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# Research ideas tagged “economics”

116 research idea notes tagged “economics”.

- [Who gets EV chargers?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/who-gets-ev-chargers.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Electric vehicle charging appears on 89 recent papers across operations research, economics and AI, mostly on where to put chargers to serve demand; only 8 carry an equity, income or rural keyword. Public money now pays for much of the network. Are poorer and rural areas left with charging deserts, and does that slow electric vehicle adoption there? Tags: operations research, economics, transport.
- [What carbon capture costs](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/what-carbon-capture-costs.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Carbon capture and storage, carbon removal and direct air capture appear on about 34 recent papers, mostly in economics, while governments now pay large subsidies for them. How much does a tonne captured actually cost in the projects that run, and which uses are worth the subsidy? Tags: economics, climate, energy.
- [Unemployment insurance for the AI transition](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/unemployment-insurance-for-the-ai-transition.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Unemployment insurance and job search appear on 86 recent papers, but only 20 of them carry an AI, automation or algorithm keyword. If language models displace office workers, the benefit systems built for factory layoffs will meet a different kind of job loser. What should change: benefit length, wage insurance or retraining? Tags: economics, labor, welfare.
- [Synthetic control in practice](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/synthetic-control-in-practice.md) (2026-10-26, seed): The synthetic control method appears on 29 recent papers, mostly in economics, and its use is falling (4 in the last quarter against about 8 expected), while difference-in-differences is the most-used method on this site. Do published synthetic control studies report what readers need to trust them: pre-period fit, donor pools and placebo tests? Tags: economics, methods.
- [Screening foreign investment for national security](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/screening-foreign-investment-for-national-security.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Foreign direct investment appears on 198 recent papers, but national security on 11 and investment screening on a handful. Since 2018, most rich countries have widened the review of foreign takeovers on security grounds. Which deals do the reviews stop, and what does screening do to investment flows and target firms? Tags: economics, trade, regulation.
- [Pricing water in dry years](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/pricing-water-in-dry-years.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Water scarcity, irrigation and groundwater appear on 72 recent papers, with 21 in the last quarter against about 16 expected, but water pricing itself on only 4. Droughts are forcing cities and farm districts to ration water. Would prices ration it better, and who would pay? Tags: economics, agriculture, environment.
- [Mini-grids and the last 600 million without power](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/mini-grids-and-rural-electrification.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Electricity access, energy access and rural electrification appear on 106 recent papers, mostly in economics, and the topic is fading (21 papers in the last quarter against about 28 expected). Yet the push to connect Africa's unconnected relies on mini-grids and solar home systems. Which works better, for whom, and at what cost per household? Tags: economics, energy, development.
- [Mental health and the labour market](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/mental-health-and-the-labour-market.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Mental health, depression and anxiety appear on 238 recent papers, but most are economics papers on causes or AI papers that detect depression; only 22 carry an employment, earnings or labour-market keyword. Mental-health conditions are now a leading cause of work incapacity in many countries. What do they cost in jobs and earnings, and what brings people back? Tags: economics, health, labor.
- [What counts as energy poverty?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/measuring-energy-poverty.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Energy poverty appears on 107 recent papers, almost all in economics, but only 12 energy-poverty papers carry a measurement or index keyword. The measures in use (spending shares, inability to heat, multidimensional indices) classify different households as poor. How much do the findings depend on the measure chosen? Tags: economics, energy, measurement.
- [Institutional investors in rental housing](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/institutional-investors-in-rental-housing.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Institutional investors appear on 151 recent papers, almost all about stock ownership; only 6 institutional-investor papers carry a housing or rent keyword. Funds now own large numbers of single-family homes and apartments in the US, Spain and elsewhere, and several governments want to restrict them. Do they raise rents, improve maintenance, or both? Tags: economics, housing, finance.
- [Gender gaps in economics and finance academia](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/gender-gaps-in-economics-and-finance-academia.md) (2026-10-26, seed): Gender gaps and gender bias appear on 60 recent papers, and board gender diversity on 67 more, but only 13 gender papers concern academia or research. Women remain a minority among economics and finance professors and authors in top journals. Where in the pipeline do they drop out, and how do refereeing and citations treat their work? Tags: economics, science, inequality.
- [Zoning reform and the homes that get built](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/zoning-reform-and-housing-supply.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Housing supply, land use regulation and upzoning appear on 48 recent papers in the economics journals. Cities from Auckland to Minneapolis and states from California to Oregon have loosened zoning in the last decade. How many extra homes did the reforms produce, where, and did rents respond? Tags: economics, housing, cities.
- [Zombie firms after the end of cheap money](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/zombie-firms-after-cheap-money.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Capital reallocation is a fast-rising keyword in the economics journals. After a decade of near-zero rates, interest rates rose almost everywhere, and Japan ended negative rates in 2024. Did higher rates finally clear out zombie firms and move capital to productive ones? Tags: economics, finance, banking.
- [Graduates without jobs in China](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/youth-unemployment-in-china.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Youth employment and unemployment appear on 25 recent papers, mostly in economics, while China's youth unemployment rate reached record highs and the statistic itself was revised. What are graduates doing instead, how do families absorb the cost, and does the mismatch come from degrees or from the jobs? Tags: economics, labor, china.
- [Who pays for carbon pricing?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/who-pays-for-carbon-pricing.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Income redistribution, welfare losses and social welfare are rising keywords in the economics journals, and carbon taxes and emissions trading are large topics. Yet only 34 of 422 recent carbon-pricing papers carry a distributional or household keyword. As carbon prices reach heating and transport fuels, who bears the cost, and does returning the revenue make it fair? Tags: economics, energy, households.
