Tag: Empirical evidence
Visible and concealed NSSI differ in functions and patterns
Latent class analysis reveals distinct self-injury profiles organized by anatomical location, showing meaningful differences in motivations, cognitive patterns, and behavioral frequency across.
Liquidity shocks spill over to related corporate bond peers
Analysis of liquidity spillover in corporate bond markets following rating downgrades, showing contagion through information learning across related securities.
Output-based wages were linked to higher quality and slower task work
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Study shows output-based pay leads to higher quality and more time per task unit than time-based pay, suggesting compensation structure signals performance standards.
Automation lowers rents and widens inequality less within groups
Automation targets high-wage jobs, dissipates worker rents, and offsets productivity gains. Analysis of U.S. data shows automation explains half of wage inequality growth since 1980.
China’s electricity and carbon prices show partial coupling
Study quantifies China’s carbon-to-electricity price transmission at 76.5%, identifies barriers to market coupling, and proposes institutional reforms for achieving clean energy targets.
Exchange rate shifts affected only three of fifteen industries
Industry-level analysis of S-curve exchange rate effects on Pakistan-Japan bilateral trade reveals limited efficacy of depreciation for improving trade balance outcomes.
Air transport showed links to tourism and growth in Tanzania
Empirical analysis of air transportation’s bidirectional relationship with tourism and economic growth in Tanzania using ARDL modeling from 2000-2020 data.
KfW lending scheme revealed incentive risks in crisis lending
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in FinanceIncentive alignment mechanisms for public lending in economic crises, with empirical analysis of KfW COVID-19 program and theoretical contract design proposals.
Political connections are linked to lower corporate innovation
Study reveals how political connections paradoxically inhibit innovation in Chinese firms, with governance structures and dynamic capabilities serving as critical mitigating factors.
Portuguese economy shows a rising rate of surplus value
Empirical estimation of surplus value rates in the Portuguese economy 1995-2022 applying Marx’s labor theory of value, revealing rising exploitation particularly during post-2008 austerity.
