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ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of China's recent real estate crisis, stemming from Evergrande's struggles, on the return and risk profiles of US‐listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking Chinese stock market indexes. Analysing 26 funds from February 2, 2018 to December 31, 2024, we first employ a VAR model to assess contagion and ...
Gerasimos Rompotis +2 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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A lifeline for the weakest link? Financial contagion and network design [PDF]
In "A Lifeline for the Weakest Link? Financial Contagion and Network Design," Yaron Leitner describes how contagion can occur, explains why the threat of contagion is not necessarily a bad thing, and shows why some firms may choose to bail out other ...
Yaron Leitner
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ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
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Financial market contagion in the Asian crisis [PDF]
This paper tests for evidence of contagion between the financial markets of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines. Cross-country correlations among currencies and sovereign spreads are found to increase significantly during the crisis
Ilan Goldfajn, Taimur Baig
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ABSTRACT This study examines the spillover effect of bank financial misconduct on the uninsured deposits of peer banks within local markets. We first validate that misconduct banks experience an increase in deposit spreads and a corresponding outflow of deposits following the misconduct. We then show local peer banks exhibit divergent deposit responses,
Ya Kang, Yupeng Lin, Yang Qiu
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Portfolio Diversification, Leverage, and Financial Contagion [PDF]
This paper studies the extent to which basic principles of portfolio diversification explain "contagious selling" of financial assets when there are purely local shocks (e.g., a financial crisis in one country).
R. Todd Smith, Garry J. Schinasi
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