Toward maritime sustainability in GCC countries: What role do economic freedom and human capital play?

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members have recently experienced rapid environmental degradation. Although there has been a boom in studies investigating the causes of environmental degradation, little is known about the drivers of maritime sustainability. This study examines the impacts of economic freedom and human capital on the fishing grounds footprint in GCC countries between 2000 and 2021.

Assessing the spillover effects of various forms of energy on CO emissions - An empirical study based on dynamic spatial Durbin model.

Previous studies ignored the geospatial dynamics spillover effects of energy consumption on CO emissions while assessing such impacts in developed and developing countries. Moreover, most studies wrongfully assess spillover effects in its aggregated format rather than decomposing by its components. This is important as not all energy sources share the same characteristics.

Modelling for disability: How does artificial intelligence affect unemployment among people with disability? An empirical analysis of linear and nonlinear effects.

There is a growing debate among scholars regarding the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the employment opportunities and professional development of people with disability. Although there has been an increasing body of empirical research on the topic, it has generally yielded conflicting findings. This study contributes to the ongoing debate by examining the linear and nonlinear effects of AI on the unemployment of people with disability in 40 countries between 2007 and 2021.

Do institutions contribute to environmental sustainability? A global analysis using the dynamic spatial Durbin and threshold models.

There has been a recent surge in attention to the potential involvement of institutions in enhancing environmental quality. This research contributes to the ongoing debate by analyzing the spillover and nonlinear effects of institutions on the load capacity factor (LCF) in a sample of 100 countries between 2000 and 2019. The spillover effects are analyzed using the dynamic spatial Durbin model (DSDM), while the dynamic threshold model is implemented to estimate the nonlinear impacts of institutions.

A revisit of the EKC hypothesis in top polluted African countries via combining the ARMEY curve into the Kuznets curve: A Fourier ARDL approach.

The present research reexamines the validity of the EKC hypothesis in the top three polluted nations in Africa, Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa, over the period 1970-2020. The central idea of the research is to reexamine the EKC hypothesis by incorporating the ARMEY curve linking government spending and GDP into the Kuznets curve, as suggested by Işık et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29(11):16472-16483, (2022) and Ongan et al.

Analyzing the symmetric and asymmetric effects of disaggregate natural resources on the ecological footprint in Saudi Arabia: insights from the dynamic ARDL approach.

The present study examines the symmetric and asymmetric effects of natural resource exploitation on the ecological footprint in Saudi Arabia during the period 1981-2018. The analysis is performed for total natural resources and different types of natural resources, including oil, natural gas, and minerals. This research employs the dynamic Autoregressive Distributed Lag (DYNARDL) simulation approach.

A new methodology for assessing the energy use-environmental degradation nexus.

The international community is more than ever before worrying about the unremitting global warming and climate change and the responsibility of extensive energy use for that situation. This article contributes to the existing literature by examining whether energy consumption predicts CO emissions during the past 50 years in the five most polluting nations in the world. To do this, we have been using the recently developed predictability test of Westerlund and Narayan (Journal of Banking and Finance, 36, 2632-2640, 2012, Journal of Financial Econometrics, 13, 342-375, 2015).