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📈 economics

Beyond Hydrocarbons and Conventional Solid Minerals: A Linkage-Based Mineral Prioritisation Framework for Rethinking Extractives-led Inclusive Development—Evidence from Ghana's Salt Sector

This paper proposes and applies a Linkage-Based Mineral Prioritisation Framework to Ghana's salt sector, demonstrating that evaluating extractives through production, income, and employment linkages—rather than solely export earnings—reveals significant untapped potential for inclusive development and resource-based industrialization.

Alhassan Atta-Quayson2026-08-25
📈 economics

Determinants of Patent Applications across European Regions: Evidence from Panel Estimators, K-Means Clustering and Predictive Validation

This paper analyzes European regional patenting data to reveal that business research effort is the primary driver of innovation, while highlighting that regional innovative capacity is highly immobile over time and that uniform policy prescriptions are ineffective because the determinants of patenting vary significantly across distinct regional innovation profiles.

Angelo Maurizio Galiano, Giuseppe Dell'Erba, Alberto Costantiello, ANGELO LEOGRANDE2026-08-25
📈 economics

The Readiness Paradox: Why AI Governance Preparedness Is Decoupled from Institutional Uncertainty in Latin America and Central-Eastern Europe

This paper challenges the prevailing assumption that institutional uncertainty drives AI governance preparedness by demonstrating, through a regression analysis of 23 Latin American and Central-Eastern European countries, that no statistically significant relationship exists between the two, suggesting instead that readiness indices may reflect globally legitimated templates rather than locally calibrated risk responses.

Alfredo Merlet2026-08-25
📈 economics

Bid-Ask Dynamics and Listing-Day Performance of Indian IPOs: An Empirical Analysis of the Mainboard and SME Segments in 2026

This empirical study analyzes the 2026 Indian IPO market to demonstrate that while Mainboard offerings mobilized more capital and showed slightly higher positive listing rates than SME issues, subscription metrics alone are insufficient for investment decisions, necessitating a two-stage framework that integrates primary bidding behavior with secondary bid-ask dynamics.

Dasari Rajesh Babu2026-08-25
📈 economics

Cause-Specific Smooth Transition Hazards for Stock Exchange Delisting: Estimation, Calibrated Testing, and an Application to Bursa Malaysia

This paper introduces a flexible cause-specific smooth transition hazard model to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary stock exchange delistings, applying it to Bursa Malaysia data to reveal distinct risk factors and timing patterns for each exit type while highlighting significant estimation challenges and test size distortions through simulation.

Ahmad Shauqi bin Haji Mohamad Zubir2026-08-25
📈 economics

Order Allocation and Emergency Transportation Decisions Amid Multi-Source Procurement Disruptions

This study proposes a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model that integrates supplier selection, capacity reservation, and multi-mode transportation decisions to demonstrate that a risk-constrained strategy significantly outperforms lowest-bid and weighted-score approaches by reducing total costs, minimizing order delays, and accelerating recovery from supply chain disruptions.

Sifeng Liang, Yuhua Du, Wei Chen, Zihao Liu2026-08-25
📈 economics

Are Pensions and Disability Benefits concordant with Means and Health? A Tobit Approach to SHARE data from 50-to-89-year-olds covering 12 European Countries from 2015 to 2022

Using Tobit models on SHARE data from 12 European countries (2015–2022), this study finds that while old-age and disability pensions exhibit a gender gap and respond inversely to self-reported health, public payment schemes generally ensure a fair, means-tested allocation of resources to support beneficiaries' living standards.

Hans Gevers2026-08-25
📈 economics

Financial Distress and Homeownership: Evidence from SHARE Data covering 50- to 90-year-old Citizens of the Nordic and Baltic States from 2020 to 2022

Using SHARE data from 2020 to 2022, this study analyzes Nordic and Baltic citizens aged 50–90 to find that while exiting homeownership alone does not alleviate financial distress, it can improve financial well-being when combined with better food budgets and income, whereas debt relief and job changes tend to hinder such improvements.

Hans Gevers2026-08-25