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ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of political connection on sanctions for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Using a sample of revealed FCPA sanctions and two alternative proxies for US firms’ political connections, we find a negative association between political connection and the severity of sanctions, an effect that ...
Kaishu Wu, Wenjia Yan
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La acuaponía es un sistema productivo cerrado que integra la técnica de la acuicultura con la hidroponía, es decir, la producción combinada de peces y plantas sin el uso del suelo.
Frankling Alexander Calero Montano +4 more
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Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory
Abstract In capitalistic societies the concepts of income and labour are inseparable, and as such, providing all citizens with an unconditional living wage is a contentious issue. Capitalist ideals that emphasize individual effort, competition, and financial prosperity have spurred tremendous economic growth but underestimate human motivation and have ...
Joshua L. Howard
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A Suspended Dialogue: The Revolution and the Visual Arts in Nicaragua [PDF]
Raul Quintanilla
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Embracing a Multipolar World: Management and Organization Scholars and Varieties of Socialism
Abstract Despite the evolution to a multipolar economic world during the past three decades, management and organization scholars around the world still largely employ a capitalist view from the United States as the normal state, with scholars analysing other economic contexts as some variation of such capitalism.
Garry D. Bruton +2 more
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Como alternativa de solución ante la problemática de contaminación por metales pesados en residuos de minería, el presente artículo evalúa la capacidad de la Mimosa púdica, planta autóctona de la región central de Nicaragua, para fitorremediar suelos ...
Maybis Eugenia López Hernández +2 more
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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Robust Bernoulli Mixture Models for Credit Portfolio Risk
ABSTRACT This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing in a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions on conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison ...
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
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