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Capital Flows, Unequal Futures: Financial Globalization, Machine Learning and the Distributional Architecture of Income Inequality

This study utilizes advanced empirical methods, including machine learning, on a global panel dataset to demonstrate that financial globalization exacerbates income inequality through nonlinear and conditional mechanisms, arguing that its impact is ultimately a distributional policy challenge dependent on domestic buffers like education, social protection, and institutional quality.

Ghulam Nabi, Muhammad Ather Ashraf, Jawad Ahmad2026-07-16

📈 economics

Price feedbacks and land use adaptation drive drought impacts

This study demonstrates that conventional drought impact assessments overestimate agricultural losses and ignore consumer impacts because they fail to account for how market price increases and farmer land-use adaptations mitigate yield-driven damages.

Noureddine Bouzidi, Ramiro Parrado, Francesco Sapino, Jasmin Heilemann, Mansi Nagpal, Gabriele Standardi, Christian Klas (…)2026-07-16

📈 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

Growth and in-work poverty in Africa

This study of 43 African countries from 2000–2001 reveals that economic growth has mixed and often impoverishing effects on in-work poverty, with impacts varying significantly across income levels and economic sectors, necessitating tailored structural and cyclical policy interventions.

Kenneth Colombiano KPONOU2026-07-15

📈 economics

Structural Funds, Misallocation and Regional Disparities

This paper finds that while EU structural funds directly reduce regional income gaps, their indirect effect of increasing factor misallocation largely offsets this benefit, with the net impact reversing for regions below the median GDP gap where transfers instead widen gaps but improve convergence through productivity gains.

Massimo Del Gatto, Mattia Peracchia, Matteo Rapagna2026-07-15

📈 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

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