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A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site‐level screening for biodiversity risks

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Site‐based industrial operations such as mining, oil and gas extraction and renewable energy development are associated with many direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Consideration of the full range of these impacts when selecting a buffer distance to approximate the Area of Influence (AoI) of a project is critical for effective ...
Divya Narain   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Investors’ Information‐acquisition Ability Affect IPO Underpricing? Evidence from a Quasi‐natural Experiment

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
Initial public offering (IPO) underpricing, driven by information asymmetry, is a prevalent and serious global phenomenon. In addition to the influence of information providers such as IPO firms, investors’ ability to acquire information may also significantly affect IPO underpricing.
Haipeng Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between state‐level political corruption and firm‐level insider trading in the United States. State corruption is proxied using Department of Justice court cases involving corrupt activities. The findings reveal a positive and statistically significant association between political corruption and insider ...
Ahmed Al‐Hadi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Market Testing and Market Policing: Illuminating the Fluid micro-Sociology of the Illegal Drug Supply Enterprise in Liquid Modernity

open access: yes, 2019
Understanding Scotland’s illegal drug market continues to challenge social scientists. Most evidently neglected are processes related to social supply, from supplier perspectives. When analyzing illegal drug markets, demand-based approaches, customarily sourcing drug users, grossly overlook supplier perspectives.
McLean, Robert   +2 more
openaire  

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

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