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📈 economics

Corruption, Public Employment, and the Quality of the Rule of Law: A Two-Way Causality Test Using Chinese Provincial Panel Data

Using Chinese provincial panel data from 1998 to 2020, this study demonstrates that corruption significantly increases public employment through an "attraction effect" while improvements in the rule of law effectively suppress both corruption and the size of the public sector, highlighting the critical role of legal development in breaking their interlinked cycle.

Yanda Hang, Ping Li, xiangjun Chen2026-09-11
📈 economics

ICT Development and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: An ARDL Assessment of Economic, Social, and Environmental Dimensions

Using ARDL analysis of data from 1995 to 2024, this study finds that while ICT significantly enhances economic and social sustainability in Nigeria, it negatively impacts environmental sustainability by increasing carbon dioxide emissions, necessitating policies that promote green digital technologies.

Adedamola Akeem Siyanbola, Oluwatoba Oyedele Adeniwura2026-09-11
📈 economics

Global Unemployment Dynamics and Labour Market Transformation: A Multidimensional Analysis

This study utilizes systematic review and factor analysis to examine global unemployment trends from 2001 to 2025, revealing how the interplay of demographic, technological, and institutional factors—particularly youth unemployment, gender disparities, and digital transformation—shapes labour market dynamics and offering strategic policy recommendations to enhance workforce resilience and sustainable growth.

Wooi Chen Khoo, Le Yuong Liew, Kee Huong Lai2026-09-11
📈 economics

Financing Across the Organised Crime–Terrorism Interface: Adaptive Portfolios, Displacement, and European Criminal Policy

This article proposes an adaptive financial-portfolio theory to evaluate counter-terrorist-financing effectiveness by analyzing the interface between organised crime and terrorism, arguing that policy must move beyond counting disrupted assets to assessing how criminal groups dynamically reconfigure diverse, complementary funding mechanisms across physical and digital domains.

Raymond L.M. Tang, Bo Wen2026-09-11
📈 economics

Unpacking Institutions: How Governance Quality Moderates the Entrepreneurship-Growth Relationship

This study analyzes data from 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries (2002–2025) to demonstrate that while formal business creation positively correlates with economic growth, its impact is significantly moderated by the region's broader institutional and productive environment, particularly labor informality and export performance, suggesting entrepreneurship functions best as a component of a wider development process rather than a standalone growth driver.

Ricardo GONZALES PEÑA, Jorge Ricardo Gonzales Castillo, Luis Varona Castillo2026-09-11
📈 economics

Nearshoring Vs. Friendshoring: The Cost-efficiency and Resilience Trade-offs in Global Value Chains

This paper analyzes the trade-offs between nearshoring and friendshoring in global value chains, demonstrating that while nearshoring offers superior operational resilience and lower total costs for core markets despite higher labor expenses, the optimal strategy for multinational corporations is a hybrid "barbell" approach that combines nearshoring for speed with friendshoring for geopolitical risk diversification and cost competitiveness.

Rinkal Raj2026-09-11
📈 economics

Demand for Off-Patent Drugs and Sequential Price Competition with Heterogeneous Consumers: A Reappraisal of the Generic Competition Paradox

This paper reappraises the Generic Competition Paradox by modeling sequential price competition with heterogeneous and misinformed consumers, demonstrating that while brand prices remain higher than generic prices, they decrease with market entry, and that a first-mover advantage consistently arises in oligopolies when accounting for general practitioners' prescription behaviors.

Alberto Cavaliere, Giovanni Crea2026-09-10
📈 economics

Corporate governance mechanisms and regulatory quality improve ESG disclosure quality in an emerging market

This study analyzes data from Ghanaian non-financial firms (2010–2022) using advanced econometric methods to demonstrate that corporate governance mechanisms, particularly board independence, diversity, and audit committee independence, significantly enhance the quality of ESG disclosures in emerging markets, while CEO duality negatively impacts such transparency.

ABDUL RAZAK ABDULAI2026-09-10
📈 economics

Assessing Indonesia’s Ecosystem Readiness for Sustainability Disclosure Based on IFRS S1 and IFRS S2

This qualitative study evaluates Indonesia's transitional readiness for IFRS S1 and S2 sustainability disclosures, revealing that while governance frameworks are advancing, critical bottlenecks in human capital, data systems, and assurance infrastructure hinder effective implementation across the reporting ecosystem.

Lokita Rizky Megawati, Arie Pratama, Ilya Avianti, Citra Sukmadilaga2026-09-10