- [What China's green patent boom actually invents](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/what-chinas-green-patents-invent.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Green innovation is one of the largest topics in the finance and economics journals, much of it counting the green patents of Chinese firms. Only 10 of 641 recent papers on it carry a patent-quality, citation or novelty keyword. Is the boom in green patents a boom in green technology? Tags: economics, innovation, esg.
- [The return of the wealth tax](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/wealth-taxes-return.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Wealth and inheritance taxes appear on 19 recent papers in the economics journals, with 8 in the last quarter against about 4 per quarter before. Several countries are debating or reintroducing taxes on large fortunes. What did the earlier wealth taxes collect, how much wealth left, and what do the new designs change? Tags: economics, tax, inequality.
- [The missing economics of medical AI](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/the-missing-economics-of-medical-ai.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Clinical decision support appears on 94 recent papers and medical image segmentation on 188, among more than 1,300 medical AI papers in the AI journals, but only 65 of all medical papers carry a cost, reimbursement, deployment or workflow keyword, and cost-effectiveness appears on 27 papers in the whole archive. Which medical AI tools pay for themselves, and for whom? Tags: ai, health, economics.
- [The language divide in AI](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/the-language-divide-in-ai.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Low-resource languages are a fast-growing topic in the AI journals, and the digital divide is rising in economics. Language models work worse in languages with little training text, which are spoken mostly in poorer countries. Does that slow AI adoption, and its economic gains, where those languages are spoken? Tags: ai, economics, inequality.
- [The four-day week](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/the-four-day-week.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Working hours appear on 41 recent papers in the economics journals and working time reduction on 4, but the four-day week, now being trialled by hundreds of firms and by some governments, appears under no keyword of its own. Do firms that cut hours without cutting pay keep output, and who gains the hours? Tags: economics, labor, management.
- [Who paid the 2025 tariffs?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tariff-pass-through-in-the-2025-trade-war.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Tariffs and the trade war appear on 184 recent papers, mostly in the economics journals, but only 47 carry a price, pass-through, incidence or inflation keyword, and "tariff pass-through" on 3. The 2025 tariff rounds were larger and broader than those of 2018. Did foreign exporters cut prices this time, or did consumers pay again? Tags: economics, trade, macroeconomics.
- [After the student loan pause](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/student-loan-repayment-restart.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Student loans and student debt appear on only 12 recent papers, none of them in the last quarter, even though US repayments restarted in 2023 after a three-year pause and delinquencies then jumped. Did the pause change borrowers' finances for good, and what happened when payments resumed? Tags: economics, households, education.
- [Stablecoins as a channel of monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/stablecoins-and-monetary-policy.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Stablecoins and monetary policy transmission are both among the fastest-growing keywords, but the papers that join them sit only in finance journals. Now that issuers hold large amounts of Treasury bills, does policy pass through stablecoins into crypto credit, and do stablecoin flows move bill yields? Tags: finance, economics, crypto.
- [Sports, where operations research meets money](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sports-scheduling-and-analytics.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Sports betting, sports analytics, football and tournament design appear on 120 recent papers across the AI, economics, finance and operations research journals. Leagues sell schedules to broadcasters, players are traded on expected value, and betting markets price every match. Do the optimized schedules and ratings survive the money, and do betting markets correct the analytics? Tags: operations research, economics.
- [The economics of legal sports betting](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sports-betting-legalization.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Sports betting, gambling and lotteries appear on 42 recent papers in the finance and economics journals. Since 2018, most US states have legalized online sports betting, and app-based betting is spreading elsewhere. What has it done to household finances, bankruptcies and the stock trading of the same people? Tags: economics, households.
- [Sovereign defaults with China as the main creditor](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sovereign-defaults-with-china-as-creditor.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Sovereign default and sovereign debt crises appear on 42 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only one of them carries a creditor, China or Common Framework keyword. Recent restructurings in Zambia, Ghana and Sri Lanka involved China as a major lender. Do defaults take longer and resolve differently when the creditors are new? Tags: economics, finance, macroeconomics.
- [Social media and adolescents, measured](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/social-media-and-adolescents.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Social media appears on 402 recent papers across the tracked journals, mostly as text data in AI and management research; only 18 carry a mental-health, adolescent, well-being or children keyword. Several countries are banning social media for under-16s. What does the evidence actually show, and what will the bans reveal? Tags: economics, health, technology.
- [Sin taxes on sugar, alcohol and tobacco](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sin-taxes.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Alcohol consumption, tobacco control and excise taxes appear on 46 recent papers in the economics journals, with 17 in the last quarter against about 9 per quarter before. Sugar taxes have spread to more than 100 jurisdictions and alcohol taxes are being rewritten. Do the taxes change health, and who bears them? Tags: economics, health, tax.
- [Does macroprudential tightening push credit into shadow banks?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/shadow-banks-and-macroprudential-leakage.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Macroprudential policy and financial intermediation are both rising in the finance journals, but papers that follow credit out of the regulated banking system are rare, and none of them is in an economics journal. When regulators tighten on banks, how much lending simply moves to shadow banks and private credit funds? Tags: finance, economics, banking.
