Latest Research and Reviews
From opportunity to inequality: how the rural digital economy shapes intra-rural income distribution
- Hanjie Wang
- Hao Leng
- Minglu Yuan
Smarter is greener: can intelligent manufacturing improve enterprises’ ESG performance?
- Da Gao
- Linfang Tan
- Yue Chen
An open retail boundary dataset for South Korea using open data and computer vision technique
- Byeonghwa Jeong
- Juhwan Song
- Younghoon Kim
Music in cultural tourism: insights from a dual approach of scoping review and bibliometric analysis
- Chamil Arkhasa Nikko Mazlan
- Mohd Hassan Abdullah
- Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid
News and Comment
Regulation on conglomerates
- Lingxiao Yan
Six roadblocks to net zero — and how to get around them
Overcoming these obstacles in carbon markets can speed up decarbonization.
- Lucas Joppa
- Elizabeth Willmott
The next generation of experimental research with LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) can enhance experimental research via the design and implementation of studies, and data analysis. When available, we suggest using LLM-based tools that require no coding skills and only a simple human–AI interaction. We discuss the social risks associated with this integration.
- Gary Charness
- Brian Jabarian
- John A. List
Why coalitions of wealthy nations should fund others to decarbonize
Failure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story. An urgent solution is needed.
- Patrick Bolton
- Ottmar Edenhofer
- Jeromin Zettelmeyer
How central banks address climate and transition risks
Central bank management of climate risks is associated with climate politics, as opposed to a country’s economic exposure to transition risk, including stranded asset and clean energy investment risk. Central banks are not entirely autonomous actors that correct for the lack of national decarbonization policy—they rather complement existing national policies that aim to shift the economy from fossil fuels to clean energy.
- Esther Shears
- Jonas Meckling
- Jared J. Finnegan
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications
A framework to understand the labour market reveals a nested hierarchical architecture in human capital in which specific knowledge and skills are contingent upon foundational, general skills and knowledge. This nested skill structure provides a new perspective on wage premiums and persistent wage disparity observed across different demographic groups.