FTAI Aviation shifts to an asset-light, higher-margin model as Aerospace Products drives earnings. Read more macro analysis ...

Price of iron ore is affected by instabilities of microeconomic balance between supply and demand. Periods of equilibrium adjustment result in huge swings, growth or global recession. They also impact ...

Will the world still need economists in 2030? With skin in the game, we certainly hope so — but artificial intelligence is already transforming economic analysis. In our own work — and in a review of ...

A new artificial intelligence–based framework can forecast public spending with higher precision than traditional econometric models. The work, published in Electronics and titled “AI-Driven Models ...

Abstract: The global price of corn is critical in agricultural markets, food security, and trade policies, making accurate forecasting essential for policymakers and stakeholders. Traditional ...

The Wits-based National Minimum Wage Research Initiative (NMW-RI) recently hosted a symposium on the National Minimum Wage ...

Understanding differences in outcomes between social groups—such as wage gaps between men and women—remains a central challenge in social science. While researchers have long studied how observable ...

Abstract: The current econometric models have the disadvantages of low prediction accuracy and poor model fitting effect. In order to solve these problems, this study combines Markov chain Monte Carlo ...

The EBA-lite methodology is a key input in external sector assessments for over three-quarters of IMF member countries, representing a broad set of emerging and low-income economies. The EBA-lite ...