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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Social Credit: promising direction of further reforming of the Russian pension system

Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020
Russian pension system faced serious challenges. It’s distributive and insurance components can’t rich aims of pension system in the long-term because of high degree of dependence on demographic situation; it’s accumulative component - because of not ...
P. P. Goncharov
doaj  

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

BANK MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN ROMANIA AFTER 1989 [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2014
In this paper I proposed to myself to analyse the main bank acquisitions and mergers from Romania after 1989, causes that led to their appearance, their effects on the bank system and their future perspectives on the Romanian bank market.
Copil Crina Angela, , ,
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“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

A Structural Model of Mortgage Offset Accounts in the Australian Housing Market*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
I study a novel institutional feature of Australian housing markets: the widespread use of mortgage offset accounts. These accounts reduce mortgage interest costs and increase mortgage liquidity. I build a heterogeneous agent life‐cycle model of the Australian housing market to study who uses and benefits from these mortgage products.
James Graham
wiley   +1 more source

Peculiarities of the EU financial policy in the non-banking financial services market

Економіка, управління та адміністрування
The article focuses on analyzing the specific features of the European Union’s financial policy in the context of the non-banking financial services market.
H.A. Faraponov
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Evaluating the impact of the UK job retention scheme on mental health and well‐being using matched difference‐in‐differences

Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 2020, the UK government implemented the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, otherwise known as furlough, to minimise the impact of job losses. The UK furlough protected jobs during the COVID‐19 crisis, covering up to 80 per cent of a worker's monthly wage for hours not worked. We evaluate the causal effects of furlough on mental health,
Christopher Deeming, Lateef Akanni
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic (Inconsistent) Disclosures and Sophisticated Investors: Evidence from Hedge Funds

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent SEC regulations require that qualified hedge fund advisers provide their investors with narrative disclosures of their business and operations. We find that 40% of these disclosures omit or de‐emphasize information regarding advisers' operational and investment risks when compared to other sources of public information. Funds with such “
YICHANG LIU, JOSHUA MADSEN, FRANK S. ZHOU   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI, JUHA‐PEKKA KALLUNKI, WAYNE LANDSMAN, EMMA‐RIIKKA MYLLYMÄKI, LASSE NIEMI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source