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Modern Economy (ME) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in all areas of international economics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of mod…
Jude Suh Abenwi
This study explores the determinants of betting behavior in Cameroon, focusing on the socio-economic, technological, and cultural influences. Using data from 650 respondents collected via structured questionnaires, a binary logistic regression model was emplo…
George Petrakos, Kleoniki Natalia Petrou
This paper examines the global dynamics of income inequality, focusing on the interaction of inequalities within and between countries. Using data from the World Inequality Database, the World Bank, and the United Nations, the analysis reveals that global inc…
Longlong Duan, Sihui Chen, Xiyue Zhang
Advancing research on farm household land-use behavior is essential for understanding the implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy, promoting the development of an agricultural powerhouse, ensuring national food security, and achieving high-quality…
Antonio Simeone, Marco D’Ambra, Paolo Savona
Starting from the observation that econometric models have shown significantly degraded forecasting accuracy during structural breaks and crisis regimes, when past behavioural patterns can no longer serve as reliable guides for the future due to contextual ch…
Yasunori Fujita
This paper develops a dynamic extension of the Hotelling model in which firms choose locations prior to entry and optimally determine entry timing under uncertainty. By embedding spatial competition into a real-options framework, the model allows firms to del…
Prabuddha Sanyal
This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s Chinese Official Finance to the Global South data with World…
Bernard C. Beaudreau
The pay-productivity gap has been and continues to be a subject of much debate in the literature as well as in the popular press, raising a number of questions. For example, why have wages not kept pace with recent increases in productivity in Western industr…
Alexandros M. Goulielmos, 1 1
We presented the theory of the Business Cycle and also the theory of the Shipping Cycle, together with a novel simulation of the last one. Three parts were devoted to the history of the 9 shipping cycles since 1947 in the dry cargo ships and in tankers up to…
Rasha Ahmed Al-Rkebat
This research investigates the systemic drivers of policy resistance within Jordan’s Water-Energy nexus. It aims to quantify how macroeconomic fiscal constraints—termed here as the “Structural Fiscal Veto”—translate into technical operational deficits, necess…
Hongjin Xiang, Haifeng Tian
Existing research on the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China has paid insufficient attention to the role of bilateral political relations. Utilizing panel data on FDI from 61 countries into China from 1998 to 2021 and employing the “polit…
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