📈 economics

Rehabilitative Econometrics of Indian Correctional Homes: A Legal-Economic and Time-Series Evaluation of Spiritual Interventions, Recidivism, and Prison Overcrowding

This study employs a comprehensive time-series econometric analysis of Indian data from 2001 to 2022 to explore the complex, non-causal relationship between rising crime and prison populations, declining recidivism, and increasing spiritual rehabilitation interventions, ultimately advocating for a robust national data architecture to better evaluate and support evidence-based correctional reforms.

SHATRAJIT GOSWAMI2026-08-25
📈 economics

From Prediction to Causation: Heterogeneous Policy Effects of Rent Stabilization and Rental Assistance on Severe Housing Cost Burden in New York City

This paper employs an AI-driven causal inference framework combining machine learning with quasi-experimental designs to demonstrate that New York City's housing policies, particularly the 2019 rent stabilization expansion, effectively reduce severe housing cost burden but exhibit significant heterogeneous effects across different neighborhood contexts, thereby enabling more precise, targeted policy interventions.

Nakib Uddin Ahmed, Azizur Rahman, Mehjabin Ferdous, Kadirur Rahman Chowdhury2026-08-25
📈 economics

Enhancing Project Management Efficiency in Small Businesses Through Agile Methodologies

This qualitative case study demonstrates how small businesses in dynamic sectors like e-commerce and fintech can enhance project efficiency, flexibility, and customer satisfaction by adopting Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, as evidenced by the successful implementations at Shopify and Revolut, while also highlighting the cultural and strategic challenges inherent in such transitions.

syed hossein2026-08-25
📈 economics

When Capabilities Become Borrowable: General-Purpose Platforms and the Evolution of Commercialization Regimes

This paper develops an evolutionary model demonstrating how general-purpose platforms enable entrepreneurs to access productive capabilities without ownership, thereby altering commercialization regimes by shifting organizational selection thresholds, creating hysteresis in incumbent adaptation, and driving creative destruction through institutional governance and platform-mediated capability recombination.

Kenny Ching2026-08-24
📈 economics

Heterogeneous Executive Environmental Cognition and Corporate Green Innovation Strategies

Using panel data from Chinese listed firms (2011–2023), this study reveals that while executive environmental cognition generally promotes green innovation, responsibility-oriented cognition drives substantive innovation more effectively than pressure-oriented cognition, with these effects varying significantly across ownership types, industry intensities, and institutional contexts.

Ying Yu, Yang Xiao, Jiahang Li, Dongyu Dai2026-08-24
📈 economics

How digital transformation shapes tourism firm profitability: cost stickiness and asset productivity channels in Chinese listed tourism enterprises

This study of Chinese listed tourism firms reveals that while digital transformation initially suppresses profitability, it ultimately enhances return on assets over a two-year horizon by primarily reducing cost stickiness and secondarily improving asset turnover, with these mechanisms varying significantly across sub-sectors.

longlong liu, enyi zhou2026-08-24