Suleman Sarwar

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Jeddah

The USA and China issued the Sunny-lands Agreement ahead of the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 until December 12 2023. The world’s top carbon-emitting countries announced a novel economic growth and development stage during the summit. The new and updated agreement seeks to asse...

The study focuses on the intricate dynamic of agricultural value‐added, water reservoir management, and food security in the United States between 1980 and 2021. The importance of agricultural value‐added in food security is examined in this study, which adds to the current literature. Furthermore, the study examines how food security is impacted b...

This study investigates the multidimensional aspects of energy poverty in Pakistan from 2000 to 2022, specifically evaluating the direct, indirect, and total effects of socioeconomic and environmental factors. We employed Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the impacts of income, population, governance quality, e...

Due to its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and rapid urbanization, China's economic growth is accompanied by environmental problems. Hence, it is vital to solve the issue by promoting green growth and finding factors to boost it. The current study presents FinTech as a factor enhancing green growth in China through the mediation effect of the energy...

The energy consumption in Pakistan, both renewable and nonrenewable, is examined herein as an important factor in carbon emissions. Employing a nonlinear ARDL (auto-regressive distributed lag), the research examines data from 1980 to 2021. The results show that the use of renewable energy has a negligible effect when it comes to the nation's overal...

The current study contributes to the existing literature by constructing a digitalization index to investigate the significance of digitalization in controlling the environmental footprint. Moreover, the dataset is divided into pre-Vision 2030 and post-Vision 2030 implementation to scrutinize the progress of Saudi Vision 2030 to counter the environ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between energy use, life expectancy, and governance related factors on the environmental quality of the USA. In this regard, the authors discuss the carbon neutrality target and sustainable development goals of the USA. For empirical analysis, the authors employ the US data for the period...

Accurate forecasting of mineral resource rent is essential for economic planning, revenue management, and proper investment decisions. The current study is an effort to forecast the mineral resource rent in China through the help of machine learning and deep learning techniques. We have used advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid AI techn...

This study investigates the impact of corporate strategies, including greenwashing, environmental, social, and governance integration, and corporate social responsibility environments, on sulfur dioxide emission reduction among 653 Chinese enterprises from 2008 to 2022. The research reveals that, while often perceived as superficial, greenwashing i...

The sustainable economic growth of a country leads to energy consumption which causes environmental issues. The study examines the financial sector's investment in renewable energy sources and utilizing eco-friendly technology to solve environmental issues. This study also examines the role of military spending through our peace model, as a secure...

Saudi Arabia is in a great position to create low-cost green hydrogen to diversify the economy and assist other nations in meeting carbon emission reduction targets due to the abundance of renewable energy sources, including solar and wind. The country may achieve this by becoming a leader in green hydrogen exports. The current research explores th...

The world faces immense pressure regarding the negative impacts of increased greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, global warming, droughts, and many other environmental problems. Australia is also facing the same issues and requires urgent attention. In this research, we have examined the effect of hydrogen firms on Australia’s greenhouse gas...

Currently, the world is facing the problem of climate change and other environmental issues due to higher emissions of greenhouse gases. Saudi Arabia is not an exception due to the dependence of the Saudi economy on fossil fuels, which adds to the problem. However, due to the nonlinear pattern of pollution-creating gases, including nitrogen and sul...

With gradually increasing global climate issues, the Energy Protection Agency (EPA) emphasizes emission reduction measures at the national and international levels. Financial globalization and green innovation are considered a solution to the low‐income problem through internalization and specialization of markets and bring technological progress a...

For its promise in enhancing sustainability, the global value chain (GVC) has grown in relevance and sparked many studies. Due to different value activities in multiple countries and industry clusters, the competition and cooperation among value chains have attracted the considerable attention of business leaders and academicians worldwide. GVC-rel...

The study investigates the effects of renewable energy, globalization, and agriculture on long‐term economic progress and the environment. Using a data set of Gulf Council of Countries (GCC) from 1980 to 2019, the study used panel fully modified ordinary least squares and dynamic ordinary least squares techniques. Panel data analysis results indica...

