📈 economics

Dining Opportunities in Transition: Restaurant Spending-Tier Recomposition in Beijing, 2019-2025

This study analyzes Dianping data from Beijing's central districts between 2019 and 2025 to reveal that while aggregate restaurant spending has shifted toward lower tiers due to cautious consumption, local dining opportunities have evolved through gradual structural continuity and middle-tier recomposition rather than direct substitution, with distinct spatial patterns emerging between everyday low-tier provision and high-tier experiential nodes.

Jinyuan Gu, Yue Sun, Tianyue Wan, Dongfeng Yang2026-07-04
📈 economics

Constrained Public Portfolio Allocation Decisions Across Transport and Non-Transport Sectors

This paper utilizes a latent class multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (LC-MDCEV) model to analyze how individuals allocate constrained public budgets across competing transport and non-transport sectors in New South Wales, revealing that distinct behavioral segments with varying levels of expenditure diversification drive funding priorities more significantly than moderate changes in project benefit framing.

John M. Rose, Andrea Pellegrini, Matthew J. Beck2026-07-04
📈 economics

When Frictions Disappear: Computational Accessibility and Decentralized Adjustment

This paper demonstrates that in decentralized economic systems with discrete actions and shared constraints, the computational difficulty of identifying welfare-maximizing equilibria—even when they exist and are easily verifiable—creates a gap between equilibrium existence and accessibility, leading to path-dependent outcomes and suboptimal welfare despite rapid convergence.

Stephen Lewarne, Anton Kamenov2026-07-03
📈 economics

Digitalization, Renewable Energy Transition, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from a Robust Panel Analysis of GCC Economies

This study analyzes GCC economies from 2005 to 2024 and finds that while urbanization and energy intensity drive carbon emissions, strategic policy interventions leveraging digitalization and renewable energy are essential to actively construct the descending limb of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, with their effectiveness varying across different emission levels.

Mousse Abdi Mohamoud, Ibraahim Adem Aw-Cali, Abdiasis Ali Mohamoud2026-07-03
📈 economics

Digital Leadership and Organizational Performance: A Systematic Literature Review on the Mediating Role of Organizational Legitimacy

This systematic literature review synthesizes evidence from 60 studies to propose that organizational legitimacy serves as a critical mediating mechanism through which digital leadership enhances organizational performance, while also identifying key research gaps and outlining a comprehensive conceptual framework for future inquiry.

Gulmira Tassygozhina, Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin2026-07-03
📈 economics

Dynamics of India’s Marine Product Exports: Growth, Structural Change and Transition Behaviour across Global Markets

This study analyzes India's marine product exports from 1995–96 to 2024–25, revealing significant growth in value over volume, a strategic shift from traditional markets to emerging destinations like the USA and China, and the development of a more resilient export structure characterized by improved diversification and high market retention stability.

MANOJ KUMAR DARA, Praveen Kumar Verma, M. J. S. L. NAGA DURGA2026-07-03
📈 economics

India’s Marine Product Exports: An Integrated Analysis of Growth, Diversification and Structural Transformation

This study analyzes India's marine product exports from 1995–96 to 2024–25, revealing that while Frozen Shrimp remains the dominant commodity, the sector has experienced overall positive growth and gradual diversification, with Dried Items showing the highest growth rates and Frozen Shrimp, Frozen Fish, and Live Items demonstrating the greatest export stability.

Praveen Kumar Verma, Manoj Kumar Dara, M. J. S. L. Naga Durga2026-07-03