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The Role of Uncertainty, Regulatory and Economic Environment and Quantitative Tightening in Banks’ Performance

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the implications of uncertainty, the regulatory and economic environment, and the monetary policy regime for bank performance. Employing multiple indicators of bank performance and underlying explanatory factors, we used a novel set of empirical approaches including Fixed Effects, Random Effects, Panel Fully Modified Least ...
Asma Nasim, Gareth Downing, Muhammad Ali Nasir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mergers and Acquisitions and Brexit: A Natural Experiment

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the impact of Brexit uncertainty on one of the most important forms of corporate investment: mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Brexit provides us with an ideal natural experiment to explore the real effects of economic uncertainty and understand the underlying transmission mechanism. We document a significant decline in the number of M&
Di Luo, Tapas Mishra, Mamata Parhi, Zhuang Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy [PDF]

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998.
Heshmati, Almas, Tausch, Arno
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Post‐9/11 Veterans Military‐to‐Civilian Transitions: Predictors of Mental Health Symptoms Over the First 3 Years

Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Many post‐9/11 veterans struggle with psychological symptoms as they transition to civilian life. Adverse childhood experiences, combat exposure, and deployment characteristics are factors associated with symptoms. This study examined changes in the predictive power of these factors over the first 3 years of the military‐to‐civilian ...
Mary M. Mitchell, Keith R. Aronson, Daniel F. Perkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing Flow State Therapeutically With Survivors and Refuges of War: An Existential‐Humanistic Approach

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors and refugees of war often have mental, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual consequences from undergoing civil unrest. In many cases, counselors utilize cognitively‐based therapies as the recommended treatment to alleviate these issues.
Isaac Burt, Luis A. Tosado II
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Mulching and Fungicides—Impacts on Structure and Function of the Soil Microbial Community

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Plastic mulching and fungicides are frequently applied agricultural practices in strawberry cultivation, which may have an impact on the structure and function of the soil microbiome. Aim To understand their combined effects on soil quality, this study investigated the impact of the fungicides fenhexamid, cyprodinil, and fludioxonil
Maximilian Meyer, Zacharias Steinmetz, Giselle Berenstein, Gabriele Ellen Schaumann, Katherine Muñoz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Grammatiki Vasileiadi, Dimitrios Lamprakis, Alexis Malliaris, Lucrezia Masci, Alessia Masi, Matthias Moros, Maria Papadaki, Cristiano Vignola, Pavlos Avramidis, Adam Izdebski   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A history of the Sahara in the nineteenth century [PDF]

, 1978
African Studies Center Working Paper No.
Baier, Stephen
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The Palestinian Conflict and the Further IT Use From the Greek and Turkish Hotels

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current conflict in Palestine substantially affects tourism and hotel operations in the Eastern Mediterranean. The study examines the Palestinian conflict's effect on the hotel industry's willingness to further use information technology (IT) as a means for handling the crisis.
Serkan Uzunogullari, Christina Karadimitriou, Nikolaos Pappas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is High‐Touch Enough? Personalization‐Supporting Technology in Hotel Service: A Data‐Driven Approach

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines personalization‐supporting technologies (PST) in hotel service, differentiating between high‐touch (personal) and high‐tech (digital) technologies. It reveals that in the sampled hotel industry, high‐touch technologies are the preferred choice.
Kitti Hiezl, Petra Gyurácz‐Németh
wiley   +1 more source