Large language models (LLMs) have powerful natural language processing capabilities. In this paper, we systematically review the recent literature in this field and highlight the new research opportunities that LLMs bring to text analysis in economics and finance. First, we introduce GPT and BERT, the two most representative LLMs, as well as a number of LLMs developed specifically for economic and financial applications. Additionally, we also elaborate on the fundamental principles behind applying LLMs for text data analysis. Second, we summarize the applications of LLMs in economic and financial text analysis from two perspectives. On the one hand, we highlight the significant advantages of LLMs in traditional text analysis scenarios, such as calculating text similarity, extracting text vectors for prediction, text data identification and classification, building domain-specific dictionaries, topic modeling and analysis, and text sentiment analysis. On the other hand, LLMs have strong human alignment capabilities, thus opening up entirely new application scenarios, i.e., acting as economic agents that simulate humans in generating beliefs or expectations about texts and making economic decisions. Finally, we summarize the limitations and existing research gaps that LLMs face in pioneering new paradigms of economic and financial text analysis research, and discuss potential new research topics that may arise from these issues.

In order to explore how green technology innovation and the development of the digital economy can jointly promote green economic growth, this paper constructs a general equilibrium model that includes green technology innovation and digital transition. Combining with the real-world data at the city level in China, from the two aspects of economic growth and carbon emissions, it analyzes the impact and the mechanism of action of the digital economy collaborating with green technology innovation on green economic growth. It found that: 1) Green technology innovation has a "U-shaped" impact on economic growth and carbon emissions. That is, after exceeding a specific threshold of technological innovation level, with the continuous increase in the level of green technology innovation, the economic growth rate will continuously increase, and carbon emissions will continue to decrease. Moreover, the development of digital economy will strengthen the impact of green technology innovation, resulting in a steeper "U-shaped" relationship. 2) The development of economic digitalization has both mediating and moderating effects. Green technology innovation has a positive "U-shaped" impact on the development of the digital economy. That is, an increase in green technology innovation can promote the development of digital economy. In turn, the development of digital economy further moderates the impact of green technology innovation on economic growth and carbon emission reduction, strengthening the positive effect of green technology innovation on green economic growth. 3) The digital economy's enhancement of the impact of green technology innovation on green total factor productivity is the primary mechanism by which the digital economy, in collaboration with green technology innovation, drives green economic growth. 4) Policies to promote the development of economic digitalization need to be accompanied by higher carbon taxes. Although there are short-term economic costs, there are advantages in terms of long-term economic growth and environmental quality. This research combines the study of the green transition of economic development with that of digital transition, providing crucial theoretical support for the coordinated advancement of the green and digital transition of the economy to ensure stable economic growth.

This paper introduces digital financial capability into the intertemporal decision model, constructs a theoretical analysis framework to explore the impact mechanism of digital financial capability on household wealth accumulation, and conducts an empirical test based on the data of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS). The research shows that digital financial capability can significantly promote household wealth accumulation in China, particularly for rural households and those with low education and low wealth levels. Mechanism analysis shows that increasing financial investment returns and promoting social interaction are two channels through which digital financial capability can improve household wealth accumulation. Further analysis shows that there are structural differences in the impact of digital financial capability on household wealth accumulation, which can improve the allocation of productive assets and financial assets, and reduce the holding of housing assets and other non-financial assets. The above research conclusions provide a new perspective to explain the accumulation of household wealth in China, and also provide a reference for the formulation of relevant policies to promote common prosperity.

