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Competing Visions of Democracy in EU Disinformation Governance: Framing the Digital Services Act in the European Parliament

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Disinformation has become a contentious issue within the European Union (EU) and in transatlantic relations, raising fundamental questions about how democratic societies should regulate online content. This article investigates how competing democratic visions shape European Parliamentary debates on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Linus Wahlberg, Sara Wissén
wiley   +1 more source

Stochastic Market Sharing, Partial Communication and Collusion [PDF]

This paper analyzes the role of communication between firms in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game in which firms receive an imperfect private signal of a common value i.i.d. demand shock. It is shown that firms can use stochastic, inter-temporal market
Heiko Gerlach
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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, Sattar Mansi, Takeshi Nishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting, Representing and Querying Collusion in Online Rating Systems 2012-3

, 2012
Online rating systems are subject to malicious behaviors mainly by posting unfair rating scores. Users may try to individually or collaboratively promote or demote a product.
Ignjatovic, Aleksander, Foo, Norman, Bertino, Elisa, Benatallah, Boualem, Allahbakhsh, Mohammad, Beheshti, Seyed-Mehdi-Reza   +5 more
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Corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm risk: The role of corporate governance

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We study how corporate governance moderates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate social irresponsibility (CSI), and firm risk. We find that CSR reduces risk for firms with strong governance. In contrast, CSI increases firm risk more significantly for firms with stronger governance, suggesting that backlash ...
Craig Dunbar, Zhichuan Frank Li, Yaqi Shi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment [PDF]

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market.
Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Seldeslachts, Jo, Duso, Tomaso   +2 more
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Allometric patterns in Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and their role in the paleoecology, life habits, and taxonomic framework of pterosaurs

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
The Graphical Abstract ilustrates the different allometric pattern within different Pterosauria groups, highlighting how the allometry influences the flight and habits of Pterosauria. Abstract Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, a result of various unique anatomical adaptations, and significant morphological diversity ...
Gabriela Menezes Cerqueira, João Lucas Da Silva, Ingmar Werneburg, Mario Bronzati, Alex Sandro Schiller Aires, Felipe L. Pinheiro, Rodrigo Temp Müller   +6 more
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Fighting Collusion in Tournaments

This paper proposes a new approach of fighting collusion in tournaments which sheds light on the principle of divide and conquer: the principal can benefit from manipulating information revelation, by which he brings asymmetric information between the ...
Chen, Zhijun
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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