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Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

What entrepreneurial decisions enable the breeding of digital platform unicorns?

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Digital platforms have revolutionized business sectors; however, despite their significant success, platform unicorns remain rare. While extensive research exists on digital platform growth, it is uncertain what entrepreneurial decisions achieve unicorn status.
Sea Matilda Bez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of COVID‐19

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At different stages during the initial onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, various US states and local municipalities enacted eviction moratoria. One of the main aims of these moratoria was to slow the spread of COVID‐19 infections. We deploy a semiparametric difference‐in‐differences approach with an event study specification to examine whether ...
Julia Hatamyar, Christopher F. Parmeter
wiley   +1 more source

Do Product Market Reforms Work? Assessing Regulatory Changes Impacting Competition

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We create a new dataset that characterizes studies of product market reforms implemented from 1932 to 2011. We examine the size and origins of differences in estimated impacts based on an OECD classification scheme for potentially competitive restrictions of regulation. The median impact from switching to a pro‐competitive environment is a 19%
Sean F. Ennis, Selvin Thanacoody
wiley   +1 more source

Can AI be Easy? Lessons Learned From the EZR.py Toolkit

open access: yesSoftware: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much recent press claims that developers no longer need to read code. We disagree, at least within the domain of tabular software‐engineering (SE) optimization tasks: rows of x$$ x $$ and y$$ y $$ values where the y$$ y $$ values are expensive to obtain.
Tim Menzies   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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