Promoting enterprises to accelerate digital transformation is of great significance to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, empower the upgrading of traditional industries, generate new forms of business, as well as drive China's digital economy to become better and stronger. From the perspective of enterprises, this paper analyzes the antecedents of enterprises' digital transformation, constructs related indexes based on the text analysis method, proposes a two-factor theoretical model of manager characteristics and dynamic capabilities, and uses the structural equation model based on partial least squares estimation (PLS-SEM). The empirical results show that manager characteristics such as entrepreneurship, digital evangelist and coordinator, as well as corporate dynamic capabilities such as sensing, learning, integrating and coordinating, have a significantly positive role in promoting the tendency and output of digital transformation of enterprises. In addition, manager characteristics can significantly improve the level of enterprises' dynamic capabilities, and the effect of manager characteristics on enterprises' dynamic capabilities and digital transformation is moderated by managers' perception of policy uncertainty. In addition, the above effects are heterogeneous between state-owned and private enterprises, enterprises in the eastern, central and western regions, as well as enterprises in provincial and non-provincial capitals. This paper fills the research gap on the antecedents of digital transformation, and provide a feasible practical path for enterprises to cultivate managers in the digital era and improve their dynamic capabilities.

Gold and silver, due to their unique financial properties, have become preferred choices for investment and asset preservation. Accurately quantifying and predicting their price fluctuations is crucial for investors' risk management decisions. This paper introduces a rich set of feature variables and employs a forward rolling algorithm to forecast the realized volatility (RV) of gold and silver futures in Shanghai. We compare the performance of various machine learning models under different loss functions and evaluation methods. The results indicate that the gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) models demonstrate superior performance in forecasting the futures market for precious metals. Furthermore, this study integrates the XGBoost model with interpretability tools to analyze the dynamic contributions of feature variables to the predicted values in the precious metals futures market. It also assesses the heterogeneous impact of significant variables on predictive performance. Our findings reveal the critical role of market sentiment variables, as well as the relative contributions of macroeconomic variables and volatility decomposition variables under different market conditions. The research provides clear evidence for the selection of factors and models in forecasting precious metal futures market volatility, offering credible investment and management recommendations for investors and regulators in this market.

This study approaches typhoon landfalls as exogenous climate risk events, designating the moment of landfall as the critical intervention point. Utilizing the difference-in-differences (DID) methodology, the research examines the influence of typhoon disasters on the stock returns of publicly traded companies in China, and assesses how financial risks propagate through supply chain networks triggered by typhoon disasters. To gain a more nuanced understanding of these effects, the paper engages in a detailed mechanism analysis by examining the intensity of digital transformation. The results suggest that typhoon disasters have a significant and detrimental impact on the stock returns of firms located in affected areas, with this effect rippling through to their suppliers and customers via the intricate web of supply chain connections. Moreover, the study uncovers a distinct asymmetry in the spillover effects between suppliers and customers. Specifically, the research highlights that the level of digital transformation is instrumental in alleviating the financial risks associated with typhoons and serves as a protective barrier against the adverse effects on stock returns. Finally, a comprehensive suite of robustness checks reinforces the validity and reliability of the study’s conclusions.

Exploring the underlying causes and contexts of corporate ESG greenwashing is essential due to its adverse consequences, such as the harm of consumer benefits and social trust crisis. This paper takes Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2021 as samples to test the relationship between legitimacy pressures from different institutional sources and corporate ESG greenwashing, as well as the moderating effects of financing constraints and industry competitiveness. The results show that regulatory legitimacy pressure significantly negatively relates to corporate ESG greenwashing; The pressure of standardization and imitation legitimacy significantly positively relates to corporate ESG greenwashing. Mechanism analysis shows that financing constraints and industry competitiveness strengthen the negative effect of regulatory legitimacy pressure on corporate ESG greenwashing, whilst financing constraints strengthen the positive effect of imitation legitimacy pressure on corporate ESG greenwashing; the institutional legitimacy pressure affects corporate ESG greenwashing through internal control. Heterogeneity analysis further shows that the relationship between institutional legitimacy pressure and corporate ESG greenwashing is more pronounced, in state-owned enterprises and heavily polluting industry enterprises. Based on the perspective of organizational decoupling, this paper contributes to clarify the deeper motives and constraints of corporate ESG greenwashing, which is significant for promoting ESG practices, green transformation, and sustainable development in China.

