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Beyond Sporting Talent: Other Determinants of Football Clubs’ Wage Bills

Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article delves into the understanding of how football clubs determine wage bills to compensate talent. Using data from first‐division teams in elite European leagues, we estimate wage models based on indicators of sporting performance, “Elo ratings” as a proxy for clubs’ historical achievements and brand strength, and “media visibility ...
Alice Aguiar‐Noury, Pedro Garcia‐del‐Barrio   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Policies and Civil Conflict: “Italian” Perspectives on the French Wars of Religion

Religions
This paper investigates the complex relations between the Italian states, particularly Venice and Florence, and France at the beginning (c. 1560–1565) of the French Wars of Religion (c. 1560–1598).
Daniele Santarelli
doaj   +1 more source

The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

Voices from Conflicts: Voice-Over and Simil Sync in Italian Television News Reports

Lingue Culture Mediazioni
This article aims to show how Italian national newscasts portray private individuals who are witnesses of wars. Based on the difference between voice-over and simil sync, this article investigates how and when these audiovisual translation modalities are
Valentina Di Francesco
doaj   +1 more source

Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten, Abdirahman Edle, Jethro Norman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
wiley   +1 more source

“Italians and not Italians”. Fascism and national identity in post-war Italian cinema

, 2021
One of the themes at the heart of the collective debate in the years following the war was the question of responsibility. In Italy a publicly accepted version of past events was soon pieced together. This showed the desire within society and the political parties to remove Fascism as a significant component of the national identity.
openaire   +1 more source

Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi, Stefan O. Houpt, Miguel Artola Blanco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics' [PDF]

This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major 'institutional' international-trade models, none of which has yet fully received the attention that it deserves, to provide a new explanation for the growth, decline, and then rebirth of
John H. Munro
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