Umer Shahzad

• Public Ecoomic Management
• Post doctor at Zhengzhou University

Digital innovation is widely recognized as a driver of trade growth, while the combined effect of digitalization and technological bilateral trade on sustainable trade-adjusted development remains insufficiently explored. This study examines the impacts of digital and geographical mobility, alongside bilateral trade in technology, on sustainable tr...

Despite the increasing concentration on the budding, but yet immature, green investment markets, less empirical information is known on their multifractal and efficiency behaviour, with no study particularly linking these to the crude oil market. In addition, how the recent COVID‐19 affects the multifractality and cross‐correlation between oil pric...

Purpose-This research primarily aims to investigate the impact of organizational implants on knowledge transmission, process innovation and security integration in intricate supply chains. Design/methodology/approach-The research utilizes a mixed-method approach, employing a stratified sampling strategy to get a representative sample of 1,284 enter...

The objective of this study is to analyze how low-carbon technology imports such as wind turbines, solar panels, carbon capture equipment, and biomass systems from China affect Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries’ energy poverty. Additionally, we analyze the role of financial development, deliberative democracy, economic complexity, human d...

Financial support is essential to reduce carbon emissions (CEs) and achieve the green transformation of China. To detect the nexus of local finance and CEs, we constructed a two-sector (clean and dirty sectors) model to identify the channels from city commercial banks (CCBs) to CEs involving capital scale, structure, and efficiency. Using the setti...

The escalating concerns about ecological sustainability have made the consumption of resources a crucial global issue. The speedy growth of the economy is heavily reliant on excessive consumption of resources, which significantly contributes to the imbalance between biodiversity and ecological footprint, resulting in a decrease in the carrying capa...

Regardless of major advancements in food production, Asia continues to confront severe food security challenges. Sustainable agriculture presents entirely new prospects by prioritizing the productive worth of human, social, and natural capital—all of which are abundant in Asian nations or can be replenished at a relatively low financial expense. Th...

italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">The research problem : In this article, we identify the hindering effect of industry monopolies and insufficient regulation on China's data asset market. We underscore the necessity for a robust, market-driven data-allocation mechanism to foster the co...

China is adopting innovative strategies to mitigate the carbon emissions and to enhance environmental sustainability. China's pilot low-carbon city program is a comprehensive program to attain carbon neutrality and green transformation. The current research is an attempt to explore the dynamic relationship between green patents, energy use, researc...

Amidst a dynamic energy market landscape, understanding evolving influencing factors is pivotal. Accurate forecasting techniques are indispensable for effective energy resource management. This study focuses on illuminating insights into economic uncertainty and commodity price forecasting. A meticulously curated dataset spanning January 2000 to De...

Due to the ongoing challenges posed by climate change and environmental degradation, developing nations are pursuing initiatives to mitigate carbon emissions at net zero and achieve sustainability objectives. To attain these objectives, it is necessary to shift from conventional energy sources to green energy sources. This research paper examines t...

South Asian countries face a shortage of clean drinking water and have little access to basic sanitation facilities. Furthermore, despite its beautiful landscape, this region has the lowest share of global tourism. Therefore, this study is a baseline attempt to examine the short-term and long-term effects of access to clean drinking water and sanit...

A new generation of heterogeneous financing tools is designed to support responsible firms to develop sustainable projects. Also, carbon pricing as the most convenient environmental factor could help eco-friendly assets by creating a more environmentally friendly environment while altering the cost competitiveness of various industries. This paper...

Despite the global COVID-19 epidemic, the "domino effect" continues to detrimentally impact business operations, with firms unable to adapt and facing the potential for bankruptcy. Dynamic capabilities (DCs) may help firms overcome challenges in constantly changing operational environments, making financial advantages critical for operations. The e...

In recent years, investors, corporations, and enterprises have shown great interest in the Bitcoin network; thus, promoting its products and services is crucial. This study utilizes an empirical analysis for financial time series and machine learning to perform prediction of bitcoin price and Garman-Klass (GK) volatility using Long Short-Term Memor...