In the process of low-carbon transition, enterprises require substantial financial support for related investments. Therefore, the effectiveness of carbon pricing policies depends on a well-functioning financial market. However, in reality, financial markets face various frictions that hinder the flow of capital, leading to inefficient allocation of resources. These frictions may affect corporate investment behavior, thereby weakening the implementation effects of carbon pricing policies. This paper, focusing on the issue of financing constraints, constructs an environmental-dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model incorporating a financing collateral constraint mechanism to analyze the impact of financing constraints on the effectiveness of carbon pricing policies and explores corresponding policy responses. The results show that: 1) From the perspective of environmental benefits, financing constraints weaken the "emission reduction effect" of carbon pricing policies, suppress corporate low-carbon investments, and reduce corporate emission intensity; 2) From the perspective of economic costs, financing constraints amplify the cost impact of carbon pricing on enterprises, restrict output growth, and increase the overall economic cost of the low-carbon transition; 3) Introducing carbon asset-backed loans as a complementary measure to carbon pricing policies can effectively mitigate the negative impact of financing constraints on carbon pricing policies; 4) Numerical simulation shows that financing constraints increase the proportion of carbon pricing-related costs in enterprises' total production costs from an average of 15.31% to 19.47% annually, while reducing the annual average scale of low-carbon investments by approximately 37%. Furthermore, providing more carbon asset-backed loans to high-emission enterprises can significantly enhance policy benefits. The conclusions of this paper are of great significance for improving mechanisms for green and low-carbon development and establishing a systematic climate policy framework.

In recent years, there have been more frequent disasters occurred in China, which pose significant threats to the lives and property of the people. To cope with the increasing complexity and severity of disasters, decision-makers need to store and dispatch emergency supplies rationally based on the real situation. Current studies on regional dispatch considering multiple warehouses and demand points are insufficient, and the problems such as ‘who/how/how much to dispatch’ have not been well-answered. To solve these problems, this paper proposes three regional dispatching strategies (including strict administrative hierarchy supply dispatch, cross-administrative hierarchy supply dispatch and free and nearest supply dispatch strategies) based on a comprehensive summary of relevant case studies, then builds a multi-agent simulation model based on deprivation cost. A simulation experiment is conducted in Mengcheng County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, and the result shows that when the regional demand is large in a short time, the free proximity strategy can minimize the total social logistics cost. On the contrary, when the regional demand is small, the differences of the total social cost among three strategies are small. In conclusion, our research suggests that, when facing severe disasters and catastrophes, governments should cooperate and coordinate on the dispatching of relief supplies. However, when facing normal disasters without the risk of life, the demand can be satisfied with the strict administrative strategy.

Identifying and addressing various financial risks on the way toward low-carbon transition is crucial for China to achieve its dual carbon goal. By performing textual analysis of newspaper articles, this paper constructs a novel index of climate policy uncertainty for China to examine the impact of the climate policy shock on the corporate bond cost as well as the mechanism behind the relationship. From a climate policy-cash flow sensitive perspective, this paper develops a theoretical model of financing decision-making under climate policy uncertainty and empirically verifies the hypothesis with a dataset of Chinese-listed companies from 2009--2020. The results show that bond spreads of climate policy-sensitive firms are significantly higher than that of climate policy-insensitive firms, which indicates that climate policy uncertainty significantly deteriorates corporate bond costs in China. Moreover, this effect increases with the maturity of the corporate bond and the level of climate policy uncertainty and is more profound in firms with a negative sensitivity to changes in climate policies. The results also prove that internal environmental governance and external regulatory enforcement intensity are two key channels by which the climate policy shock can impact the cost of corporate bonds in China. This paper contributes to the research of climate finance by providing a theoretical framework and empirical evidence on the relationship between climate policy shock and corporate bond cost and thus is crucial for policymakers to understand micro-level financing and investment risk in China under the dual carbon goal.

