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Do Female Directors Protect Employee Pension Benefits? Evidence on the Nexus Between Pensions and Dividends

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether female directors influence firms' allocation of internal funds between dividend payments and defined benefit (DB) pension funding. Using FTSE All‐Share firms from 2007 to 2021, we find that companies with a higher proportion of female directors exhibit stronger pension funding positions and, overall, maintain ...
Zezeng Li, Erhan Kilincarslan
wiley   +1 more source

Speed Bump and Stock Market Quality: Evidence From NYSE American

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Should trading speed of high‐frequency traders be regulated? Using the data from the New York Stock Exchange American, this paper examines the impact of a speed bump on market liquidity and price discovery. Our results indicate that the use of a speed bump can lower the costs of adverse selection through reducing informed trading.
Bo Liu, Ke Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting Maturity Data: Using Oocyte Diameter and Gonadosomatic Index to Retroactively Apply a New Maturity Scale to Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) is a deep‐water flatfish which lives at temperatures of 1°C–4°C and produces large eggs (> 3 mm). The combination of low temperatures and large eggs has resulted in an unusual ovary development cycle, with vitellogenesis taking more than 1 year.
James Kennedy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An ethnobiological study in Kala Chitta hills of Pothwar region, Pakistan: multinomial logit specification. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2014
Arshad M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Away from violence: A latent transition analysis on support for violent and non‐violent radicalization among adolescents

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Support for violent and non‐violent radicalization co‐exists in some, but not all, adolescents. Yet, little is known about how adolescents transition towards or away from violent and/or non‐violent radicalization over time. Within a socio‐ecological framework, this study investigates how Canadian adolescents move from profiles that support ...
Diana Miconi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Human Mobility Data for Applied Economic Research: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reviews how large‐scale mobility data can enhance economic analyses, highlighting its contributions to understanding travel behavior, labor markets, social interactions, and health outcomes. We discuss its advantages over traditional mobility data sources, which include real‐time location information and fine spatial resolution ...
Cristina Connolly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Determinants of Negotiated Pharmaceutical Prices

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We focus on the determinants of pharmaceutical drug prices. Using data from the Brazilian pharmaceutical market, we find large variations in drug prices across buyers, drug classes, and time periods. Our estimation results provide evidence that transaction‐specific determinants between buyers and sellers (e.g., transaction volume, buyer's ...
Ralph B. Siebert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From gateway to value ladder—The curious case of online mutual aid in China

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how InsurTech‐enabled information provision, specifically the disclosure of claimant information previously unavailable in conventional insurance, influences individuals' insurance uptake. We leverage Mutual Aid (MA) platforms as a natural context to examine how socially framed loss information, peer influence, and salience
Ze Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of ...
Man Xu, Paula England
wiley   +1 more source

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