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Assessing the impact of increasing petrol prices on activity participation: Evidence from Queensland, Australia

Based on survey data from 808 respondents in Queensland, Australia, this study utilizes a multivariate Generalised Poisson model to demonstrate that rising petrol prices significantly reduce participation in weekly activities—particularly social and shopping events—while exacerbating transport disadvantage, thereby necessitating policy interventions that ensure affordable and reliable transport alternatives.

Andrea Pellegrini, Matthew J. Beck, John M. Rose2026-08-13

📈 economics

Brief Report: Invisible at Birth: State Administrative Capacity, Subnational Development Inequality, and Civil Registration Completeness — Cross-National Evidence from 165 Countries

This cross-national study of 165 countries demonstrates that higher state administrative capacity, particularly control of corruption, and lower subnational development inequality are significant predictors of more complete civil birth registration.

Oluwatosin Adebayo2026-08-13

📈 economics

Toward a green innovation in construction industry: The enabling role of Stakeholder collaboration and pressure in corporate social responsibility

Drawing on data from 406 Chinese construction companies, this study demonstrates that stakeholder collaboration drives green innovation through the mediating role of corporate social responsibility, a relationship further strengthened by stakeholder pressure.

Chuhan Chen, Shanglin Du, Md Azree Othuman Mydin2026-08-12

📈 economics

RT-SIM: A Simulation Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models for Trade Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Financial Operations

This paper introduces RT-SIM, a simulation framework demonstrating that frontier large language models can effectively reconstruct trades from trader communications for financial reconciliation, provided the dialogue is explicit or merely noisy, though performance significantly declines under ambiguous or semantically degraded conditions.

Martin Higgins, Mackenzie Common2026-08-12

📈 economics

Restructuring Indian Construction: A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Lean Practices and Barriers

This study analyzes the moderate awareness and implementation of Lean Construction in India's large-scale construction industry, revealing that while knowledge correlates with usage, adoption is primarily hindered by organizational culture and leadership rather than technical constraints, making mandatory policies the most effective driver for improvement.

Jaydeep Pipaliya, MohammedShakil S. Malek, Nirav Patel2026-08-12

📈 economics

The Impact of Tax Incentives on Carbon Intensity in Industrial Enterprises: Mediating Role of Green Technology Innovation

This study demonstrates that both R&D expense deductions and income tax incentives significantly reduce industrial carbon intensity through the mediating role of green technology innovation, with R&D deductions playing a dominant and complementary role that exhibits threshold effects dependent on the level of income tax incentives.

Hengyu Lyu, Chunai Ma, Arash Farnoosh2026-08-12

📈 economics

Instrument Choice and Political Equilibrium: Why Governments Suppress Marginal Adjustment

This paper argues that governments systematically prefer suppressive policy instruments over marginally adjusting alternatives not because they are more efficient, but because they reduce the visibility of adjustment costs, preserve administrative discretion, and stabilize political coalitions, thereby creating institutional drag that leads to persistent resource misallocation and slower long-run economic adaptation.

Stephen Lewarne2026-08-12

📈 economics

Unintended Consequences of Gender Equality Legislation: Evidence on Male Job Satisfaction from Japan

This study utilizes a difference-in-differences framework on Japanese panel data to demonstrate that the 2016 Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, while designed to support female advancement, has inadvertently reduced job satisfaction, health, and increased stress among non-managerial male employees in covered firms.

KAZUMA SATO, Junji Kageyama2026-08-12

📈 economics

State Capacity and the Price of Risk: Cross-Country Evidence on Institutions and the Cost of Credit

This paper finds that while higher state capacity is associated with lower private credit spreads, this relationship is primarily mediated by increased financial depth and income rather than acting as a direct, independent price signal.

Marco Antonio Kerbeg, Mathias Schneid Tessmann, Gustavo Coelho Haase2026-08-12

📈 economics

Same System, Opposite Verdicts: Metric Discretion in AI Ethics Audits and the Limits of Disclosure

This paper demonstrates that the lack of standardized fairness metrics in AI ethics allows for arbitrary and contradictory audit outcomes, arguing that implementing disclosure requirements similar to financial alternative performance measures—rather than mandating a single correct metric—can significantly reduce this discretion and improve transparency.

Shay Tsaban2026-08-12

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