In recent years, China's food delivery industry has undergone substantial growth, driven by the rapid expansion of the platform economy and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food delivery services have not only lessened customers' sensitivity to delays associated with in-person dining but have also generated increased market demand for merchants. It is noteworthy that the majority of merchants employ a centralized operational mode, which combines food delivery and dine-in services within a single establishment. However, certain merchants opt for a decentralized approach, wherein they establish dedicated food delivery outlets exclusively handling food delivery orders while maintaining an offline restaurant. To examine the impact of food delivery channels on merchant decision-making, this study establishes a dual-channel service system operating within a congestion-prone environment. It characterizes the equilibrium strategy of customers under the two operational policies and investigates how the quality of food delivery services affects merchant profits. Furthermore, the research reveals the optimal operational approach based on varying levels of delivery quality. The key findings of the study are as follows. 1) In the case of decentralized operations, the service capacity allocated to the food delivery channel by the merchant exhibits a non-monotonic relationship with its quality. This implies that higher food delivery quality may gradually prompt the merchant to shift its focus toward the offline channel. 2) Despite the fact that higher food delivery quality has the potential to attract more customers, the study surprisingly finds that improving food delivery quality may actually reduce merchant profits in both centralized and decentralized scenarios. 3) While decentralized operations may lead to decreased order processing efficiency, adopting this approach can effectively mitigate the cannibalization effect of the food delivery channel and result in higher profits, particularly when food delivery quality is high. Consequently, centralized mode is recommended only when the food delivery quality falls within an intermediate range. Additionally, we further validated the robustness of this conclusion from various perspectives, including marginal costs and delivery fees.

The open sharing of data resources is key to unlocking the value of data elements. Assessing the impact of government data openness on corporate sustainable development is of significant importance for promoting high-quality economic and social development. This paper uses the openness of government data as a quasi-natural experiment, taking Chinese listed companies from 2009 to 2022 as the research sample, and explores the impact of government data openness on corporate economic performance and environmental performance through the difference-in-differences model. The study demonstrates that government data openness has brought dual benefits to corporate economic and environmental performance, that is, government data openness has promoted corporate sustainable development. The reason is that government data openness can promote corporate technological innovation and improve the efficiency of corporate operation and management. Further research finds that the role of government data openness in promoting economic performance is more significant in state-owned enterprises, regions with a better business environment, and areas with better digital infrastructure conditions, while the enhancement of environmental performance is more fully demonstrated in state-owned enterprises, non-heavy polluting enterprises, and regions with higher environmental regulation intensity. This study reveals the role of government data openness in improving corporate economic and environmental performance, providing important empirical insights for promoting sustainable economic and social development and enhancing the scientific formulation of data openness policies in the context of "Dual Carbon" goals.

In the context of the new era, the fundamental way to promote high-quality economic and social development is to improve urban development efficiency, and digital economy plays an important driving role in the process. This paper constructs a theoretical analytical framework for digital economy-driven urban development efficiency improvement, and empirically tests the impact of digital economy on urban development efficiency and spatial spillover effects using a spatial and temporal double-fixed spatial Durbin model. This paper finds that: Firstly, digital economy significantly contributes to urban development efficiency in the region and surrounding areas, and the finding still holds through a series of robustness tests. Secondly, digital economy contributes to urban development efficiency by enhancing social, economic and ecological benefits, but the enhancement is limited by the reduction of land benefits, while industrial integration, technological advancement, and urban-rural integration play an important role in its mechanism. Thirdly, the effect of digital economy in driving the improvement of urban development efficiency shows a non-linear trend of "downward and then upward" and spatial spillover characteristics. Fourthly, there is city-level heterogeneity and geographic-area heterogeneity in the impact of the digital economy on urban development efficiency, which means that the role of digital economy in driving urban development efficiency is more pronounced in cities with high administrative levels and large populations, as well as in the eastern and northern regions. The above findings imply that at present, China should take urban development efficiency as an important target to consider for the high-quality economic development, and take the development of digital economy as the main driving force to improve urban development efficiency.

