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Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka'pamux) Territories

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at the intersection of Indigenous and western knowledge production in the context of ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Connections and Debt Access: The Case of Tunisian Firms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of political connections on debt access in the case of Tunisian firms before and after the 2011 uprising.
Fayrouz Bencheikh, Neila Boulila Taktak
doaj   +2 more sources

Self-fulfilling debt crises [PDF]

open access: yes
We characterize the values of government debt and the debt's maturity structure under which financial crises brought on by a loss of confidence in the government can arise within a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium model.
Harold L. Cole, Timothy J. Kehoe
core  

“Dream Big but Be Realistic”: Rural School Counselors and Students' College Choice

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We interviewed Texas rural school counselors in schools with students who are first generation and low‐income. Two research questions were addressed: (a) How do rural high school counselors understand students' college and career choice process? (b) How do school counselors expand or limit the college choice of rural students?
Glenda Droogsma Musoba, Juan Lopez
wiley   +1 more source

Collateral and Debt Maturity Choice. A Signaling Model [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper derives optimal loan policies under asymmetric information where banks offer loan contracts of long and short duration, backed or unbacked with collateral. The main novelty of the paper is that it analyzes a setting in which high quality firms
Lensink, Robert, Tra, Pham Thi Thu
core   +1 more source

Measuring the Impact of Technical Debt on Development Effort in Software Projects [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Technical debt refers to the trade-offs between code quality and faster delivery, impacting future development with increased complexity, bugs, and costs. This study empirically analyzes the additional work effort caused by technical debt in software projects, focusing on feature implementations.
arxiv  

Predictors of Sustainable Investment Motivation: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the determinants influencing retail investors' capital allocation to sustainable financial products, focusing specifically on Germany—a pertinent case due to its strong commitment to sustainability, supportive regulatory environment and substantial market growth.
Sergey Sosnovskikh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis

open access: bronze, 2009
Heitor Almeida   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

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