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1113 papers

📈 economics

Can Remittances Drive Economic Growth? Evidence of Weak Spillovers and Strong Heterogeneity in South and Southeast Asia

This study of South and Southeast Asian economies from 2006 to 2023 finds that while remittances lack significant cross-border spillover effects, their impact on GDP per capita is highly heterogeneous and non-linear, turning negative in highly dependent countries and underscoring the greater importance of domestic structural conditions and regional trade and investment over remittance flows for economic growth.

Tennyson Pangambam2026-07-30
📈 economics

Composite Evaluation of High-Speed Rail Station Infrastructure in China: An AHP–Entropy Weighting and Sensitivity Analysis

This study evaluates eighteen Chinese high-speed rail stations using a hybrid AHP–Entropy weighting framework to rank infrastructure performance based on economic, spatial, and operational indicators, demonstrating high ranking stability through sensitivity analysis while emphasizing the need for further validation before policy application.

Renjie Jin2026-07-30
📈 economics

Artificial Intelligence and the Reconfiguration of Innovation Collaboration: Evidence from Innovation Networks in China 

Based on patent data from 284 Chinese cities (2010–2022), this study reveals that artificial intelligence development significantly reduces inter-city innovation collaboration by intensifying urban specialization and crowding out formal partnerships through enhanced knowledge spillovers, with these negative effects being most pronounced in high-quality, cross-provincial, and eastern Chinese collaborations.

Yuyuan Wen, Yiwen Sun, Hao Yu2026-07-30
📈 economics

Portable Verified Financial Identity: A Framework for Immigrant Credit Access and Financial Inclusion in the United States

This paper proposes and empirically validates the Portable Verified Financial Identity (PVFI) framework, which leverages origin-country financial data and remittance corridors to generate a Pre-Arrival Banking and Financial Score (PABFS) that significantly reduces financial exclusion and improves credit model accuracy for immigrants in the United States.

Amir Khan2026-07-29
📈 economics

Integrating the governance of digital transformation in transition economies: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Estonia compared

This article analyzes Azerbaijan's 2026–2028 centrally coordinated governance model for digital transformation, which integrates 58 initiatives across four pillars with quantified targets, and compares its institutional and human capital constraints against Kazakhstan and Estonia to highlight that governance fragmentation and resource limitations, rather than infrastructure, remain the primary barriers to progress.

Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundstrom-Imanov2026-07-29
📈 economics

When can remanufacturing make Car-as-a-Service financially viable? A life-cycle costing assessment for passenger vehicles

This paper demonstrates that while Car-as-a-Service models offer lower costs for users, they are currently unprofitable for providers due to high manufacturing costs and strong residual values, becoming financially viable only through significant design-led cost reductions or when used-vehicle value retention drops below approximately 47%.

Ahmed S. Alghamdi2026-07-29
📈 economics

Beyond Trade Volumes: Market Entry, Export Survival, and the Early Trade Effects of the African Continental Free Trade Area

This paper utilizes a structural gravity framework on Ghana's bilateral export data to demonstrate that the early effects of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) are primarily driven by increased market entry and improved export survival rather than the expansion of existing trade volumes, thereby highlighting the agreement's role in fostering export diversification and structural transformation.

Felix Adongo2026-07-29
📈 economics

The Price of Fear: Uncertainty, Trade, and Economic Welfare in International Commodity Markets during the Black Sea Grain Initiative

This study quantifies the "price of fear" in international commodity markets during the Black Sea Grain Initiative by using a Markov switching model to isolate a significant risk premium driven by corridor uncertainty, revealing that this fear-driven cost disproportionately burdened developing economies while shifting Ukrainian grain exports toward wealthier buyers.

Ayodele Idowu2026-07-29
📈 economics

Understanding Forest Certification Awareness Among Tree Growers in Kenya: A Pathway Towards Sustainable Forestry

Based on a survey of 545 tree growers in Kenya, this study reveals that forest certification awareness is generally low, particularly among small-scale farmers, and is significantly influenced by factors such as education, cooperative membership, and extension access, thereby highlighting the need for targeted interventions to promote sustainable forestry adoption.

Jonah Kipsaat Kiprop, Oscar Ingasia Ayuya, Joshua Kiplongei Cheboiwo2026-07-29