Enhancing industrial eco-efficiency (IEE) represents an inherent imperative in the pursuit of green, low-carbon, and high-quality development. The burgeoning digital economy (DE) contributes to the digitization and intelligent integration and transformation of production and consumption, which contributes to enhancing economic efficiency and resour...

Abstract This research examines the link between the volatility of the Karachi Stock Exchange and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, using daily data between July 1, 2001 and December 31, 2022. We further investigate the spillover and investment strategies variation across the financial crisis, COVID-19, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. We...

The global issue of atmospheric variations and global warming caused by diverse anthropogenic behaviors is a global concern. There is apprehension about preserving an uncontaminated atmosphere and attaining optimal nuclear and geothermal energy utilization with agriculture sector development. In this regard, this paper investigates the influence of...

Currently, China has entered a stage of high-quality development due to innovations and improving capabilities of the cities. Being the most valuable urban brand, civilized cities are a symbol of the city’s comprehensive ability. Their construction blueprint coincides with the realization of high-quality development. Therefore, exploring the relati...

The rapid growth experienced by the Gulf Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) has placed significant strain on their ecological footprint due to extensive energy consumption. Consequently, it becomes necessary to examine the factors contributing to the high ecological footprint and explore pot...

The present paper seeks to examine the effects of electricity generation efficiency on the index of human capital in India over 1980-2021 through the novel multi threshold non-linear autoregressive distributed lag model. We find strong evidence that the effects of efficiency in the generation of electricity on human development have varied across t...

This study examines the significance of technological industry and forest on environmental footprints. As control variables, we included renewable energy, and urbanization for econometric estimations. Contrary to what has been published in the literature, the forest coefficients are negligible. In contrast, the current study confirms the importance...

The prime objective of this study is to examine the heterogenous impacts of money supply, commodity prices, and trade balance on the greener energy growth in BRICS economies. The BRICS economies are the leading trade block and have huge investments on greener energy projects. In doing so, we employ the data from January 2010 to May 2021 and employe...

In this study, we investigated the spatio‐temporal synergistic relationship between ecological urbanization (EU) and industrial eco‐efficiency (IEE) in the context of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region. The main findings are as follows: (1) EU and IEE generally exhibited similar spatial distribution patterns, with high val...

The motivation behind this research is to investigate the determinants of the ecological footprint in MENA countries and find appropriate solutions. We updated the STIRPAT model and applied sophisticated panel techniques to data from 1996 to 2020. According to the findings, economic expansion along with urbanization and tourism is to blame for thes...

Previous studies have investigated the role of energy and green indicators in achieving sustainable economic growth for different economies. Despite numerous studies, the significance of blue indicators is still missing in the context of Saudi Arabia. However, the study attempts to examine the implications of blue factors, as well as energy and gre...

Environmental issues are increasing due to the elevated level of greenhouse gas emission worldwide. The current study is an effort to explore the solutions to control environmental gasses, in European countries by using the past and predicted data from 2015 to 2030. Through empirical analysis by applying dynamic simulated ARDL, it is noted that hyd...

This article attempts to examine the role of creativity on carbon intensity in case of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) countries. The panel estimation techniques are used for annual data for the period of 1990–2018. The empirical evidence affirms that patent rights and innovation act as a policy factor in controlling carbon...

This paper investigates the impact of life expectancy on carbon emission, in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, we examined the role of governance to achieve carbon neutrality status. We used the novel dynamic ARDL technique for estimations. This is one of the pioneer studies that analyze the role of life expectancy to control carbon emissions. The coeffi...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating role of gender diversity in corporate board and CEO experience in terms of the relationship between tax aggressiveness and corporate social responsibility of UAE-listed companies. By applying correlation and regression analysis on a data set of 55 firms from 2014 to 2020, it is found that board...

