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Zero-waste City Policy and the Short-Lived Efficiency Window in Urban Green Innovation: Evidence from China’s Staggered Pilot

Using a doubly robust difference-in-differences approach on Chinese prefecture-level data, this study finds that while China's Zero-waste City Pilot yields lasting improvements in industrial waste utilization, its positive impact on urban green innovation efficiency is short-lived, peaking only in the policy launch year and driven primarily by industrial restructuring.

Peiwen Lu, Shouting Zhang, Kailingli Liao, Jinping Tian, Lyujun Chen2026-08-26

📈 economics

Policy Orchestration and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Performance in the UAE: A Multi-Level Framework for SDG 8-Oriented Economic Development

This paper proposes a multi-level Policy Orchestration-Cluster Conversion-Impact framework, derived from an integrative review of UAE policies and literature, to demonstrate how coherent governance of national strategies, regulations, finance, and talent transforms entrepreneurial ecosystem assets into startup scaling, non-oil economic upgrading, and SDG 8-oriented decent work outcomes.

Sazina Khan, Rajesh Arora2026-08-26

📈 economics

When Satisfaction is Not Enough: The Anchoring Role of Perceived Price on Influencer and Personalization-Driven Loyalty

This study on Indonesian digital retail SMEs reveals that while personalization and influencer endorsements drive customer satisfaction, this satisfaction only translates into loyalty when anchored by perceived price fairness, which significantly moderates the relationship.

Yocky Ananda, Agung Handaru, Umi Widyastuti2026-08-26

📈 economics

Women's Savings and Credit Cooperatives Increase Household Income among Female-Headed Households in Rural Ethiopia

This study provides the first causal evidence that membership in Women's Savings and Credit Cooperatives significantly increases annual household income by 36.8% for female-headed households in rural Ethiopia, driven by improved access to financial services, training, and social support.

Ibrahim Aliyi, Jema Haji, Feresenbet Zeleke, Kedir Jemal2026-08-26

📈 economics

Staggered boards and corporate green innovation

This study finds that staggered boards significantly promote corporate green innovation in Chinese A-share listed firms by mitigating managerial myopia, encouraging risk-taking, and relaxing financing constraints, particularly in environments with limited external monitoring.

Shuwen Ye2026-08-26

📈 economics

Transparent Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risk Score Prediction Using Machine Learning and Explainable AI

This study demonstrates that an explainable machine learning pipeline, specifically utilizing XGBoost combined with SHAP and LIME techniques on public data, can effectively predict transparent and reproducible Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk scores, offering a viable alternative to proprietary rating systems.

Avuzwa Lerotholi, Ibidun Christiana Obagbuwa, Olaperi Okuboyejo2026-08-26

📈 economics

Green Knowledge Recombination and Urban Carbon Intensity: University–Industry Collaboration and the Conditioning Role of Regional Green Innovation Efficiency

This study analyzes a panel of 212 Chinese cities to demonstrate that university–industry collaboration fosters greater green knowledge recombination distance and diversity, which are associated with reduced urban carbon intensity, particularly when reinforced by regional green innovation efficiency, though the findings represent conditional associations rather than definitive causal effects.

Qing Lu, Yayu Xu, Zehai Zhou, Jianping Gu2026-08-26

📈 economics

Closing the Clean Energy Manufacturing Gap: A Strategic Financing Framework for U.S. Solar, Battery, and Wind Component Supply Chains

This paper proposes and validates the Clean Energy Manufacturing Finance Framework (CEMFF), a strategic blended capital structure designed to mobilize private investment and close the U.S. domestic clean energy manufacturing gap with China by significantly reducing financing costs and achieving cost competitiveness in 78% of modeled scenarios.

Stefan Daniel Anim-Sampong, Prosper Abuanor, Kwaku Sarpong Mensah-Bonsu2026-08-26

📈 economics

Evaluating Technological Innovation for Sustainable Economic Development in an Emerging Context

This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of survey data from 393 respondents in Yemen to demonstrate that government policy, economic viability, and good governance significantly drive the adoption of solar panels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels for economic development.

Sabariah Yaakub, Shahid Ali, Norazah Mohd Suki, Nurhaizal Azam Arif2026-08-26

📈 economics

Information-Producing Regulation: Certification and Delegated Enforcement

This paper develops a theoretical framework analyzing how information-producing regulations, such as certification and delegated enforcement, shape firms' incentives to invest in private evidence capacity and how the interplay between public and private information influences optimal regulatory design and institutional implementation.

Taylor Canann2026-08-26

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