Economics (Quantitative Finance) Papers of the Week

Results. A systematic approach to improving official statistics and its methodological, information and software support has been proposed: from clarifying the foundations of the general theory of statistics (through the measurement language) to a formal model of statistical information systems, including static and dynamic structures.

ABSTRACT We investigated the causal effects of a college education on smoking, drinking alcohol, sleeping, and site‐specific cancer‐screening behaviors in Japan.

This study investigates the impact of the digital economy on CO2 emissions using a panel dataset of 140 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries over the period 2001–2023.

Existing literature predominantly compares the efficiency differences between planned and market allocation from the dimensions of information costs and incentive mechanisms, but few studies incorporate "demand structure characteristics" as a key variable determining the effectiveness of allocation mechanisms. This paper proposes a theoretically original hypothesis: the efficiency of resource allocation in a system depends on the shape of its demand distribution.

Using the frame of climate system justice and lock-in, the paper identifies ten overlapping systemic lock-ins (profitability, discursive, legal, investment, economic/fiscal, infrastructural, labour, behavioural, political, professional) that operate at multiple levels of governance and across different domains.

This study examines how rural digitalization influences time allocation across paid work, housework, and leisure using data from 8774 individuals in the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), matched with county‐level metrics from the Index of Digital Rural County.

Abstract We present the Bangladesh Environmental Mobility Panel (BEMP), a household panel along Bangladesh’s Jamuna River that traces the impacts of riverbank erosion and flooding on (im)mobility, including short- and long-distance movements, socio-economic outcomes, and political attitudes.