The aim of current study is to investigate the significance of green and blue economic activities to mitigate the carbon emission in Saudi Arabia. We use the time series data which covers the period from 1990 to 2019. For empirical estimations, we use nonlinear ARDL approach which confirms that energy indicators and blue economic indicators are not...

The current paper examines the dynamic causal relationships between US stock market indices and precious metal prices across all quantiles of the conditional distribution covering the period 1987M1-2021M3. For empirical analysis, we employ the newly developed quantile unit root test, quantile autoregressive distributed lag (QARDL) model, and Grange...

Comprehensive human development is the ultimate goal of achieving a happy life and creating sustainable social development. This study examines 31 provinces in China as the research object, constructs an evaluation index system for comprehensive human development in three dimensions (human–nature, human–society, human–human), and analyzes the spati...

Forests are considered as the key factor in controlling climate change and extreme climatic events, due to its natural role in carbon abatement. However, 21 st -century economic development is characterized by intensive resource exploitation, energy intensity, population, and urbanization, hence, affecting the natural forest habitat. The persistent...

The study examines the role of energy intensity, green economic factors, and blue economic factors to achieve sustainable economic growth in gulf countries. Additionally, we analyze the role of studied factors in view of Saudi Vision 2030. The findings of asymmetric ARDL report that labor and marine trade are the contributing factors of economic gr...

The present study analyses the factors for higher carbon emissions in Chinese provinces. The distinguishing point of this study is the inclusion of forest investment and forest area to examine whether forest is a carbon sink or a source. The estimated results have confirmed that simply increasing the forest area is not a constructive approach to mi...

The fundamental goal of sustainable urban development is to maximize human well-being with minimum ecological consumption. The ecological intensity of urban well-being (EIWB) achieves an effective linkage among economic, social, and ecological systems, and it is an effective indicator for evaluating urban sustainable development. This study analyze...

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Research has proved the significance of forests in controlling carbon emissions, however, our research sheds light on the management of existing forests to combat climate change. To examine the role of forestation and forest investment activities, dynamic spatial techniques are used for 30 provinces of China. The results suggest that forest investm...

The motivation behind the current research is to check the effect of the recent introduction of value added tax (VAT) and Vision 2030 on the economy of Saudi Arabia. To check this, those variables are added to the analysis which contribute to economic development including labor, capital, oil price, financial development, and trade openness to exam...

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The worldwide economy has experienced several changes in energy and nonenergy prices. This has motivated academics, investors, and policymakers to analyze the relationships between energy and nonenergy commodity markets. In this study, a novel approach of quantile coherency is used to examine the dependence structure between energy and nonenergy co...

This study evaluated the agricultural eco-efficiency (AEE) of 77 counties and districts in Jiangsu Province from 1999 to 2018 using the slack-based measure (SBM) of efficiency in data envelopment analysis (DEA) (SBM-DEA) and analyzed its spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors. We found that 1) the overall AEE, pure technol...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has infected more than three million people, with thousands of deaths and millions of people into quarantine. In this research, the authors focus on meteorological and climatic factors on the COVID-19 spread, the main parameters including daily new cases of COVID-19, carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, nitrogen dioxid...

Purpose The main purpose of the study is to examine the impact of governance indicators, to control carbon emission, through the environmental awareness and pro-environmental behavior. Previously, researchers have attempted to explore the factors of carbon emission and report the number of solutions. Despite that, the environmental degradation proc...

Improving ecological well-being performance (EWP) is the essential requirement of green transformation development and ecological civilization construction. With the help of a network DEA model and threshold panel regression model, this study evaluated urban ecological well-being performance to explore the evolution process, impact, and optimizatio...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the dynamic co-movement and interconnection among 69 security investment indices in China using the multi-time scale framework. Design/methodology/approach The authors first use the multiple coherence analysis method to exhibit the degree of relationships among the variables under study. In addition, the wave...

