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This paper explores the relationship between key economic and institutional attributes of Tunisian governorates and their ability to attract foreign direct investment inflows. A dynamic generalized method of moments and spatial autoregressive approaches are used to estimate a model of regional foreign direct investment over the recent period. The results provide evidence of regional interdependence of foreign direct investment that appears to be highly clustered along the coastal areas. An increase/decrease of foreign direct investment inflows to a given region creates an incentive/disincentive for other foreign direct investment inflows to the same regions as well as nearby ones. These agglomeration forces are relatively strong in Tunisia in the presence of vertical foreign direct investment. Further, the results indicate that a relatively developed market size, an increase of regional development areas, as well as robust governance practices and infrastructure are positive determinants of regional foreign direct investment inflows. Finally, the paper shows that although some of the determinants exhibit spillover effects on nearby regions, the direct effect on the region represents the bulk of the influence over foreign direct investment inflows.

Agglomeration Economies --- Foreign Direct Investment --- Governance --- Infrastructure --- International Economics and Trade --- Market Size --- Regional Disparity --- Spatial Analysis --- Spillover Effect

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This paper studies the impact of foreign direct investment on domestic firms' innovation in China. It provides causal evidence by exploiting China's foreign direct investment deregulation in 2002 and employs a difference-in-difference estimation strategy. Using a matched firm-patent data set from 1998 to 2007, the results show that the quantity and quality of domestic firms' innovation benefit from foreign direct investment. Moreover, the paper emphasizes the importance of knowledge spillover from foreign direct investment in similar technology domains. The analysis examines the role of horizontal foreign direct investment and foreign direct investment in technologically close industries'industries that share similar technology domains. The findings show that foreign direct investment in technologically close industries generates much bigger positive spillovers than horizontal foreign direct investment. The paper also shows that knowledge spillover from foreign direct investment in similar technology domains is not driven by input-out linkages. Moreover, the spillover effect is stronger in cities with higher human capital stock and firms with higher absorptive capacity.

Business Environment --- Firm Innovation --- Foreign Direct Investment --- Innovation --- International Economics and Trade --- Private Sector Development --- Private Sector Economics --- Spillover Effect --- Technology Closeness

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Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions to improve early childhood development. This paper disentangles the effects of behavioral change promotion from cash transfers to poor households through an experiment embedded in a government program in Niger. The study is also designed to identify within-community spillovers from the behavioral change intervention. The findings show that behavioral change promotion affects a range of practices related to nutrition, health, stimulation, and child protection. Local spillovers on parenting practices are also found. Moderate gains in children's socio-emotional development are observed, but there are no improvements in anthropometrics or cognitive development. Cash transfers alone do not alter parenting practices or improve early childhood development. Cash transfers improve welfare and food security at the household level, and the behavioral intervention induces intra-household reallocations toward children.

Behavioral Change Communication --- Cash Transfers --- Cognitive Development --- Early Child and Children's Health --- Early Childhood Development --- Field Experiment --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Malnutrition --- Nutrition --- Parenting --- Poverty Reduction --- Services and Transfers to Poor --- Social Protections and Assistance --- Social Protections and Labor --- Spillover Effect

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Recent developments in the natural gas industry warrant new analysis of related issues. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments have accelerated the shift away from coal as the dominant source of electricity. Its low environmental impact, reduced volume, and broad availability make liquefied natural gas (LNG) a popular alternative, during this time of transition between traditional fuels and newer options. In the United States, the shale gas revolution has made natural gas a game changer. In this book, we focus on empirical analyses of the natural gas market and its growing relevance worldwide.

Economics, finance, business & management --- spillover effect --- market integration --- natural gas market --- time frequency dynamics --- BRICS --- exchange rates --- connectedness --- time domain --- frequency domain --- natural gas --- crude oil --- electricity utilities sector index --- time–frequency dynamics --- ESG --- renewable energy --- copula --- value-at-risk --- electricity --- spot --- futures --- transmission --- pipelines --- external cost --- health --- property damage --- bodily injury --- uncertainty --- insurance --- coal --- spillover effects --- dynamic approaches --- forecasting --- logistic regression --- random forests --- support vector machines --- US natural gas crises --- XGboost --- neural networks --- oil futures prices crashes --- foresting --- logistical regression --- extreme gradient boosting --- moving window --- SVAR --- oil price --- gas price --- US macroeconomic aggregates --- GDP --- CPI --- spillover effect --- market integration --- natural gas market --- time frequency dynamics --- BRICS --- exchange rates --- connectedness --- time domain --- frequency domain --- natural gas --- crude oil --- electricity utilities sector index --- time–frequency dynamics --- ESG --- renewable energy --- copula --- value-at-risk --- electricity --- spot --- futures --- transmission --- pipelines --- external cost --- health --- property damage --- bodily injury --- uncertainty --- insurance --- coal --- spillover effects --- dynamic approaches --- forecasting --- logistic regression --- random forests --- support vector machines --- US natural gas crises --- XGboost --- neural networks --- oil futures prices crashes --- foresting --- logistical regression --- extreme gradient boosting --- moving window --- SVAR --- oil price --- gas price --- US macroeconomic aggregates --- GDP --- CPI

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Energy is one of the most important factors of production. Its efficient use is crucial for ensuring production and environmental quality. Unlike normal goods with supply management, energy is demand managed. Efficient energy use—or energy efficiency—aims to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. Energy use efficiency can be achieved in situations such as housing, offices, industrial production, transport and agriculture as well as in public lighting and services. The use of energy can be reduced by using technology that is energy saving. This Special Issue is a collection of research on energy use efficiency.

History of engineering & technology --- energy efficiency --- direct energy rebound effect --- spatial spillover effect --- price decomposition --- fuel consumption --- trade-off --- technological progress --- passenger vehicle --- power factor --- regression discontinuity design --- data envelopment analysis --- super-SBM --- grey model --- energy consumption --- vehicle --- productive process --- material consumption --- manufacturing --- labor productivity --- energy --- Ethiopia --- energy access --- energy use --- fuzzy logic --- energy intensity --- stochastic frontier --- persistent efficiency --- transient efficiency --- US manufacturing --- energy paradox --- integrated assessment model --- subsidy policy --- air quality improvement --- zero-emission vehicles --- fine particulate matter --- Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards --- Global Change Assessment Model --- energy monitoring --- electricity smart meters --- smart metering information platforms --- knowledge --- longitudinal study --- consumers --- energy use efficiency --- energy efficiency management --- design science research --- pilot implementation --- dynamics --- heat transfer in buildings --- heat losses --- buildings --- thermal power --- heating --- dynamic DEA --- efficiency measurement --- electricity power generation --- weak disposability --- undesirable outputs