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📈 economics

Energy Transition, Financial Development, and Load Capacity Factor in Bangladesh: Asymmetric Effects and Rapid Renewable Growth

This study analyzes Bangladesh's energy transition from 1976 to 2024 and concludes that while fossil fuels harm ecological sustainability, renewable energy's current impact is statistically limited by its small market share, necessitating a rapid shift to renewables and targeted sustainable finance to achieve a Net Zero pathway and restore the Load Capacity Factor by the late 2030s.

Md. Rony Masud, Ratul Hasan, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman2026-07-15
📈 economics

Can Digital Transformation Promote Corporate Sustainable Development Performance ?Based on the Perspectives of Green Technological Innovation and Resource Allocation Efficiency

This study demonstrates that digital transformation significantly enhances the sustainable development performance of Chinese A-share listed firms by improving resource allocation efficiency and fostering green technological innovation, with varying impacts across different firm sizes.

Shiming Huang, Xianfeng Liu2026-07-15
📈 economics

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector: Perspective from the EU for Bilateral Industrial Competitiveness

This study employs a Multi-Regional Input–Output approach to demonstrate that the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism threatens Nigeria's manufacturing export competitiveness due to high fossil fuel dependence and weak carbon measurement capacities, thereby necessitating strategic policy alignment and low-carbon investments to ensure a just industrial transition.

Kingsley Oserei, Sekinant Bamigbade, Godwin Uddin2026-07-15
📈 economics

Greenwashing before the ban: the pricing and demand effects of vague versus specific environmental claims on Airbnb

Analyzing 420,000 European Airbnb listings prior to the EU's 2026 greenwashing ban, this study finds that vague environmental slogans command a significant price premium despite reducing demand, whereas specific verifiable claims trade at a discount, indicating that generic green rhetoric effectively targets a narrow, price-insensitive niche of environmentally conscious guests.

HONGXUAN YANG, JUNXI GONG, Tek Yew Lew, Qian Hui Ting2026-07-15
📈 economics

Platform Fee Floors, Market Power, and Missing Markets in Digital Payments: An Industrial-Organisation Calibration

This paper employs an industrial-organization calibration using US card data to demonstrate that fixed platform fees act as market-boundary instruments that create "missing markets" by excluding low-flow transactions, thereby affecting the extensive margin of payment participation in ways that interchange regulation on observed transactions cannot address.

Craig Steven Wright2026-07-15
📈 economics

City size, borrowed size and institutional educational supply: Evidence from the Fergana economic region, Uzbekistan

This study analyzes educational institutional supply across five cities in Uzbekistan's Fergana region, revealing that while composite indices mask significant imbalances, a decomposed analysis shows a weak relationship between city size and provision, a U-shaped disparity pattern across educational levels, and the utility of borrowed size and agglomeration shadow frameworks for understanding service distribution in data-scarce Central Asian contexts.

Madinabonu Nematova, Shavkatjon Jumakhanov, Yulduz Usmonova, Zuhriddin Juraev2026-07-15
📈 economics

The Unified Field of Spreads: The China-U.S. Yield Spread as a Regime Variable in Global Asset Pricing—On the Hierarchical Structure of Institutional Interfaces and Supplements to Interest Rate Parity, the Triffin Dilemma, and Related Theories

This paper proposes the "Unified Field of Spreads" hypothesis, demonstrating that the China-U.S. yield spread functions as a critical regime variable that determines the pricing dynamics of global core assets like gold and crude oil, thereby shifting the pricing anchor from U.S. to Chinese interest rates and necessitating a revision of classical theories such as Interest Rate Parity and the Triffin Dilemma.

Shuiping Tang2026-07-15