Azerbaijan State University of Economics

Do textual attributes of management commentary matter for analyst coverage and information quality: evidence from the United Kingdom

Purpose This study examines whether the readability of management commentary is associated with analysts' coverage and the precision of analysts' information sets. It further investigates whether analysts' experience, access to resources and forecast boldness moderate these relat...

Do AI and Lexicon-Based ESG Scores Converge? Evidence from IPO Prospectuses in an Emerging Market

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) scoring from corporate disclosures raises questions about alignment with conventional lexicon-based scores. Such alignment can be problematic as a lexicon-based approach quantifies...

Sustainability Transitions: The Role of Private Sector Development, Human Rights Protection, and Energy Transition in Sustainable Development and Ecological Footprint

ABSTRACT Despite global cooperation, increased efforts toward the energy transition, and improved voluntary national commitments, progress toward the 2030 Agenda remains slow and uneven, highlighting the need for more effective governance and stronger policy interventions. Accord...

Balancing energy security and sustainability in G20 countries: a hybrid fuzzy Delphi multi-criteria framework

This study examines the tension between energy security and energy sustainability across the nineteen sovereign members of the Group of Twenty (G20). The framework is novel in three respects. First, criterion weights are elicited from a panel of six large language models (LLMs) a...

Transport Productivity, Hydrogen Innovation, and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From High‐Income Economies in Achieving SDG Targets

ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability has become a major policy challenge for high‐income economies, particularly as expanding transport systems increase energy demand and ecological pressure. This raises concerns about the compatibility of economic efficiency with the Sustainabl...

INVESTMENT-LED ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN POST-CONFLICT REGIONS: EVIDENCE FROM GARABAGH AND EASTERN ZANGEZUR

Azərbaycan Respublikası İqtisadi İslahatların Təhlili və Kommunikasiya Mərkəzi "İQTİSADİ İSLAHATLAR" elmi-analitik jurnal "I qtisadi I slahatlar" elmi-analitik jurnal №1 (14)"

Assessing the role of nuclear energy in promoting green growth: a quantile-based analysis for BRICS

The green economy and clean energy transition have become central global priorities. Nuclear energy, with its potential to reduce carbon emissions, offers a promising pathway for shifting from conventional growth models to green growth. In this context, this study examines the in...

Analysis of the relationship between digital banking and the development of cashless payments in Azerbaijan

This study focuses on the interconnection between digital banking and cashless payments development in Azerbaijan on the basis of the official statistics and recent scientific works. The analysis is based on the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan digital payments reports...

Scenario-based ESG scoring for sustainable financial investments using an advanced multi-facet fuzzy system

Sustainable financial investments are emerging as a multidimensional decision-making area that requires a holistic assessment of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. However, the literature demonstrates that the relative importance of each of these criteria on in...

Artificial Intelligence-Driven Sensor Network Approach for Optimizing Halted Product Delivery in E-Commerce Platforms

Sensor network architectures incorporated with artificial intelligence are exploited for process automation in e-commerce platforms. Specifically, product management is automated through sale-based tracking, enabled by the rapid exchange of information within the sensor network....

Digitalization of financial control in budget organizations and evaluation of its impact on socio-economic development indicators

The study is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of the digitalization of financial control mechanisms in budget organizations, its study and assessment of the potential role in the efficiency, transparency, accountability and socio-economic effectiveness of public financia...

Digitalization of financial control in budget organizations and evaluation of its impact on socio-economic development indicators

The study is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of the digitalization of financial control mechanisms in budget organizations, its study and assessment of the potential role in the efficiency, transparency, accountability and socio-economic effectiveness of public financia...

Determinants of CO2 Emissions in Azerbaijan’s Manufacturing and Construction Sectors: The Roles of Energy Intensity, Output, and Investment (ARDL–ECM with Structural Breaks)

This study investigates the determinants of CO2 emissions in Azerbaijan’s manufacturing and construction sector (MC), focusing on the roles of energy intensity, output scale, and investment. Using annual time-series data for the period 2007–2023, we apply the ARDL-ECM model, whic...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

Early Mental Recovery After Job Loss: Uncovering Critical Factors Through a Novel Fuzzy Decision-Making Framework

In corporate life, job loss is a multidimensional crisis that not only threatens individuals’ economic security but also profoundly shakes psychological balance, sense of identity, and future expectations. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that most significantly i...

Semantic alignment and professional formation in shaping expert perceptions of the shadow economy’s size

Purpose This study examines whether semantic alignment with a standardized definition and professional formation are associated with expert perceptions of the shadow economy’s size. It addresses a neglected measurement issue in perception-based shadow economy research: whether re...

Does Government Environmental Spending Crowd in Green Investment? The Role of Carbon Pricing and the Limits of Fiscal Policy Alone

Governments around the world are spending more on environmental protection, but it is far from obvious that this spending pulls private capital into green assets. This paper asks whether government environmental expenditure crowds in green investment at the country level, whether...