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Scope 3 Emissions Tracking and Circular Supply Chain Performance, the Mediating Role of Supplier Sustainability Collaboration and Moderating Influence of Data Transparency

This study empirically demonstrates that Scope 3 Emissions Tracking significantly enhances Circular Supply Chain Performance, both directly and indirectly through Supplier Sustainability Collaboration, with Data Transparency serving as a critical moderator that strengthens these relationships based on a survey of 328 Ghanaian firms.

Abdul-Basit Danjoe Munkaila, Abdul-Aziz Mustapha, Adam Sandow Saani2026-09-01
📈 economics

Synergistic policy on pilot free trade zone and national e-commerce demonstration city to promote urban-rural industry integration: Evidence from China

Using a DID approach on data from 285 Chinese cities (2008–2023), this study demonstrates that the synergistic implementation of Pilot Free Trade Zones and National E-commerce Demonstration Cities significantly promotes urban-rural industrial integration by fostering entrepreneurial vitality, rural e-commerce, and digital transformation, with effects varying across regions.

Chuanglin Fang, Xuewei Zhang, Wanxu Chen2026-09-01
📈 economics

Economic Openness and the Regional Output- Employment-Poverty Nexus in Indonesia: A Fixed-Effects IV Approach

Using a Fixed-Effects IV approach on Indonesian provincial data from 2017 to 2024, this study finds that while economic openness boosts regional output and modestly reduces unemployment, it fails to directly alleviate poverty, highlighting that inclusive development requires complementing openness with employment-oriented strategies, human capital investment, and productive public expenditure.

Wiwiek Rindayati, Fahmi Salam Ahmad, Gerhana Gerhana2026-09-01
📈 economics

Multi-Industry Symbiosis and Sustainable Regional Development Across Chinese Provinces

Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2011–2022), this study applies symbiosis theory to analyze the six-industry system of agriculture, commerce, culture, sports, tourism, and health, revealing that while these sectors have not yet achieved balanced positive symbiosis, their interactions are characterized by significant regional disparities and were profoundly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shifted influence from tourism to health.

Xiangmei Zhu, Xue Zhang, Xin Li2026-09-01
📈 economics

Breeding Cobras: Assessing Law and Political Economy on Its Own Terms

This paper employs an immanent critique using property rights and Virginia Political Economy traditions to argue that key Law and Political Economy reforms, specifically rent control and antitrust, are likely to backfire via "cobra effects" driven by substitution and rent-seeking mechanisms, thereby suggesting that the conflict between Law and Political Economy and economics lies primarily in means rather than ends.

Caleb S. Fuller, Scott Burns2026-09-01
📈 economics

Does Decent Work Promote Economic Growth? Asymmetric Evidence From Türki̇Ye

Using a non-linear autoregressive distributed lag model on Turkish data from 2000 to 2021, this study reveals that the relationship between decent work and economic growth is asymmetric, where improvements in job quality significantly boost growth while deteriorations hinder it, alongside positive effects from fixed capital investment and human development but negative impacts from inflation and public expenditure.

oytun meçik, başak özarslan, burcu savaş çelik2026-09-01