Cem Işik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3057367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cem Işik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cem |
| FAMILY NAME | Işik |
| SIGNATURE | IŞIK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anadolu University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5125-7648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Digital disruption meets sustainability: Linear and nonlinear impacts of AI, carbon emissions, economic growth, trade, and exports on tourism in advanced economies
Under the circumstances of the increased pace of technological change and growing concern with environmental issues, the complex factors of tourism demand should be studied under a strict scrutiny. The current investigation examines the nonlinear and time--varying interrelations between the artificial intelligence (AI), carbon emissions, economic growth, trade openness, exports, and tourism demand in four of the most advanced economies in the wor…
Can ESG buffer the electricity demand effects of social globalization?
Exploring the commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the renewable energy and tourism demand nexus
This study proposes to standardize the sustainability measure in tourism and energy by examining the long-term effects of renewable energy sources and tourism demand on the achievement of SGDs from 2003 to 2019. Focusing on the seven most visited countries, we used IV-GMM and CS-ARDL models, AMG and CCEMG models to examine linear relationships, and Panel Quantile Regression analysis to explore the non-linear relationships between SDGs, renewable …
Tail risk connectedness in the global tourism markets: The asymmetry impact of ESG index
This study utilizes high-frequency data from the ESG index and seven major tourism economies spanning 2015–2025, employing the TVP-VAR and CAViaR approach to model the tail risk connectedness, and QQKRLS method, and wavelet coherence to examine the multidimensional nonlinear impact of the ESG index on the global tourism market. The results indicate that: (1) The ESG functions as a “systemic stabilizer” in the global tourism market. (2) Risk trans…
Artificial intelligence (AI) interacted ESG-based sustainable tourism: Economic insights
Tourist activities impact ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors, but a combined metric is lacking in tourism and sustainability literature. This study introduces the ESG/International Tourist Arrivals (ESG/ITA) metric, quantifying environmental burdens per tourist and assessing tourism sustainability. The study employs linear regression techniques, including IV-GMM, and nonlinear methods like panel quantile regression across 27 European…
Financial development-energy consumption risk nexus
Currently, examining contribution of financial enhancement in achieving energy efficiency as well as mitigating uncertainties of energy consumption is gaining interest in the literature.Regarding this matter, this research tests the role of financial development on energy consumption risk in a global case applying the panel of 137 countries over the period 2000-2022.For the empirical analysis, Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR), Fully M…
Exploring the Impact of Export Diversification on Energy-Mix Diversification: Role of Institutional Quality, Foreign Direct Investments and Research & Development
Measuring Tourism Uncertainty ( TUI )
The tourism sector is highly susceptible to uncertainties due to its complex economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical structure. This fragility necessitates strengthening this sector's long‐term planning capacity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Currently, however, there is no single composite metric that exists to measure and evaluate these tourism‐related uncertainties. To this aim, this study, for the first time, d…
The Green‐Gender‐Governance Nexus: A Latin American Perspective on Sustainable Development
This research examines the effect of gender inequality, quality of government, female political empowerment, and engaged society on sustainable development in 19 Latin American countries. The study covers the period from 1990 to 2022 and employs advanced panel data techniques to explain the dynamics of sustainable development within the framework of the endogenous growth model. We employ a suite of advanced panel data techniques including cointeg…
Green Innovation and Tourism Demand: The Moderating Role of Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs )
This study examines the interaction between Green Innovation (GI) and Tourism, with particular attention to the moderating influence of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on panel data from seven advanced economies—Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States—over the period 2002–2020, the analysis applies IV‐GMM and panel quantile regression to address heterogeneity, endogeneity, and distributional …
Does Climate Change Vulnerability Cause Energy Vulnerability in Sustainable Development
Climate change and energy security are two fundamental vulnerability areas that interact with each other and hold critical importance for sustainable development goals. This research aims to fill the research gap by investigating the effects of climate change vulnerability (CCV) on the energy vulnerability (EV) relationship, which has not been adequately addressed in the literature, using a large panel dataset covering 74 countries and employing …
The Role of Women's Entrepreneurship, Unemployment, Global Warming, and Technology in Sustainable Development: Evidence From OECD Countries
This study examines the effects of women's entrepreneurship, global warming, technological advancements, and unemployment on the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) across 38 OECD countries. Using country‐specific panel causality methods, the analysis reveals significant asymmetries between developed and developing economies. Women's entrepreneurship (FEM) and technology (TEC) demonstrate stronger positive effects in developin…
