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An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory,
Elias Maritan +4 more
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers [PDF]
This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the search intensity of risk-averse workers (the agents) is not observed by the risk-neutral insurance agency (the principal).
Jean-Olivier Hairault +3 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them?
This paper discusses the financial risks faced by the UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and what, if anything, it can do about them. It draws lessons from the regulatory regimes under which other financial institutions, such as banks and insurance ...
Cotter, John, Blake, David, Dowd, Kevin
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Pension Insurance Data Book 1998
, 1999 [Excerpt] The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) was established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that participants in defined benefit plans receive their pensions even if their plans terminate without sufficient ...
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Optimal Investment Strategies and Performance Sharing Rules for Pension Schemes with Minimum Guarantee [PDF]
There is a potential conflict of interest between a pension fund sponsor and future pensioners when they share unequally in the pension fund performance.
Jacques Pézier, Johanna Scheller
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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 47-78, March 2025.ABSTRACT Professional accounting bodies in Canada and the United States, and throughout the world, have funded programs to improve financial literacy for many years. This ongoing interest stems from the expected benefits of improved financial behavior for individuals, society, and financial markets.
Folasade Adesina +2 more
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THE PUBLIC PENSION SYSTEM COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ROMANIA AND GERMANY [PDF]
Pensions are the main form of protection to citizens by the state social insurance. This paper aims to build a comparative study of the main categories of pension granted in the public pension system - the old-age pension in Romania and Germany.
Stela Aurelia Toader
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Abacus, EarlyView.Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
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