This study explores the economic costs of work stoppages resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. It utilizes a global multiregional dynamic computable general equilibrium model and finds that the higher the proportion of labor compensation in the initial factor distribution, the greater the economic damage. Macroeconomic loss was characterized by a m...

Copper is one of the most important minerals that has extensive use in environment-friendly technologies and renewable energy generation. The global urgency for environmental and ecological conservation through renewable energy transition has considerably enhanced the importance of copper and articles thereof. Chile is a major producer of copper. I...

The appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the global health and economic crises and massively hit the performance of business firms worldwide. The ongoing pandemic has posed health care and economic challenges; however, the service industry was the hardest hit. The tourism, travel, and hospitality sectors faced a sharp decline and recorde...

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...

Trade has a crucial role in a country's economic development. This study scrutinizes the impact of terms of trade (TOT), labor force, and capital on the United States' economic growth. This study aims to investigate the short and long-run impacts of Capital, Labor, and Terms of Trade on the economic growth of the United States. To accomplish the st...

In recent times, industrialized economies have focused more on achieving a sustainable environment while maintaining economic prosperity. However, it is clear from the current research that natural resource exploitation and decentralization substantially affect environmental quality. To experimentally validate such data, the current study examines...

The study aims to investigate the influence of persuasive metaphorical communication on citizens’ attitude, attachment and adoption of digital services based on the government’s logo and tag line in a campaign to promote digitization. The hierarchy of effects model is used to determine the effectiveness of metaphorical communication for the digitiz...

Entrepreneurial activities constitute a critical antecedent to urban innovation (UI), which reflects the levels of innovation and creation activities in cities and is strongly related to their economic development. Existing research on UI focuses on the net effects of individual explanatories in isolation while leaving the synergistic effects betwe...

The recent Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2022 progress report shows the presence of a possible policy lacuna at the global level in achieving the objectives of SDG 7. The recent COP26 discourse and the academic literature identify the Energy Transition as the possible mean to achieve this objective. Now, realizing the Energy Transition requir...

Due to the uncertainty surrounding the coupling and decoupling of natural gas, oil, and energy commodity futures prices, the current study seeks to investigate the interactions between energy commodity futures, oil price futures, and carbon emission futures from a forecasting perspective with implications for environmental sustainability. We employ...

Precious metals and traditional energy prices are shaken by geopolitical tension, financial instability, rising inflation, declining economic growth, and financial markets. In addition, conventional energy, such as oil and gas, are intensive inputs to metal production, making these variables increasingly interconnected for economies and financial i...

Industrialized countries and environmental protection agencies urge greener energy technology adoption and improvement in technological innovation. In this regard, the primary factor of greener energy adoption could be the budget allocated for renewable energy R&D, technological innovation, and socioeconomic conditions. The prime objective of this...

The study aim is to investigate the Industrial, Agricultural, and Technological Bilateral Trade relationship between China and the Europe & Central Asia region over the period of 2000 to 2019 by employing the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA export), Trade Complementarity Index (TCI) and Trade Integration Index (TCD). The estimated results...

This study investigates the impact of the energy poverty index (EPI) on the ecological footprint (ECF) as an inclusive environmental quality index in South Korea from 1990 to 2019, considering environmental-related technologies (ERT), real GDP per capita (RGDPpc), and financial development (FD) in the environmental function. The principal component...

Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an important way to promote high-quality economic development. The “innovation dividend” based on green innovation is the key to enhancing green TFP. In this study, the effect of green innovation on GTFP in cities was empirically investigated. The results show that: (1) after including year and ci...

Bilateral trade has significantly influenced economic growth over the past few decades. This study examines bilateral intra-industry trade between China and South Asian countries from 2000 to 2020. Intra-industry trade IIT is further decomposed into vertical intra-industry VIIT and horizontal intra-industry HIIT to indicate two-way and one-way trad...

Purpose – Trade is influenced highly by the economic development of a country. This study scrutinizes the impact of the Terms of Trade (TOT), the force of labor, and capital on the United States’ economic growth. In addition, the study also sets an objective to investigate the short-run as well as the long-run impact of Capital, Labor, and Terms of...

