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Responsible Banking Under Twin Transition: FinTech M&As, ESG Strategy, and Bank Performance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how banking innovation strategies, namely FinTech M&As and ESG practices, affect bank performance under rising competitive pressures and regulatory complexity. Using a unique dataset of 543 listed banks across 49 countries from 2000 to 2023, we analyse whether these strategic investments enhance banks' profitability ...
G. B. Ferilli, Y. Altunbas, E. Palmieri
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Inclusive Leadership and CEO Gender: The Role of Tenure and Education in an Emerging Economy

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender inequality in corporate leadership remains a critical challenge, particularly in emerging economies where institutional constraints shape access to top executive positions. This study examines firm performance differences between women and men CEOs in Ecuador, focusing on the moderating roles of tenure and formal education.
K. N. González‐Soto, R. Samaniego‐Medina, P. Giráldez‐Puig   +2 more
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Contemporary challenges in model misspecification

2024In contemporary practical applications, the significance of model misspecification has grown notably in many fields. When statistical inferences are based on likelihoods, model misspecification can give rise to inaccurate uncertainty quantification ...
Li, Jiawei
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Investigating item complexity as a source of cross-national DIF in TIMSS math and science

Large-scale Assessments in Education
Background Large scale international assessments depend on invariance of measurement across countries. An important consideration when observing cross-national differential item functioning (DIF) is whether the DIF actually reflects a source of bias, or ...
Qi Huang, Daniel M. Bolt, Weicong Lyu
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DSGE Estimation Using Generalized Empirical Likelihood and Generalized Minimum Contrast

Entropy
We investigate the performance of estimators of the generalized empirical likelihood and minimum contrast families in the estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular attention to the robustness properties under ...
Gilberto Boaretto, Márcio Poletti Laurini   +1 more
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Winning Consumer Trust Through Supply Chain Responsibility Communication: How Certification, Disclosure, and Beneficiary Framing Shape Credibility

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As stakeholders increasingly demand supply chain transparency, companies face a legitimacy paradox: disclosing supply chain responsibility (SR) information is necessary to meet stakeholder expectations, yet disclosure can invite scrutiny rather than build credibility.
Julia Hartmann
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A Cautionary Tale of Model Misspecification and Identifiability

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Mathematical models are routinely applied to interpret biological data, with common goals that include both prediction and parameter estimation. A challenge in mathematical biology, in particular, is that models are often complex and non-identifiable, while data are limited.
Alexander P. Browning, Jennifer A. Flegg, Ryan J. Murphy   +2 more
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Structural Validity of a Short Form of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire in Adolescents Diagnosed With an Eating Disorder

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to assess the structural validity and readability of a brief 7‐item version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (the EDE‐Q7) among adolescents. Method Latent variable analysis was used in a sample of 263 adolescents (age range = 13–17.99y) diagnosed with an eating disorder and recruited from treatment ...
Paul E. Jenkins, Sasha Gorrell, Erin C. Accurso, Sarah Eckhardt, Elizabeth K. Hughes, Daniel Le Grange, Susan M. Sawyer, Renee D. Rienecke   +7 more
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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario, Andrey Elster, Iwona Dudek, Katarzyna Jasko, David Webber, Ewa Szumowska, N. Pontus Leander, Maximilian Agostini, Jannis Kreienkamp, Gilda Sensales, Gabriele Di Cicco, Luis C. Jaume, Molly Ellenberg, Dylan Wollschalger, Arie W. Kruglanski   +14 more
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Spatial Econometrics Revisited: A Case Study of Land Values in Roanoke County [PDF]

Omitting spatial characteristics such as proximity to amenities from hedonic land value models may lead to spatial autocorrelation and biased and inefficient estimators.
McGuirk, Anya M., Bosch, Darrell J., Kaltsas, Ioannis K.   +2 more
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