In the numerous terrorist attacks that have occurred worldwide, various terrorist organizations have shown a trend of collaborative cooperation, posing significant challenges to international counter-terrorism efforts. Based on the global terrorism database (GTD), this study constructs a terrorist organization cooperation evolution network from 121,074 terrorist attacks that occurred globally from 2001 to 2018 and conducts a time-series topological structure analysis. Based on the characteristics of terrorist organization cooperation, the network is divided into time slices of three years each to model the flow patterns of terrorist communities at multiple scales. The analysis shows that the robustness of the terrorist organization cooperation network has been continually strengthening over time, which is necessary to develop corresponding strategies to disrupt it. Focusing on the largest connected sub-network within the terrorist cooperation network, whose influence is continuously expanding, this study proposes a community structure-based neighborhood centrality index (CSNC) to measure the importance of nodes in the largest connected component. Experimental results demonstrate that the network disruption strategy based on CSNC, in the process of disintegrating the terrorist cooperation network from 2001 to 2018, achieved a 16.45% maximum reduction in the R value compared to benchmark strategies, proving that the CSNC-based disruption strategy can more effectively dismantle terrorist cooperation networks.

Exploring the impact of uncertainty on the resilience of Chinese residents' consumption is of great practical significance for expanding domestic demand, smoothing the domestic cycle and economic recovery. By constructing a stochastic computable general equilibrium model of China's domestic demand market, this paper measures the impact of uncertainty shocks on the resilience of household consumption from the perspectives of aggregate and structure, and examines the guarantee mechanism of different policy combinations to expand the resilience of household consumption from the institutional perspective. The results show that income level is the most important factor affecting the resilience of residents' consumption, and the impact of multi-risk cross-infection on residents' consumption resistance is greater than the simple superposition of single factors, and the recovery shock may have a reverse impact on different economic indicators. The resilience of urban and rural residents' consumption is structurally different, and the recovery shocks on the supply side and the demand side jointly affect the resilience of the domestic demand market, among which excess supply will also cause a decline in economic benefits. To improve the resilience of household consumption and achieve the goal of expanding domestic demand, it is necessary to integrate the roles of the government and the market, and the policy guidance needs to focus on employment issues and realize the free flow of land and capital factors between regions. This paper further puts forward corresponding policy recommendations. This paper uses the method of calculable general equilibrium to explore the resilience of household consumption, which breaks through the limitations of local equilibrium in existing studies and comprehensively and systematically measures the resilience of household consumption. By introducing random numbers, the impact of uncertainty shocks on the resilience of household consumption is more effectively simulated, which provides more specific and detailed theoretical support and policy enlightenment for the expansion of household consumption.

The "dual carbon" targets represent a significant strategic decision for China's low-carbon economic transformation, carrying profound implications for highquality economic development. This paper first establishes an index system capable of scientifically measuring the progress of China's cities towards achieving the "dual carbon" targets, based on both the absolute level of regional carbon reduction and carbon sink enhancement gaps and the relative level after considering regional population size, energy consumption, and economic development. It then analyzes the patio-temporal evolution characteristics of these gaps, providing a quantitative basis for advancing China's "dual carbon" targets. Subsequently, leveraging the quasinatural experiment of carbon emissions trading pilots and panel data spanning 2006–2020 at the prefecture-level city level, this paper delves into the role of market-based policy instruments in achieving carbon neutrality goals. The research findings indicate that the implementation of carbon emissions trading policies contributes to advancing carbon neutrality in pilot regions across four dimensions: Regionally overall, per capita, in terms of energy consumption, and economic development. The mechanism analysis reveals that this policy fosters carbon neutrality through multiple pathways, including carbon emission reduction, carbon sequestration enhancement, and green innovation. Specifically, the policy aids in optimizing energy structures and enhancing energy effciency at the emission end, promotes afforestation and forest conservation at the carbon sequestration end, and exhibits a "Porter Effect" that stimulates quantitative growth in green innovation in pilot regions. Further research demonstrates that a well-functioning carbon market can amplify the emission reduction and carbon sequestration enhancement effects of carbon emissions trading policies. By breaking down market mechanisms into three aspects, carbon price, liquidity, and relative scale, it is found that higher carbon prices and larger relative scales of carbon markets in pilot regions strengthen the facilitating effects of carbon emissions trading policies on their carbon neutrality progress. Market liquidity, however, only reinforces these policy effects in the dimension of economic development. This study provides empirical evidence and policy recommendations for scientifically measuring the progress towards achieving "dual carbon" targets, improving the national carbon market, and facilitating high-quality economic transformation.

