📈 economics

Ex-ante Economic Impact of Adopting Genetically Engineered Sorghum on Production and Consumption in Elgeyo Marakwet County

This study utilizes the DREAMpy model to demonstrate that the ex-ante adoption of genetically engineered sorghum in Elgeyo Marakwet County is a highly profitable investment, yielding an estimated net present value of USD 9.69 million and significantly enhancing both producer incomes and consumer welfare.

Boaz Changwony Korir, Ibrahim Macharia, Susan Musembi2026-08-14
📈 economics

Capital without Capacity? Claimant congestion, capitalization ceilings, and the public-value boundary in state-owned mining: a calibrated application to Codelco

This paper introduces "claimant congestion" as a mechanism linking financing structures to productive performance in state-owned mining, using a calibrated model of Codelco (2009–2025) to demonstrate that while minority capitalization can enhance governance, it creates a finite public-value boundary where excessive leverage or unmanaged stakeholder claims reduce net public returns, thereby supporting staged capitalization and ring-fenced project equity as optimal strategies.

Juan J. Segura2026-08-14
📈 economics

State Ownership and the Formal-Oversight Paradox: Audit-Committee Adoption and Disclosure Enforcement

This study of Vietnamese listed firms (2020–2024) finds that while higher state ownership correlates with fewer disclosure violations, the adoption of formal audit committees does not significantly alter this relationship, suggesting that state-linked firms rely on alternative institutional monitoring configurations rather than standard board-centered oversight to ensure accountability.

Hoang Phi Nam Nguyen, Thach Ha2026-08-14
📈 economics

Climate Risk Integration in Portfolio Construction: A Systematic Literature Review, Conceptual Framework, and Future Research Agenda

This paper presents a systematic literature review of 19 studies (2015–2024) on climate risk integration in portfolio construction, revealing a research bias toward transition risks over physical risks, synthesizing current methodologies and governance frameworks into a unified conceptual model, and proposing a future research agenda to guide investors and policymakers.

MuthuPrakash Duraipandian2026-08-14
📈 economics

Optimizing Threshold-based Financial Crime Detection: Smoothing Rank Scale Gradient Descent for Discrete Loss Function-Based Threshold Adjustment

This paper proposes Smoothing Rank Scale Gradient Descent (SRSGD), a novel optimization framework that transforms the discrete loss function of threshold-based financial crime detection into a continuous one via sigmoid approximation and rank-scale transformation, achieving a 4000-fold computational speedup and superior human resource savings while maintaining regulatory-compliant recall.

Yen-Wu Ti, Tian-Shyr Dai, Chin-Yi Hsieh, Mao-Chia Wu, Ying-Ping Chen, Hsin-Yun Chang2026-08-14
📈 economics

Study on the Spatial Network Structural Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Tourism Economic Resilience in Cities of the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River Basin

This study analyzes the spatial network structure and influencing factors of tourism economic resilience across 39 cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2024, revealing a "core-periphery" hierarchical network driven by population mobility, geographical proximity, economic disparities, and resource endowments, while offering policy recommendations to enhance regional resilience.

Ruijuan Peng, Chaoxin Zhang, Ruijie Li2026-08-13
📈 economics

Sectoral Productivity and Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: Panel Evidence from China and the Former Soviet Union

This paper analyzes panel data from China and former Soviet Union countries to demonstrate that while their distinct initial industrial structures led to divergent de-industrialization patterns (inverse U-shaped vs. U-shaped), sector-specific productivity growth, rather than inter-sectoral productivity gaps, serves as the primary driver of structural transformation in both regions.

Taehyun Ryu2026-08-13
📈 economics

Enhancing Accounting Decision Quality through Business Intelligence Capabilities with Accounting Information Quality as a Mediator and Technology Investment Readiness as a Moderator

This study demonstrates that Business Intelligence capabilities (data management, analytics, and reporting) enhance accounting decision quality in Jordanian organizations by improving accounting information quality, a relationship that is further strengthened by technology investment readiness.

Khaled Aldarab’ah, Huthaifa Al-Hazaima, Tamara Adel Al-maaitah, Asma’a Al-Amarneh, Atef B. Al-Qur'an, Areej Faeik Hijazi (…)2026-08-13