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Manufactured Intimacy: Relational Ecology and the Case of Married at First Sight
ABSTRACT Objective To develop a conceptual explanation for why the Married at First Sight (MAFS) television format reports relationship retention rates markedly below other documented pathways to partnership. Background Longitudinal evidence indicates that, once the era of meeting is controlled for, the pathway of formation has little independent ...
Neil Wilkie
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Explanations for Cross‐Sectional Return Anomalies: Evidence on the IVOL Puzzle
ABSTRACT Considering the time‐series dimension alongside the cross‐sectional dimension helps to almost entirely account for the idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) puzzle. Based on a purely cross‐sectional approach, the previous literature shows that numerous candidate theories collectively fail to explain the puzzling finding that high‐IVOL stocks ...
Fabian Hollstein +2 more
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A Century and a Quarter of Stock Market Liquidity and Trading Costs
ABSTRACT A widely cited working paper from the 2000s, now published (Jones, 2026), documents a substantial decline in trading costs and a positive relation between bid–ask spreads and excess returns from 1900 to 2000. We update the analysis and find that over the next quarter century, turnover surges, spreads decline sharply and subsequently cluster ...
Marc L. Lipson, Jiang Zhang
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Firm Size and Momentum Returns: The Roles of Analyst Coverage and Herding Behavior
ABSTRACT Momentum strategies have historically generated excess returns, but their effectiveness noticeably deteriorated in the post‐pandemic period, especially in 2022–23. In this paper, we explore how changes in investor attention during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic may have altered the performance of momentum strategies.
Yiyi Zhang, He He, Qian Guo, Jing Chen
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Maternal Emotions at Work: A Case Study of Ireland and India
ABSTRACT Emotional experiences associated specifically with maternal status at work are explored in a comparative case study of Ireland and India. Twenty‐four mothers working in the creative industries in Ireland and the IT sector in India were interviewed.
Anne O’ Brien, Ketoki Mazumdar
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ABSTRACT Drawing on Gendered Opportunity Structures Theory (Ely and Meyerson), this cross‐national qualitative study examines how formal policies, informal practices, and symbolic cultural narratives jointly configure employer support across three phases of the maternity transition—before leave, during leave, and after leave—in Brazil and the United ...
Letícia Maria Barbano +1 more
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A Quantile Model of Firm Investment
ABSTRACT Are firms risk averse? We propose a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitudes through quantile preferences. The firm maximizes its present value, defined as current profits and investment plus the discounted value of the τ$\tau$‐quantile of its value next period.
Heitor Almeida +3 more
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ABSTRACT Proponents of mandatory auditing claim that auditing reduces the risk of tax evasion and that firms disregarding tax payments distort competition because they operate with lower costs than firms that meet their tax obligations. To investigate this, we analyse data from a credit reference agency to examine whether unaudited firms are more ...
Irina Alexeyeva +5 more
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Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
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Abstract This comparative literature review explores how an expanding body of interdisciplinary post‐growth literature aligns, extends or challenges ecocentric Corporate Sustainability (eCS) research in management (i.e., rooted in systems thinking, emphasising planetary boundaries, ecological limits and embeddedness).
Gianluigi Narciso, Yanfei Hu
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