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Sovereign Debt Contracts and Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies [PDF]

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This thesis analyzes the influence sovereign debt contracts have on the incidence and the devolution of financial crises in emerging market economies. Chapter 2 focuses on the design of majority action clauses in bond contracts.
Hühnerbein, Ossip Robert
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The Effect of the Aging Process of Polyamide 11 Used in Flexible Pipelines and Its Influence on the Permeability of Carbon Dioxide

open access: yesPolymer Engineering &Science, EarlyView.
Field degradation inducing changes in the Polyamide 11 permeability. ABSTRACT This study investigates how long‐term natural aging affects the CO2 permeability of polyamide 11 (PA11) pressure sheaths recovered from decommissioned flexible risers. PA11 samples were extracted from two 18‐year‐old risers—a gas‐lift line and an oil‐production line—and ...
Antônio Pedro Andrade da Cunha Ponciano Gomes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovering cyclic causal models in psychological research [PDF]

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Statistical network models have become popular tools for analyzing multivariate psychological data. In empirical practice, network parameters are often interpreted as reflecting causal relationships – an approach that can be characterized as a form of ...
Waldorp, Lourens J   +2 more
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Overcoming Barriers and Solutions for Catalysing Private Capital in Climate Adaptation: A Stakeholder‐Informed Agenda for Hong Kong's Intermediary Role in Southeast Asia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates stakeholder perspectives on mobilising private‐sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia, emphasising Hong Kong's role as a financial intermediary. Through semi‐structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, insurers, and project developers, we employed a grounded ...
Laurence L. Delina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clause-internal causal inferences: evidence from nouns

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A substantial body of pragmatics research has explored discourse-level coherence inferences — the links between clauses and even larger units that bind a series of utterances into a narrative. Hobbs (2010) proposed that there are also Clause-internal Coherence (CIC) inferences, such as that in, ‘A jogger was hit by a car,’ where one is likely to infer ...
Sasaki, K, Rohde, H, Altshuler, D
openaire   +2 more sources

Sand in the Wheels: Corruption, Governance, and the Quest for Sustainable Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governance quality and corruption jointly shape sustainable development? We analyze an unbalanced panel of 38 Sub‐Saharan African countries (2002–2021) employing PCSE and FGLS estimators. The model also includes controls for health expenditure, digitalization, unemployment, trade openness, and GDP.
Deniz Erenel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Impacts of the Bioeconomy: A Systematic Review of Variables, Methods, Sectors and Policy Relevance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy has become a component of sustainability strategies addressing climate change, resource scarcity and economic transformation. Despite a growing body of literature, evidence on the environmental impacts of the bioeconomy remains fragmented, heterogeneous and distributed across sectors and regions. This paper provides a systematic
Javier Coca, Valeria Ferreira, Laia Pié
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal Complement Clauses A Minimalist Study of Direct Perception Constructions

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This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed.
Felser, Claudia.
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Interrelationships Among Stakeholder‐Perceived Factors Influencing Solar PV Adoption in Passive Houses in New Zealand

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of solar photovoltaic systems (SPVS) in passive houses (PHs) is shaped by technical, economic and policy‐related factors. Yet, the interactions among these factors have not been quantitatively modelled in the New Zealand context.
Franklin Chukwuebuka Nkado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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