The study aim is to investigate the Industrial, Agricultural, and Technological Bilateral Trade relationship between China and the Europe & Central Asia region over the period of 2000 to 2019 by employing the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA export), Trade Complementarity Index (TCI) and Trade Integration Index (TCD). The estimated results...

Renewable energy sources have become economically attractive in the UAE. With environmental and financial benefits factored in the transition to renewables, the country targets to reach 44% of the installed capacity with clean energy resources in 2050. These policies will help achieve the country's economic and sustainable development goals. In thi...

The price movement of commodities in general and crude oil, in particular, are critical for both commodity-consuming and producing countries. The prime objective of this study is to examine the characteristic behavior of commodity futures and commodity index and the dynamic relationships between commodity index and commodity futures. The study firs...

While the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is thought to radically transform trade, financial and industrial patterns in Eurasia, questions remain on how to develop a secure supply of renewable energy without jeopardizing the booming energy demand of those regions. Due to the intrinsic nature of BRI projects, foreign direct investments (FDI) and high...

Over the past three decades, researchers have extensively examined the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. Despite their early focus on the ecological impacts of anthropogenic development, associated conclusions differ and often conflict. In this study, we conducted a state-of-the-art review of this topic and shed light on the methodologi...

This study attempts to explore the causal linkage of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, and tourism arrivals in the United States taking data from January to November 2020. In order to analyze the above relationship, this study uses a novel time-varying granger causality test developed by Shi et al. (2018) , whic...

This study aims to analyze the association between development of environmental patents and trade openness, institutional quality and FDI in the South Asia countries from 1996-2016 and shows some interesting outcomes. Although, as expected, the institutional quality is an integral part of the development of environmental innovation, the trade openn...

Deviating from the environmental regulations at the regional level, this study focuses the research sample on Chinese A-share polluting companies and uses the ordinary least squares model and the seemingly unrelated regression model to test whether the existing corporate-level environmental regulations promote the development of green finance. The...

The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015 shifted the attention towards sustainability-related concerns in both developing and developed counties. The aim of this paper is to examine how agricultural productivity-a key driver in achieving many of these SDGs-is affected by carbon emissions, deforestation, renewable energy consumpti...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus adversely affected the material and mental well-being of the infected individuals and their families. The poor health system combined with lack of fear of infection has created significant negative health effects for people. The present research consider the notable models of coping with negative emotions, includi...

The subject of this publication is an analysis of the sentiment of stock exchange investors in terms of making investment decisions in the energy sector of the Polish stock exchange. The investment mood is considered in the context of the possible impact of weather factors on investment decisions. Possible effects are verified in relation to the ra...

Achieving sustainable environmental development, while further avoiding environmental degradation is an unprecedented challenge for policymakers. This article aims to explore whether the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis holds if the relevant carbon emissions modelling approach includes both energy consumption and the Konjunkturforschung...

This article investigates the impact of export product diversification, extensive margin and intensive margin on emerging economies energy demand covering the period from 1971 to 2014. The study contributes to energy economics by unveiling the interaction between export diversification and energy demand of 10 newly industries countries (NICs). Owin...

This study explores the effects of renewable and nonrenewable energy demand on export product diversification, economic growth, natural resources, human capital, and trade in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries using data of six countries from 1990 to 2019. The empirical analysis integrates the panel unit root tests (IPS and CIPS), panel quant...

This Special Issue is dedicated to the study of the environment through the lenses of export product quality, export policies and sustainable production. The aim is to advance knowledge in the fields of export quality (trade perspectives), renewable energy, the environment and sustainable production through the dissemination of research that promot...

To better analyze China's carbon neutrality target, this study investigates the effect of green innovation and investment in the energy industry on China's provincial and regional data from 1995 to 2017. Using Westerlund and Edgerton's panel cointegration test, the authors found a stable long-run relationship between CO2 emissions and its determina...

