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Labor hoarding and inventories [PDF]
Labor hoarding is a widely believed empirical behavior of firms and a prominent explanation for procyclical labor productivity. Conventional wisdom attributes labor hoarding to labor adjustment costs.
Yi Wen
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study a long‐horizon, oligopolistic market with random shocks to demand that can be arbitraged by two storage operators with finite capacity. This problem applies to any storable commodity—that is, most commodities. Because the arbitrage spread is so sensitive to market power, storage operators face strong incentives to restrain quantities ...
Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Hoarding of International Reserves: Mrs Machlup’s Wardrobe and the Joneses [PDF]
Motivated by the observed international reserve hoarding behavior in the post-1997 crisis period, we explore the Mrs Machlup’s wardrobe hypothesis and the related keeping up with the Joneses argument.
Xingwang Qian, Yin-Wong Cheung
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Hoarding Disorder Trough Three Case, A New Mental Disorder in DSM-5
Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2014 Compulsive hoarding is a problem characterized with excessive collection and accumulation, failure to discard the excess amount of collected items. Although it is considered to be a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder in DSMIV- TR (Diagnostic and ...
Süheyla DODAN BULUT +4 more
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Cash‐holding Benefits and Their Influence on Seasoned Equity Offering Decisions
Abacus, EarlyView.This study investigates the cash‐holding motivations of issuers with excess cash. It aims to explain why these issuers choose to accumulate even more cash through stock issuances rather than utilize their existing surplus. I assess three competing cash‐holding motivation hypotheses: whether issuers raise cash: (i) to fund the needs of future growth ...
Ebrahim Bazrafshan
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Aerospace Competitiveness: UK, US and Europe [PDF]
This paper assesses the UK aerospace industry’s competitiveness. Various statistical indicators are used to measure competitiveness, based on published data at the industry and firm level.
Derek Braddon, Keith Hartley
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Hoarding Behavior in the Elderly [PDF]
, 2012 Educational Objectives 1. Identify the medical and mental health factors that contribute to hoarding behavior. 2. Describe the unique aspects of hoarding in the elderly. 3.
Kellum, Henriette
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between ESG rating divergence and corporate excess cash holdings, employing a sample of Chinese A‐share listed companies from 2015 to 2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between ESG rating divergence and firms' excess cash holdings, a conclusion robust to various sensitivity ...
Qun Cao +3 more
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