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Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa: A Concept Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Despite decades of research, we still know surprisingly little about how best to bring about lasting recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN). Furthermore, there is a lack of consensus in the research and treatment communities about what constitutes recovery from AN, or whether “recovery” is even an appropriate term to use in this context.
Sarah Ramsay, Kendra Allison
wiley   +1 more source

Causal association between circulating leukocyte characteristics and diabetic retinopathy based on two‐sample Mendelian randomization

open access: yesJournal of Diabetes Investigation, EarlyView.
A schematic representation of the two‐sample Mendelian randomization framework used to investigate the causal association between circulating leukocyte traits and diabetic retinopathy. ABSTRACT Aims/Introduction Leukocytes are implicated in the inflammatory cascades of diabetic retinopathy (DR), but their causal roles remain ambiguous.
Yan Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the effect of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) on cost of debt. Our difference‐in‐differences analyses reveal that the IDD significantly reduces the loan spread for borrowers in adopting states. To elucidate the mechanisms of such finding, we find that the IDD's effect is weaker in industries with high management turnover ...
Haiyan Jiang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interest Rate Pegs and the Reversal Puzzle: On the Role of Anticipation

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We revisit the reversal puzzle: a counterintuitive contraction of inflation in response to an interest rate peg. We show that its occurrence is intimately related to the degree of agents' anticipation. If agents perfectly anticipate the peg, reversals occur depending on the duration of the peg.
RAFAEL GERKE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate ESG Profiles and Investor Horizons

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We find that long‐term institutional investors tilt their portfolios toward firms with better Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) profiles, in the cross sections of both institutional investor portfolios and the ownership of firms. We test whether several theoretically motivated mechanisms can explain this relationship.
LAURA T. STARKS, PARTH VENKAT, QIFEI ZHU
wiley   +1 more source

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