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The Ease of Doing Business in the ESG Framework at World Level

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  • Alberto Costantiello

    (LUM University Giuseppe Degennaro)

  • Angelo Leogrande

    (LUM University Giuseppe Degennaro)

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In this article, we estimate the variable Ease of Doing Business-EDB in the context of Environmental, Social and Governance-ESG model. We use data from ESG World Bank dataset. We have used data from 193 countries in the period 2011-2020. The level of EDB is positively associated, among others, to "Individuals Using the Internet", "Government Effectiveness", "Cooling Degree Days", and negatively associated to "Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing, Value Added", "Forest Area" and "Strength of Legal Rights Index". Furthermore, we have applied a cluster analysis with the application of the k-Means algorithm optimized with the Elbow Method and we have found the presence of four clusters. Finally, we have proposed a confrontation among eight different machinelearning algorithms to predict the future value of EDB. We have found that Linear Regression is the best algorithm and that the level of EDB is expected to improve of 1.66% for the analysed countries.

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  • Alberto Costantiello & Angelo Leogrande, 2023. "The Ease of Doing Business in the ESG Framework at World Level," Working Papers hal-04071651, HAL.
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    1. Packirisamy Natarajan & Mohammad Tanzeem Raza, 2017. "An Analytical Investigation On Ease Of Doing Business In India," Journal of Smart Economic Growth, , vol. 2(2), pages 46-69, May.
    2. Estevão, João & Lopes, José Dias & Penela, Daniela & Soares, José Miguel, 2020. "The Doing Business ranking and the GDP. A qualitative study," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 435-442.
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    1. Leogrande, Angelo & Costantiello, Alberto, 2023. "The Role of GDP Growth in the ESG Approach at World Level," SocArXiv 93sn2, Center for Open Science.
    2. Leogrande, Angelo & Costantiello, Alberto, 2023. "The Impact of Government Expenditure on Education in the ESG Models at World Level," SocArXiv 4wctx, Center for Open Science.

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    Keywords

    Analysis of Collective Decision-Making General Political Processes: Rent-Seeking Lobbying Elections Legislatures and Voting Behaviour Bureaucracy Administrative Processes in Public Organizations Corruption Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation Implementation JEL Classification: D7 D70 D72 D73 D78; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making; General; Political Processes: Rent-Seeking; Lobbying; Elections; Legislatures; and Voting Behaviour; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation; Implementation JEL Classification: D7; D70; D72; D73; D78;
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    JEL classification:

    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation

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