- [School choice mechanisms and the families who use them](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/school-choice-and-matching.md) (2026-10-23, seed): School choice, market design, stable matching and deferred acceptance appear on 89 recent papers, mostly in economics. Dozens of cities now assign school places with matching algorithms. Do families understand the rules well enough to benefit, and do the assignments change segregation and achievement? Tags: operations research, economics, education.
- [Sanctions evasion through third countries](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/sanctions-evasion-through-third-countries.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Sanctions appear on 85 recent papers, with 23 in the last quarter against about 20 per quarter before, and 35 of them carry a Russia, enforcement or effectiveness keyword. Trade data show exports from Europe to Central Asia and the Caucasus surging after 2022. How much of the sanctioned trade simply took a detour, and what stops it? Tags: economics, trade, politics.
- [Robots and industrial upgrading in Chinese manufacturing](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/robots-and-industrial-upgrading.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Industrial upgrading is a large topic in the finance and economics journals, and China installs more industrial robots than any other country. Yet of 397 recent papers with a robot keyword, only 2 carry an industrial-upgrading keyword. Do robots move Chinese firms up the value chain, or just replace workers in the same tasks? Tags: economics, management, innovation.
- [Remote work and the hollowing of city centres](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/remote-work-and-city-centres.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Remote and hybrid work appear on 53 recent papers across the economics and management journals, but only 12 of them carry a city, housing, commuting, office or rent keyword. Office vacancies are at record highs in many downtowns. Where did spending, rents and tax bases move, and are the shifts permanent? Tags: economics, cities, labor.
- [Remittances when payments become instant](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/remittances-and-instant-payments.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Remittances appear on 50 recent papers, mostly in economics, but only 12 of them carry a cost, fee, digital, mobile, fintech or stablecoin keyword. Instant payment systems, mobile money links and stablecoins are cutting the cost of sending money home. Does cheaper sending raise the amount received, and who switches? Tags: economics, finance, development.
- [What recommendations do to the people who get them](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/recommender-systems-and-welfare.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Recommender systems appear on 111 recent papers and personalized recommendation on 54, almost all in AI journals; 45 recommendation papers carry a diversity, fairness or popularity-bias keyword, and welfare, consumer surplus and addiction appear in almost none. Recommendation decides what billions of people see and buy. Who gains, and by how much? Tags: ai, economics, platforms.
- [R&D tax incentives and the relabeling problem](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/rd-tax-incentives-and-relabeling.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Tax incentives appear on 47 recent papers and R&D investment on 267, but R&D tax incentives on only 5, and 26 of 75 incentive papers touch innovation. Governments spend heavily on R&D tax relief. How much of the reported increase in R&D is real research, and how much is ordinary spending relabeled? Tags: accounting, economics, innovation.
- [Public procurement, read by machine](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/public-procurement-and-corruption-in-the-data.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Public procurement appears on 53 recent papers, with 40 procurement papers in the last quarter against about 26 per quarter before, and 33 of 123 carry a corruption, digital, e-procurement or bidding keyword. Open contracting data now cover millions of tenders. Can red flags in the data predict corruption, and do governments act on them? Tags: management, economics, public sector.
- [Public debt when rates exceed growth](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/public-debt-with-higher-rates.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Public debt, fiscal rules and debt sustainability appear on 215 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only 41 of them carry an interest-rate, debt-service or monetary keyword. For a decade, low rates made debt look free. With interest costs now the fastest-growing budget item in several countries, which governments adjust, and how? Tags: economics, public finance, macroeconomics.
- [Populism and the trade shocks behind it](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/populism-and-trade.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Populism appears on 26 recent papers, mostly in the economics journals, with 7 in the last quarter against about 5 per quarter before. Only 2 of them carry a trade, globalization, tariff or automation keyword, although the "China shock" is the best-known economic explanation of populist votes. Do the newer shocks (inflation, immigration, AI) now matter more? Tags: economics, politics, trade.
- [Pollution havens along the Belt and Road](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/pollution-havens-along-the-belt-and-road.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Environmental degradation is one of the fastest-rising keywords in the economics journals, and the Belt and Road Initiative is a large topic in finance and economics. But the pollution haven hypothesis appears on only 14 recent papers. Did Chinese investment abroad move dirty production to countries with weaker rules? Tags: economics, development, trade.
- [Do political connections still pay after the anti-corruption campaign?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/political-connections-after-the-anti-corruption-campaign.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Political connections are a large topic across the finance, economics and management journals, and a rising one in management. Yet only 10 of 106 recent papers on them carry a corruption keyword. More than a decade after China's anti-corruption campaign began, are connections still worth anything, and to whom? Tags: finance, economics, governance.
- [Policing by camera and algorithm](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/policing-technology.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Policing, law enforcement and crime appear on 63 recent papers, with 18 in the last quarter against about 15 per quarter before, but only 12 carry a technology, surveillance, camera or algorithm keyword, and "predictive policing" on 3. Cameras, licence plate readers and risk scores are spreading fast. Do they cut crime, and at what cost to whom? Tags: economics, policy, technology.
- [Place-based industrial policy and semiconductor clusters](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/place-based-policy-and-chip-clusters.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Industrial policy and place-based policy are both rising in the economics journals, and governments now subsidize chip plants in specific towns, from Arizona to Kumamoto. Yet only 4 of 127 recent papers on such policies mention semiconductors. Do these plants create lasting local clusters, or expensive islands? Tags: economics, innovation.
