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The Economics of Tailings Accountability: Corporate Disclosure and Long-Term Mining Liabilities in Ghana

This study reveals that while Ghanaian gold mining companies have significantly improved the technical and environmental transparency of their tailings management disclosures between 2019 and 2025, they continue to underreport critical financial liabilities, community risks, and emergency preparedness, creating a persistent economic accountability imbalance despite increased formalization.

Blessed Gyamfi Appiah, Uzoma Ogbolime, Bright Akwasi Gyamfi, Edwina Owusuaa-Gyimah2026-09-28

📈 economics

Beyond Formalization: How Human Capital Signaling and Managerial Professionalization Shape SME Performance in Informal Economies

This study of 580 SMEs in South-East Nigeria reveals that while human capital signaling and managerial professionalization significantly boost enterprise performance, they do not automatically drive formalization, indicating that business success and institutional participation are distinct pathways requiring both capability development and supportive regulatory reforms.

Larry Ogochukwu Achara, Roseline Chinasa Agbaraevoh, Eberechi Ruth Ufomba, Chinwe Chosen Ndukwe-Tochi2026-09-28

📈 economics

Behavioral Finance and Investor Decision-Making Under Risk Within the Opportunity Set

This research synthesizes Modern Portfolio Theory and behavioral finance to analyze how investors navigate the risk-return opportunity set, examining the tension between rational utility maximization and psychological biases to provide strategic recommendations for enhancing decision-making under market uncertainty.

Md. Saiful Bari2026-09-28

📈 economics

Making innovation visible: Innovation narrative focus and configurations of collaborative technological output

By analyzing Chinese A-share firms from 2011 to 2023, this study demonstrates that formal innovation narratives constitute a distinct information dimension whose relationship with future collaborative technological output is not driven by individual factors but by specific, multiple configurations of narrative focus, technological foundations, and environmental conditions.

Yongchang Jiang, Chunjing Bai2026-09-28

📈 economics

Do Digital Financial Infrastructure and Connectivity Enhance Economic Resilience under Macroeconomic Uncertainty? Evidence from MENA Countries

This study of 13 MENA economies from 2004 to 2023 finds that while macroeconomic uncertainty generally hinders growth, robust digital financial infrastructure can mitigate this negative impact, particularly in non-GCC countries, though the effect is only marginally significant and varies considerably across the region's diverse economic structures.

omneya Abdel-Karim, Heba Abdel-Gawad2026-09-28

📈 economics

When does Hoskold misstate extractive-asset value? Reserve dynamics, mine-plan evidence, and managed non-renewability

This paper demonstrates that while the classical Hoskold formula remains a defensible valuation shortcut for extractive assets with fixed reserve plans, generalized and managed-reserve extensions are necessary to reduce valuation errors when accounting for reserve replacement, economic life endogeneity, and capacity constraints.

Juan Ignacio Guzmán, José Joaquín Jara2026-09-28

📈 economics

Logistics Clustering in the US: An Evaluation of the Role of Government in their Development

This study evaluates the impact of US government interventions on logistics cluster formation between 2008 and 2022, finding that federal and state transportation policies have no discernible effect compared to market forces like population scale, labor pools, and intermodal rail access, thereby suggesting that institutional efforts should focus on reinforcing existing clusters rather than attempting to create them in nonviable areas.

Reidel Vichot2026-09-28✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

📈 economics

Nonlinear Analysis of the Relationship Between Domestic Savings and Investment: Evidence for Tunisia Using the NARDL Approach

Using annual data from 2000 to 2020 and the nonlinear ARDL approach, this study confirms a long-term cointegration relationship between domestic savings and investment rates in Tunisia, thereby providing evidence relevant to the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle.

bouzid amaira2026-09-28

📈 economics

Relocate, Merge or Stay: Institutional Responses to Combat Exposure and Academic Staff Retention in Ukrainian Universities, 2019–2026

This study analyzes how Ukrainian universities' strategic choices to relocate, merge, or remain in place following the 2022 Russian invasion differentially impacted staff retention and payroll stability, revealing that while relocation led to gradual workforce reduction, mergers facilitated staff transfer without mass dismissal, suggesting that institutional responses are distinct yet critical determinants of academic staff well-being alongside combat exposure.

Svitlana Bondarenko, Mariia Telovata, Viktoriia Nekhai, Oksana Dmytriieva, Volodymyr Osmiatchenko, Tetyana Tabler2026-09-28

📈 economics

Rounding Rules in Retail Foreign Exchange Interfaces: Evidence from CNY and HKD Quotes

This paper analyzes retail foreign exchange interfaces at mainland Chinese banks and Hong Kong institutions to demonstrate how cent-level rounding rules, such as half-up rounding, create measurable cumulative arithmetic discrepancies between aggregated and individual transaction costs.

Ruirui Deng2026-09-28

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