadj - Environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
This article examines how good governance and technological innovation complement
foreign direct investment (FDI) to mitigate carbon emissions in twenty-three emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Trade and economic growth in developing countries: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

P Zahonogo - Journal of African Trade, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigates how trade openness affects economic growth in developing
countries, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use a dynamic growth model with …

Foreign investment and CO2 emissions: do technological innovation and institutional quality matter? Evidence from system GMM approach

S Bakhsh, H Yin, M Shabir - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The study examines the moderating role of institutional quality and technological innovation
on the empirical relationship between FDI inflows and four indicator variables of CO 2 …

[图书][B] Handbook on constructing composite indicators: methodology and user guide

Joint Research Centre-European Commission - 2008 - books.google.com
This Handbook is a guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers,
academics, the media and other interested parties. While there are several types of …

Politically connected firms

M Faccio - American economic review, 2006 - aeaweb.org
Examination of firms in 47 countries shows a widespread overlap of controlling shareholders
and top officers who are connected with national parliaments or governments, particularly in …

Capital structure decisions: which factors are reliably important?

MZ Frank, VK Goyal - Financial management, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure
decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003. The most reliable factors for …

Governance matters VIII: aggregate and individual governance indicators, 1996-2008

D Kaufmann, A Kraay, M Mastruzzi - World bank policy research …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of …