- [Did the Phillips curve steepen after the pandemic?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/phillips-curve-after-the-pandemic.md) (2026-10-23, seed): The Phillips curve, monetary policy rules and labour market tightness are all rising keywords in the economics journals, after an inflation surge that flat Phillips curves did not predict. Only 7 of 27 recent Phillips-curve papers carry a pandemic, tightness or nonlinearity keyword. Is the curve steep when labour markets are tight, and what does that mean for policy rules? Tags: economics, macroeconomics.
- [Pay transparency laws and the gender pay gap](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/pay-transparency-laws.md) (2026-10-23, seed): The gender pay gap appears on 55 recent papers, mostly in economics, while pay transparency appears on 2. The EU pay transparency directive takes effect in 2026, and several US states now require salary ranges in job postings. Does transparency narrow the gap, compress pay, or move it into bonuses? Tags: accounting, economics, labor.
- [Overtourism and the housing of residents](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/overtourism-and-housing.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Tourism appears on 130 recent papers across the finance, economics and management journals, but only 11 of them carry an overtourism, housing, short-term-rental, resident or tax keyword. Cities from Barcelona to Kyoto are capping short-term rentals and taxing visitors. Do the measures lower rents, and what do they cost in jobs? Tags: economics, housing.
- [Open-weight models and the economics of open source](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/open-weight-models-and-open-source.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Open-source software appears on 13 recent papers and open-source language models on 6, while named open-weight models such as DeepSeek, Llama and Qwen appear on dozens of AI papers as tools; 78 of 126 open-source papers involve language models. Firms give away models worth hundreds of millions to train. Who adopts them, and what do the givers get? Tags: ai, economics, technology.
- [Oil prices, inflation and the rise of electric vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/oil-prices-inflation-and-electric-vehicles.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Oil prices are a rising keyword in the economics journals, and oil-price shocks remain a standard driver in inflation models. But none of the 189 recent oil-price papers carries an electric-vehicle keyword. As electric vehicles spread, is oil's grip on inflation weakening, and where first? Tags: economics, energy, macroeconomics.
- [Nuclear restarts, small reactors and who pays](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/nuclear-restarts-and-small-reactors.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Nuclear energy appears on 26 recent papers and small modular reactors on 4, mostly in the economics journals. Technology firms now sign deals to restart closed plants and fund new reactors for data centres, and Japan has restarted reactors idle since 2011. What do these deals cost, who bears the risk, and does public acceptance follow? Tags: economics, energy.
- [Nowcasting with the data firms already have](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/nowcasting-with-alternative-data.md) (2026-10-23, seed): High-frequency data, big data and alternative data appear on 236 recent papers across the finance, AI and economics journals, but only 10 of them carry a card-transaction, mobility, search, satellite or electricity keyword, and nowcasting appears on 9. Banks, card networks and job boards hold daily measures of the economy. Which of them nowcast GDP, inflation and employment best, and could statistical offices use them? Tags: economics, forecasting, data.
- [Net metering reform and rooftop solar](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/net-metering-reform-and-rooftop-solar.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Rooftop solar, prosumers and net metering appear on 50 recent papers, mostly in economics, and the topic is fading, with 7 papers in the last quarter against about 14 per quarter before. California and other markets have cut the payment for exported power. Did installations collapse, and did batteries take their place? Tags: economics, energy, households.
- [Negative electricity prices and the value of storage](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/negative-electricity-prices-and-storage.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Energy markets are one of the rising keywords in the finance and economics journals, and wholesale power prices now often turn negative when solar output peaks. Batteries profit from that spread, but they also erase it. How much is storage worth as it scales, and who should pay for it? Tags: economics, operations research, energy.
- [Mobile money as insurance against climate shocks](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/mobile-money-as-climate-insurance.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Financial inclusion is a large topic in the finance journals, and climate shocks a growing one in economics, but only 14 of 367 recent inclusion and payments papers carry a climate or disaster keyword. When droughts and floods hit, does mobile money bring help fast enough to keep households from selling assets or taking children out of school? Tags: finance, economics, development.
- [Mixed-ownership reform: does private capital change state firms?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/mixed-ownership-reform.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Non-state-owned enterprises are a rising keyword in the economics journals, and state ownership is one of the most common comparisons in research on Chinese firms. Yet "mixed ownership reform" appears on only 9 recent papers. When private investors buy into state firms, do governance and performance change, or only the shareholder list? Tags: finance, economics, governance.
- [Minimum wages and the machines that replace the minimum-wage job](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/minimum-wages-and-automation.md) (2026-10-23, seed): The minimum wage appears on 34 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only 2 of 44 minimum-wage papers carry an automation, robot or technology keyword. Self-checkouts, kiosks and warehouse robots are cheapest where wages are highest. Do minimum wage increases speed up automation, and over what horizon? Tags: economics, labor, automation.
- [Merger review and what happens to the deals](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/merger-review-and-deal-outcomes.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Mergers and acquisitions appear on 228 recent papers, but only 31 of them carry a merger-control, competition-policy or enforcement keyword. Merger enforcement tightened in the US and Europe after 2021 and loosened again in places since. Did the threat of review stop deals, reshape them, or simply delay them? Tags: finance, economics, competition.
- [Do word counts measure digital transformation?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/measuring-digital-transformation.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Digital transformation is among the most frequent keywords in the finance and management journals, much of it about Chinese listed firms, and studies often score it by counting digital terms in annual reports. Do those scores track what firms actually invest and hire? Tags: economics, management, measurement.
