📈 economics

Financing the energy transition: International clean energy finance and renewable energy outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic panel GMM analysis

This study analyzes 15 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2005 to 2021 using a dynamic panel GMM approach and finds that while international clean energy finance alone is insufficient to significantly drive renewable energy consumption, it must be combined with improved financial development and broader energy access to effectively accelerate the region's energy transition.

Farai Chikono, Senour Ahmadi, Vito Amendolagine, Tichaona Zivengwa, Albert Makochekanwa2026-10-13
📈 economics

Scale dependence in energy poverty measurement: theoretical implications

Using a large, harmonized dataset across multiple scales, this study demonstrates that spatial aggregation fundamentally alters energy poverty measurements by contracting dimensional representation, reducing discriminatory capacity, and shifting dominant determinants, thereby challenging the assumption that higher-level estimates simply reflect aggregated household deprivation.

Aner Martinez-Soto, Katherine Castro-Coliqueo, Daniel Sanhueza Catalán, Yarela Saldias-Lagos, Alexander Zipf2026-10-13
📈 economics

Crowding In: How China’s Affordable Rental Housing Program Affected Private Rents

This paper finds that China's massive Affordable Rental Housing program unexpectedly increased private market rents by approximately 4.0 to 4.3 percent per standard deviation of planned units, driven by demand-side "crowding-in" effects in cities with high existing rents and large inflows of new urban workers, rather than the supply-side "crowding-out" typically observed in the U.S.

MINGLEI LYU2026-10-13
📈 economics

Behind on Which Front? Knowledge, Creation and Deployment in Europe’s Position Relative to the United States and China in Business, Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy

This study reveals that while the European Union maintains competitive parity with the United States and China in scientific knowledge and technology deployment, it has significantly fallen behind in the critical "creation" stage of converting innovation into firms, capital, and manufacturing, particularly in business, AI, and renewable energy sectors.

Alfredo Merlet2026-10-13
📈 economics

Consumer Trust, Data Privacy, and Emerging Cybersecurity in Islamic Digital Banking: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

This study conducts a bibliometric and systematic review of 34 peer-reviewed articles to reveal a critical research gap in Islamic digital banking, where the tension between the religious duty of *Amanah* and emerging cybersecurity threats remains largely unaddressed, prompting the authors to propose a new conceptual framework and research agenda to bridge this disconnect.

Faria Zahan Sarna, NHM Hassan Imam Chowdhury, Abdullah Al Himel2026-10-12