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The influence of negative interest rates on European life insurance companies
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Between 2016 and 2022, life insurers in several European countries experienced negative long‐term interest rates, which put pressure on their business models. The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of negative interest rates on the stock performance of life insurers.
Nicolaus Grochola
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"Fire sales - what can be done about them?": On systemic risks in financial markets [PDF]
In a world where wide parts of the real economy depend on the availability of capital, the question arises, of how such a system risk, endangering the welfare of millions of people could be controlled?
Buchholz, Lucas
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Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sleep loss and low‐grade inflammation are common stressors that affect behaviour and recovery needs. To examine their separate and combined effects on motivation for everyday behaviours, we developed a two‐hit experimental model. Participants (N = 56, 31 women) completed three experimental visits: sleep saturation (two nights, 9 h in bed/night)
John Axelsson +6 more
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A Model of Strategic Sustainable Investment
Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study a problem of optimal irreversible investment and emission reduction formulated as a nonzero‐sum dynamic game between an investor with environmental preferences and a firm. The game is set in continuous‐time on an infinite‐time horizon.
Tiziano De Angelis +2 more
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Systemic Failure of Private Banking: A Case for Public Banks [PDF]
The current crisis represents systemic failure of private banking. The private nature of banks has created opacity, and exacerbated problems of liquidity, bad assets and capital shortage.
Costas Lapavitsas
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Monetary policy in an economy with nominal wage contracts [PDF]
A demonstration that optimal monetary policy can be either procyclical or countercyclical in a model where wages are "sticky" because of a nominal contracting constraint.Monetary policy ...
Charles T. Carlstrom
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Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
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Metroeconomica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the financial balances of the US economy. Government is the main borrower and households and the foreign sector the main lenders. Business net lending is minimal. The balances and their underlying transactions contradict the loanable funds theory and its “global savings glut” variation.
Michalis Nikiforos, Lance Taylor
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China's Sovereign Wealth Fund : Weakness and Challenges [PDF]
The establishment of sovereign wealth funds in large developing countries has generated hot debate among participants in the international financial market.
He Fan, Zhang Yu Xuan
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