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Financial Fragility and the Fiscal Multiplier
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract We show that undercapitalized banks with large holdings of government bonds subject to sovereign default risk lead to a new crowding‐out channel: deficit‐financed fiscal stimuli lead to higher bond yields, triggering capital losses for the banks. Banks then cut back loans, which reduces fiscal multipliers.
CHRISTIAAN VAN DER KWAAK +1 more
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Pilot evaluation of the Index Based Flood Insurance in Bihar, India: Lessons of experiences [PDF]
, 2020 The Government of Bihar (GOB) with the help of Government of India (GOI) introduced and implemented various crop insurance programs, to provide protection against losses caused by fluctuations in the output of a crop from one year to another or from one ...
Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M. +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
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Applied Sciences(1) Background: Commonly used anthropometric indices have limitations that discriminate their relevance. The subject of this research was to evaluate the health risks associated with body composition using the new weight-adjusted waist index (WWI).
Martina Gažarová +6 more
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Dry Eye Syndrome in the Practice of a Cataract Surgeon: A Clinical Case
OftalʹmologiâRelevance. Dry eye syndrome is an important medical and social problem due to its high prevalence and impact on visual functions in human daily life. In cataract surgery, the result of the operation and the patient’s satisfaction directly depends on the ...
N. V. Maychuk +3 more
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Uniformity Studies of Scintillator Tiles directly coupled to SiPMs for Imaging Calorimetry
, 2010 We present a novel geometry of scintillator tiles developed for fiberless coupling to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for applications in highly granular calorimeters.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the growing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in business, there is little research examining its effects on firm idiosyncratic risk (IR). This is an important issue for boards: as key conduits of firm–environment information flows via board interlock networks, traditional risk oversight functions are being increasingly augmented ...
Kerry Hudson, Robert E. Morgan
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Investigating the "CO2-premium" for Building Height
, 2015 Increased building heights entail greater structural loads, requiring increased material use. On this basis, literature has described a premium for building height consisting of additional material quantity, embodied energy, and/or embodied carbon. This thesis examines a so-called CO2-premium ; that is increased material greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
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Health Human Capital, Height and Wages in China [PDF]
We estimate the returns to height using data from 12 Chinese cities. We present both ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-stage least squares (TSLS) estimates.
Russell Smyth, Wenshu Gao
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