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Does Gender Matter? Gender Signals in a UK Equity Crowdfunding Experiment
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract While research shows that women entrepreneurs often struggle to secure funding from traditional loan institutions, crowdfunding offers a unique channel to bypass traditional loan gatekeepers and directly access funds from the public. This study explores whether the gender of the entrepreneur sends a signal to a funder, specifically, whether ...
Federica Alberti +2 more
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Index Insurance and Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Southern Mali
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate extremes increasingly threaten food security in low‐ and middle‐income countries, where vulnerable smallholder farmers often lack access to risk mitigation tools. Although index‐based insurance has been promoted as a promising adaptation measure to climate shocks, evidence on its welfare effects, especially on food security, remains ...
Anna Mader, Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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Relative height and vertical status in buildings
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Motivated by research that associates higher positioning with well‐being, we expand the vertical price‐gradient literature by estimating the value of within‐ and between‐building “vertical status”: one's relative vertical position compared to others in the same building and in neighboring buildings, respectively. Employing an extensive dataset
Danny Ben‐Shahar +4 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Research in the United States shows a strong link between right‐wing Christianity and support for law enforcement. Yet, it remains unclear whether this support extends uniformly across contexts, which has important implications for our understanding of public attitudes about police. Integrating insights from group identity theory with research
Christopher H. Seto +3 more
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Criminal history's expiration date: Evidence of prediction decay
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Criminal history is a well‐established predictor of future offending, yet recidivism risk declines with time. Research has struggled to reconcile this tension as criminal history is often treated as a static indicator of risk, while desistance is commonly inferred rather than directly modeled.
Zachary Hamilton +3 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial accounting standard setters recently changed the accounting for estimates involving credit risk. The change shifted the accounting from an incurred‐loss model (ILM), which is based on credit‐risk conditions that exist at the time of the estimate, to a model based on expected credit losses over the life of the asset in question (ELM),
Lisa Koonce +3 more
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Auditor industry expertise and the predictive power of the deferred tax valuation allowance
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 323-364, March 2025.Abstract This paper investigates whether auditor industry expertise influences the predictive value of management earnings forecasts embedded in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance (VA). VAs depend on management's forecast of future taxable earnings and can provide investors with information about expected changes in future earnings.
Zhuoli Axelton +2 more
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Suicidal ideation and behaviors (SIB) are common among individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR‐P), but their relationship with the overall clinical profile remains unclear. This study aimed to identify sociodemographic/clinical factors associated with SIB in CHR‐P individuals and to examine whether subthreshold ...
Stefano Damiani +73 more
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Endogenous coalition formation in policy debates
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political actors form coalitions around their joint normative beliefs in order to influence the policy process on contentious issues such as climate change or population aging. Policy process theory maintains that learning within and across coalitions is a central predictor of policy change but has yet to explain how policy learning works ...
Philip Leifeld, Laurence Brandenberger
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Guided by behavioural economics, this paper examines the factors shaping members’ investments in tradable and appreciable preferred shares issued by their cooperatives. These shares possess characteristics of both bonds and long‐term equity, and when tradable, they acquire a market value that helps mitigate issues related to the vaguely ...
Julia Höhler +3 more
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