Low‐Carbon Energy and Sustainable Development: Democracy, the Rule of Law and Institutional Quality in Democratic and State‐Led Governance Systems of the USA and China
This research investigates how economic growth, foreign direct investment, institutional quality, and democracy enhance the transition to low‐carbon energy in the USA and China, characterized by democratic and state‐led governance systems. Comparing these two countries fills a critical research gap by revealing the impact of governance differences on the low‐carbon energy transition, which has not been adequately addressed in the literature. The …
Introducing the New ESG ‐Based Sustainability Uncertainty Index ( Esgui )
Rising uncertainties can affect countries' sustainability efforts. Therefore, this study develops and introduces a new ESG‐based sustainability uncertainty index (metric) called ESGUI for the first time. This new index is necessary to better analyze how uncertainties based on ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors, increasingly prominent in the modern business world, are reflected in investment processes. Accurate ESG risks are critical …
The Role of Women's Labor Law and Business Freedom in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) in OECD Countries
Business freedom (FR) and women's labor law (WLL) are critical in achieving the SDGs. This research aims to test the effect of these two factors on the SDGs while also considering economic growth and energy efficiency, framing the analysis within the legal, economic, and environmental dynamics of the SDGs holistically. Fourier‐augmented PANIC, cross‐sectional dependence tests, panel OLS, bootstrap quantile regression, and panel Granger causality …
Guiding the path to sustainable tourism development: Investigating the role of tour guides within a social exchange theory paradigm
Impact of agricultural employment, gross domestic product, informal economy, institutional quality on forest cover in Ecuador
Applying the forest load capacity factor to assess environmental sustainability in the Global South
Inequality in the digital economy: The impact of artificial intelligence on income gap—an empirical analysis based on county-level data from China
Crossing the willingness-behavior gap: A study of factors influencing the e-commerce selling behavior of cherry farmers
In the realm of evolving e-commerce sales channels, the e-commerce sale of agricultural products has become a vital avenue for cherry farmers. However, a notable discrepancy exists between the intentions and actual behaviors of cherry farmers regarding e-commerce participation. In this study, binary logistic regression and interpretive structural model were used, and the cherry producing area of Yantai City, Shandong Province, China, was taken as…
The Nexus between tourism-energy-environmental degradation: Does financial development matter in GCC countries
Environmental sustainability, energy consumption, and tourism are the most discussed topics in the literature. However, limited studies have catered to the relationship among these variables. From this perspective: the current study aims to find the nexus between tourism, energy alternatives, financial development, and pollution emissions by targeting the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies. We employ the data of six GCC economies for the ye…
Do volatilities in tourism arrivals and foreign aids matter for GDP volatility in Cambodia? Partial and vector coherence wavelet models
The purpose of this research note is to investigate the nexus between volatility in international tourist arrivals, volatility in foreign aids and gross domestic product (GDP) volatility in Cambodia over the period of 1993–2018 by using partial and vector coherence wavelet models. The partial wavelet coherence models show that volatility in tourist arrival has strong impacts on GDP volatility across all time and frequency domains. Secondly, we fi…
The influence of energy transition, and natural resources on carbon emissions in China: An augmented ARDL application
Can new-type urbanization construction policy mitigate energy consumption intensity? Evidence from Chinese listed enterprises
Impacts of tourism on income inequality in Fiji: A quantile-on-quantile investigation
Introducing the New ESG ‐Based Sustainability Uncertainty Index ( Esgui )
Rising uncertainties can affect countries' sustainability efforts. Therefore, this study develops and introduces a new ESG‐based sustainability uncertainty index (metric) called ESGUI for the first time. This new index is necessary to better analyze how uncertainties based on ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors, increasingly prominent in the modern business world, are reflected in investment processes. Accurate ESG risks are critical …
Employee turnover dynamics in the hospitality industry vs. the overall economy
Moving towards sustainable environment development in emerging economies: The role of green finance, green tech‐innovation, natural resource depletion, and forested area in assessing the load capacity…
Environmental sustainability is increasingly being prioritized by governments around the world, particularly in emerging economies. This study examined the role of green finance and green technological innovation in environmental sustainability using the “load capacity factor”, also takes into account natural resource depletion and forest cover. This study used annual data from 2000 to 2018 for emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,…
Is economic growth in East Asia pacific and South Asia ESG factors based and aligned growth
Asia–Pacific countries are experiencing rapid economic growth. Is this growth ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors‐based and aligned growth? Therefore, this study investigates the connections between ESG indicators and economic growth in East Asia Pacific and South Asia. To achieve this aim, we employed the FMOLS, DOLS, and AMG models. While the AMG model highlights significant long‐term positive effects of the environmental (EFs) …
