Serial Investing and Strategic Commitment in Markets With Unknown Competitors
ABSTRACT We study how serial investors who regularly face unknown competitors attempt to make their projects dominant. Innovating in new markets often involves uncertainty over the nature of the final product and who the key competitors will be. Such projects also have long‐term funding needs, so a commitment to provide the necessary funds imparts a ...
Naveen Khanna, Richmond Mathews
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Sovereign wealth fund investments and financial performance of target firms: The disciplinary role of debt in political agenda theory. [PDF]
Rasheed S, Adeneye Y, Kosnin R.
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Abstract We examine the effect of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) on cost of debt. Our difference‐in‐differences analyses reveal that the IDD significantly reduces the loan spread for borrowers in adopting states. To elucidate the mechanisms of such finding, we find that the IDD's effect is weaker in industries with high management turnover ...
Haiyan Jiang +2 more
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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An Application of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process in Risk Evaluation Model. [PDF]
Peng G +5 more
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
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Effects of urbanization and land expropriation on the livelihoods of peri-urban farmers in North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Zegeye MB, Sisay MA, Ayalew DB.
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Understanding the Corrective Effect of the Urban Growth Boundary Policy on Land Finance Dependence of Local Governments in China. [PDF]
Niu W +6 more
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles +2 more
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Social stability risk analysis caused by land acquisition and migration for water conservancy project construction. [PDF]
Li F, Du X, Huang X, Li H, Fei X.
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