📈 economics

Effect of Credit and Operational Risk Management Practices on Financial Performance of Ethiopian Commercial Banks

This study analyzes panel data from 15 Ethiopian commercial banks (2012–2022) to reveal that credit risk and operational inefficiency significantly impair financial performance (ROA and ROE), while capitalization and bank size exhibit mixed effects, underscoring the need for stricter credit appraisal, cost efficiency, and optimal capital management.

Abebe Tilahun Kassaye, Charles Nyoka2026-09-03
📈 economics

Beyond Adoption: A Complementarity Threshold in the Digitalization–Innovation Nexus in the Brazilian Industry

Using firm-level data from 1,435 Brazilian industrial enterprises, this study demonstrates that the innovation benefits of digitalization emerge only when firms adopt a comprehensive, complementary portfolio of six advanced technologies rather than isolated tools, suggesting that systemic digital transformation is a more stable strategic commitment than piecemeal adoption.

Ana Paula Macedo de Avellar, Jorge Nogueira de Paiva Britto, Flávio José Marques Peixoto, Leandro Dias Gomes de Carvalho (…)2026-09-03
📈 economics

The Professional Intermediation Paradox in Tax Auditing: The Suppression Effect of Perceived CPAs’ Role on the Perceived Effectiveness and Fairness of the Tax Audit System

This study explores a statistical suppression pattern in survey data from Turkish CPAs, suggesting that while perceived tax-audit importance positively influences views on system effectiveness and fairness, the CPAs' perceived professional role acts as a suppressor variable, leading to the proposal of a "professional intermediation paradox" as a non-causal interpretive framework for future research.

Alper KILIÇASLAN, Gazi SONKUR2026-09-03
📈 economics

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Nonresident Fathers’ Contributions to their Children

Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this paper finds that a more generous Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with increased informal cash and in-kind support from nonresident fathers who live with other children, suggesting positive spillover effects that support expanding EITC eligibility to nonresident parents.

Alexandra Haralampoudis, Anna Ko, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Daniel P. Miller, Maureen Waller2026-09-03
📈 economics

An Empirical Analysis of Business Cycle Fluctuations and Trend GDP Growth across Developed Economies

This paper demonstrates that an empirically-grounded endogenous macroeconomic model, driven by financial factors and intertemporal consumption smoothing, outperforms traditional RBC and DSGE-NK models in capturing the complex business cycle and trend dynamics of developed economies by naturally replicating key statistical features like fat tails and autocorrelation without relying on excessive exogenous error terms.

Giulio Giuseppe Colazzo2026-09-03
📈 economics

Macroeconomic amplification of climate change damages: modeling the role of socioeconomic drivers

This paper demonstrates that integrating socioeconomic drivers and capital accumulation dynamics into climate-economy models reveals that macroeconomic feedbacks can amplify climate change damages by 25–50% globally (and up to 80% in some regions), significantly altering total economic losses and their regional distribution beyond what direct damage functions predict.

Yann Gaucher, Céline Guivarch, Florian Leblanc2026-09-02