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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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Group-lending: Sequential financing, lender monitoring and joint liability [PDF]
We develop a simple model of group-lendingbased on peer monitoring and moral hazard. We find that, in the absence of sequential financing or lender monitoring, group-lending schemes may involve under-monitoring with the borrowers investing in undesirable
Prabal Roy Chowdhury
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Little is known about the impacts of the disclosure, or the non‐disclosure, of medical conditions associated with neurodiversity in the context of court proceedings and hearings before tribunals and commissions. This paper examines the experiences of twenty‐three Queensland Judges, Magistrates, and Tribunal and Commission Members with ...
Danielle Bozin +5 more
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A discussion on the ethical issues in peer-to-peer network monitoring [PDF]
, 2012 Peer-to-peer networks have gained a significant amount of popularity since their inception, being used in a wide variety of contexts; both legal and illegal.
Sabooniha, N. +4 more
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson +6 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com [PDF]
Using peer-to-peer (P2P) lending as an example, we show that learning by doing plays an important role in alleviating the information asymmetry between market players. Although the P2P platform (Prosper.com) discloses part of borrowers’ credit histories,
Seth M. Freedman, Ginger Zhe Jin
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How Media Represent Australian Indigenous Business: Comparing Australian and International Coverage
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Media representations of Indigenous business shape public perceptions, investor confidence and consumer demand, influencing how Indigenous enterprises are valued and understood. This Indigenous‐led study systematically reviews grey literature on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses published between 2006 and 2024 ...
Maria Raciti +3 more
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