This paper pioneers a novel approach to economic and public policy analysis by leveraging multiple large language models (LLMs) as heterogeneous artificial economic agents. We first evaluate five LLMs’economic decision-making capabilities in solving two-period consumption allocation problems under two distinct scenarios: With explicit utility functions and based on intuitive reasoning. While previous research has often simulated heterogeneity by solely varying prompts, our approach harnesses the inherent variations in analytical capabilities across different LLMs to model agents with diverse cognitive traits. Building on these findings, we construct a multi-LLM-agent-based (MLAB) framework by mapping these LLMs to specific educational groups and corresponding income brackets. Using interest income taxation as a case study, we demonstrate how the MLAB framework can simulate policy impacts across heterogeneous agents, offering a promising new direction for economic and public policy analysis by leveraging LLMs’ human-like reasoning capabilities and computational power.

Considering the high volatility and complexity of electricity spot price time series, a combined forecasting model based on wavelet transform and LGBM (light gradient boosting machine, LGBM) is proposed. By introducing rolling time window and wavelet transform, the dynamic multi-scale decomposition of electricity spot price series can be realized, and the frequency characteristics can be extracted to reduce its modal complexity and effectively avoid data leakage. In this study, the proposed model is constructed by utilizing the complex nonlinear feature extraction ability of the LGBM algorithm. The spot market data of Shanxi electric power is used to verify the validity of the proposed model. The results show that the proposed model is superior to the mainstream forecasting methods such as long-term and short-term memory model, support vector machine, elastic network regression model and extreme gradient lifting model in many key performance indexes, such as root mean square error, average absolute error and determination coefficient, among which the $ R^2 $ reaches 0.9792, showing high forecasting accuracy. At the same time, the proposed model shows robustness and adaptability under different market conditions, which shows the proposed model can be seen as a reliable forecasting tool for power market participants and helps to optimize trading strategies and reduce market risks.

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is a highly efficient numerical algorithm for handling large-scale multi-particle systems, playing an important role in fields such as molecular dynamics, astrodynamics, acoustics, and electromagnetics. This paper first reviews the history of the Fast Multipole Method, then taking Helmholtz and Maxwell equations as examples, introduces the data structures, mathematical principles, implementation steps, and complexity analysis of the FMM based on kernel analytical expansion in two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases, and describes corresponding adaptive version of FMM. Finally, numerical experiments on multi-particle simulations in two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces are given on the MATLAB platform.

The integrated development of urban and rural areas is a symbol of the modernization of a country and region, and also an inevitable requirement of Chinese path to modernization. How to effectively measure its development process and level has become a hot issue of great concern in the academic community. This article aims to comprehensively review the relevant literature on measuring the level of urban-rural integration development from an economic perspective, clarify and define the concept of urban-rural integration as well as its four dimensions, including economic, social, spatial, and ecological integration. Then summarize the existing measurement indicators, methods, and regional comparative studies of the multidimensional integration level between urban and rural areas, and sum up the focus and characteristics of various studies. On this basis, further research ideas for the construction and measurement of the indicator system for urban-rural integration development are proposed from four dimensions: The connection between objective and subjective factors, the bidirectional flow of factors, the combination of macro and micro data, and the lower level of indicator construction. At the same time, we attempt to provide theoretical research references for policy formulation to improve the coordination and integration of urban and rural development in China in the new era, and to achieve the goal of common prosperity.