- [Marriage markets with too few brides](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/marriage-markets-and-sex-ratios.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Marriage, the marriage market, sex ratios at birth and bride prices appear on 59 recent papers, almost all in the economics journals. In China and India, decades of skewed sex ratios have left millions of men unable to marry. What does that do to saving, crime, migration and the price of a wedding? Tags: economics, demography, households.
- [Markups and the inflation of 2021–2023](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/markups-and-inflation.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Market power, price setting and markups appear on 186 recent papers, but only 8 of them carry an inflation keyword. The claim that firms used the inflation surge to raise margins ("greedflation") shaped policy debates. Did markups rise, in which sectors, and did they fall back? Tags: economics, macroeconomics, competition.
- [Who will do the caring?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/long-term-care-workforce.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Elderly care, long-term care insurance and informal care appear on 75 recent papers, with 22 in the last quarter against about 17 per quarter before, and 24 carry a labour, worker or immigration keyword. Ageing countries need millions more care workers. Does paying more bring them, does immigration fill the gap, and what do robots change? Tags: economics, health, labor.
- [The long-run costs of pandemic school closures](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/long-run-costs-of-pandemic-school-closures.md) (2026-10-23, seed): "Long-term effects" is a rising keyword in the economics journals, and COVID-19 is still one of the most frequent keywords overall. Yet only 22 of 778 recent pandemic papers carry a schooling or human-capital keyword. Five years on, do the students who lost the most school time show it in exams, graduation and early careers? Tags: economics, education, labor.
- [Do language-model pricing agents learn to collude?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/llm-pricing-agents-and-collusion.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Price competition is rising steeply in the operations research journals and AI governance leads the AI journals, while collusion remains a small topic that is rarely tied to algorithms. When sellers let language-model agents set prices, do prices drift up without any agreement? Tags: economics, operations research, ai, platforms.
- [Uncertainty indices built by language models](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/llm-built-uncertainty-indices.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Economic, climate, trade and monetary policy uncertainty indices appear on 423 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, almost all built from counts of newspaper words. Only 5 of them use language models, embeddings or text mining beyond word counts. Would an index that reads the articles agree with the word counts, and would it predict better? Tags: economics, finance, methods.
- [Can language models stand in for survey respondents?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/language-models-as-survey-respondents.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Survey experiments are a staple of economics, and some researchers now simulate respondents with language models ("silicon samples"). Only 6 of 179 recent survey papers carry a language-model keyword, 5 of them in AI journals. Where do simulated answers match real people, and where would they mislead economic research? Tags: economics, ai, methods.
- [Japan's wages after thirty years of deflation](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/japan-wage-growth-and-inflation.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Japan appears on 184 recent papers, with 56 in the last quarter against about 41 per quarter before, but only 21 of them carry a wage, inflation or deflation keyword. Japan's annual wage rounds have produced the largest raises in decades, and the Bank of Japan has ended negative rates. Is the wage-price cycle real, and does it reach small firms? Tags: economics, macroeconomics.
- [When insurers leave](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/insurers-retreat-from-climate-risk.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Insurance appears on more than 400 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 52 of them carry a climate or disaster keyword, and property insurance barely appears. As insurers withdraw from wildfire- and hurricane-prone regions, who holds the risk, and what happens to house prices and mortgages? Tags: finance, economics, climate.
- [Inheritance and the new limits of mobility](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/inheritance-and-mobility.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Intergenerational mobility and transmission appear on 142 recent papers, mostly in economics, and 33 of them carry a wealth, inheritance, housing or parental keyword. As house prices and inheritances grow relative to wages, does where you end up depend more on what your parents own than on what you earn? Tags: economics, inequality, households.
- [Seeing the informal economy from above](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/informal-economy-from-above.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Aerial imagery is rising steeply in the AI journals, and economists already use night-time lights to measure growth. Yet none of the papers on the informal economy uses either. Can image models measure informal activity that surveys miss? Tags: economics, ai, measurement.
- [Index insurance for farmers, a decade of pilots later](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/index-insurance-for-farmers.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Agricultural and index insurance appear on 20 recent papers, split between the finance and economics journals. Weather index insurance was meant to protect smallholders cheaply, but take-up stayed low and basis risk high. With satellite data and mobile payments, is it finally working, and where? Tags: economics, finance, agriculture.
- [Immigration and housing costs](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/immigration-and-housing-costs.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Immigration and migrant workers appear on 141 recent papers, mostly in economics, with 42 in July–September 2026 against about 30 per quarter before. Only 18 carry a housing, rent or house-price keyword. Housing costs are now the loudest argument in immigration politics. How much of rent growth do arrivals explain, and how much is a lack of building? Tags: economics, housing, migration.
- [Hukou reform and the migrants who stay](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/hukou-reform.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Household registration and hukou reform appear on 22 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, and rural-urban migration on 15. Chinese cities have loosened residence rules, and many smaller cities now grant local registration freely. Do migrants settle when they can, and do cities gain workers or welfare costs? Tags: economics, migration, china.
- [How fragile is the difference-in-differences boom?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/how-fragile-is-the-did-boom.md) (2026-10-23, exploring): Difference-in-differences is the most-mentioned method on the equation ranking, and treatment effect heterogeneity is one of the fastest-rising keywords in economics. A first check finds that about three in ten recent DiD papers with searchable full text name a heterogeneity-robust estimator. How many staggered-adoption findings would survive one? Tags: economics, finance, methods.
