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Research on Power Supply-Demand Matching and Social Welfare from the Perspective of Regional Multi-energy Synergy

This study employs system dynamics and an Improved Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm to evaluate China's Ultra-High Voltage transmission planning within a unified national electricity market, revealing that while multi-energy synergy enhances overall social welfare, it also exacerbates regional disparities in efficiency, equity, and environmental outcomes due to widening spatial mismatches between power generation and consumption.

Lin-shu Qiu, Dong-xiao Yang, Litao Wang, Xuhui Chen2026-10-19

📈 economics

Digital engagement as a tool for regional marketing in wine tourism: a comparative study of Galicia and Tuscany

This comparative study analyzes Google Trends data from 2004 to 2026 to reveal that while Tuscany's wine tourism is driven by consolidated territorial branding of specific denominations, Galicia relies more heavily on varietal visibility and exhibits stronger seasonality linked to coastal tourism.

Carlos Alberto Patiño Romaris, Breixo Martins-Rodal, Alba López Bolás2026-10-19

📈 economics

Over-accumulating AI. Rationale and fault lines beyond the US AI investment boom

This paper analyzes the massive surge in US AI investment and stock valuations through the lens of overaccumulation crisis theory, arguing that while only one path leads to sustained growth, the sector faces a high risk of crisis driven by financial fragility, coordination failures, and disappointing productivity gains.

Gaia Valenti, Cédric Durand2026-10-19

📈 economics

Who Gets the Drug? Reimbursement, the Market and the Allocation of GLP-1 Agonists in Japan and China

By comparing the allocation of GLP-1 agonists in Japan and China, this paper argues that while payer reimbursement rules determine who receives treatment at collective expense, the actual market for these drugs is shaped by a series of regulatory and economic gates that allow access through alternative channels, ultimately defining the drug's availability and character for the broader population.

Honglin QU2026-10-19

📈 economics

Antecedents of circular economy orientation in maritime and fisheries SMEs: institutional, capability and cultural drivers in Bali, Indonesia

This study of 260 maritime and fisheries SMEs in Bali, Indonesia, reveals that entrepreneurial orientation, institutional pressure, green dynamic capability, and the indigenous Tri Hita Karana value system are all significant positive drivers of circular economy orientation, with environmental dynamism further strengthening the impact of entrepreneurial and capability-based factors.

M. Rudi Irwansyah, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya, Sulastri Sulastri, Raya Sulistyowati, Deshinta Arrova Dewi2026-10-19

📈 economics

The Impact of Mobile-Based Digital Technology Adoption on Poverty Reduction: Insights from Ethiopia

This study demonstrates that the adoption of mobile-based digital technologies significantly reduces multidimensional poverty in Ethiopia's Hadiya zone, with adopters experiencing substantially lower poverty rates than non-adopters, thereby highlighting the need for policymakers to remove barriers to mobile internet and financial services.

Degineh Lagiso Bule, Herbert Ntuli, Colleta Gandidzanwa2026-10-19

📈 economics

Expected versus Unexpected Non-Competition: A Corruption-Risk Approach to Public Procurement in Spain

This paper introduces a machine learning-based framework using Spanish public procurement data to distinguish between expected and unexpected non-competition, thereby creating a refined, false-positive-reducing proxy for corruption risk that accounts for structural market and institutional factors.

Iván Pastor-Sanz, Félix J. López Iturriaga2026-10-19

📈 economics

The Impact of Public Information on Pricing Dispersion and: Evidence from Housing Markets

Using data from Philadelphia housing transactions, this paper demonstrates that the availability of free online information, such as Zestimates and visual disclosures, significantly reduces pricing dispersion and improves market efficiency, particularly in heterogeneous housing markets where valuation uncertainty is highest.

Youngme Seo, Dongshin Kim, Julia Freybote2026-10-19

📈 economics

The aquaculture blind spot: anticipating subsidy displacement after the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

This paper argues that the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies' exclusion of aquaculture creates a risk of subsidy displacement and proposes measures such as improved notification, review clauses, and clearer definitions to address this regulatory blind spot.

Pierre-Jean Clausse2026-10-19

📈 economics

Generative AI and Early-Career Hiring: Counts, Entry Rates, and the Employment Base

This paper finds that the relative decline in stable new hires for early-career workers (aged 22–34) compared to established workers in AI-exposed U.S. industries after 2022 is primarily driven by a pre-existing downward trend in the stable employment base rather than a statistically distinct drop in the entry rate itself.

Yi Wu2026-10-19

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