1111 papers
This study employs an agent-based model integrated with Markov chain regime switching and advanced sensitivity analyses to demonstrate that while South Africa's intellectual property rights regime fosters stable, persistent innovation outcomes, Namibia's regime leads to faster convergence but higher volatility.
Using a Nonlinear ARDL approach on data from 2005 to 2026, this study reveals that South Africa's maize and wheat value chains exhibit asymmetric price transmission where retail prices respond more rapidly to producer price increases than decreases, a phenomenon driven by market concentration and lack of transparency that necessitates stronger regulatory oversight to protect consumer welfare.
This study demonstrates that financial inclusion positively influences human development in Morocco through a long-term, symmetrical equilibrium, though its effects are gradual and distinct from the immediate impact of per capita income growth.
This paper introduces the "Labour Liability Ratio" framework to argue that the convergence of demographic ageing and artificial intelligence is destabilizing labour-centred capitalism by simultaneously increasing the costs of sustaining a workforce while diminishing labour's relative contribution to output, thereby necessitating a fundamental reconfiguration of ownership, distribution, and political economy.
This article presents a stakeholder-deliberated, performance-based budgeting framework in Pontianak, Indonesia, which successfully replaces input-oriented allocations with a composite ecological and non-ecological performance index to address the limitations of fiscal decentralization through a context-specific, replicable model.
This paper introduces the concept of stress-retained effective number of bets (ENB) to measure and manage diversification-collapse risk, demonstrating that this metric better characterizes a portfolio's ability to preserve diversification during adverse market states compared to traditional covariance-based approaches.
This exploratory study employs a PROMETHEE II multi-criteria analysis to benchmark the migrant talent integration capacities of six Southern European countries, revealing that while Portugal and Malta perform best, there is a significant divergence between formal policy inclusiveness and actual socio-economic outcomes, with overqualification and asylum pressure emerging as critical differentiating factors.
This paper employs a spatially explicit agent-based model calibrated with Ankara housing data to demonstrate how the interplay between household heterogeneity, urban market segmentation, and institutional constraints like full-recourse lending shapes the non-uniform distribution of mortgage default and refinancing risks in emerging economies.
This study reveals that while broadband infrastructure universally drives labour productivity across the EU, AI adoption initially creates a "productivity paradox" in lower-income states that is only resolved when supported by robust broadband connectivity, highlighting the critical need for integrated digital strategies to prevent economic divergence.
This paper argues that advertised price guides serve distinct roles in auctions versus private-treaty sales, finding that auction guides are significantly more distorted and less informative, with a novel geographically weighted regression benchmark revealing that approximately 44% of auction transactions involve underquoting compared to 14% of private-treaty sales.