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Evaluating trade-offs of net private and net social benefit – an integrated assessment framework for biomass utilization pathways

This study proposes an integrated assessment framework combining techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, and externality monetization to evaluate the trade-offs between net private and net social benefits across diverse biomass utilization pathways, demonstrating through a German miscanthus case study that while bioenergy and biochar carbon removal differ in financial viability, both can generate positive societal value.

Johanna Ruett, Ali Abdelshafy, Grit Walther2026-07-15

📈 economics

A By-Production Approach to Deriving the Production Possibility Frontier and the Shadow Prices of CO₂ Reduction

This paper proposes a novel by-production optimization framework to derive an explicit Production Possibility Frontier and unique shadow prices for CO₂ reduction, enabling the direct estimation of marginal abatement costs as opportunity costs without relying on arbitrary directional vectors.

Alexandre Repkine2026-07-15

📈 economics

Factors Influencing User Adoption of Self-media Platforms in the Attention Economy Era

This study utilizes structural equation modeling to demonstrate that technical, social, and organizational factors, rather than just user demographics, critically influence the adoption of self-media platforms within the Attention economy.

Sun Lin2026-07-15

📈 economics

Country Risk and FDI Inflow in Mauritius: An asymmetric impact

Using a non-linear ARDL model on data from 1980–2019, this study reveals that country risk exerts an asymmetric impact on FDI inflows in Mauritius, where negative risk shocks significantly reduce investment more strongly than positive risk changes promote it.

Kilvanee Mootooperian, Boopen Seetanah2026-07-15

📈 economics

From Discovery to Exploitation: Evidence on Entrepreneurial Action Among Latin American University Students

This quantitative study of 477 Latin American university students demonstrates that entrepreneurial discovery significantly mediates the transition from individual profile to exploitation, supporting opportunity creation theory and offering evidence-based guidance for designing effective entrepreneurship curricula.

Marisleidy Alba, Boris Cendales, Angélica Garzón, Juan Carlos Espinosa, Janitza Ariza2026-07-15

📈 economics

Designing an Adaptive Employment Model for Volatile Contexts: Competence Alignment and Employment Pooling in Egypt’s Hospitality Industry

This study proposes an adaptive employment pooling and competence alignment model to mitigate labor volatility, turnover, and service inconsistency in Egypt's hospitality industry by creating a shared, skilled workforce pool supported by unified standards and sustainable funding.

Hazem Halim, Yasser Tawfik Halim2026-07-15

📈 economics

The Effect of Digital Transformation on the Speed of Enterprise Internationalization: A Dual Innovation Perspective

Drawing on a sample of A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2022, this study demonstrates that digital transformation accelerates enterprise internationalization speed through the parallel mediating mechanisms of exploitative and exploratory innovation, with policy uncertainty acting as a positive moderator that strengthens both the transformation-innovation and innovation-internationalization relationships.

Zhibo Yang, Junji Chen, Wanting Cai2026-07-15

📈 economics

Cross-Agency Product Quality Convergence: An Empirical Study of Four European Consumer Testing Organisations

This empirical study of four European consumer testing organizations demonstrates that they produce highly consistent product quality rankings and that their expert scores provide significant value beyond price information, particularly in categories characterized by strong branding and specification complexity.

Pavel Kopczyk2026-07-15

📈 economics

Extended warranty service: A strategic response to supplier encroachment for e-platforms

This paper employs a game-theoretic model to demonstrate that an e-platform can strategically leverage extended warranty services—either by offering them to bolster reselling competitiveness or withholding them to reduce supplier incentives—as an effective countermeasure against supplier encroachment, potentially yielding win-win outcomes for both parties.

Yujie Zhao, Junlong Lai, Lingyun Guo, Yifan Zhang2026-07-15

📈 economics

All proximities matter: A Bayesian combination approach to inter-firm spillovers and economic performance

This study proposes a Bayesian methodology to combine multiple geographic and semantic proximity networks, demonstrating that integrating these multidimensional inter-firm connections significantly enhances the understanding of knowledge spillovers and their impact on firm performance within Milan's tech ecosystem.

Andrea D'Isidoro, Roberto Benedetti, Alessandro Marra2026-07-14

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