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📈 economics

Impact of National Sports Industry Demonstration Bases on Regional Sports Development: Empirical Difference-in-Differences

Using a multi-period difference-in-differences approach on panel data from 208 Chinese cities, this study finds that while National Sports Industry Demonstration Bases significantly boost the regional sports industry's economic value, they have no significant impact on resident sports consumption or employment absorption, prompting recommendations for policy optimization in evaluation, employment transformation, and product supply.

Wenxuan Gan, Qiulin Chen, Ying Liu2026-07-30
📈 economics

A Study on Strategies for Enhancing the Resilience of Manufacturing Industrial Chains Based on Three-Party Evolutionary Games

This paper employs a three-party evolutionary game model and numerical simulations to demonstrate that optimizing government regulation, reducing participation costs, and leveraging digital empowerment are critical strategies for overcoming coordination failures and achieving a stable, resilient equilibrium among government, chain-leading enterprises, and other manufacturing entities.

Yong Jiao, Ruxue Xu2026-07-30
📈 economics

Financial Development, Foreign Direct Investment, and Private Sector Development in Sierra Leone: Evidence from ARDL and Granger Causality Analysis (1996–2024)

This study utilizes ARDL and Granger causality analyses of data from 1996 to 2024 to demonstrate that financial development, institutional quality, and foreign direct investment collectively drive private sector development in Sierra Leone, with institutional effectiveness significantly moderating the impact of FDI.

Peter Makieu, Saffa Mohamed Massaquoi, Abdulai Sillah, Edison D. Dartue2026-07-30
📈 economics

Certification, Not Transformation: The Performance Signature of Italy's Innovative-Firm Status and Its Regional Contingency

Using a decade of data and propensity-score matching, this study reveals that Italy's "innovative" SME status primarily functions as a certification mechanism for already-dynamic firms—evidenced by a robust revenue-growth premium that predates registration and is most pronounced in the South—rather than acting as a causal driver of firm transformation.

Angelo Leogrande, Mauro Di Molfetta, Valeria Notarnicola, Maria Giovanna Trotta, Nicola Magaletti2026-07-30
📈 economics

Can Remittances Drive Economic Growth? Evidence of Weak Spillovers and Strong Heterogeneity in South and Southeast Asia

This study of South and Southeast Asian economies from 2006 to 2023 finds that while remittances lack significant cross-border spillover effects, their impact on GDP per capita is highly heterogeneous and non-linear, turning negative in highly dependent countries and underscoring the greater importance of domestic structural conditions and regional trade and investment over remittance flows for economic growth.

Tennyson Pangambam2026-07-30
📈 economics

Composite Evaluation of High-Speed Rail Station Infrastructure in China: An AHP–Entropy Weighting and Sensitivity Analysis

This study evaluates eighteen Chinese high-speed rail stations using a hybrid AHP–Entropy weighting framework to rank infrastructure performance based on economic, spatial, and operational indicators, demonstrating high ranking stability through sensitivity analysis while emphasizing the need for further validation before policy application.

Renjie Jin2026-07-30
📈 economics

Artificial Intelligence and the Reconfiguration of Innovation Collaboration: Evidence from Innovation Networks in China 

Based on patent data from 284 Chinese cities (2010–2022), this study reveals that artificial intelligence development significantly reduces inter-city innovation collaboration by intensifying urban specialization and crowding out formal partnerships through enhanced knowledge spillovers, with these negative effects being most pronounced in high-quality, cross-provincial, and eastern Chinese collaborations.

Yuyuan Wen, Yiwen Sun, Hao Yu2026-07-30
📈 economics

Portable Verified Financial Identity: A Framework for Immigrant Credit Access and Financial Inclusion in the United States

This paper proposes and empirically validates the Portable Verified Financial Identity (PVFI) framework, which leverages origin-country financial data and remittance corridors to generate a Pre-Arrival Banking and Financial Score (PABFS) that significantly reduces financial exclusion and improves credit model accuracy for immigrants in the United States.

Amir Khan2026-07-29
📈 economics

Integrating the governance of digital transformation in transition economies: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Estonia compared

This article analyzes Azerbaijan's 2026–2028 centrally coordinated governance model for digital transformation, which integrates 58 initiatives across four pillars with quantified targets, and compares its institutional and human capital constraints against Kazakhstan and Estonia to highlight that governance fragmentation and resource limitations, rather than infrastructure, remain the primary barriers to progress.

Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundstrom-Imanov2026-07-29