- [Housing costs and the fertility decline](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/housing-costs-and-the-fertility-decline.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Fertility is one of the fastest-growing keywords in the economics journals, as birth rates hit record lows in East Asia and elsewhere. Housing prices are a large topic too, but only 5 of 94 recent fertility papers carry a housing keyword. How much of the fertility decline do housing costs explain, and do housing policies raise births? Tags: economics, households.
- [Household debt when rates rise](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/household-debt-when-rates-rise.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Household debt and borrowing appear on 53 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only 9 of them carry an interest-rate, tightening, variable-rate or refinancing keyword. The 2022–2024 rate rises hit households with floating-rate mortgages hard in some countries and barely at all in others. Where did consumption fall, and did defaults follow? Tags: economics, finance, households.
- [Heat pumps and the retrofit gap](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/heat-pumps-and-retrofits.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Heat pumps appear on 12 recent papers, energy retrofits on 7 and building energy efficiency on 10, almost all in the economics journals. Heating is the hardest part of home decarbonization, and subsidies have had uneven results. Who installs, do the energy savings match the models, and why do many households not switch? Tags: economics, energy, households.
- [Heat and the productivity of work](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/heat-and-labour-productivity.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Extreme heat and heat waves appear on 47 recent papers, and temperature keywords on 208, but only 29 of those carry a productivity, labour, worker or firm keyword. As summers get hotter, how much output is lost on hot days, in which industries, and does adaptation close the gap? Tags: economics, climate, labor.
- [Green hydrogen between targets and costs](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/green-hydrogen-costs.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Green hydrogen appears on 32 recent papers and hydrogen policy on 11, mostly in the economics journals, while projects are being cancelled as costs stay high. Which uses of hydrogen survive at realistic prices, and what do the subsidies buy? Tags: economics, energy.
- [Weight-loss drugs and the economy around them](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/glp1-drugs-and-the-economy.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Obesity appears on 15 recent papers in the economics journals and GLP-1 receptor agonists on 2. Tens of millions of people now take drugs that cut appetite. What happens to food demand, health spending, labour supply and the firms that sell what people stop buying? Tags: economics, health, households.
- [The global minimum tax as a natural experiment](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/global-minimum-tax-and-profit-shifting.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Tax avoidance and profit shifting are steady topics across the finance, accounting and economics journals, but the 15% global minimum tax, in force in many countries since 2024, barely appears; only 3 of 103 recent papers carry a minimum-tax keyword. Does it end profit shifting, or move it to other margins? Tags: accounting, economics, public finance.
- [Social insurance for gig workers](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/gig-workers-and-social-insurance.md) (2026-10-23, seed): The gig and platform economy appears on 44 recent papers in the management, economics and AI journals, but only 2 of them carry a social-insurance, pension, health-insurance, labour-protection or classification keyword. Courts and laws in Europe, the UK and parts of the US are reclassifying platform workers. What happens to their earnings and hours when protections arrive? Tags: economics, management, labor.
- [Geopolitical risk and the re-routing of supply chains](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/geopolitical-risk-and-supply-chain-rerouting.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Geopolitical risk is one of the most frequent keywords in the finance and economics journals, and supply chain resilience is a major topic in operations research, but the two rarely meet in OR journals. Customs data can show whether trade re-routes through third countries when geopolitical risk rises, and at what cost. Tags: economics, operations research, trade.
- [Is generative AI removing the bottom rung of careers?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/generative-ai-and-entry-level-jobs.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Employment is rising as a keyword in the economics journals, and generative AI is growing there fast. Yet of nearly 1,200 recent papers on employment, wages and labour markets, only 14 carry a generative-AI keyword. Is AI taking the tasks that junior workers used to learn on, and what happens to their careers? Tags: economics, management, ai, labor.
- [Time-series foundation models versus professional forecasters](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/foundation-models-versus-professional-forecasters.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Foundation models are rising fast in the AI journals, and time-series versions now forecast series they were never trained on. Economists forecast inflation and growth with surveys and small models. Do the new models beat the Survey of Professional Forecasters in real time? Tags: ai, economics, forecasting.
- [What the aid cuts will show](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/foreign-aid-cuts.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Foreign aid, humanitarian aid and aid effectiveness appear on 69 recent papers, mostly in the economics journals, with no rise despite the largest aid cuts in decades in 2025. The cuts are a natural experiment that the earlier aid-effectiveness debate never had. Which programmes' loss shows up first in health, schooling and conflict? Tags: economics, development, policy.
- [Food prices and unrest](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/food-prices-and-unrest.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Food security, food prices and food inflation appear on 105 recent papers, mostly in economics, but only 6 of them carry a conflict, unrest, protest or violence keyword. Food price spikes preceded unrest in 2008 and 2011. With prices high again and aid budgets cut, where is the risk greatest, and does early warning work? Tags: economics, food, politics.
- [Fiscal expansion and bank credit in the euro area](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/fiscal-expansion-and-bank-credit-in-the-euro-area.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Government spending, borrowing costs and the euro area are all rising keywords in the finance journals. When governments borrow more, domestic banks often buy the bonds. Does that crowd out bank lending to firms, and which firms lose the most? Tags: finance, economics, banking, macroeconomics.
- [Fertilizer prices and the food they grow](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/fertilizer-prices-and-food.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Fertilizer use and prices appear on 30 recent papers, almost all in the economics journals. The 2022 fertilizer price spike after Russia's invasion of Ukraine was one of the largest on record. How much did farmers cut application, what did it do to yields and food prices a year later, and did it speed up the shift to precision farming? Tags: economics, agriculture, food.
