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Volume 27, issue 1, 2026

Digital government and urban entrepreneurial vitality: evidence from a quasi‑natural experiment in China pp. 1-33

Yan Zhang and Maoguo Wu

The timing of opportunism: political cycles under binding fiscal rules in Brazil pp. 1-20

Débora Ferreira, Rodrigo Schneider and Mauricio Bugarin

Regulatory certification, informal governance, and productivity under weak state capacity pp. 1-64

Claudia Cantabene, Alessandro De Iudicibus and Iacopo Grassi

Corporate governance and ESG integration: pathways to sustainability in European companies pp. 1-43

Pilar Pérez Escamez, José Manuel Santos-Jaén, Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez and Isabel Martínez-Conesa

Religion and corruption: Are there any saints? pp. 1-40

Oasis Kodila-Tedika

Elections and (mis)reporting of COVID-19 mortality: a quasi-natural experiment pp. 1-40

Parrendah Adwoa Kpeli, Günther G. Schulze and Nikita Zakharov

Institutional distance and governance performance: a structural analysis pp. 1-40

Diego Vallarino

How does China's local fiscal decentralization promote common prosperity? An analysis of the mediating role of rural revitalization pp. 1-30

Ziqiao Shu and Sanghyeon Ju

How does democracy moderate the impact of renewable energy on CO₂ emissions in Europe? pp. 1-30

Jelena Zvezdanović Lobanova and Mikhail Lobanov

Product and quality differentiation in endogenous delegation under mixed markets pp. 1-30

Kangsik Choi

Data-driven growth: unpacking the productivity gains from open government data pp. 1-30

Zenglu Song, Jinjing Lu and Chunhua Luo

Incentive contracts, cotton yield, and career advancement of regional leaders in Uzbekistan: a principal-agent analysis pp. 1-23

Zafar Nazarov

Governing land in the digital era: public data openness and land governance patterns pp. 1-23

Fenghui Sun and Hengzhou Xu

Does corruption harm biodiversity in developing countries? An analysis of the effects of transmission channels pp. 1-23

François-Cyrille Eyeghe-Ntoutoume

Shadow economy, financial development and institutions: theory and evidence pp. 1-57

Cristian Barra and Anna Papaccio

Does the informal economy undermine political stability? Empirical evidence from global perspectives pp. 1-34

Muhammad Salah Uddin, Mohammad Ismayl Al Masud, Md Roknuzzaman, Mohammad Ahsan Habib and Md. Al Amin

Dividend stripping in Germany: evidence from the futures market pp. 1-44

Moritz F. Uttscheid

Beyond the veil: unpacking money laundering through economic models, emerging technologies, and government capture pp. 1-29

Raffaella Barone and Friedrich Schneider

New types infrastructure construction, governmental peer effects, and regional carbon emission reduction pp. 1-29

Qianqian Wang

The corporate tax–economic growth nexus: the role of institutional quality pp. 1-29

Hoyong Jung

Accumulation rule of fiscal slack and mimicking behavior in local public finance: evidence from Japan’s municipalities pp. 1-35

Izuru Maeda and Takahiro Tsukamoto

Intergenerational burden of debt-financed fiscal expansion: an Overlapping Generations model with Markov-switching regimes evidence from South Africa pp. 1-35

Eugene Msizi Buthelezi

Breaking the world’s vulnerability to climate change: the role of mobile money pp. 1-38

Eric Xaverie Possi Tebeng, Dieudonné Mignamissi, Onella Trousselle Dawai and Jose Claude Nyamou Mokompea

Governance and inequality in Latin America: is there evidence of an institutional Kuznets curve? pp. 1-39

Fernando Martin-Mayoral and María Gabriela Peñaherrera Plúa

Territorial inequalities in school accessibility: public and private governance in Italy pp. 1-39

Massimiliano Agovino, Maria D’Avino, Aniello Ferraro and Katia Marchesano

Unveiling structural patterns of global budget transparency using advanced machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence frameworks pp. 1-39

Sadullah Çelik, Sercan Yavan and Gamze Çimen

More transparency, more compliance? Digital government services and corporate tax avoidance pp. 1-25

