General Economics Papers

From Core to Periphery? Assessing Remote Works Potential to Rebalance EU Regional Development Sławomir Kuźmar arxiv.org/abs/2604.08252 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Effect of Cigarette Price and Tax Increases on Smoking in Europe: A Difference-in-Differences Study with Double Machine Learning Andreas Stoller, Martin Huber arxiv.org/abs/2604.05841 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Colonial Rule and Religious Change: Evidence from Africa's Colonial Borders Hector Galindo-Silva arxiv.org/abs/2604.04777 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

The Ideation Bottleneck: Decomposing the Quality Gap Between AI-Generated and Human Economics Research Ning Li arxiv.org/abs/2604.03338 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽 𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚈]

Nonlinear dynamics of educational choices under social influence and endogenous returns Andrea Caravaggio, Marco Catola, Silvia Leoni arxiv.org/abs/2604.03102 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Financial Intermediaries and Capital Centralization in Global FDI: A Network Approach to Tracing Transnational Corporate Control Alessio Abeltino, Tiziano Bacaloni, Andrea Bernardini, Francesco Giancaterini, Andrea Pannone arxiv.org/abs/2604.02875 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation Sizhong Sun arxiv.org/abs/2603.23825 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

The Effect of Age at Arrival on the Alignment Between Immigrant and Native-Born Gender Norms: A Distributional Approach Nadav Kunievsky arxiv.org/abs/2603.23720 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Heart Failure's First Shock and Nurse-Led Chronic Care Moslem Rashidi, Luke B. Connelly, Gianluca Fiorentini arxiv.org/abs/2603.23024 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Sovereign risk mitigation mechanism in emerging markets Ekaterina Bakhmeteva, Alexey Ponomarenko arxiv.org/abs/2603.22956 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Does Anxiety Improve Economic Decision-Making? Ian Crawford, Carl-Emil Pless arxiv.org/abs/2603.21874 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Can Renewable Energy Mitigate Inflationary Pressures from Energy Imports? Evidence from Türkiye Emre Akusta arxiv.org/abs/2603.21815 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Barriers to Gender Convergence: The Interactive Effects of Job Inflexibility and Social Norms Kazuharu Yanagimoto arxiv.org/abs/2603.20817 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

The Process and Dynamics of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1969-2025 Peter J. Dolton, Richard S. J. Tol arxiv.org/abs/2603.20767 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

A Discovery Plan for Pharmacy Benefit Managers Collusion Lawrence W. Abrams arxiv.org/abs/2603.19412 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Did you know that Economics is not only about money? The effect of popularisation talks on high school students' interest in the discipline Laura Padilla-Angulo, Diego Jorrat, José-Ignacio Antón, Javier Sierra arxiv.org/abs/2603.19390 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

The Optimal Reset-Hour of a Once-Daily Petrol Price Increase Limit Christoph Siemroth arxiv.org/abs/2603.18920 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

Poverty traps are rare, but trappedness isn't Isaak Mengesha, Debraj Roy arxiv.org/abs/2603.18716 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]

The Role of Data and Metrics in Measuring Inequality Worldwide. A Tribute to Giovanni Andrea Cornia's Lifelong Work on the World Ginis Lidia Ceriani, Paolo Verme arxiv.org/abs/2603.18195 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙰𝙿]

Workers' Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner, Maciej Szkróbka arxiv.org/abs/2603.17898 [𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗.𝙶𝙽]