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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on contagion [PDF]

This note reviews the theories as to why financial crises spill over across national boundaries. We discuss alternative frameworks ranging from bilateral trade links to more complex financial interconnections via banks and other investors.
Goldstein, Morris, Kaminsky, Graciela, Reinhart, Carmen   +2 more
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COVID‐19 in Australia: Systems resilience and outcome fairness

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We apply a relational multiscalar model of the sustainability of social organisation to the management of COVID‐19 in Australia to analyse systems resilience and outcome fairness. Our model encompasses the structures, processes, functions, and contents of social organisation across micro, meso, and macro scales.
Glen Rutherford, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Aidan Davison, Vishnu Prahalad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying influential financial stocks using simulation with a two-layer network

Heliyon, 2023
Risk spillover from one stock to another tends to create a contagion effect in the stock market. Fire sales due to the overlapping portfolios of mutual funds can amplify the contagion risks, leading to a downward spiral of stock prices. In this paper, we
Shiqiang Lin, Hairui Zhang
doaj  

Financial Contagion, Interest Rates and the Role of the Exchange Rate as Shock Absorber in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]

, 2002
Maurizio Michael Habib
openalex   +1 more source

A Network Model of Super-systemic Crises [PDF]

Although the financial systems of advanced countries have weathered numerous shocks in recent years, the events triggered by the sub-prime crisis of August 2007 have been “super-systemic” in scope, enveloping financial institutions across the major ...
Prasanna Gai, Sujit Kapadia
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Economic Decline and Ecological Impact: What Future for European Fur Farming? Déclin économique et impact écologique : quel avenir pour l’élevage d'animaux à fourrure en Europe ? Wirtschaftlicher Niedergang und ökologische Auswirkungen: Was bringt die Zukunft für die europäische Pelztierzucht?

EuroChoices, EarlyView.
Summary The economic, ecological and animal welfare impacts of fur farming in the European Union have been debated for decades, culminating in proposals for an EU‐wide ban on keeping animals solely for fur production. The Covid‐19 pandemic further intensified these discussions, particularly within individual Member States.
Martina Bozzola, Farah Hamdan
wiley   +1 more source

United States interest rates, Latin American debt and financial contagion [PDF]

, 2002
Inés Bustillo, Helvia Velloso
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Herd behavior and contagion in financial markets [PDF]

, 2003
Imitative behavior and contagion are well-documented regularities of financial markets. We study whether they can occur in a two-asset economy where rational agents trade sequentially.
Cipriani, M., Guarino, A.
core  

Earnings Disclosures and Investor Judgments: The Joint Effect of Incidental Affect and Emotion‐Understanding Ability*

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses an experiment to investigate the influence of investors' irrelevant feelings (e.g., positive vs. negative) on their financial judgments, with a specific focus on the role that emotion‐understanding ability plays in mitigating their biases. The participants in the experiment were exposed to emotionally charged social media posts
Michael J. Wynes
wiley   +1 more source