📈 economics

AI-driven Technological Innovation and Climate Finance as Catalysts for Green Growth in Africa’s Carbon-Intensive Economies

This study demonstrates that in five major carbon-intensive African economies, climate finance and AI-driven technological innovation act as complementary catalysts for inclusive green growth, with climate finance showing immediate robust effects and AI innovation contributing cumulatively over time to support the transition away from fossil fuel dependence.

Kingsley Imandojemu, Samson Alika, Romanus Osabohien, Michael Oyedele Oyenuga, Beatrice Desiree Simo-Kengne, Nnaemeka V. (…)2026-06-26
📈 economics

Anticipatory Responses to U.S. EV Mandates and Global Energy Markets

This paper finds that while U.S. states generally showed no immediate anticipatory response to upcoming EV mandates, later-adopting states experienced a significant increase in EV stock due to policy credibility, a shift that ultimately reduces global petroleum dependence and improves welfare for importing economies through terms-of-trade adjustments similar to those caused by oil supply disruptions.

Wasiu Akintunde, Hassan Odugbemi2026-06-26
📈 economics

Institutionalized R&D, Patent Output and the Domestic Core–Periphery of Innovation: Evidence from Türkiye’s NUTS-2 Regions

This study analyzes Türkiye's NUTS-2 regions to demonstrate that the conversion of institutionalized R&D capacity into patent output is highly concentrated in a domestic innovation core, driven by cumulative interactions between regional welfare, absorptive capacity, and technology specialization rather than by isolated inputs.

Kamil Taşcı2026-06-26
📈 economics

Why Growth Does Not Always Strengthen Financial Markets? The Role of Institutions in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

This study of nine ASEAN economies from 1997 to 2021 reveals that institutional quality acts as a critical conditioning factor in the growth–finance nexus, where economic growth significantly expands credit availability in economies with weaker institutions but yields diminishing returns in those with stronger, more developed financial systems.

Tennyson Pangambam2026-06-26
📈 economics

The Investor Financial Profile between Professionalism and Amateurism and Its Effect on Bitcoin Market Price, Volume, Trade Dynamics, and Market Quality

This study employs a novel methodology combining survey-based behavioral indicators with high-frequency on-chain and market data to demonstrate that the composition of Bitcoin investors significantly shapes market outcomes, where amateur participation drives short-term volatility and inefficiency while professional flows enhance liquidity and resilience across medium-to-long-term horizons.

Anas Elmelki2026-06-26
📈 economics

Bridging Behavioral Finance and Robust Agentic DRL: A novel computational framework for Portfolio Selection

This study introduces RPPO-MPT, a novel robust reinforcement learning framework that integrates perturbation-based noise reduction with Prospect Theory-inspired reward shaping to outperform conventional models in equity portfolio optimization by better aligning with investor behavioral preferences under market uncertainty.

Ehsan Ameri, Majid Mirzaee Ghazani, Donya Rahmani2026-06-26
📈 economics

Research on Satisfaction and Innovation Driving Factors of Smart Health and Elderly Care Services:An Empirical Analysis from the Perspective of New Quality Productive Forces

This study empirically analyzes the satisfaction and innovation drivers of Smart Health and Elderly Care Services in China from the perspective of new quality productive forces, revealing that while overall satisfaction is improving, technological innovation serves as the core driving force alongside the supportive roles of policy, market, industrial integration, and talent.

Ludi Ye, Ping Luo, Dingyi Chen, Yunhao Hu2026-06-26