This is the first research to explore the role of environmental taxes and regulations for renewable energy, with the focus to report policy suggestions to overcome climate change issues and achieve environmental sustainability. The prime objective of this paper is to examine the association between renewable energy, environmental taxes, environment...

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...

The coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 100 million people worldwide with COVID-19, with millions of deaths across the globe. In this research, we explored the effects of environmental and weather variables with daily COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 fatalities in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey has the 8th highest number of COVID-19 cases globally, wi...

The current decade has witnessed the rise of empirical research in the domain of ecological footprint which has become a major scholarly area among environmental researchers. However, many key factors determining ecological footprint have been inadequately dealt within the existing body of knowledge. The current research aims to explore the associa...

The present study investigates the role of institutional and governance factors in foreign direct investment and economic growth in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) countries. An essential contribution of the paper is to empirically examine the intercorrelation of foreign direct...

Due to urbanization and the need for people to go from one country to another either for commercial purpose or tourism, it is therefore important to determine the extent to which tourism contributes to growth. This article aims to investigate the tourism-led growth hypothesis in a sample of 34 European countries utilizing the yearly data from 1995...

Attaining sustainable development and cleaner production is a major challenge both for the de-veloped and developing economies; income, institutional regulations, institutional quality and in-ternational trade are the key determinants of environmental externalities. The current work at-tempts to study the role of environmental taxes and regulations...

Purpose The prime objective of this study is to offer fruitful implications about allocation and directing foreign direct investment (FDI) to gain maximum economic advantage. The study offers innovative findings by contributing to a new angle. Design/methodology/approach The study used the annual data of 24 countries, for the period of 1995–2016 a...

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Due to the global threat, many countries impose immediate lockdown. The impact of lockdown on the environmental pollutants and climate indicators gained considerable attention in the literature. This study aims to describe the va...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is infecting the human population, killing people, and destroying livelihoods. This research sought to explore the associations of daily average temperature (AT) and air quality (PM2.5) with the daily new cases of COVID-19 in the top four regions of Spain (Castilla y Leon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, and Madri...

During the past decades, environmental related taxes, energy, and carbon taxes has been recommended by environmental scientists as a policy tool to mitigate pollutant emissions in developed and developing economies. Among developed nations, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway were the first regions to adopt a tax on carbon dioxide...

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 discusses the residential electricity (RE) demand in Tunisia as a function of household disposable real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the price of electricity (PE) and the degree of urbanization (U) spanning the period 1980-2018. To do that, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound model and Granger causality test are employed t...

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Due to the global threat, many countries impose immediate lockdown. The impact of lockdown on the environmental pollutants and climate indicators gained considerable attention in the literature. This study aims to describe the va...

Although medical achievements have increased the survival of newborns with low birth weight (LBW) even in developing countries, the higher rate of LBW is still a risk for newborns in Pakistan. Therefore, this study proposes the relative contribution of socioeconomic, behavioral and demographic risk factors to LBW newborns in order to format impress...

The present study empirically scrutinizes the role of terrorism, military expenditures, political stability and economic indicators on capital flight in case of Sub-Sahara African and Middle East and North African countries using the annual data over the period of 1990-2015. In this regard, we apply pooled OLS, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM),...

This article studies whether the pursuit of foreign aid for counterterrorism purposes militarizes or mitigates terrorism. It focuses on the USAID and official development assistance (ODA) flows to Pakistan, which recently has experienced an increase due to the presence of deadliest terrorist organizations. By using the time series data from 1985 to...

The paper has two main objectives; (i) Firstly, to investigate the relationship between economic growth and economic indicators of Brazil economy, (ii) Secondly, to examine the impact of FDI on Gross domestic product of Brazil economy. The study employed time series data from 1986 to 2014 of the remittance, FDI, capital formation and domestic savin...

The present study investigates the role of coal consumption on the economic growth in India from 1980-2016. We use panel data estimation techniques for long run and VECM Granger causality for short run analysis to find the direction of causality between coal consumption and economic growth. The model specification also incorporates the urbanization...

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,...