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Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence in Airline Accidents [PDF]

This paper analyses airline accident data from 1927-2006, through fractional integration. It is shown that airline accidents are persistent and (fractionally) cointegrated with airline traffic.
Luis A. Gil-Alana, Carlos Pestana Barros, João Ricardo Faria   +2 more
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TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan, Keisuke Sakamoto, Shizhen Huang, David Matarrita‐Cascante, Noriko Akita, Song Han, Zhengxu Zhou, Takahiro Yamazaki, Makoto Yokohari   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

Revenue Recognition Comparability and Analysts’ Disclosure Processing Costs

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I examine whether the FASB's revenue recognition guidance under ASC 606 influences revenue comparability across firms and industries and whether revenue comparability reduces analysts’ disclosure processing costs. I extract firms’ revenue policy disclosures from 10‐K filings to measure their textual similarity and compare revenue policies ...
ANDREA TILLET
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS, ROBERT W. HOLTHAUSEN, CHRISTINE PETROVITS, DANYE WANG   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data-Driven Predictive Analytics for Dynamic Aviation Systems: Optimising Fleet Maintenance and Flight Operations Through Machine Learning

Future Internet
The aviation industry operates as a complex, dynamic system generating vast volumes of data from aircraft sensors, flight schedules, and external sources.
Elmin Marevac, Esad Kadušić, Natasa Živić, Dženan Hamzić, Narcisa Hadžajlić   +4 more
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Fusion of deep recurrent neural network models and fuzzy decision support system for tweet sentiment analysis and classification

Automatika
With the advent of social media and networking, Tweet Sentiment Analysis (TSA) has become a significant methodology to extract useful information from the “X” platform users.
A. Sherin, S. Lokesh, S. N. Deepa, I. Jasmine Selvakumari Jeya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Virtual Pivot: Adaptive Investor Relations in the Face of Disruption Le virage virtuel : le caractère adaptatif des relations avec les investisseurs face aux perturbations

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The capacity of firms to communicate effectively with investors during periods of disruption is a critical but understudied dimension of corporate adaptability. The COVID‐19 pandemic offers a rare empirical setting to observe such adaptability: It eliminated in‐person investor events almost overnight, forcing firms to either withdraw from ...
Andrea K. Down, Nayana Reiter, Aida Sijamic Wahid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source