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A review of empirical dam breach models

River, EarlyView.
Abstract Dam breach modelling is central to flood risk assessment, yet the empirical models commonly used for estimating breach parameters display considerable variability and uncertainty. This review evaluates the performance of widely applied empirical dam breach models and identifies those that consistently show lower uncertainty, such as the ...
Saffron B. Catterick, Christos Iliadis, Vassilis Glenis   +2 more
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Analysts' Cultural Long‐Term Orientation and Their Information Production Orientation culturelle à long terme des analystes et production d'information

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how analysts' inherited cultural attitudes to time orientation affect their production of long‐term information and the profitability of their stock recommendations. We find that analysts from long‐term‐oriented cultures exhibit a longer forecast horizon and issue more long‐term forecasts.
Shuping Chen, Jay Heon Jung, Sonya S. Lim, Yong Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weakly consistent extensions of lower previsions [PDF]

, 2017
Several consistency notions are available for a lower prevision assessed on a set of gambles (bounded random variables), ranging from the well known coherence to convexity and to the recently introduced 2-coherence and 2-convexity. In all these instances,
Pelessoni, Renato, Vicig, Paolo, Renato Pelessoni, Paolo Vicig   +3 more
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L'envolée épistémique de la recherche comptable en économie financière : une étude historique sur la conception de l'utilité de la comptabilité* The Epistemic Rise of Accounting Research in Financial Economics: A Historical Study on the Conception of the Usefulness of Accounting

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
RÉSUMÉ L'étude publiée par Ball et Brown en 1968 (ci‐après « BB68 ») est principalement reconnue pour son affirmation selon laquelle la comptabilité de l'époque était utile pour les investisseurs, s'inscrivant alors en contradiction avec la littérature comptable normative faisant office d'autorité. Or, une telle affirmation n'allait pas de soi.
Pier‐Luc Lajoie, Yves Gendron
wiley   +1 more source

A new meaning and role of the notion of coherent prevision of multiple random quantities [PDF]

, 2018
I accept the principles of the theory of concordance into the domain of subjective probability in order to construct an original, geometric and well-organized theory of multiple random quantities. This acceptance is well-founded because the definition of
PIERPAOLO ANGELINI
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Foundation governance for the purposeful ownership of enterprise

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Foundation‐owned companies are regarded as real‐world examples of commitment to a company purpose, and several world‐class companies have this ownership structure. They have been found to perform surprisingly well, given the accountability and incentive problems anticipated by conventional economic theories when nonprofit organizations own ...
Terry McNulty, Steen Thomsen
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Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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Computational Determination of Coherence of Financial Risk Measure as a Lower Prevision of Imprecise Probability [PDF]

, 2017
This study is about developing some further ideas in imprecise probability models of financial risk measures. A financial risk measure has been interpreted as an upper prevision of imprecise probability, which through the conjugacy relationship can be ...
Achath, Sudhakar 1955-
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An aggregation framework based on coherent lower previsions: Application to Zadeh’s paradox and sensor networks

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2010
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Alessio Benavoli, Alessandro Antonucci 0001   +1 more
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source