Mobilizing the banking sector for universal health coverage: a new frontier for public-private partnerships. [PDF]
Obi CG, Uzor FU.
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Mutual fund director compensation
Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams +2 more
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Informal workers' perceptions of retirement planning in developing countries. [PDF]
Prasad NS, Prakash A, Kumar NN.
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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Subgroup disparities in the mediating roles of income and social support between education level and depressive symptoms among Chinese middle-aged and older adults: an analysis based on the China health and retirement longitudinal study. [PDF]
Wang W, Fan Y, Ma C.
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment
Abstract We examine whether insiders can exploit public information to increase their trading profitability. By exploiting, as a quasi‐natural experiment, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), announced in the U.S. in March 2021 and implemented in November 2021, we provide evidence that insiders earn higher profits when government investment plans ...
Dimitris Petmezas +3 more
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Does the reform of equalization of basic public services affect residents' sense of safety?-A case from China. [PDF]
Han Z.
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Bank Opacity and Safe Asset Moneyness
Abstract A bank is more effective as a supplier of money‐like safe assets when (i) its return on equity (ROE) is relatively lower and (ii) it is relatively more opaque about its balance sheet. A model is presented to support this, emphasizing that safe asset investors focus on the left tail of the collateral value distribution.
SANG RAE KIM
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Does public pension crowd out the participation of older adults in community volunteering? Evidence from China. [PDF]
Li ZY, Tang YY, Yang HL, Tang LL.
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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