Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
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From Criminal Liability to Patient Safety: The Possible Impact of the Italian 2025 Reform Proposal on Senior Healthcare Leadership and Clinical Risk Management. [PDF]
La Micela S +7 more
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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The Invisible Hand, the Visible Wound, and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Complicity of Commercial Entities and the Palestine Catastrophe. [PDF]
Mofizul Islam M.
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The Impact of Financial Reporting Mandates on Labor Unions
ABSTRACT Labor unions in the United States are subject to financial reporting mandates. This study examines how these mandates affect unions and their members. Using several regulation‐based empirical designs, we document that more granular reporting requirements adversely affect unions' election outcomes.
QINGKAI DONG, ANTHONY LE
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Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings
ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS +3 more
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Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
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Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Liability in the MENA Region: a Comparative Analysis of Hospital, Physician, Suppliers, and Vendor Responsibility. [PDF]
Assaf MAM +6 more
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Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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