📈 economics

The Investor Financial Profile between Professionalism and Amateurism and Its Effect on Bitcoin Market Price, Volume, Trade Dynamics, and Market Quality

This study employs a novel methodology combining survey-based behavioral indicators with high-frequency on-chain and market data to demonstrate that the composition of Bitcoin investors significantly shapes market outcomes, where amateur participation drives short-term volatility and inefficiency while professional flows enhance liquidity and resilience across medium-to-long-term horizons.

Anas Elmelki2026-06-26
📈 economics

Bridging Behavioral Finance and Robust Agentic DRL: A novel computational framework for Portfolio Selection

This study introduces RPPO-MPT, a novel robust reinforcement learning framework that integrates perturbation-based noise reduction with Prospect Theory-inspired reward shaping to outperform conventional models in equity portfolio optimization by better aligning with investor behavioral preferences under market uncertainty.

Ehsan Ameri, Majid Mirzaee Ghazani, Donya Rahmani2026-06-26
📈 economics

Research on Satisfaction and Innovation Driving Factors of Smart Health and Elderly Care Services:An Empirical Analysis from the Perspective of New Quality Productive Forces

This study empirically analyzes the satisfaction and innovation drivers of Smart Health and Elderly Care Services in China from the perspective of new quality productive forces, revealing that while overall satisfaction is improving, technological innovation serves as the core driving force alongside the supportive roles of policy, market, industrial integration, and talent.

Ludi Ye, Ping Luo, Dingyi Chen, Yunhao Hu2026-06-26
📈 economics

Financial Well-Being of Older Adults:  A Bibliometric Analysis of Knowledge Structure, Thematic Evolution, and Emerging Trends

This bibliometric analysis of 1,576 Web of Science publications from 1982 to 2025 maps the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of older adults' financial well-being research, identifying key trends such as the shift toward causal inference, the emergence of digital finance and long-term care insurance as frontiers, and the need for improved cross-national integration and intervention validation.

Shaojie Qi, Shengyuan Xu, Daniel T.L. Shek2026-06-26
📈 economics

Effect of Employment Protection on Domestic Violence

This paper finds that California's 2014 Senate Bill 400, which strengthened employment protections for domestic violence victims, led to a 14% increase in intimate partner violence reporting—particularly among Black and Hispanic victims in disadvantaged communities—suggesting that such policies reduce the economic barriers to disclosure and improve engagement with formal institutions without necessarily indicating a rise in actual violence incidence.

Devika Hazra2026-06-25