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Political Partisanship and State‐Level Bank Efficiency
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between political partisanship and commercial bank efficiency in the United States from 1972 to 2020, assessing the persistent influence of political affiliations at the state and District of Columbia levels. Bank efficiency scores are estimated using a double‐bootstrap approach, and the analysis is conducted within
Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah +3 more
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Race, wealth and health: The role of reparations. [PDF]
Whittaker S +5 more
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Corporate governance, capital structure, and firm performance: a panel VAR approach. [PDF]
Ronoowah RK, Seetanah B.
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Religiosity and Debt Maturity: International Evidence
ABSTRACT This paper examines the association between country‐level religiosity and corporate debt maturity. We develop competing predictions reflecting creditor‐ and borrower‐side channels through which religiosity may favor either shorter or longer maturity. Using 407,399 firm‐year observations from 56 countries and territories over 1996–2021, we find
Xingyu Chen +4 more
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The Covid-19 outbreak, corporate financial distress and earnings management. [PDF]
Aljughaiman AA +3 more
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Rewriting Bachmann's Malina (1971) in the Age of Waldheim
Abstract This paper analyzes the drastic cuts made to Elfriede Jelinek's 1991 filmscript of Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971) alongside the hypocritical omissions of Kurt Waldheim's political memoirs to situate her adaptation in a post‐1986 moment of Austrian reckoning with National Socialism. Whereas previous scholarship disentangles the film from its
Harry Ikue Mizumoto
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A Quantile Model of Firm Investment
ABSTRACT Are firms risk averse? We propose a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitudes through quantile preferences. The firm maximizes its present value, defined as current profits and investment plus the discounted value of the τ$\tau$‐quantile of its value next period.
Heitor Almeida +3 more
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Toward an Ecumenical Metaphysics? A Response to Reviewers of Christ the Logos of Creation
Abstract After a series of promising ecumenical meetings in 1929 and 1931 with the Jesuit Erich Przywara, who advocated an analogical understanding of the relationship between God and world – doing so in part to ward off the danger posed by modern forms of pantheism – Karl Barth abruptly threw down the gauntlet and presented a serious obstacle to ...
John R. Betz
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Gender Washing? Examining the Effectiveness of Corporate Gender Equality Initiatives
ABSTRACT Amid growing political backlash and the rollback of DEI initiatives in the US and abroad, we explore whether voluntary gender equality programs produce measurable reductions in workplace gender discrimination, and how the political context mediates these effects.
Yvonne Ehrstein +2 more
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