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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Impacts of coal smoke on infant mortality: Evidence from industrializing Japan
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the health consequences of coal smoke during Japan's early industrialization. Using fixed‐effects models and a prefecture‐level panel dataset on actual coal consumption and infant mortality from 1899 to 1910, this study finds that higher coal consumption was positively associated with infant mortality.
Tatsuki Inoue
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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The Effect of Traffic Congestion on Labour Investment Efficiency
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study examines the effects of headquarters‐city traffic congestion on labour investment efficiency. The results indicate that firms headquartered in congested cities may engage in inefficient labour investment decisions. Further analysis indicates that the inefficiency is associated with both overinvestment and underinvestment in labour ...
Rajib Chowdhury
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CEO Self‐Regulation and the Cost of Equity Capital
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore the association between CEO self‐regulation and the cost of equity capital by distinguishing between two dimensions of regulatory focus—promotion focus and prevention focus—based on Higgins' (1997) framework. A promotion focus prioritizes positive stimuli, accomplishment, and growth, while a prevention focus emphasizes negative ...
Ann Ling‐Ching Chan, Kyunghwa Yu
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim and Design Indigenous knowledge systems offer enduring, relational and strengths‐based frameworks for health and wellbeing. This theory and framework paper critically analyses how colonial legacies embedded in nursing curricula marginalise Indigenous knowledges and perpetuate inequities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We
Roianne West +5 more
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Unveiling Synergy Gains in Divestitures Using Options Market Information1
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use stock and options information to decompose and provide a practical measure of the market's beliefs about the different sources of value creation from divestitures. We find that divestitures generate economically significant synergy gains that exceed $1 billion for both acquirers and sellers.
Vinay Patel +2 more
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El aceite bético durante el Bajo Imperio
Antigüedad y Cristianismo, 1991 The author defende the hypothesis of the survival of the production and esportation of the oil produced in the Baetica in the Late Empire (the third, fourth and fifth centuries) in the light of the arqueological sources.
José Remesal Rodríguez
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