- [The EU deforestation rule and the farms it reaches](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/eu-deforestation-regulation.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Deforestation appears on 28 recent papers and the EU Deforestation Regulation on 4, with 10 deforestation papers in the last quarter against about 8 per quarter before. The rule requires proof that coffee, cocoa, soy, palm oil and other goods were not grown on deforested land. Will it change where forests fall, or only where goods are sold? Tags: economics, trade, environment.
- [Invoicing currencies and the limits of de-dollarization](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/dollar-invoicing-and-de-dollarization.md) (2026-10-23, seed): The US dollar, invoicing currency and de-dollarization appear on 67 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, and the yuan's use in trade settlement has risen since 2022. Yet only 23 of those papers connect the dollar to trade invoicing or the renminbi. Is de-dollarization happening in the currency of contracts, or only in the headlines? Tags: economics, finance, international.
- [Digital public infrastructure and who it reaches](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/digital-public-infrastructure.md) (2026-10-23, seed): E-government appears on 28 recent papers and digital identity on 4, while India's identity, payment and data-sharing systems have become a model that dozens of countries are copying. What have the systems changed for welfare delivery, tax collection and the firms built on top of them, and who is left out? Tags: economics, development, technology.
- [Land rights on a server](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/digital-land-registries.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Property rights appear on 42 recent papers and land tenure and land rights on 13, mostly in economics. Countries are digitizing land registries and using satellite imagery to map parcels. Does a digital title change credit, investment and disputes more than a paper one, and who loses when the map is wrong? Tags: economics, development, housing.
- [Managing decline in Japan's shrinking regions](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/depopulation-and-shrinking-regions-in-japan.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Population decline, shrinking cities and the aging society appear on 26 recent papers, but only 4 of them also concern Japan, the country furthest into the decline. Which local policies (consolidation of services, migration incentives, remote work) keep regions viable, and what does orderly decline cost compared with resisting it? Tags: economics, demography, cities.
- [Data centres and the grid](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/data-centres-and-the-grid.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Data centres appear on just 16 recent papers across the tracked journals, though the count is rising, and electricity demand on 17. AI training and inference are driving the first sustained growth in electricity demand in rich countries for decades. Who pays for the new capacity, and do data centres crowd out electrification elsewhere? Tags: economics, energy, ai.
- [Critical-mineral export controls and the energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/critical-mineral-export-controls.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Critical minerals rose from almost nothing to one of the fastest-growing keywords across the tracked journals this year. Export controls on gallium, germanium, graphite and some rare earths since 2023 are natural experiments. Do they raise costs for clean-energy producers, speed up substitution and new supply, or both? Tags: economics, energy, trade.
- [Congestion pricing in New York](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/congestion-pricing-in-new-york.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Congestion pricing, low emission zones and road tolls appear on just 10 recent papers, with one in the last quarter. New York's congestion charge began in January 2025, the first in the US, after years of delay. What did it do to traffic, transit, business and air quality, and who paid? Tags: economics, cities, transport.
- [Coal phase-out and local labour markets](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/coal-phase-out-and-local-labour-markets.md) (2026-10-23, seed): A "just transition" is now a common theme in the economics journals, and many coal plants and mines have announced closure dates. Closures known years in advance are a rare chance to see whether workers and towns can prepare. What happens to coal workers' earnings, and to the towns around them? Tags: economics, energy, labor.
- [Climate migration, measured](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/climate-migration.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Migration keywords appear on 283 recent papers, with 85 in the last quarter against about 61 per quarter before, but only 20 of them carry a climate, weather, drought, flood or disaster keyword, and "climate-induced migration" on 3. Do people move because of climate shocks, how far, and does the move help? Tags: economics, migration, climate.
- [China raises its retirement age](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/chinas-retirement-age-reform.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Retirement, retirement age and delayed retirement appear on 94 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, and 38 of them touch China, pension reform or labour supply. China's statutory retirement age began rising in 2025, from some of the lowest ages in the world. Who works longer, who cares for grandchildren less, and what happens to youth hiring? Tags: economics, labor, pensions.
- [China's local debt swap and the firms that wait to be paid](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/china-local-debt-swap.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Local government finance is rising in the economics journals, and local government debt is a large topic in finance as China's property slump cut land revenue. In late 2024 China launched a large swap of local governments' hidden debt. Did it get suppliers paid and credit flowing, or just move risk to banks? Tags: economics, finance, public finance.
- [Why central banks are buying gold](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/central-banks-buying-gold.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Gold and safe-haven assets appear on 172 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, almost all about gold as a hedge for investors. Only 5 carry a central-bank, reserve or sanctions keyword. Central banks have been the largest buyers of gold since 2022. Is it insurance against sanctions, and does it move the price? Tags: finance, economics, monetary policy.
- [Can plain-language central bank messages reach households?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/central-bank-messages-for-households.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Central bank communication is one of the rising keywords across the tracked journals, but few of those papers look at households. Language models can now rewrite a policy statement for any reader. Would households who receive such messages update their inflation expectations? Tags: economics, finance, households.
- [The carbon border adjustment and the exporters it hits](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/cbam-and-carbon-leakage.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Carbon leakage appears on 28 recent papers and the EU's carbon border adjustment on a handful, with the topic fading (5 papers in the last quarter against about 8 per quarter before) just as the mechanism starts charging in 2026. Which exporters pay, do they clean up or divert trade, and does leakage actually fall? Tags: economics, trade, climate.