The present study attempts to analyse the empirical relationship among economic growth, labour, capital, education, health and greenhouse gas emission. For empirical estimations, we have used the data of 179 countries which further divided in sub categories; income‐level, OECD‐level and regional‐level to obtain the comprehensive empirics. The coeff...

The present study explores the important contributors of energy efficiency in OECD countries, by taking the energy intensity and carbon intensity as a proxy of energy efficiency. Notably, we study the role of three indicators of export diversification (export product diversification, extensive margin and intensive margin) for energy intensity and c...

This article explores the impacts of high technology exports on energy consumption, energy intensity, and carbon intensity for a panel of six GCC economies covering a period of 1990 to 2017. For detailed empirical analysis, we employ panel techniques to explore the linkages between high technology exports and energy efficiency in GCC countries. The...

During the pandemic, the stock markets of developed countries have reported a jittery trend. The current study focuses on the impact of COVID‐19 on Pakistani stock market, which belongs to a developing economy. The findings of current study have contradicted with the previous studies, which reported an adverse effect of COVID‐19 on developed stock...

This study attempts to examine the theoretical and empirical impacts of non-petroleum exports and tourism on the economic growth of Saudi Arabia. In doing so, the author's use the quarterly data of studied variables covering the period of 1980q1-2017q4 and used the ARDL bound test, Johansen cointegration and Gregory-Hansen cointegration methods. Th...

Developing economies are facing multifaceted problems like dramatic increase in motorized traffic, urban heat island, urban sprawl, and climatic changes. Environmental Performance Index report states that Pakistan is on 169 among 180 countries due to ill-planned development on prime agriculture land, poor air, water quality, and jeopardizing ecosys...

The paper attempts to investigate the volatility spillover between oil and stock markets returns (namely Karachi, Shanghai and Bombay) by using bivariate BEKK-GARCH model covering the period from 1997 to 2014. Further, the data is divided before crisis and after crisis period to capture the role of volatility spillover across different economic sce...

The outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a public health emergency that had caused disastrous results in more than 100 countries. The ability to detect disease outbreaks in the early stages is a key component of efficient disease control and prevention. With the increased availability of electronic health-care data and spatial analysis techn...

The 9/11 terrorist attacks in United States and the subsequent declaration of war on terror have upturned worldwide issues including terrorist attacks, fatalities, disbursement of foreign aid and development assistance. Since 9/11 attacks, US economic and military aids and official development assistance have played a vital role in the South Asian...

The study aims to analyze the impact of urbanization and urban income on carbon emission, in the case of China. Panel data estimations use the data from 30 Chinese provinces from 1998 to 2016. Empirical result of urbanization confirms significant and positive coefficient, whereas, urban income has a negative coefficient. This illustrates that highe...

The aim of current study is to examine the nexus among economic growth, education, health issues, and carbon emission for the panel of 161 countries. Education and health have confirmed insignificant coefficients for economic growth and carbon emission, which mention that higher education and better health conditions are not useful for boosting eco...

Present study contributes to the existing literature by introducing the role of urban income and urban expenditure to control the carbon emission, especially produced by urbanization. Additionally, investment in industrial treatment plant is used to study its impact in carbon reduction. By using the data of 30 Chinese provinces over the period of 2...

The higher economic growth of China intensifies the consumption of fossil fuel, such as coal and oil, for electricity generation, transportation etc., which is responsible for environmental degradation through the emissions of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen etc. The objectives of this study are to investigate the impact of greenhouse gas emission on...

The study emphasizes to examine the causal relationship among CO2 emission, agricultural value added, industrial production, urbanization, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth across the panel of 59 countries. The data is collected from World Bank database over the period of 1982–2015. For econometric estimations, we have divided the sam...

The study examines the main contributors of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in China and attempts to propose the economic and non-economic reforms to mitigate this emission. We use the panel data from 2004 to 2015 of 30 Chinese provinces to conduct the full sample, regional and policy-based analysis. Our findings have shown statistically significant...

