📈 economics

Dynamic inter-relationships among tourism, exchange rate, financial development and economic growth in India

This paper analyzes the dynamic interrelationships between tourism, exchange rates, financial development, and economic growth in India from 1994–95 to 2021–2022, revealing long-run cointegration and a short-term bidirectional causality between tourism and growth that necessitates independent policy interventions for sustainable development.

Suraj Sharma, Pooja Singh2026-07-13
📈 economics

The energy transition is relocating geopolitical price risk from fuels to critical materials

This paper demonstrates that the energy transition has shifted geopolitical price risk from fuels to critical materials, revealing a distinct asymmetry where military conflicts primarily impact fuel prices while geoeconomic coercion drives volatility in metal markets, thereby exposing a gap in existing energy-security institutions that were designed for the hydrocarbon era.

Abdulla Al-haddad2026-07-10
📈 economics

Digital infrastructure and inclusive monetary transmission in Asia-Pacific developing economies

Using panel data from 32 Asia-Pacific developing economies, this study demonstrates that digital infrastructure significantly strengthens the transmission of monetary liquidity to real economic growth by enhancing financial access, payment efficiency, and information flows, thereby highlighting the need to align monetary policy with digital inclusion and regulatory frameworks.

Zhuoxi Chen, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Madhabendra Sinha2026-07-10
📈 economics

Measuring Operational Reliability in Banking Disclosures: Development and Single-Coder Methodological Validation of the ORRDI Index

This paper introduces and validates the Operational Risk Reliability Disclosure Index (ORRDI), an 18-item formative composite that systematically measures the specificity of operational risk disclosures across six dimensions in European, UK, and Swiss banks, demonstrating its calculability and robustness while explicitly limiting its scope to public disclosure quality rather than actual risk capability or inter-coder reliability.

Karim Hardy2026-07-10
📈 economics

Green Entrepreneurship in Africa: The Environmental Sustainability, Eco-Innovation, and Inclusive Economic Empowerment Nexus

This study analyzes survey data from 8,553 SMEs across 12 African countries to demonstrate that green entrepreneurship drives inclusive economic empowerment and environmental sustainability through an innovation-led pathway, a process significantly strengthened by green finance and ecosystem enablers like sustainable public procurement and indigenous knowledge.

Deodat Emilson Adenutsi2026-07-10
📈 economics

Regional Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Ethiopia; a Subnational Panel Data Analysis

Using system GMM analysis of Ethiopian regional data from 2013–2021, this study reveals that regional competitiveness acts as a conditional driver of economic growth, exerting a significant positive impact only after surpassing specific thresholds of 47.11 or 49.05 depending on conflict status, thereby underscoring the necessity of targeted policies tailored to regional development levels.

Abeje Ewunetu Habtamu, Andualem Goshu Mekonnen, Teshome Tafesse Beyene2026-07-10
📈 economics

What Drives Profit Shifting? Evidence from Macroeconomic Cross-Country Data

This paper utilizes macro-level data from 64 countries to demonstrate that profit shifting is primarily driven by institutional, regulatory, and cultural factors rather than standard economic fundamentals, with transparency policies like Country-by-Country reporting proving effective while higher government effectiveness paradoxically correlates with increased shifting due to sophisticated planning strategies.

Katarzyna Perez, Katarzyna Schmidt-Jessa, Tomasz Kaczmarek2026-07-10
📈 economics

Rethinking NGO Livelihood Programming for Rural Producers Through Market Linkage, E-Commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh

Despite high digital connectivity among rural producers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, persistent income poverty is driven by a critical gap in market access rather than a lack of digital skills or internet access, suggesting that NGO livelihood programming must shift focus from digital training to direct market linkages and e-commerce integration.

MD Niaj Morshed Talukdar, Binita Paul2026-07-10