Affiliated Mutual Funds: Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand?
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many countries, banks are the primary distribution channel for mutual funds and predominantly sell products issued by their own asset management divisions (“affiliated funds”). We examine how this lack of competition affects managerial activeness, fund performance, and investor outcomes.
Dominik Scheld +3 more
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Defining a Domain-Specific Language for Behavior Verification of Cyber-Physical Applications. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Panayiotou K +3 more
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Lender‐Affiliated Analysts and Syndicated Loans
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Loans to borrowers covered by affiliated analysts have lower spreads. This effect is driven mostly by affiliated analysts sharing information with, rather than demanding information from, lending arms. Exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in brokerage affiliations, we find that the results are likely to be causal.
Yongqiang Chu, Tao Ma, Cong (Roman) Wang
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Data Collection and Remote Control of an IoT Electronic Nose Using Web Services and the MQTT Protocol. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Pérez-Solano JJ, Ruiz-Canales A.
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
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Design and Implementation of ESP32-Based Edge Computing for Object Detection. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Chang YH, Wu FC, Lin HW.
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: “MICROANALYSIS AND SOCIAL HISTORY” (1977)*
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article published by Edoardo Grendi in the Italian journal Quaderni storici, which functioned as the incubator of Italian microhistory.
EDOARDO GRENDI
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Experimental dataset of video and radar detection for cooperative perception in urban environment. [PDF]
Data BriefFigueiredo A +8 more
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Intercultural Competence Development Through Tourism: A Study of Czech Visitors to France
International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross‐Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility ...
Renata Cuhlova +2 more
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DUA-MQTT: A Distributed High-Availability Message Communication Model for the Industrial Internet of Things. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Chai A +6 more
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