📈 economics

AI-Powered Sales Performance Analytics: Developing a Smart Dashboard for Revenue Optimisation in the Indian Jewellery Manufacturing Sector

This study demonstrates that implementing an AI-powered Microsoft Power BI dashboard at Emerald Jewel Industry India Ltd significantly enhances revenue optimization by transforming fragmented data into actionable insights, as validated by strong statistical correlations and high user acceptance among staff.

M. Saravanapriya, Senthilkumar K. G, S. Pratheksha2026-08-04
📈 economics

Gendered Sectoral Employment, Household Resilience and Food Security in Nigeria: Evidence from Longitudinal Panel Data

Using longitudinal panel data from Nigeria, this study reveals that while gender segmentation persists with women concentrated in low-productivity sectors, employment in higher-productivity formal service sectors significantly enhances household resilience and food security, underscoring the need for gender-responsive labor policies to drive inclusive structural transformation.

Oluwayemisi Abidemi Salufu2026-08-04
📈 economics

How Do Shock-Dependent Phillips Curve Dynamics Shape Economic Growth and Exchange Rate Behavior: Evidence from Some African Countries

This paper analyzes shock-dependent Phillips Curve dynamics across six African countries from 1980 to 2024 using advanced econometric methods, revealing significant cross-country heterogeneity in how structural shocks nonlinearly affect economic growth and exchange rates, thereby highlighting the need for state-contingent monetary policies.

Hassan Tawakol Ahmed Fadol2026-08-04
📈 economics

How do Global, US, and Domestic Uncertainty Shocks Impact Inflation and Monetary Policy in BRICS Countries? Evidence from PSVAR

Using a Panel Structural Vector Autoregression (PSVAR) model, this study reveals that global, US, and domestic uncertainty shocks significantly and persistently impact inflation and monetary policy rates across BRICS nations, with asymmetric negative effects observed in Brazil, India, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia compared to China's relative resilience, thereby underscoring the need for tailored policy coordination to mitigate macroeconomic volatility.

Hassan Tawakol Ahmed Fadol2026-08-04
📈 economics

Price Dispersion in the Barcelona Fish Auction: A Probabilistic Interpretation of the Failure of the Law of One Price

By analyzing nearly 83,000 transactions from the 2008 Barcelona fish auction, this study demonstrates that the failure of the Law of One Price in perishable markets stems not from inefficiency but from the superposition of distinct seasonal and quality-based pricing regimes, which are best captured by modeling prices as species-specific probability distributions rather than deterministic functions.

Luca Di Gennaro Splendore, Domenico Costantini2026-08-04