386 papers
This paper proposes a dynamic game-theoretic mechanism for e-commerce platforms to mitigate fraudulent returns by strategically combining refundable bonds, probabilistic audits, risk-adjusted pricing, and aged reputation scores to align customer incentives with honest behavior while preserving seller quality and trust.
Based on an analysis of 12,669 firm-year observations from Chinese A-share listed firms, this study finds that workplace health investment significantly boosts employment growth and adjustment volatility by reducing labor frictions such as work injuries and turnover, thereby enhancing employment resilience during favorable economic conditions.
This paper demonstrates that the persistent tension between economic growth and ecological sustainability arises endogenously from the topology of global economic networks, which structurally couples growth and environmental targets to create a shifting Development Possibility Frontier where expansion slides along rather than transcends these inherent trade-offs.
This study presents a price-indexed screening model demonstrating that landfill mining in Portugal can be a sustainable and profitable strategy for recovering strategic metals, provided it targets high-grade polymetallic sulphide hotspots where metal value, recovery efficiency, and avoided liability credits align, rather than treating all waste deposits uniformly.
This study utilizes secondary data to critically examine the tension between tourism-driven economic growth and environmental degradation in mountain economies, arguing that the integration of sustainable principles, community engagement, and robust policy frameworks is essential to balance economic benefits with the long-term ecological and socio-economic resilience of these fragile regions.
This paper demonstrates that stablecoin depegging transmits liquidity stress to U.S. traditional money markets by tightening financial intermediaries' balance sheet constraints, causing heterogeneous liquidity deterioration across Treasury bills, commercial paper, and repo markets that is significantly amplified when intermediary capital is under stress.
This study employs a Theory of Change framework to provide the first structured socio-economic assessment of MedAustron, revealing that its industrial spillovers and scientific knowledge production generate a conservative quantified value of approximately €304.5 million, which matches or exceeds the facility's initial investment costs.
This paper demonstrates that strategic pre-pandemic investments in vaccine preparedness—particularly those accelerating vaccine availability, combining R&D with manufacturing capacity, and ensuring equitable global distribution—can significantly reduce the projected economic and human losses of future SARS-X outbreaks.
By applying Neural Additive Vector Autoregression to 22 years of data, this study concludes that Turkey's geopolitical axis shift is a structurally self-reinforcing process driven primarily by path-locked spatial alignment, with visit frequency and export dependency identified as the only statistically significant non-autoregressive causal factors at the dyadic level.
While global renewable energy capacity has demonstrated resilience against major economic and geopolitical shocks, this aggregate growth masks significant country-level divergence, as the typical nation's trajectory often deviates from the global trend and is heavily influenced by a few large economies.