Chih-Wei Wang

TL;DR: In this article , the effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and country governance on bank liquidity creation in various countries were empirically investigated, and the results revealed that uncertainty hinders bank credit, and people tend to make deposits in banks for safety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed a two-step system-GMM method to examine the effect of natural disasters on energy consumption, presenting findings that support their hypotheses in the models and show a strong negative effect for low-income countries or those in the Africa region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether firms operated by superior managers can obtain more favorable investment opportunities using data on U.S. industrial firms during 1988-2015 and found that there exists a positive relationship between managerial ability and investment opportunity, and that the relation is only significant in financially unconstrained firms or firms in a strong financial position.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of financial inclusion on firms' sales growth in developing countries and also investigated how this effect varies depending on different subsamples (such as during a crisis versus a non-crisis, Asia versus non-Asia, manufacturing versus nonmanufacturing, and small and medium-sized firms versus large and medium sized firms).

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of firms from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for the period 2006-2016 in emerging and developing countries was used to find that corruption has a negative impact on the likelihood of innovations, thus supporting the sanding-the-wheels hypothesis.