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View article: AI Regulation and Capitalist Growth: Balancing Innovation, Ethics, and Global Governance
AI Regulation and Capitalist Growth: Balancing Innovation, Ethics, and Global Governance Open
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly central to economic growth, promising new efficiencies and markets. This economic significance has sparked debate over AI regulation: do rules and oversight bolster long term growth by building …
View article: Climate Reparations for a Just Response to Climate Change: A Review of Historical Responsibility and Future Implications
Climate Reparations for a Just Response to Climate Change: A Review of Historical Responsibility and Future Implications Open
For decades, international climate discussions have neglected the question of who compensates for climate‐induced loss and damage. COP27 marked a turning point, placing the issue at the forefront. There is a growing movement advocating for…
View article: Transcending disciplinary boundaries: NbS for Caribbean coastal resilience
Transcending disciplinary boundaries: NbS for Caribbean coastal resilience Open
Caribbean small island developing states are experiencing multiple interconnected crises, including susceptibility to natural hazards, increased vulnerability to climate change, biodiversity loss and reduced accessibility to development fu…
View article: Climate finance spillovers and entrepreneurship in developing countries
Climate finance spillovers and entrepreneurship in developing countries Open
Research Summary We conduct a multicountry analysis and show that there is a strong and significant positive relationship between climate finance and entrepreneurship, even after controlling for conventional macroeconomic and institutional…
View article: Health engagement in national climate commitments of small island developing states: A content analysis of Caribbean nationally determined contributions
Health engagement in national climate commitments of small island developing states: A content analysis of Caribbean nationally determined contributions Open
Objective: To investigate how health is incorporated into the NDCs of Caribbean SIDS and their financing challenges. Methods: The study analysed the NDCs of sixteen Caribbean SIDS using content analysis to investigate their level of engage…
View article: Transmission of natural disasters to the banking sector: Evidence from thirty years of tropical storms in the Caribbean
Transmission of natural disasters to the banking sector: Evidence from thirty years of tropical storms in the Caribbean Open
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View article: The Impact of Tropical Storms on International Trade: Evidence from Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States
The Impact of Tropical Storms on International Trade: Evidence from Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States Open
Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have a high dependence on international trade for income, employment and poverty reduction given their extreme openness, small market size, narrow range of resources and productive ca…
View article: Financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Caribbean SIDS
Financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Caribbean SIDS Open
Caribbean SIDS: A special caseSmall Island Developing States (SIDS) bear almost no responsibility for climate change, but their geographical and socioeconomic characteristics make them particularly vulnerable to its impacts.While the Paris…
View article: Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan Open
In this paper we investigate whether destruction due to natural disasters induces industries to increase their regional production efficiency using the case of pre-war Japan, a setting of frequent disasters and technological upgrading. To …
View article: Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago
Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago Open
Tourism has the potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed to by United Nations member states. For sustainable tourism to be successful, stakeholders must be involved in the process. The aim of thi…
View article: The impact of hurricane strikes on cruise ship and airplane tourist arrivals in the Caribbean
The impact of hurricane strikes on cruise ship and airplane tourist arrivals in the Caribbean Open
We investigate the impact of hurricanes on airplane and cruise ship arrivals in the Caribbean. To this end, we construct a monthly panel of airline and cruise ship arrivals and hurricane destruction and employ a panel vector autoregressive…
View article: The impact of tropical storms on tax revenue
The impact of tropical storms on tax revenue Open
We investigate the vulnerability of tax revenue and its various sources to hurricane damages. To this end, we construct a monthly panel of hurricane losses, tax revenue, and its components, tax rates, and gross domestic product (GDP) for e…
View article: Climate and the Global Spread and Impact of Bananas’ Black Leaf Sigatoka Disease
Climate and the Global Spread and Impact of Bananas’ Black Leaf Sigatoka Disease Open
While Black Sigatoka Leaf Disease (Mycosphaerella fijiensis) has arguably been the most important pathogen affecting the banana industry over the past 50 years, there are no quantitative estimates of what risk factors determine its spread …
View article: The impact of natural disasters on the banking sector: Evidence from hurricane strikes in the Caribbean
The impact of natural disasters on the banking sector: Evidence from hurricane strikes in the Caribbean Open
While natural disasters cause considerable damage and a number of studies have attempted to investigate the nature and quantify the magnitude of these losses, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on the impact on the banking sector. In…
View article: Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters and Production Efficiency: Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier?
Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters and Production Efficiency: Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier? Open
Production efficiency is a key determinant of economic growth and demonstrates how a country uses its resources by relating the quantity of its inputs to its outputs. When a natural hazard-induced disaster strikes, it has a devastating imp…
View article: Small state diplomacy and global competitiveness
Small state diplomacy and global competitiveness Open
Competitiveness is not only an economic matter; it is also a foreign policy issue. It requires the coordinated action of the state, business community and civil society. Global economic institutions now confront a new challenge to design s…
View article: A Storm in a Teacup? Hurricanes and Sugar Prices in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
A Storm in a Teacup? Hurricanes and Sugar Prices in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Open
This paper investigates the impact of hurricanes in the Caribbean on sugar prices in Britain between 1815 and 1841. The authors expect the news of hurricanes arriving at British harbors to drive up sugar prices mainly because the market an…
View article: In-Firm Training, Innovation and Productivity: The Case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States
In-Firm Training, Innovation and Productivity: The Case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States Open
In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global competition and rapidly changing technology. Nevertheless, there are few studies which look at in-firm training in the Carib…
View article: A hurricane wind risk and loss assessment of Caribbean agriculture
A hurricane wind risk and loss assessment of Caribbean agriculture Open
Hurricanes act as large external shocks potentially causing considerable damage to agriculture in the Caribbean. While a number of studies have estimated their historic economic impact, arguably the wider community and policy makers are mo…
View article: Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits, and Obstacles
Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits, and Obstacles Open
The objective of this chapter is twofold: to investigate the impact of innovation on the productivity of Caribbean firms and to establish the determinants of such innovation. To this end, a rich firm-level dataset covering 14 different Car…