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Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking?

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract In many professional sport leagues, the worst‐performing teams receive higher probability of earning top draft picks. This provides teams incentives to purposefully lose, or “tank,” if they are not likely to contend for the playoffs or championships.
Eduardo G. Minuci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxing windfall money: A quasi‐experimental study

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines individuals' reaction to windfall income taxation. We take advantage of similar tax reforms on lottery winnings in Portugal and Spain in 2013 to study effects on lottery participation in both countries. Using a Synthetic Difference in Differences approach on a database of 348 draws from EuroMillions, our results indicate ...
Álvaro Muñiz‐Fernández, Levi Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

Talk or Fight? Activist Board Entry and Its Impact on Firm Strategic Change

open access: yesCorporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This study examines how the method of activist director board entry—via private settlements or proxy battles—influences their impact on firm strategic change, highlighting the moderating influence of prior activist experience on these entry methods.
Eugene See, Bruce Skaggs
wiley   +1 more source

Mpox and the Ethics of Outbreak Management: Lessons for Future Public Health Crises

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mpox, first identified in captive monkeys in 1958 and recognized in humans by 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was historically confined to sporadic zoonotic outbreaks in Central and West Africa. These outbreaks, often driven by rodent‐to‐human transmission in resource‐limited settings, reflect persistent systemic health disparities ...
Adetayo E. Obasa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The heterogeneous impact of European Central Bank asset price surprises on corporate liquidity demand

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Theories of corporate liquidity demand build on the notion that firms accumulate cash to safeguard their activities in the face of costly external finance. Monetary policy provides a clear source of exogenous variation in the external finance premium.
Benedicta Marzinotto
wiley   +1 more source

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