- [Causal machine learning for deciding who gets the policy](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/causal-machine-learning-for-targeting.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Double machine learning, causal forests, conditional average treatment effects and policy learning appear on 50 recent papers, split between the AI and economics journals, with 14 in the last quarter against about 11 per quarter before. The methods promise to find who benefits most from a programme. Do the targeting rules they produce hold up in new samples, and are they fair? Tags: ai, economics, methods.
- [Do cash transfers raise local prices?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/cash-transfers-and-local-prices.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Cash transfers appear on 43 recent papers in the economics journals, but only 4 of them carry a price, inflation, multiplier or spillover keyword. If a programme gives cash to a large share of a village, shopkeepers may raise prices and non-recipients may gain or lose. How large are these effects, and when do they reverse the programme's purpose? Tags: economics, development, welfare.
- [Capital flows after the fastest Fed tightening in decades](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/capital-flows-and-fed-tightening.md) (2026-10-23, seed): International capital flows appear on 96 recent papers, and 24 of them carry a Federal Reserve, global financial cycle or spillover keyword. The 2022–2023 tightening was the fastest in forty years, yet the sudden stops predicted for emerging markets mostly did not happen. What was different, and will it last? Tags: economics, finance, international.
- [Tax enforcement by algorithm](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/big-data-tax-enforcement.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Tax compliance and enforcement appear on 118 recent papers, and 23 of them carry a digital, big-data or AI keyword, led by China's digitalized tax administration. Tax authorities now match invoices, bank data and platform records automatically. Which taxpayers change behaviour, and does automated enforcement crowd out voluntary compliance? Tags: accounting, economics, tax.
- [What the basic income pilots found](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/basic-income-pilots.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Universal basic income appears on 6 recent papers and unconditional cash transfers on 4, although large pilots in the US, Germany, Kenya and elsewhere have reported results in the last two years. What do the pilots agree on, where do they disagree, and what would scale change? Tags: economics, welfare, labor.
- [Auction design where the money is](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/auction-design-for-procurement.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Auction design, first- and second-price auctions and bidding behaviour appear on 114 recent papers, mostly in economics, and the topic is fading, with 16 papers in the last quarter against about 32 per quarter before. Procurement auctions, which buy public goods and services worth trillions, appear on 2 papers. Which formats get governments the best price, and do bidders collude in the rest? Tags: operations research, economics, public sector.
- [Air pollution and the quality of decisions](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/air-pollution-and-cognition.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Air pollution and PM2.5 appear on 213 recent papers, but only 33 of them carry a cognition, productivity, decision-making, education, mental-health or worker keyword, and "cognitive performance" on 5. Pollution affects brains as well as lungs. How much do bad-air days cost in exam scores, work errors and bad investment decisions? Tags: economics, health, environment.
- [AI weather forecasts and their economic value](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ai-weather-forecasts-and-their-economic-value.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Weather forecasting, precipitation forecasting and typhoons appear on 45 recent papers, mostly in AI journals, and only 9 carry an economic, energy, agricultural, insurance or market keyword. Machine learning models now beat the physics-based systems on many measures at a fraction of the cost. Who captures the value, and does it reach the farmers, utilities and insurers who need it? Tags: ai, climate, economics.
- [Are AI patents like other patents?](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ai-patents.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Patents appear on 377 recent papers, and patent quality on 24, but only 32 of the patent papers carry an AI or software keyword, and "AI patents" on 14. AI patent filings have exploded, especially in China, while much AI progress is published as open code. What do AI patents protect, and do they predict anything? Tags: economics, innovation, ai.
- [AI and the offshoring of services](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ai-and-the-offshoring-of-services.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Outsourcing, offshoring and digital trade appear on 104 recent papers, but only one of them carries an AI, remote-work or online-labour keyword. If language models make call centres, coding and back-office work cheaper to automate than to offshore, the countries that built service exports on cheap labour face a new competitor. Is service offshoring already slowing? Tags: economics, trade, ai.
- [AI agents and the boundaries of the firm](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ai-agents-and-the-boundaries-of-the-firm.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Transaction costs are back as a growing keyword in the management journals, while agentic AI and language-model agents rise in AI. Coase argued that firms exist because using markets is costly. If AI agents can search, negotiate and monitor contracts cheaply, do firms buy more and make less? Tags: management, economics, ai.
- [Ageing populations and asset prices](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/ageing-populations-and-asset-prices.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Overlapping-generations models are a rising tool in the economics journals, and population aging is a large topic, but few papers connect aging to asset prices. Of 239 recent papers with an aging or demographic keyword, 17 carry a keyword about stocks, interest rates or house prices. As Japan, Korea, China and Europe age, will returns and interest rates fall? Tags: economics, finance, macroeconomics.
- [Absorptive capacity and who gains from AI](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/absorptive-capacity-and-ai.md) (2026-10-23, seed): Absorptive capacity tops the list of growing keywords across the tracked journals, while AI adoption keeps rising. Do firms need prior know-how to profit from AI, so that AI widens the gap between leaders and laggards? Tags: management, economics, ai.
- [The cost curve of drone delivery](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/cost-curve-of-drone-delivery.md) (2026-10-22, exploring): Drone delivery is one of the fastest-rising topics in the operations research journals. Most papers optimise routes; few ask who pays, and how drones compare with vans as delivery density changes. Tags: operations research, logistics, economics.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “economics”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/economics

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@misc{scholar4ai-ideas-tags-economics,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research ideas tagged “economics”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/economics}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

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