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Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas, João L. Saraiva, Eliane Gonçalves‐de‐Freitas, Pablo Arechavala‐Lopez, Bernice Bovenkerk, Michael Breen, Steven J. Cooke, Martin Føre, Lene Northwood, Lars Helge Stien, Sunil Kadri, Chris Noble, Jonatan Nilsson, Fernando Rodriguez, Cosme Salas, Peter Sandøe, Hans van de Vis   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

EU ETS Market Expectations and Rational Bubbles

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) experienced sharp allowance price increases from 2018 onward, prompting claims that rational bubbles were driving the surge. We reassess this hypothesis using expectations based on futures prices.
CHRISTOPH WEGENER, ROBINSON KRUSE‐BECHER, TONY KLEIN   +2 more
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Quantitative Tightening Around the Globe: What Have We Learned?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We use recent cross‐country experiences to assess the impact of shrinking central bank balance sheets through quantitative tightening (QT). QT announcements increase government bond yields, steepening the yield curve and potentially signaling a greater commitment to raising policy interest rates, but have more limited effects on most other ...
WENXIN DU, KRISTIN FORBES, MATTHEW LUZZETTI   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms' Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does demand uncertainty affect firms' investment decisions? We examine this question in the context of electricity‐producing firms' planned investments in new power plants. We measure uncertainty about future electricity demand using plausibly exogenous variation in temperature projections across scientific climate models. The results show
CHEN LIN, THOMAS SCHMID, MICHAEL S. WEISBACH   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MCiANT: A Monte Carlo inspired auction mechanism for health data NFT trading

Alexandria Engineering Journal
Auctions play a vital role in modern commerce by offering a transparent, structured, and competitive method for trading goods, services, and data. However, traditional in-person auctions are limited in terms of accessibility, convenience, security, and ...
Bhabani Sankar Samantray, K. Hemant Kumar Reddy   +1 more
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Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11?

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A majority of small U.S. businesses attempting to reorganize in bankruptcy fail to do so. Subchapter V of Chapter 11 (SubV) streamlines bankruptcy for small firms by reducing bankruptcy costs and negotiation frictions, and enables entrepreneurs to retain ownership.
EDITH HOTCHKISS, BENJAMIN IVERSON, XIANG ZHENG   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On joint distribution of bids in some k-th price auction model

Quantitative Methods in Economics
In the era of increasingly widespread use of electronic communication tools, constant growth of e-commerce turnover is hardly surprising. One of its mechanisms are online auctions whose turnover, on a global scale, is enormous.
Michał Stachura, Barbara Wodecka
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Simple Ratings

The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study optimal simple rating systems that partition sellers into a finite number of tiers. We show that optimal ratings must be threshold partitions, and that for linear supply and Cournot competition with constant marginal cost, optimal thresholds solve a k‐means clustering problem requiring only the quality distribution.
Hugo Hopenhayn, Maryam Saeedi
wiley   +1 more source

Enforcing intellectual property rights in metaverse gaming platforms: The next steps for the EU's metaverse agenda

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article delineates a comprehensive framework for the achievement of effective metaverse governance that reflects the EU's current metaverse agenda and promotes respect for intellectual property rights. To do so, this article follows a two‐strand methodology. It engages in a doctrinal legal analysis and a policy‐oriented assessment.
Zoi Krokida, Ioanna Lapatoura
wiley   +1 more source

What's in a Promise?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source