SinoXivBackground: Kuwait operates a state-funded universal healthcare system serving a population that is 70% expatriate, yet existing health financing data aggregate out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure across ...
This study examines the asymmetric effects of fiscal policy on economic growth in Uganda using annual data from 1983 to 2020 obtained from the Uganda Revenue Authority and the World Bank. Employing th...
This paper studies whether disciplinary sanctions in European professional football differ systematically by player race. Using player-match data from UEFA Champions League and Europa League competiti...
Exploration of factors driving consumer purchase intention growth in marketing practices is attracting increasing attention and continues to develop in recent studies. However, there is still a gap in...
How nearby hospitals adjust financially after a neighboring closure may depend on ownership incentives, yet existing research has not examined this variation by ownership type. Using publicly availabl...
This paper introduces direct quality control into a quality competition framework with mixed duopoly firms, where the regulation is applied to the public firm only. Under this quality control, it is s...
Has broadband become a necessity good immune to price changes? Using a15-year panel of 33 countries—27 European Union (EU) member states and6 Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (2010–2024)—and two-wa...
This study develops a diagnostic analytics framework for evaluating whether an observed return process is compatible with a noise-driven conditional variance model within the GARCH family. Rather than...
This paper estimates sector-specific sensitivities of European firms’ default probabilities to geopolitical risk shocks, providing empirical counterparts to δk in the reverse stress testing framework ...
Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) is a multifunctional natural coenzyme that plays important roles in innate immunity, nutritional physiology, and redox biology, including the activation of dual oxidases...
