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Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We extend the property rights theory to show that stronger ownership control incentivizes owners to push for communalizing private environmental costs unless counterbalancing internal and external governance mechanisms are prevalent. Using a sample of 16,286 observations for 3275 firms across 43 countries between 2008 and 2017,
Punit Arora, Tanusree Jain, Ajai Gaur
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Scoring Aave Accounts for Creditworthiness [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Scoring the creditworthiness of accounts that interact with decentralized financial (DeFi) protocols remains an important yet unsolved problem. In this paper, we propose a credit scoring system for those accounts that have interacted with the Aave v2 liquidity protocol.
arxiv
Staying on Course: Three Year Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation [PDF]
, 2011 Evaluates the effectiveness of a quasi-military residential and mentoring program that aims to place high school dropouts in employment, education, or military service and improve outcomes including indicators of health, lifestyle, and ...
Dan Bloom +3 more
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Up in Smoke: Reciprocal Effects of Cannabis Use and Job Complexity on Extrinsic Career Outcomes
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the passage of cannabis‐friendly legislation in the U.S., cannabis use is on the rise and poses increasing challenges to managing human resources in the workplace. However, the literature offers a limited understanding of its long‐term implications for career outcomes.
Zhonghao Wang +4 more
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Helper Without Threads: Customized Prefetching for Delinquent Irregular Loads [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The growing memory footprints of cloud and big data applications mean that data center CPUs can spend significant time waiting for memory. An attractive approach to improving performance in such centralized compute settings is to employ prefetchers that are customized per application, where gains can be easily scaled across thousands of machines ...
arxiv
Is Fintech Good for Bank Performance? The Case of Mobile Money in the East African Community
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mobile money, a technology‐driven innovation in financial services, has profoundly penetrated the financial landscape in Sub‐Saharan Africa, including banks. Yet, besides anecdotal evidence, little is known about whether mobile money adoption enhances or worsens bank performance.
Serge Stéphane Ky +2 more
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Maximum approximate likelihood estimation of general continuous-time state-space models [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Continuous-time state-space models (SSMs) are flexible tools for analysing irregularly sampled sequential observations that are driven by an underlying state process. Corresponding applications typically involve restrictive assumptions concerning linearity and Gaussianity to facilitate inference on the model parameters via the Kalman filter.
arxiv
Scaling Behaviour in the Number of Criminal Acts Committed by Individuals [PDF]
, 2004 We find subtle deviations from power law behaviour in the number of crimes committed by individuals, analysing the two main criminology databases which track this behaviour, the Pittsburgh Young Offenders survey and the Cambridge UK Study in Delinquent Development.
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Developing and Improving Risk Models using Machine-learning Based Algorithms [PDF]
, 2020 The objective of this study is to develop a good risk model for classifying business delinquency by simultaneously exploring several machine learning based methods including regularization, hyper-parameter optimization, and model ensembling algorithms. The rationale under the analyses is firstly to obtain good base binary classifiers (include Logistic ...
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A social work study on juvenile delinquency [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2012 We present an empirical study to study the effects of different factors on juvenile delinquency. The investigation distributes 100 questionnaires among people who are involved with crime and analyzes their feedbacks.
Mohammad Reza Iravani
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