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Going for Broke: Bank Reputation and the Performance of Opaque Securities

The Journal of Finance, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 3263-3312, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Can banks’ reputational concerns improve the quality of opaque, off‐balance sheet securities, such as mortgage‐backed securities? We study this question in a uniquely parsimonious setting. In the 1760s, Dutch banking partnerships securitized West‐Indian plantation mortgages that were risky and opaque.
ABE DE JONG, TIM KOOIJMANS, PETER KOUDIJS   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shared governance as a pathway to regional cooperation and development through the ItaipuCorpus

Development Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2025.
Abstract Motivation Cross‐border cooperation remains a critical challenge for sustainable development in regions marked by historical rivalries, geopolitical asymmetries, and socioenvironmental vulnerabilities. The Itaipu Binacional Hydroelectric Plant, jointly governed by Brazil and Paraguay, offers a unique case for examining how shared governance ...
Júlia Souza Luiz, Marina Rodrigues Mesquita   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Effect of Plain Terminology on Processing and Comprehension of Administrative Texts in Spanish: A Self‐Paced Reading Experiment

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 659-671, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts.
Sabela Fernández‐Silva, Juan Antonio Núñez Cortés   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 152-178, February 2025.
Abstract We examine the Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 financial crisis using the British experience in the same episode as comparative context. We conclude that, notwithstanding some direct exposures by Amsterdam institutions to the principals of the London crisis, the main linkage between the two outbreaks was the requirement for cash margin on loans ...
Stein Berre, Paul Kosmetatos
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.
Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
wiley   +1 more source

Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham

History, Volume 109, Issue 384-385, Page 34-58, April 2024.
Abstract Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third.
A.T. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the Chains of Paper: Pioneering Electronic Notary Protocol Storage as the Dawn of a New Era in National Notarial Law

Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies
The Notary Protocol is a collection of documents constituting state archives that must be preserved and maintained by notaries in accordance with statutory provisions.
Y. A. Mannas, A. Fendri, Wisnhu Agung Baroto   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Legal Reconstruction of Electronic Storage for Notarial Deeds Minute Based on the Value of Justice

Scholars International Journal of Law Crime and Justice
The objectives of this research are to analyze and find weaknesses in the current regulations for storing notarial deed minutes and to find a reconstruction of regulations on the legality of electronically storing minutes of notarial deeds based on the ...
Lydia Amelia, G. Gunarto, Anis Mashdurohatun   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digitalizing Notarial Practices: Law Number 2 of 2014 Study

Notaire
Cyber notary is proposed as a concept that can help notaries in their work more efficiently. However, problems will arise if the concept of cyber notary is linked to the UUJN which is the basis for notaries. This is what underlies this research.
A. A. Muhtar, Indrati Rini, Universitas Narotama, Surabaya   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source