Navigating sustainability: Unveiling the interconnected dynamics of ESG factors and SDGs in BRICS ‐11
In this study, we investigate the impacts of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors on sustainable development goals (SDGs) for BRICS‐11 countries. The AMG, FMOLS, DOLS, and ARDL models are applied. While we found negative impacts of environmental factors (ENVf) on SDGs for Argentina, Ethiopia, and China, we found positive impacts of social factors (SOCf) on SDGs for South Africa and Argentina. Additionally, while we found positive i…
Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques
The balance of trade and exchange rates: Theory and contemporary evidence from tourism
The Role of Women's Labor Law and Business Freedom in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) in OECD Countries
Business freedom (FR) and women's labor law (WLL) are critical in achieving the SDGs. This research aims to test the effect of these two factors on the SDGs while also considering economic growth and energy efficiency, framing the analysis within the legal, economic, and environmental dynamics of the SDGs holistically. Fourier‐augmented PANIC, cross‐sectional dependence tests, panel OLS, bootstrap quantile regression, and panel Granger causality …
Guiding the path to sustainable tourism development: Investigating the role of tour guides within a social exchange theory paradigm
The Role of Women's Entrepreneurship, Unemployment, Global Warming, and Technology in Sustainable Development: Evidence From OECD Countries
This study examines the effects of women's entrepreneurship, global warming, technological advancements, and unemployment on the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) across 38 OECD countries. Using country‐specific panel causality methods, the analysis reveals significant asymmetries between developed and developing economies. Women's entrepreneurship (FEM) and technology (TEC) demonstrate stronger positive effects in developin…
Impact of agricultural employment, gross domestic product, informal economy, institutional quality on forest cover in Ecuador
Inequality in the digital economy: The impact of artificial intelligence on income gap—an empirical analysis based on county-level data from China
Applying the forest load capacity factor to assess environmental sustainability in the Global South
Sustainable development pathways: Exploring the impact of green finance on urban metabolic efficiency
Improving urban metabolic efficiency is crucial for sustainable development. This paper examines how green finance affects urban metabolic efficiency and its underlying mechanisms using city‐level green finance data from China between 2010 and 2022. Additionally, the non‐linear impact of green finance on urban metabolic efficiency is analyzed using a PLFC model. The research findings indicate that green finance notably improves urban metabolic ef…
A nexus of linear and non‐linear relationships between tourism demand, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth: Theory and evidence
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between tourism development, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth in the United States, France, Spain, China, Italy, Turkey, and Germany using an innovative bootstrap panel Granger causality model. The results show that tourism development and economic growth are interdependent in Germany; whereas tourism development induces economic growth in China and Turkey, the reverse is …
The balance of trade and exchange rates: Theory and contemporary evidence from tourism
Testing the efficacy of the economic policy uncertainty index on tourism demand in USMCA: Theory and evidence
The global economic outlook is more uncertain than ever before and sensitive to uncertainties related to a variety of economic policies decisions of all stakeholders and governments. These perceived uncertainties may be the culprit in shrinking the size of overall economic activity. Under increasing uncertainties, travel and vacation plans of consumers can be canceled or postponed. Therefore, policy-related economic uncertainties are expected to …
The use of ecological footprint in estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for BRICST by considering cross-section dependence and heterogeneity
Determinants of the load capacity factor in China: A novel dynamic ARDL approach for ecological footprint accounting
Ecological footprint, economic complexity and natural resources rents in Latin America: Empirical evidence using quantile regressions
Solo female travel risks, anxiety and travel intentions: Examining the moderating role of online psychological-social support
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between solo female travel risks, anxiety, and their travel intentions. The moderating role of online psychological-social support between anxiety and solo female travel intentions was explored as well. Data was collected through two Facebook groups for solo female travelers. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and moderation analyses were conducted to test the hypothesized relationships am…
Intention-Based Critical Factors Affecting Willingness to Adopt Novel Coronavirus Prevention in Pakistan: Implications for Future Pandemics
Since human beings have a long tradition of coexistence with pandemics, which may profoundly impact them, adopting preventive measures is crucial for humankind's survival. This study explores the intention-based critical factors affecting the willingness of individuals to adopt pandemic prevention. To this end, a representative sample of 931 Pakistanis filled in an online questionnaire. However, only 828 questionnaires were found to be complete a…
Interventions for the Current Covid-19 Pandemic: Frontline Workers' Intention to Use Personal Protective Equipment
BACKGROUND: Frontline workers (FLWs) are at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection during care interactions than the general population. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is regarded as an effective intervention for limiting the transmission of airborne viruses. However, research examining FLWs' intention to use PPE is limited. OBJECTIVES: This study addresses this research gap and also contributes by expanding the conceptual mechanism of planned …
