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Consumer credit and payment cards [PDF]

open access: yes
We consider debit and credit card networks. Our contribution is to introduce the role of consumer credit into these payment networks, and to assess the way this affects competition and equilibrium fees.
Bolt, Wilko   +2 more
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Lifecycle‐Based Governance to Build Reliable Ethical AI Systems

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems represent a paradigm shift in technological capabilities, offering transformative potential across industries while introducing novel governance and implementation challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for understanding AI systems through three critical dimensions: trustworthiness ...
Maikel Leon
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

An empirical analysis of subprime consumer credit demand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by ...
Alan, Sule, Lóránth, Gyöngyi
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Do Sovereign‐Environmental, Social and Governance (S‐ESG) Commitments Promote Financial Inclusion?

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the need to respect humanity, the environment, and society, and the progressive development of social responsibility, environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments and the need for ethical and sustainable finance, this paper aims to examine the impact of sovereign ESG on financial inclusion (FI).
Inès Gharbi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Interrelated Bilateral Transactions in Credit Card Networks [PDF]

open access: yes
Over the last decade, consumers have tripled their use of credit cards as more merchants have increased their acceptance of them. This increase suggests that incentives in today's marketplace favor greater credit card use by consumers and acceptance by ...
Alpa Shah, Sujit Chakravorti
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Local Ecological Knowledge Reveals the Distribution of Cryptic Nocturnal Wildlife

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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