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Mutual fund director compensation
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams +2 more
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We address an important research gap by quantifying the association between weather conditions (sunshine, rainfall, temperature anomalies) and individual financial, mental and physical health self‐assessments. We compile a unique dataset of >400,000$$ >\mathrm{400,000} $$ observations (1991–2018) by matching individual‐level data (covering 380
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou +1 more
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Leveraging over 40 million residential electricity billing records from more than one million meters in Ethiopia, we test whether consumers respond to marginal prices at kink points under an increasing block tariff (IBT). We exploit a unique institutional setting in which two distinct billing systems (manual postpaid and automated prepaid ...
Tensay Hadush Meles, Gunnar Köhlin
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Conflict, Climate, and Child Health: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Many parts of the world are experiencing social and political instability, as well as ongoing climatic changes that are expected to accelerate in the years ahead. These changes can undermine children's health through multiple pathways, and the growing frequency of sociopolitical and environmental stressors increases the likelihood that ...
Brian C. Thiede +3 more
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Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether e‐procurement adoption is associated with procedural competition and transparency, two core components of procurement integrity. Using award‐level microdata for Italian regional contracting authorities (2019–2023), we analyze a period preceding the legal obligation of full‐cycle digital procurement, when the use of ...
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta +2 more
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A Machine Learning-Based Dynamic SST Index for Long-Lead Malaria Prediction in the Peruvian Amazon. [PDF]
GeohealthPan M +7 more
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Calendar anomalies: a survey of the literature
International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 2015 Nikunj Patel, Martin Sewell
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Climate Shocks and Unemployment Claims
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a US state–level climate risk measure and the panel local projections framework, this study analyzes both linear and asymmetric effects of climate shocks on unemployment claims. The results provide strong evidence that climate shocks significantly increase both initial and continuing claims, with the linear estimates showing a stronger ...
Abeeb Olaniran +3 more
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Congenital Gastrointestinal Malformations in a Romanian Tertiary Centre (2020-2024): A Retrospective Cohort Study of Diagnosis, Distribution, and Outcomes. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Stratulat-Chiriac I +10 more
europepmc +1 more source
Calendar anomalies: Review of literature [PDF]
Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017 openaire +1 more source