Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying
Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard +2 more
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Humanitarian Nationalism During Autocratic Disaster Governance: The Politicization of the Earthquake Response in Türkiye. [PDF]
Bellini C, Sauter M.
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Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming
Abstract People are increasingly feeling global warming's effects through extreme heat and natural disasters. How do these climate shocks affect political attitudes? We argue that the effect of climate‐related experiences depends significantly on self‐interest.
Alexander F. Gazmararian +1 more
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Mapping employment dynamics in public agencies with payroll data: A methodological framework with an application to Chile. [PDF]
Herrera M, Brieba D.
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ABSTRACT This article examines the formation and operation of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB), which was established in November 2023 by displaced academics involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement against the 2021 military coup. Operating within a highly repressive, conflict‐ridden environment, the IERB exemplifies a locally‐led and ...
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw +3 more
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Predictors of mayoral reelection in Romanian local elections. Long-term analysis 1996-2016. [PDF]
Iațu C, Fedor AD, Grecu SP.
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ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Moral hazard in fossil-energy-reliant markets delays early adoption of net-zero technologies. [PDF]
De Weerdt L.
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Parliament as a steppingstone? Patterns of post-parliamentary careers in The Netherlands between 1967 and 2017. [PDF]
van der Vlist D.
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Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network
ABSTRACT What does it mean to ‘do no harm’ in academic research? ‘Do no harm’ ethics emphasizes the responsibility of researchers to mitigate the emotional, physical, and political harms that may arise through participation in research. These concerns are heightened in conflict zones, where access constraints and intersecting vulnerabilities shape the ...
K. B. Roberts
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