📈 economics

Leadership in the Age of AI and the Metaverse: Developing Dynamic Managerial Capability Framework for Digital Organizational Transformation in China

This study develops and validates a dynamic managerial capability framework for digital organizational transformation in China, demonstrating that leaders' abilities to sense opportunities, orchestrate strategy, govern human-machine collaboration, and reconfigure routines are critical for successfully leveraging AI and the metaverse.

Guiyu Fan, Xiaoyan yu, Junna Jin, Lili Lu, Jian Zhang2026-08-25
📈 economics

Creating a Diversified Mining Share Investment Portfolio based on Trading Comparables and Valuation Indicators

This paper proposes a framework for constructing a diversified mining share portfolio by integrating technical and financial risk assessments with specific valuation metrics—such as EV/NPV and P/NAV—across various company sizes and commodity types to demonstrate how operational scale, commodity diversity, and strategic capital management influence share performance and valuation.

Dennis Langston Buchanan2026-08-25
📈 economics

Global collaboration outweighs algorithmic complexity in AI-finance research: a negative binomial analysis of citation impact (2015-2025)

This study of 2,694 AI-finance articles (2015–2025) reveals that global collaboration, funding, and open access are the primary drivers of citation impact, while a "Complexity Paradox" penalizes methodologically specialized topics like Deep Learning and interpretable Risk Management, suggesting that audience breadth and novelty outweigh technical sophistication in determining scholarly influence.

Luis-Felipe Arizmendi2026-08-25
📈 economics

From Single Worker to Family Provider: Wage Adequacy Across Family Transitions in Morocco An Extended Synthetic Microsimulation with Regional, Employment-Status, Behavioural and Fiscal Sensitivity Analysis

This study utilizes a synthetic microsimulation to demonstrate that in Morocco, a fixed monthly wage of MAD 5,000 becomes increasingly inadequate as a worker transitions from a single individual to a large family, revealing a significant structural gap in living standards that current family allowances and fiscal policies fail to bridge without a coordinated, multi-sectoral support package.

Abdelghni el amoumri2026-08-25
📈 economics

Diet westernization and longevity in Africa: Evidence from Cross-sectionally augmented panel estimation

Using cross-sectionally augmented panel data for 42 African countries from 1980 to 2022, this study reveals that while health infrastructure and economic development boost longevity, the westernization of diets toward ultra-processed foods significantly undermines life expectancy, highlighting a critical trade-off between food security and public health.

Ngonidzashe Chiranga, Regret Sunge2026-08-25
📈 economics

An Intelligent Ensemble Learning Framework for Early Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction Using Financial Ratios and Market Dynamics

This study proposes a hybrid ensemble machine learning framework that integrates financial ratios and market dynamics to significantly improve the accuracy and stability of early corporate bankruptcy predictions for firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, offering a robust alternative to traditional statistical models.

VIJAYALAKSHMI P, KISHORE KUNAL, CHANDINI SHREE S. V, JAISANKAR SHANMUGA SUNDARAM2026-08-25