📈 economics

A Global Dataset of Cost-of-illness for Climate-sensitive Diseases through Automated Literature Extraction

This paper presents a globally comparable, harmonized dataset of cost-of-illness for over 80 climate-sensitive diseases, derived from nearly 900 publications using automated large language model extraction and a three-tier confidence scoring framework to facilitate robust cross-country economic modeling and policy design.

Congkai Hong, Han Zhao, Zhenping Zhao, Wenxi Tang, Jianxiang Shen, Rentao Zhang, Wanxin Zhou, Mingxin Guo, Hanyue Hua, H (…)2026-09-09
📈 economics

Chinese Economic Activity, Exchange Rates and Russia-China Trade: Evidence Consistent with an Asymmetric Structural Reorientation after 2022 Russia-China Economic Observatory

This paper analyzes monthly data from 2019 to 2025 to determine whether Chinese manufacturing activity, the CNY/RUB exchange rate, and oil prices structurally reoriented their relationship with Russia-China trade after 2022, finding evidence of asymmetric post-2022 structural instability in import equations while noting that the observed correlations do not establish causal effects.

Alen Yukdin2026-09-09
📈 economics

When Virtual Reality Is Worth the Investment: A Two-Layer Systematic Review of Global Research, Economic Evidence, and Cost–Value Decision Making

This two-layer systematic review reveals a critical disconnect between high global research output in virtual reality and the scarcity of robust economic evidence, demonstrating that while VR often reduces specific operational costs or improves outcomes, it rarely lowers total first-use costs and requires a structured decision framework to justify investment, particularly given the notable absence of direct economic evaluations for major research-producing nations like China, Japan, and South Korea.

Elena Popescu2026-09-09
📈 economics

Interest-Rate Regimes, Credit Distortion, and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from the Offshore Drilling Rig Market, 2005–2025

This paper provides conditional corroboration for the Austrian business-cycle hypothesis that artificially low interest rates distort capital allocation in the offshore drilling rig market, evidenced by significantly higher capital expenditure during the 2010–2014 zero-rate period compared to the 2022–2025 tightening era, while explicitly acknowledging limitations in establishing definitive causal proof.

lixued kang2026-09-09
📈 economics

Examining the Impact of Commercial Banks’ Credit, Government Expenditure, Insecurity, Inflation, and Interest Rate on Food Security in Nigeria: Evidence from Food Production Dynamics

Using annual data from 1981 to 2024 and an ARDL approach, this study finds that while agricultural credit, government spending, and insecurity significantly influence Nigeria's food production, achieving sustainable food security requires coordinated policies that expand affordable financing, improve public expenditure efficiency, and address rural insecurity.

Sani Adamu, Aisha Adamu Hassan2026-09-09
📈 economics

The Economic Value of Water-Saving Irrigation Technologies: Evidence from the Texas High Plains

This study analyzes 2003–2024 panel data from the Texas High Plains to demonstrate that while temperature significantly drives irrigation intensity and highlights the economic potential of water-saving technologies, the lack of direct adoption data limits the findings to characterizing the economic and climatic context of water-use efficiency rather than providing causal estimates of technology impacts.

Patrick Nyenkan2026-09-09