The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism: platformization and its underlying processes, institutional dimensions, and disruptive impacts. [PDF]
Comput Urban Sci, 2022 Bibri SE, Allam Z, Krogstie J.
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The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rise of neoliberal reforms in the period of globalization is often claimed to be linked with wider outcomes, such as increased inequality, unemployment, and different cultural grievances. Because of these economic and cultural concerns, voters might seek solutions to their ostensible problems by turning to illiberal populist parties, which
Stefani Branilović, Tibor Rutar
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How structural changes in online gambling are shaping the contemporary experiences and behaviours of online gamblers: an interview study. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Hing N +6 more
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Evolution of the UK banking system [PDF]
The financial system provides three key services: payment services, intermediation between savers and borrowers, and insurance against risk. These services support the allocation of capital, and the production and exchange of goods and services, all of ...
Davies, Richard +3 more
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Gender and reactions to speeches in German parliamentary debates
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Are nonverbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female members of parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of ...
Elliott Ash +2 more
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Foreign entry into underwriting services: evidence from Japan's "Big Bang" deregulation [PDF]
We examine the impact of foreign underwriting activity on bond markets using issue level data in the Japanese "Samurai" and euro-yen bond markets. Firms choosing Japanese underwriters tend to be Japanese, riskier, and smaller.
Jose A. Lopez, Mark M. Spiegel
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Instrumental variable (IV) analysis relies on the exclusion restriction—that the instrument only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable and not via other causal routes. However, scholars generally justify the exclusion restriction based on its plausibility.
Jonathan Mellon
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The ramification of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming "Complex Disaster Emergency". [PDF]
J Int Humanit Action, 2022 Bang HN, Balgah RA.
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"Big Bang" Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China [PDF]
This paper analyzes issues concerning the speed of adjustment and sequencing of reforms in a transition economy. It presents a dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with Chinese data.
Andrew Feltenstein, Saleh M. Nsouli
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