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📈 economics

The Post-COVID Shift in Global Health Expenditure and Financing: Evidence from a 193-Country Panel, 2010–2023

Using a 193-country panel from 2010–2023, this study demonstrates that the post-COVID period triggered a persistent, statistically significant shift in global health financing characterized by a sharp rise in government health spending per capita and a relative decline in out-of-pocket shares—particularly in high-income nations—rather than a mere transient spike or pre-existing trend.

Kunal Dhanda2026-09-10
📈 economics

Water Scarcity and the Future of Rural Communities in West Texas: Economic Effects of Ogallala Aquifer Depletion

This study finds no statistically significant evidence that Ogallala Aquifer depletion has directly reduced employment, wages, or income across 49 West Texas counties between 2000 and 2024, suggesting that sectoral adjustments and technological adaptations may be masking the aquifer's economic stress in aggregate data, though the analysis lacks the power to rule out smaller, consequential effects.

Patrick Nyenkan2026-09-10
📈 economics

From Accounting Earnings to Shareholder Wealth: Sustainable Dividend Capacity and Profit-Allocation Misalignment in Egyptian Listed Firms

This study of Egyptian listed firms demonstrates that accounting earnings do not automatically translate into shareholder wealth, revealing that misaligned profit allocation—whether through unjustified retention or unsustainable distributions—reduces firm value, whereas transparency and governance can mitigate these costs by distinguishing productive retention from excessive payouts.

Amin Elsayed LOTFY2026-09-10
📈 economics

Disaggregating ESG Effects on Financial Performance for Financial Institutions on the London, New York and Shanghai Stock Exchanges

Based on a 19-year panel study of 114 financial firms across the LSE, NYSE, and SSE, this paper demonstrates that disaggregated ESG practices, particularly environmental and social dimensions, are significantly and positively associated with financial performance metrics like ROE, suggesting that ESG integration offers strategic competitive advantages beyond mere compliance.

Raminta Vaitiekuniene, Alfreda Sapkauskiene, Javier Giner, Sandra Morini Marrero, Rytis Krusinskas2026-09-10
📈 economics

Configurational Pathways of High Quality Development in China's Rural Tourism Economy Under the New Development Philosophy

Guided by the new development philosophy, this study employs fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify five distinct configurational pathways through which the synergistic interaction of innovation, coordination, green practices, openness, and sharing drives high-quality development in China's rural tourism economy, while highlighting that isolated factors or imbalanced approaches lead to suboptimal outcomes.

Wumaieraili Aimaitikali, Yi Jie Wang2026-09-09
📈 economics

Structural Conditions for Collusion Generation: The “Coordinateable Space” Hypothesis and EU Manufacturing Evidence

This paper proposes the "Coordinateable Space" hypothesis, arguing that collusion depends on the number of effective competitors rather than just market concentration, and validates this through EU manufacturing data showing that a specific range of large firms (approximately 400 to 1,300) is a necessary structural condition for cartel generation.

Shidong Li2026-09-09
📈 economics

Capitalization of urban visual morphology: a world-model perspective from the housing market of the Taiwan region

This study analyzes 544,000 housing transactions in the Taiwan region to demonstrate that urban visual morphology significantly capitalizes into property prices with distinct, income-dependent patterns that exacerbate spatial inequality, while revealing that current visual conditions drive valuations more than anticipated future changes.

Juliana Pin-Jen Tseng, Kuo-Kun Tseng, Regina Fang-Ying Lin2026-09-09