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Haifeng Pang, Changxu Wu, Liucheng Zhang, Shujahat Haider Hashmi
Reducing carbon emission intensity is crucial for achieving sustainable development. Carbon emission intensity is expressively affected by the issuance of green bonds. Thus, it is imperative to assess the influence of green bond issuance on carbon emissions and examine their correlation. Such research holds great…
Ilona Kickbusch, Rüdiger Krech, Christian Franz, Nadya Wells
The annual funding need for global health SDG targets is estimated by WHO at US$134 billion per year, rising to US$274-$371bn by 2030. This paper examines the challenge of making sustainable investment structures in global health more attractive for mainstream financial markets. The objective is a framework for…
Igor Lukšić, Bojana Bošković, Aleksandra Novikova, Rastislav Vrbensky
Background This paper is related to the current stage of development in the Western Balkans. Despite becoming growing instruments to finance sustainable green development, debt swaps and social or sustainability bonds are relative novelties in this region. At the same time, the development needs are huge, especially in…
Jamel Boukhatem
The main objective of this study is to empirically determine which factors are related to the development of local-currency bond market (LCBM) in Saudi Arabia over the period 1990-2019. Using ARDL modeling, the results reveal long-run cointegrating relationships between LCBM capitalization and macroeconomic, financial…
Si Ying Tan, Araz Taeihagh
Smart cities that make broad use of digital technologies have been touted as possible solutions for the population pressures faced by many cities in developing countries and may help meet the rising demand for services and infrastructure. Nevertheless, the high financial cost involved in infrastructure maintenance, the…
Valeria Terrones, Richard S.J. Tol
Previous studies show that natural disasters decelerate economic growth, and more so in countries with lower financial development. We confirm these results with more recent data. We are the first to show that fiscal stability reduces the negative economic impact of natural disasters in poorer countries, and that…
Annette Becker, Serena Fatica, Michela Rancan
Using a large international sample of corporate borrowers over the period 2014-22, we study the determinants of issuing green, sustainability and social (GSS) bonds. First, we document a remarkable growth of the GSS segment in the most recent years, possibly spurred by the public commitment towards financing a…
Lindsay L. Sailer, Amin Haghani, Joseph A. Zoller, Caesar Z. Li + 2 more
The quality of romantic relationships can be predictive of health consequences related to aging. DNA methylation-based biomarkers of aging have been developed for humans and many other mammals and could be used to assess how pair bonding impacts aging. Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) have emerged as a model to…
Ran Xu, Yilin Ye, Minghui Xin, Zechen Wang + 5 more
Disulfide bonds (SS bonds), covalently formed by sulfur atoms in cysteine residues, play a crucial role in protein folding and structure stability. Due to their significance, artificial disulfide bonds are often introduced to enhance the thermostability of proteins. Although an increasing number of tools can assist…
Jinzhi Bai, Hanlin Xia, Lin Zhang, Matteo Fragetta
China's economic development and change are significantly influenced by local governments. By affecting the cost of borrowing for local governments, monetary policy can have an impact on their fiscal policies and, eventually, the actual economy. After providing empirical evidence to support the existence of the local…
Yan Zhang, Yixiang Tian, Lin Chen
Municipal Investment Bonds Authors: ['Yan Zhang' 'Yixiang Tian' 'Lin Chen'] Abstract:One type of bond with the most implicit government guarantee is municipal investment bonds. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of downgrades in the credit ratings of municipal bonds, which has led some people to…
Alicia Lou, Mónica Chagoyen, Juan F Poyatos
It is widely acknowledged that development shapes phenotypes, yet the extent to which genes with similar expression patterns during development lead to equivalent organismal phenotypes when mutated remains unclear. Here, we propose addressing this issue, which we term the 𝒟evelopment–to– 𝒫henotype, or 𝒟–𝒫, rule, by…
Yan Zhang, Yixiang Tian, Lin Chen, Qi Wang
The implicit government guarantee hampers the recognition and management of risks by all stakeholders in the bond market, and it has led to excessive debt for local governments or state-owned enterprises. To prevent the risk of local government debt defaults and reduce investors' expectations of implicit government…
Mauricio González-Forero, Andy Gardner
Natural selection acts on developmentally constructed phenotypes, raising the question of how development affects evolution. A mathematical framework that explicitly integrates development into evolution has recently been derived. Here we use this framework to analyse how development affects evolution. We show that…