📈 economics

How Fiscal–Financial Coordination Promotes Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from the Green Interest Subsidy Policy

This paper demonstrates that fiscal–financial coordination, exemplified by the green credit interest subsidy policy, significantly promotes corporate substantive green innovation by alleviating financing constraints, sharing innovation risks, and curbing greenwashing, ultimately leading to improved environmental and economic performance.

Xinpei Wang, Baoting Cheng, Ziqiao Meng2026-07-02
📈 economics

Identifying ESG‑Based Archetype Segments in the NIFTY 50: A Longitudinal Study of Firm‑Value and Sustainability Trajectories

This longitudinal study (2020–2025) analyzes 19 ESG and financial variables for NIFTY 50 companies to cluster them into evolving performance archetypes—such as leaders, transitioners, laggards, and decouplers—thereby revealing heterogeneous patterns of ESG-driven value creation and establishing a foundation for future System Dynamics Modelling.

Sarojkant Singh, Abhishek Ghosh, Goutam Tanty2026-07-01
📈 economics

Workplace Health Investment and Employment Adjustment Public Health Evidence from CSR Reports of Chinese A-share Listed Firms

Based on an analysis of 12,669 firm-year observations from Chinese A-share listed firms, this study finds that workplace health investment significantly boosts employment growth and adjustment volatility by reducing labor frictions such as work injuries and turnover, thereby enhancing employment resilience during favorable economic conditions.

Mingcheng Gao, Kangsi Zhang2026-07-01
📈 economics

Can Landfill Mining Be a Sustainable Alternative for Strategic-Metal Recovery? A Price-Indexed Contained-Value Screening Model for Closed Landfills and Mine-Waste Deposits in Portugal

This study presents a price-indexed screening model demonstrating that landfill mining in Portugal can be a sustainable and profitable strategy for recovering strategic metals, provided it targets high-grade polymetallic sulphide hotspots where metal value, recovery efficiency, and avoided liability credits align, rather than treating all waste deposits uniformly.

Leonel Nunes2026-07-01
📈 economics

Sustainable Tourism Development and Environmental Challenges in Mountain Economies

This study utilizes secondary data to critically examine the tension between tourism-driven economic growth and environmental degradation in mountain economies, arguing that the integration of sustainable principles, community engagement, and robust policy frameworks is essential to balance economic benefits with the long-term ecological and socio-economic resilience of these fragile regions.

Arshad Bhat2026-07-01
📈 economics

Stablecoin Depegging, Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, and Liquidity in the U.S. Traditional Money Market

This paper demonstrates that stablecoin depegging transmits liquidity stress to U.S. traditional money markets by tightening financial intermediaries' balance sheet constraints, causing heterogeneous liquidity deterioration across Treasury bills, commercial paper, and repo markets that is significantly amplified when intermediary capital is under stress.

Mo-Lei Chen, Yin-Ting Zhang, Wei-Xing Zhou2026-07-01
📈 economics

Socio-economic impact pathways of MedAustron: industrial spillovers and scientific knowledge production in a particle therapy research infrastructure

This study employs a Theory of Change framework to provide the first structured socio-economic assessment of MedAustron, revealing that its industrial spillovers and scientific knowledge production generate a conservative quantified value of approximately €304.5 million, which matches or exceeds the facility's initial investment costs.

Johannes Gutleber, Chaima Ben Fredj, Mohamed Dhia Othmani, Amal Swiba Thaniyullathil, Lakshmi Umesh2026-07-01
📈 economics

Costs and impacts of vaccine preparedness investments for SARS-X pandemics

This paper demonstrates that strategic pre-pandemic investments in vaccine preparedness—particularly those accelerating vaccine availability, combining R&D with manufacturing capacity, and ensuring equitable global distribution—can significantly reduce the projected economic and human losses of future SARS-X outbreaks.

Rob johnson, Patrick Doohan, Peter Windus, Andrew Torkelson, Damian Walker, Charles Whittaker, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Chr (…)2026-07-01