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Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
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Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how uncertainty affects mobile money adoption and use by informal businesses. Despite the prevalence of the informal sector in developing countries and the recognized potential of mobile money for financial inclusion, empirical research on its adoption and usage among unregistered businesses is limited.
Serge Stéphane Ky, Clovis Rugemintwari
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Unconventional Fiscal Policies in Response to Inflation: The Iberian Exception in Portugal
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The surge in Eurozone inflation in 2022 compelled European governments to implement unconventional fiscal policies. One initiative, the Iberian Exception, imposed a cap on the cost of natural gas used for electricity generation in Portugal and Spain.
Lourenço Cerdeira +2 more
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Triangular bounded consistency of fuzzy preference relations [PDF]
, 2018 There are typically two types of consistency of fuzzy preference relations (FPR), namely additive and multiplicative consistency. They are defined based on the assumption that decision makers are rational and can provide strictly consistent FPRs. To take
Chang, Wen-jun +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article offers a theoretical analysis, grounded in a critical narrative review within the Freudian‐Lacanian tradition, of how platform algorithms shape contemporary forms of subjectivity and raise new questions for psychoanalytic practice.
Mariana Salles Kehl, Heloisa Caldas
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Gender, Social Networks, and Voting Behavior [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines how interpersonal social networks help explain the voting behavior of men and women. We argue that the gender gap in voting is influenced by the partisan and gender composition of networks, rather than just the latter.
McClurg, Scott D. +2 more
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Interval-valued 2-tuple hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set and its application in multiple attribute decision making [PDF]
, 2018 [EN] The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets can retain the completeness of linguistic information elicitation by assigning a set of possible linguistic terms to a qualitative variable.
Liao, Huchang +3 more
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Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1764-1792, June 2026.Abstract Research Summary Board human capital theory posits that directors' skills shape firm behavior. Most studies, however, examine one skill type at a time, assuming that each director contributes independently of the other skills represented on the board.
Stevo Pavićević +2 more
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Consistency measures of linguistic preference relations with hedges [PDF]
, 2018 Modeling linguistic information is vital for qualitative decision making (QDM). Compared with single linguistic terms, the complex linguistic expressions (CLEs) are more powerful and flexible to express linguistic opinions under uncertainties.
Liao, Huchang +3 more
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2026.Abstract The proliferation of conspiracy theories online has tangible offline consequences, both on an individual and collective level. Conspiracy narratives have been associated with reduced belief in democracy, the rise of populist parties, and can act as a radicalization multiplier in such contexts.
Darja Wischerath +3 more
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