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FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments
The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Borrowers' use of cashless payments improves their access to capital from FinTech lenders and predicts a lower probability of default. These relationships are stronger for cashless technologies providing more precise information, and for outflows. Cashless payment usage complements other signals of borrower quality.
PULAK GHOSH, BORIS VALLEE, YAO ZENG
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural contexts. In Türkiye, motherhood is both culturally idealized and politically reinforced as the moral core of womanhood.
Sezen Demirhan, İlknur Gürses Köse
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Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms [PDF]
Are broad reforms the children of high inflation? Do growth recoveries follow? We find that countries that had external debt crises with high inflation both reformed more and recovered better than countries that had external debt crises with low ...
Michael Bruno, William Easterly
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From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the lived experiences of victims/survivors affected by the UK Post Office Scandal, drawing on 28 in‐depth interviews and critical legal analysis. It uses the concept of ‘accidental activism’ to explore how victims, initially isolated and disempowered, became central agents of justice reform.
SALLY DAY +3 more
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Informal creditors and sovereign debt restructuring. [PDF]
Indian Econ Rev, 2023 Ghosal S, Thomas D.
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Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras +2 more
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Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgements and automated machine learning judgements. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite deceptive statements to appear truthful pose a serious threat.
Bennett Kleinberg +2 more
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring Options: An Analytical Comparison [PDF]
, 2012 The recent financial woes of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and other nations have reinvigorated the debate over whether to bail out defaulting countries or, instead, restructure their debt.
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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How Do Businesses Finance New Investment?
The Manchester School, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how UK firms finance new investment and whether their choices follow a financing hierarchy consistent with leading theories of capital structure. Using a survey of 2886 firms conducted by the UK Department for Business and Trade and the Bank of England (2020–2023), we examine six financing sources: retained earnings ...
Marc Cowling +3 more
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