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econ

1780 papers

📈 economics

Structural Transformation and Value-Based Economic Resilience in Madeira's Fisheries Sector

This study reveals that Madeira's fisheries sector underwent significant physical contraction and increased specialization from 1976 to 2024, successfully preserving a substantial portion of its real economic value through a shift toward high-value, low-volatility species like black scabbardfish, despite a decline in overall diversity and a modest long-term decrease in total real landed value.

Matheus Koengkan, José Alberto Fuinhas, Nuno Silva, Marco Cuono Di Leva2026-10-21
📈 economics

​​​​Do Governance Thresholds Survive Measurement Uncertainty? A Bayesian Errors-in-Variables Dynamic Panel Analysis

This study employs a Bayesian errors-in-variables dynamic panel analysis to demonstrate that while a negative relationship between governance and economic growth persists even after accounting for measurement uncertainty, the evidence for a precise, universal governance threshold is weak and better explained by a concave functional form.

Nitiphong Songsrirote2026-10-21
📈 economics

The choice of probability mapping in ESG questionnaire scoring: a structural risk-metric perspective for venture-capital and private-equity due diligence, with a dynamical-systems foundation

This paper argues that the choice of probability mapping in ESG scoring is a critical structural risk decision rather than a technical afterthought, demonstrating how different mappings can drastically alter rating outcomes and proposing a falsifiable, dynamics-based criterion to ensure defensible and comparable ESG assessments for venture capital and private equity due diligence.

Francesco Eusepi2026-10-21
📈 economics

Investor Transition Histories and the Timing of Follow-on Investor Entry in Early-Stage Healthcare Ventures

This study of 744 early-stage healthcare ventures reveals that an investor's history of successfully transitioning within the same financing category significantly increases the likelihood of follow-on investor entry during the second and third years of a venture's development, whereas such category-linked experience shows weaker or different effects in the first year.

hana kim2026-10-21
📈 economics

External Audit Quality, Corporate Governance and ESG Disclosure Credibility: Moderating Evidence from Listed Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study of 157 listed firms in Sub-Saharan Africa finds that neither corporate governance nor external audit quality significantly enhances the credibility of ESG disclosures, a result attributed to institutional voids and regulatory enforcement gaps that lead to decoupling between formal compliance and substantive reporting.

abdul razak abdulai, Ibrahim Nandom Yakubu, Richard kwadzo Doe-Dartey2026-10-21
📄 social science

Balancing Sovereignty and National Interest amid Regional Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Malawi and Botswana's Engagement with the SADC Trade Protocols

This study employs a qualitative comparative case study of Malawi and Botswana to demonstrate that while economic incentives drive SADC participation, the actual implementation of trade protocols is pragmatically mediated by domestic institutional capacities and political priorities, leading states to prioritize national sovereignty and interests over supranational obligations.

Chisomo Magawa, David Sebudubudu, Stanley Osezua Ehiane2026-10-21
📈 economics

Measuring Organizational R&D Capability and External Knowledge Integration: A Longitudinal Scientometric Study of Aviation Higher Education Institutions

This longitudinal scientometric study of 38 aviation higher education institutions from 2015 to 2025 finds that while prior organizational R&D capability and external knowledge integration are positively correlated in pooled data, there is no statistically significant evidence that an institution's own R&D capability predicts its subsequent knowledge integration when controlling for institutional and temporal factors.

Arthur Dela Peña, Jefferson Clariza, Noel Florencondia2026-10-21
📈 economics

Do Academic Credentials Still Predict Professional Competence After Generative AI?

Despite concerns that generative AI has devalued academic credentials by lowering the cost of producing assessed work, a large-scale analysis of US law school cohorts and licensure outcomes reveals no evidence that the predictive power of these credentials for professional competence has diminished, suggesting that AI's impact on assessment costs is either proportional to ability or complementary rather than regressive.

Doaa M. Bamasoud, Mohammed Ayid Alqahtani, Rasheed Mohammad2026-10-21