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That's Not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insurance serves as a social good, providing financial protection against disasters whilst operating within a profit‐driven market. This dual role highlights the complex intersection of social and commercial interests, raising a fairness puzzle often portrayed as a trade‐off between solidarity and actuarial fairness.
Konstantinos Chalkias, Paula Jarzabkowski, Mustafa Kavas, Elisabeth Krull   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entropy and Chaos-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Commodity Markets. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Georgescu I, Kinnunen J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Eliciting initial programme theories for a health research capacity strengthening initiative targeting African universities: A realist synthesis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mutua MN, Harding A, Mukumbang FC, Pulford J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: The convergence of AI, LLMs, and industry 4.0: enhancing BCI, HMI, and neuroscience research. [PDF]

Front Comput Neurosci
Asgher U.
europepmc   +1 more source

Human + AI in Accounting: Early Evidence from the Field

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides early evidence on the integration and impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in accounting at the accountant and task levels. Using survey data from 277 professional accountants, we document substantial heterogeneity in adoption patterns, perceived benefits, and concerns about GenAI.
Jung Ho Choi, Chloe L. Xie
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling stomatal mechanics: a critical review. [PDF]

New Phytol
Tan NYH, Armand JV, Gray JE, Fleming AJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

The importance of considering regimes in long‐term asset allocation to real estate

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate the long‐term, regime‐dependent asset allocation of an investor's wealth in a mixed‐asset portfolio that includes publicly traded real estate. We show that augmenting standard VAR models with Markov‐switching features not only improves predictive power for asset returns but also introduces economically meaningful horizon effects
Massimo Guidolin, Mingwei (Max) Liang, Milena Petrova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stock portfolio optimization using hill climbing and simple human learning optimization algorithms as a decision support system. [PDF]

MethodsX
Satpute SS, Adamuthe AC, Bagane P.
europepmc   +1 more source