Recently, a co-authored paper by Associate Professor Weiming Ye  of Peking University HSBC Business School, entitled “Does AI Make Us Smarter—or More Dependent?’: Public Discourse on Knowledge Construction Across Cognitive, Behavioral, and Ethical Dimensions,” was published in Comunicar (n. 86, v. XXXIV, 2026, pp. 71–84). The paper is co-authored with Dr. Qian Li (corresponding author) of the ...

Financial innovation is a key driver of economic development. Yet how technological progress itself shapes financial innovation remains underexplored. This paper  uses U.S. patent data from 2005 to 2019 and employs interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to provide large-scale evidence on the impact of major technological innovation waves on financial innovation.The authors propose two competing channels....

Recommendation platforms (e.g., Google News, Netflix, or Amazon) often rely on social learning to improve their recommendations. Namely, they collect information generated from early consumer trials of a product (e.g., likes and reviews) and use it to better guide later consumers. In this process, however, because consumers do not internalize the informational value they generate for others, they often ...