Using unbalanced data from 30 provinces in China between 1990 and 2015, this paper investigates the impact of urbanization on energy intensity with three control variables: economic growth, industrialization, and foreign direct investment. All the samples are divided into two sub-samples using a newly developed partially heterogeneous framework. Fo...

This study aimed to analyze the shock transmission and volatility spillover between firm stocks and oil assets by using the BEKK-GARCH model in which a variance and covariance series are used for portfolio optimization. For this purpose, we use the daily data from 107 Pakistani-listed firms covering the period from January 2000 to August 2017. Our...

The study investigates the impact of oil prices on firm-level stock returns in case of Pakistan over the period 1998–2014, as this relationship is neglected by the previous literature. By using the panel data estimation, the results of full sample indicate significant positive effect of oil price changes on firm stock returns in the same period, wh...

Innovation and globalization fosters a tendency towards multiparty collaboration and strategic contacts among nations. A similar path was followed by the Chinese administration in 2013, with its “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). The most important objective of the present fact-finding study was to demonstrate the links between economic growth, ener...

In this study the volatility spillover between stock market returns (Shanghai stock exchange, Nikkei stock exchange and Bombay stock exchange) and crude oil returns in the top three Asian oil-importing countries are investigated. BEKK-GARCH, DCC-GARCH, cDCC-GARCH and GO-GARCH estimation techniques are applied using daily data from 1st January 2000...

The present study empirically investigated the nexus among renewable energy consumption, economic growth, agriculture production and carbon dioxide emissions for two Asian countries, China and India. By using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), we analyzed the long-run and short-run estimates. The paper gathered the data of economic growth,...

The paper investigates the effects of renewable energy consumption, agriculture production and forest on carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in Pakistan. To do so, we use annual data over the period of 1990-2014 and employ the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to examine their long-run and short-run impacts on CO2 emission. We find that in the long ru...

This study uses the data from 157 countries from 1960 to 2014 to analyze the relationship between economic growth, electricity consumption, oil prices, capital, and labor. The economic growth of developing countries with industrial infrastructure has a more significant association with electricity consumption than oil prices. We use oil prices and...

This study investigates the influence of the financial system on firms' investment efficiency in China. For this purpose, we employ country level data of capital markets and financial institutions along with financial data from 2797 Chinese firms in the period from 1998 to 2015. The firms are priori classified into four groups, by high and low valu...

This paper investigates the role of expenditures and economic factors in determining the incidence of crime across the districts of Punjab from 2005 to 2013. We have applied pooled OLS (Ordinary Least Square), fixed effect and generalized method of moment approaches to examine the relationship among variables. Empirical results illustrate that Poli...

The study attempts to examine the relationship between oil prices and stock prices; for the case of Karachi stock market and Dhaka stock market over the period of 1990 to 2014. By using the regression estimation method, the results confirmed the significant positive relationship between oil price and both the stock market prices. In the regression...

The study investigates the significant determinants of stock returns of all non-financial listed companies in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), Pakistan from 1998-2011 by using panel data techniques. In addition, this study further categorized into Syariah and Non-Syariah compliant firms to examine the significant differences of stock determinants. All...

Purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of monitoring power and performance of equity holders, who have ownership in blocks, in minimizing and controlling the agency cost in Pakistani firms. Asset utilization ratio is used as the proxy to measure the agency cost for equity holders. This study has been done by analyzing t...

This study identifies the significant determinants of equity returns in Pakistan by using an unbalanced panel data of 394 non-financial firms, listed in Karachi Stock Exchange over the period 1998-2009. The results provide support to the standard Capital Asset Pricing model (CAPM) and suggest that equity returns respond to market premium. The failu...

This study explores the association among macro-determinants and stock returns by analyzing the reaction of macroeconomic variables on individual equity returns. For this purpose a panel data of 394 listed companies listed in the Karachi Sock Exchanger over the period of 1998-2009 is used for empirical analysis. The results revealed that volatility...