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Climate-Pressure Pass-Through to Food Inflation in ASEAN: Mixed-Frequency Quantile Evidence

This paper employs a mixed-frequency quantile regression framework to demonstrate that while climate-pressure indicators like heat stress show limited association with ASEAN food inflation on average, they serve as significant supplementary signals for monitoring elevated inflation risks in the upper tail of the distribution, whereas global food prices and currency depreciation remain the primary drivers.

Nuttaphat Sukchitt, Pasin Marupanthorn, Waewwan La-ongsri2026-08-03
📈 economics

Has Banking Consolidation Improved Financial Efficiency? An Empirical Study of SBI’s Pre- and Post-Merger Performance

This empirical study utilizing a paired t-test on secondary data from 2010 to 2024 concludes that while the 2017 merger of State Bank of India initially caused a temporary decline in profitability due to asset quality issues, it ultimately resulted in significant long-term financial improvements, evidenced by enhanced Net Interest Margins and Capital Adequacy Ratios.

K. Khasimpeera, S. Raghunatha Reddy2026-08-03
📈 economics

Spatial Disparities in Short-term Rental Guest-Perceived Accommodation Quality: A Twelve-City Comparative Analysis Using Airbnb Review Data and Explainable Machine Learning

This study employs an explainable machine learning pipeline on 297,227 Airbnb reviews across twelve global cities to quantify spatial disparities in guest-perceived accommodation quality using a novel inequality index, revealing that moderate-restrictive regulatory regimes exhibit higher quality dispersion than permissive or highly restrictive ones while identifying Superhost status as the dominant, location-conditioned predictor of satisfaction.

Jing Gao, Dong Lin, Jianfeng Hu2026-08-03
📈 economics

Financial Literacy and Household Food Insecurity in Urban Somaliland: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey in Hargeisa

Based on a large-scale survey of 5,762 households in Hargeisa, Somaliland, this study reveals that financial literacy and saving behaviors are significantly stronger predictors of reduced food insecurity than income alone, highlighting a critical disconnect between formal education and functional financial capability in urban Somaliland.

Muhiyadin Abdillahi, Naima Abdikani Abdillahi2026-08-03
📈 economics

Why Does Central Bank Credibility Weaken without Collapsing? Evidence from Shifting Monetary Policy Priorities

This study challenges the conventional view that persistent inflation target deviations inevitably destroy central bank credibility, demonstrating through the Turkish case that under political dominance, credibility can persist not as an inflation anchor but as a predictable "credibility floor" reflecting the regime's internal consistency.

SERKAN ÇİÇEK, M. ERAY YÜCEL, BUKET ALKAN2026-08-03
📈 economics

Oil and Natural Gas Prices and CPI Inflation in G20 Economies: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis, 2018–2024

This paper utilizes bivariate OLS regressions and correlation analysis on monthly data from 2018 to 2024 to systematically map the varying degrees of co-movement between crude oil, natural gas prices, and CPI inflation across eighteen G20 economies, finding that oil is a significant driver in most nations while natural gas impacts are concentrated in specific markets like Italy, Mexico, Argentina, and Turkey, thereby establishing a descriptive baseline for future causal research.

NURKHODZHA AKBULAEV, Asmar Maharramova, Türkan Dadashova2026-08-03
📈 economics

A Novel Subgroup Decomposition of Income Inequality: Resolving the Information Mixture Problem

This paper proposes a novel subgroup decomposition methodology based on the Unequally Distributed (UD) and Relative UD (RUD) income framework to resolve the "information mixture problem" in conventional approaches by isolating a foundational egalitarian baseline, thereby enabling a mathematically consistent partitioning of income inequality into pure within-group and between-group components.

Joongyang Park, Muhammad Hamza, Youngsoon Kim2026-08-03