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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Democratization, Quality of Institutions and Economic Growth [PDF]
There are two innovations in the paper as compared to the previous literature on democracy and growth. First, we consider not only the level of democracy, but also changes in this level in the 1970s-1990s as measured by increments of Freedom House ...
Polterovich, Victor, Popov, Vladimir
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama +3 more
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Arap Baharı: İslam Üzerine Söylemsel Dönüşümün Habercisi Mi?
Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2014 Büyük çoğunluğunu Arap ve/veya Müslüman toplumların oluşturduğu Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika (ODKA) bölgesinde demokrasinin neden gelişemediği sorusu 2000’li yılların demokrasi alanyazınının en önemli tartışma konularından birisi olmuştur.
Fahri Çakı
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to classify pivotal fintech innovations and explore the prospects and pitfalls associated with emerging fintech services extensively discussed in the literature. We conducted a multistage systematic review of research published on fintech over the past decade from a technological perspective. Using the Preferred Reporting Items
Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Nohman Khan
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, 2015 Within the framework of quark mass matrices with a democratic texture, the unitary rotation matrices that diagonalize the quark matrices are obtained by a specific parametrization of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix. Different forms of democratic quark mass matrices are derived from slightly different parametrizations.
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How Is FinTech Shaping Household Portfolio Behaviour?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how FinTech adoption influences household portfolio allocation across major advanced economies. Using a flow‐of‐funds framework and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we model household demand for currency, deposits, loans, debt securities, and equity in the United States, United Kingdom, Euro Area, Japan and Australia.
Victor Murinde, Athina Petropoulou
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2017 The creation and changing of alphabets, as shown by their history, occurs due to the development needs of human communities, united by one language in certain public national entities.
A. N. Aleksakhin
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Progress of metabolomics‐centric multi‐omics research in medicine
iMetaOmics, EarlyView.The graphical abstract illustrates a holistic roadmap for metabolomics‐centric multi‐omics integration in medical research. The upper panel depicts the technological transition from traditional bulk analysis to high‐resolution single‐cell and spatial methodologies, specifically addressing inherent challenges such as molecular complexity and dynamic ...
Ziyi Wang +6 more
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Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Accurate monitoring of crop water use is critical for precision irrigation, yet conventional lysimeter systems remain too costly and complex for widespread adoption. This study presents the development and field validation of a low‐cost, information and communication technology (ICT)‐enabled weighing lysimeter system that integrates load cells,
Stephen Okwang, Younggu Her, Taeil Jang
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