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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
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Investing at home and abroad: different costs, different people? [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate US households’ direct investment in stocks, bonds and liquid accounts and their foreign counterparts, in order to identify the different participation hurdles affecting asset investment domestically and overseas. To this end, we estimate a
Christelis, Dimitris +1 more
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The Spillover Effect of Media Ownership on Mainstream Media Discourse
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the spillover effect of a firm's media ownership on reporting by unaffiliated mainstream media outlets, using a sample of Chinese publicly listed firms. We find that firms with ownership stakes in media companies receive more coverage and more positive tones from unaffiliated mainstream media outlets than other firms ...
Xin Yu, Shijun Guo, Robert Faff
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsHeat-tolerant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) can be used to alleviate the impact of climate variability, increase productivity, and increase income of smallholder vegetable farmers under tropical conditions.
Bright O. Asante +6 more
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Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, EarlyView.Abstract Objective The current study aimed to evaluate the remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) wearable device over 3 years, assessing the potential for tachyphylaxis, consistent effectiveness, overall utilization patterns, and safety. Background Migraine is a highly prevalent chronic neurological disease, especially during peak years of ...
Stephanie J. Nahas +7 more
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Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models [PDF]
Estimation of marginal or partial effects of covariates x on various conditional parameters or functionals is often the main target of applied microeconometric analysis.
Mullahy, John
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Multiple Comparisons using Composite Likelihood in Clustered Data [PDF]
, 2015 We study the problem of multiple hypothesis testing for multidimensional data when inter-correlations are present. The problem of multiple comparisons is common in many applications.
Azadbakhsh, Mahdis +2 more
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Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Willingness to Start Agritourism in Rural Nepal
Open Agriculture, 2019 Agritourism in developing countries is regarded as a tool not only for rural development but also for poverty alleviation. However, up until now, the majority of the studies on agritourism have been conducted in economically strong countries, focusing on
Bhatta Kumar +2 more
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Search and Inventory in Over‐the‐Counter Markets
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the sources of the dealer centrality premium in the over‐the‐counter market for corporate bonds. We model dealer heterogeneity by allowing the dealer's status in the network to determine search effort and inventory costs when choosing to conduct riskless principal or principal trades.
Evan Dudley, Hongfei Sun, Chengjie Diao
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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison [PDF]
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory.
Lauer, Charlotte
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