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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 05 September 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08941-y Reassessing global trade and welfare impacts of EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism in developing countries: a structural quantitative model

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 05 September 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08932-z Assessing financial materiality for environmental issues: impacts on cost of capital in diverse national contexts

Introduction When shopping onine, I usually find myself looking at two things before making a purchase: Product ratings and reviews since I cannot examine the product physically.Products with high ratings and reviews tend to make the product trustworthy.This motivated me to explore how these factors using a sample dataset from Jumia. I analyzed a dataset of products listed to investigate whether …

The national debt hasn’t been a major issue in the 2026 midterms. But perhaps it should be. As of last month, the United States is in debt to the tune of $40 trillion. That’s 12 zeros, which averages out to about $116,000 per American.  It’s enough that even economists like Jared Bernstein, the chair of […]

period 2007–2025. It aims to measure and compare the short-run and long-run effects of depreciation and appreciation of the Afghan afghani against the U.S. dollar on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The central research question is whether depreciation and appreciation of the afghani have exerted asymmetric effects on consumer prices in Afghanistan over the short and long run. The analysis employs…

The development of economic activities in urban areas demonstrates highly rapid dynamics, particularly in developing cities such as Bandar Lampung. The growth of the trade, service, industrial, and micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) sectors has led to changes in land-use patterns and increased pressure on the environment. The unplanned distribution of economic activities may generate vari…

Publication date: Available online 4 September 2026 Source: Futures Author(s): Philipp Humm

Trade barriers are growing in the U.S. and globally, representing a secular trend away from a liberal global trading regime toward a bifurcated system with heterogeneous rules and regional trade agreements [1]. New trade barriers are driven by a range of concerns, including concentrations of risky foreign producers, supply chain disruptions, unfair trade practices including subsidies and labor an…

Marketech International Corp. (MIC) posted record results in the second quarter of 2026, with consolidated revenue of NT$21.2 billion (approx. US$668.6 million), up 48.2% quarter-over-quarter and 74% year-over-year, and net profit after tax of NT$1.8 billion, up 61.8% quarter-over-quarter and more than 350% year-over-year. Earnings per share were NT$8.17.

Day-ahead joint bidding exposes a hybrid energy storage aggregator (HESA) to uncertainty in the locational marginal price, regulation market clearing capacity price, and regulation market performance clearing price. Conventional seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) modeling calibrates forecast residuals separately for each price and hour, without using their co-movement with…

Refinance a 200,000 mortgage. Current rate 7%, 300 months left. New rate: 7%. New term: 25 years. Closing costs: 4,000. That is not a refinance. It is the loan you already have, plus a bill for four thousand. My calculator, in green: Save $0.00/mo The number is right. The word is not. One ternary, three answers tag : monthlySave >= 0 ? { text : ' Save ' + fmt ( monthlySave , 2 ) + ' /mo ' , level…

To understand why SegWit came about, we need to start with how bitcoin transactions are constructed. Bitcoin transaction data basically contains data that locks and unlocks bitcoins. An example transaction data is 010000000110ddd830599b17cc690535f7df28a84466eaca3c22f0d55b79023b6570f4fbc5010000008b483045022100e6186d6f344ce4df46b2e15d87093d34edbf5b50462b6b45f9bd499a6a62fbc4022055f56a1c4a24ea6be6156…