Gonzalo Hernández Soto

Do climate shocks induce technological change? Firm-level evidence from wildfire exposure and robot adoption

Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine whether wildfire exposure is related to firms’ adoption of industrial robots. The study focuses on Chinese manufacturing firms over 2001–2014 and analyzes whether the wildfire–automation relationship varies across adoption margins, fina...

Geopolitical risk and renewable energy consumption: distributional patterns, innovation, and energy-exporter heterogeneity

Purpose This paper aims to examine how the relationship between geopolitical risk and renewable energy consumption varies across the conditional distribution. It also assesses renewable-energy innovation as a partial channel and energy-exporter status as a moderator. Design/metho...

The Effects of Alternative Energy Consumption on Inflationary Trends in Sustainable Growth: A Quantile Study in the European Union

ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of the green energy transition and foreign direct investment on inflationary dynamics, distinguishing between general price inflation and electricity price inflation across 27 EU member states over 2014–2024. Using feasible generalized lea...