IF 4.8 1区经济学

World Development Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107179

Yongshin Cho , Taekbin Kim

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Urban management professions through a gendered lens: Women’s participation in Saudi Arabia’s urban planning sector 性别视角下的城市管理专业：妇女参与沙特阿拉伯城市规划部门

IF 6.6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106442

Salem I. Aljoaib , Abdulaziz I. Almulhim

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The systemic nature of European uncertainty 欧洲不确定性的系统性本质

IF 1.8 4区经济学

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112610

Daniel Pastorek, Svatopluk Kapounek, Peter Albrecht

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Geopolitical risks and resilience strategies in driving investment in clean energy infrastructure along the Belt and Road Initiative 推动“一带一路”清洁能源基础设施投资的地缘政治风险与韧性战略

IF 5.6 2区经济学

International Review of Economics & Finance Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2025.104611

Xiaomei Su , Shangmei Zhao , Wei Li , Wei Fan

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Does party organization construction improve chinese banks' stability? Evidence from a new textual index 党组织建设对银行稳定性有促进作用吗？来自新文本索引的证据

IF 5.5 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102541

Lu Wei , Mingye Wei , Yifei Wu , Zhongbo Jing

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A smooth bounded choice model: Formulation and application in three large-scale case studies 光滑有界选择模型：在三个大规模案例研究中的表述和应用

IF 2.4 3区经济学

Journal of Choice Modelling Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocm.2025.100574

Laurent Cazor , Lawrence Christopher Duncan , David Paul Watling , Otto Anker Nielsen , Thomas Kjær Rasmussen

{"title":"A smooth bounded choice model: Formulation and application in three large-scale case studies","authors":"Laurent Cazor , Lawrence Christopher Duncan , David Paul Watling , Otto Anker Nielsen , Thomas Kjær Rasmussen","doi":"10.1016/j.jocm.2025.100574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jocm.2025.100574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One-stage (implicit) choice set formation models offer a computationally efficient way to model how individuals consider alternatives. Among these, the Bounded Choice Model (BCM) stands out for its consistent, utility-based cutoffs. However, the BCM is non-differentiable, which limits its usefulness: key outputs such as elasticities and standard errors cannot be computed analytically. To overcome this, we introduce the Smooth Bounded Choice Model (SBCM). This model assumes a new smooth truncated logistic distribution for the error terms and applies a smooth approximation to the maximum function used in defining the reference utility. As a result, the SBCM is infinitely differentiable, while preserving core features of the BCM, such as bounding, continuity, and the ability to collapse to the Multinomial Logit (MNL) model under specific conditions. Importantly, the SBCM is not just a smoother version of the BCM. Its more flexible distributional assumptions can better capture actual choice behaviour and allow for meaningful differences in predicted probabilities. We derive closed-form expressions for choice probabilities, gradients, Hessians, elasticities, and standard errors, and present a practical estimation method. The SBCM is tested in three case studies: one mode choice and two route choice settings (bicycle and public transport). In all cases, it outperforms both the BCM and MNL in terms of model fit and interpretability. While the BCM has so far been limited to car route choice, we show that the SBCM is widely applicable across various discrete choice contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Choice Modelling","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 100574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contests with endogenous claims: Conflict dissipation 与内生主张的竞争：冲突消散

IF 1.8 4区经济学

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112572

Daniel Cardona , Marc Claveria-Mayol , Clara Ponsatí

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Baumol’s migrants: Productive and unproductive entrepreneurship and between-MSA migration 鲍莫尔的移民：生产性和非生产性企业家精神以及msa之间的移民

IF 2.4 3区经济学

European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102733

Justin T. Callais , Vincent Geloso , Alicia Plemmons , Gary A. Wagner

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Aid in the Age of Amazon: Imperial Logics, Pacific Resistance and an Alternate Paradigm 亚马逊时代的援助：帝国逻辑、太平洋抵抗和另一种范式