Lihui Tian and Dan Wang

The extractive sector and illicit financial flows in Africa: mechanisms and policy implications for transparency and governance pp. 1-25

Guivis Nkemgha

Does municipality’s self-generated income influence the efficiency of its public spending? pp. 1-25

Djondandi Wangbara, Gautier Tchoffo Tameko and Bruno Emmanuel Ongo Nkoa

How do environmental technology and governance influence environmental degradation in Indo-Pacific countries? pp. 1-25

Ritika Chopra, Mubeen Abdur Rehman and Emrah Sofuoğlu

Green public procurement and corporate green innovation: a moderating effect of internal and external governance pp. 1-28

Chuqing Zhang

From complexity to resilience: the role of regional knowledge in reducing China’s local government debt risk pp. 1-28

Fengxia Hao, Yuqin Wang and Yong Li

The impact of decentralization on the efficiency of grassroots government public services: evidence from the province-managing-county reform in China pp. 1-28

Tingting Zhang, Haifeng Zhang and Wen Sun

Impact of artificial intelligence on economic growth: analyzing the role of governance in shaping outcomes across economies pp. 1-49

Suresh Kumar Patra, Tanu Dixit and Kamal Jit Jangid

The consequences of being far from government: evidence from government relocation and firm innovation pp. 1-49

Xianlong Li, Jiankun Yang, Keyi Li and Xiaochen Gong

Effective management structures for offshore manufacturing: centralization vs. decentralization pp. 1-24

Micah Mainala, Yan-Shu Lin and Dang-Long Bui

Correction: The timing of opportunism: political cycles under binding fiscal rules in Brazil pp. 1-1

Débora Ferreira, Rodrigo Schneider and Mauricio Bugarin

Innovation incentives, gender diversification, and corporate governance in an emerging market pp. 1-37

Dachen Sheng and Heather A. Montgomery

Incumbent policy strategy and the value of winning pp. 1-27

Christian Cox and Ian Shapiro

Can outsiders govern better? Personnel rotation and environmental governance performance pp. 1-27

Xue Lei

Syndication, investment horizon, and managerial effort in venture capital pp. 1-18

George Geronikolaou

The role of internal governance competence in mitigating ESG greenwashing: insights from emerging markets pp. 1-32

Asif Ali, Bilal Haider Subhani and Shen Zunhuan

Signaling firm ESG performance to attract global talent: the influence of home country information transparency and sustainability performance pp. 1-32

Anthony Kuo, Donna Chien, Ming-Sung Kao and Chih-Wei Fred Chao

The political economy of influence: how lobbying shapes institutions and social welfare at the local level pp. 1-32

Massimiliano Agovino, Grazia Errichiello and Pasquale Marcello Falcone

Whose fragility? Institutional resilience, fiscal stress and ESG dynamics in Central America under structural uncertainty pp. 1-32

Roberto Yoan Castillo Dieguez

Regulating at entry: environmental accountability and industrial land conveyance pp. 1-32

Lunbo Zhang, Lafang Wang, Xiaoqing Gong and Jiajuan Lin

Fiscal consequences of terrorism in Africa: a direct and indirect approach pp. 1-41

Charles Christian Atangana Zambo, Bruno Emmanuel Ongo Nkoa and Yves Patrice Etogo Nyaga

Navigating geopolitical risk: non-linear impacts and policy strategies for environmental sustainability pp. 1-41

Monica Singhania, Anisha and Amar Rao

The role of democracy and institutional quality on environmental performance: empirical evidence using a stochastic directional distance model pp. 1-31

Pasquale Marcello Falcone and Cristian Barra

Renewable energy and energy-related uncertainty in the voluntary provision of global public goods pp. 1-21

Yoshito Funashima

Fiscal shocks and subnational government finances: evidence from Indian states pp. 1-22

Abhishek Singh and Amlendu Dubey

Optimising the decision threshold in a weighted voting system: the case of the IMF’s Board of Governors pp. 1-22

Dóra Petróczy

A model of religious identities and income redistribution: from the Lebanese Civil War to the Taif Agreement pp. 1-22

Ghassan Dibeh and Stephanie Karam

The impact of green factory policy on innovation: increment or enhancement in quality? pp. 1-36

Lihui Yin and Peihao Shi