📈 economics

Critical Mineral and Material Supply Availability and Energy System Development: A Multisector Analysis and Implications

This study utilizes an enhanced Global Change Analysis Model to demonstrate that constraints on both bulk and specialty critical mineral supplies create significant cross-sector interdependencies, substantially increasing electricity prices and electric vehicle costs while underscoring the necessity of integrated, economy-wide approaches to managing energy-material supply risks.

Yang Qiu, Brinda Yarlagadda, Neal Graham, Matthew Binsted, Pralit Patel, Marshall Wise, Allen Fawcett, Maggie Liu, Sidda (…)2026-07-28
📈 economics

A Systematic Review of the Economic Feasibility of Implementing Renewable Energy Systems in European Buildings

This systematic review critically examines the economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in European buildings, revealing that while technologies like solar PV and heat pumps can be profitable under specific conditions, their success is heavily dependent on context-specific factors such as system sizing, regional climate, and hybrid policy support, rather than universal viability.

Amir Darabi, Shayan Shamsi2026-07-28
📄 other

Does Supply Chain Digitalization Enhance Firm Resilience?

Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2023, this study demonstrates that supply chain digitalization significantly enhances firm resilience by alleviating financing constraints and fostering value co-creation, with effects that are amplified under environmental uncertainty, information transparency, and a U-shaped influence of artificial intelligence application.

Bin Mo, Jiaoting Yi, Liuyang Li, Hanzi Chen2026-07-27
📄 other

Institutional opening and regional entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in China

This study utilizes a staggered difference-in-differences approach to demonstrate that China's Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones significantly boost regional entrepreneurial activity by fostering digital talent agglomeration, alleviating fiscal pressure, and developing new digital infrastructure, with effects being more pronounced in eastern regions and among non-state-owned enterprises.

Wei Ma, zhenchang Shi2026-07-27
📄 other

Environmental Sustainability Through Lense of Digitalization and Banking Sector

Using the STIRPAT model on World Development Indicators from 1990 to 2023, this study demonstrates that digitalization, gender inclusion, and the banking sector significantly enhance environmental sustainability, thereby urging policymakers to integrate these factors into frameworks that balance economic growth with ecological conservation.

JAUHAR ABBAS, Zia Ur Rehman, Haroon Hussain, Hammad Hassan Mirza, Ahmed Hussein Al Rassas2026-07-27