True pricing has progressed from an abstract notion to a real life phenomenon as a way to make consumers aware of the genuine costs to society of products. Our paper analyzes the impact of true prices on competition. Our model uses a straightforward differentiated Bertrand set-up where consumers...

Econometrics in general, and Panel Data methods in particular, are becoming crucial in Public Health Economics and Social Policy analysis. In this discussion paper, we employ a useful approach of Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) to assess if there are statistically relevant...

The multi-staged impact of the high-speed railway site-specific complementary policymaking on urban industrialisation remains subject to controversy. This preliminary report examines whether HSR new town planning constrains urban industrialisation with electricity consumption as a proxy for...

Although Google is blocked in China, Chinese provinces export significantly more to foreign countries that recently searched for them (up to 12 months prior). This attention premium is found mainly at the extensive margin of exports, larger in products that are relatively homogeneous,...

The paper reviews environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Criteria and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within the EU policy framework. It evaluates the integration of the SDGs into existing sustainability reporting frameworks, advocating for more comprehensive and interdisciplinary...

This research introduces a comprehensive system based on state-of-the-art natural language processing, semantic embedding, and efficient search techniques for retrieving similarities and thus generating actionable insights out of raw textual information. The system works on automatically...

This paper uses a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model that deterministically accounts for the trends among time-series variables to estimate the size of the informal economy for 15 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries from 1990 to 2019. Among the countries, Mauritius,...

In a context of sustained price decline and heightened volatility in the global cobalt market, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),the world’s leading producer, suspended its cobalt exports in February 2025. This decision aimed to recalibrate international prices, reinforce mineral...

Payment costs for consumers are difficult to determine, are not recorded in an internationally harmonised manner and vary significantly from country to country. They are incurred in many forms, for example as fees for account management, for cash withdrawals at ATMs or for payment cards; but...

Labour institutions and the labour market are fundamental to progress and sustainable development. Workers are the primary resource in productive processes, and labour income is the main source of household income. What happens in the world of work reflects the intersection of economic and...