Assessing long- and short-run dynamic interplay among balance of trade, aggregate economic output, real exchange rate, and CO2 emissions in Pakistan
Event motivation, subjective well-being, and revisit intentions during the second wave of the pandemic: Moderating effect of affective risk about Covid-19 and perceived trust
This study examines the moderating effects of trust and perceived affective risk on the relationship between event motivations (socializing, novelty, nostalgia, emotion regulation, and loneliness), subjective-wellbeing and revisit intentions. We tested the proposed conceptual model via a convenient sample of 287 participants visiting an exhibition at the international contemporary art gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, during the second COVID-19 pandem…
Exploring the neglected voices of children in sustainable tourism development: A comparative study in six European tourist destinations
For years, sustainable tourism has commanded the attention of academics and practitioners given its achievement through participatory planning. However, much research in the area has neglected to consider all voices of those (i.e., children) affected by tourism. This study, employing a post-test only experimental design, addresses this gap by including the voices of 498 children from six diverse European destinations concerning perceptions of tou…
General equilibrium model-based green finance, decarbonization and high-quality economic development: A new perspective from knowledge networks
Moving towards sustainable environment development in emerging economies: The role of green finance, green tech‐innovation, natural resource depletion, and forested area in assessing the load capacity…
Environmental sustainability is increasingly being prioritized by governments around the world, particularly in emerging economies. This study examined the role of green finance and green technological innovation in environmental sustainability using the “load capacity factor”, also takes into account natural resource depletion and forest cover. This study used annual data from 2000 to 2018 for emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,…
Employee turnover dynamics in the hospitality industry vs. the overall economy
Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques
Crossing the willingness-behavior gap: A study of factors influencing the e-commerce selling behavior of cherry farmers
In the realm of evolving e-commerce sales channels, the e-commerce sale of agricultural products has become a vital avenue for cherry farmers. However, a notable discrepancy exists between the intentions and actual behaviors of cherry farmers regarding e-commerce participation. In this study, binary logistic regression and interpretive structural model were used, and the cherry producing area of Yantai City, Shandong Province, China, was taken as…
The Nexus between tourism-energy-environmental degradation: Does financial development matter in GCC countries
Environmental sustainability, energy consumption, and tourism are the most discussed topics in the literature. However, limited studies have catered to the relationship among these variables. From this perspective: the current study aims to find the nexus between tourism, energy alternatives, financial development, and pollution emissions by targeting the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies. We employ the data of six GCC economies for the ye…
Do volatilities in tourism arrivals and foreign aids matter for GDP volatility in Cambodia? Partial and vector coherence wavelet models
The purpose of this research note is to investigate the nexus between volatility in international tourist arrivals, volatility in foreign aids and gross domestic product (GDP) volatility in Cambodia over the period of 1993–2018 by using partial and vector coherence wavelet models. The partial wavelet coherence models show that volatility in tourist arrival has strong impacts on GDP volatility across all time and frequency domains. Secondly, we fi…
The influence of energy transition, and natural resources on carbon emissions in China: An augmented ARDL application
Can new-type urbanization construction policy mitigate energy consumption intensity? Evidence from Chinese listed enterprises
Impacts of tourism on income inequality in Fiji: A quantile-on-quantile investigation
Revisiting the nexus between tourism and GDP for Cambodia: Insights from symmetric and asymmetric causality models
Sustainable development pathways: Exploring the impact of green finance on urban metabolic efficiency
Improving urban metabolic efficiency is crucial for sustainable development. This paper examines how green finance affects urban metabolic efficiency and its underlying mechanisms using city‐level green finance data from China between 2010 and 2022. Additionally, the non‐linear impact of green finance on urban metabolic efficiency is analyzed using a PLFC model. The research findings indicate that green finance notably improves urban metabolic ef…
Is economic growth in East Asia pacific and South Asia ESG factors based and aligned growth
Asia–Pacific countries are experiencing rapid economic growth. Is this growth ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors‐based and aligned growth? Therefore, this study investigates the connections between ESG indicators and economic growth in East Asia Pacific and South Asia. To achieve this aim, we employed the FMOLS, DOLS, and AMG models. While the AMG model highlights significant long‐term positive effects of the environmental (EFs) …
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (29 works) · Economics (28 works) · Sustainable development (20 works) · Business (16 works) · Tourism (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Econometrics (11 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (10 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (10 works) · Natural resource economics (10 works)