Halil Özekicioğlu

Healthcare financing and healthy longevity in OECD countries

Abstract This study examines the relationship between health expenditure and healthy life expectancy (HALE) across OECD countries over the period 2000–2021, a timeframe that includes major structural reforms, global economic shocks, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike conventional...

Financial Development, Digitalization, and Energy Intensity in the European Union: Suggestive Evidence of a Conditional Association

This study examines whether the relationship between financial development and energy intensity in the European Union depends on the level of digitalization. Using a balanced panel of 27 EU member states over the period 2007–2019, we estimate two-way fixed effects models with Dri...