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The effect of private pension funds’ bidding on fees and competition

, 2016
This paper sheds light on the effect of bidding recent private pension funds on fees and competition. In order to accomplish the latter result, we used panel data of ten Latin American countries organized in quarters from 2005-2015. The reform of the private pension system in some countries in the region allows for the implementation of a mechanism of ...
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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
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X v The Lord Advocate: Challenges and Concerns for Vicarious Liability

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for torts committed by judges. This case note critically examines what could be viewed as two significant doctrinal shifts that were introduced by this ruling.
Haim Abraham
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Private Pension Funds in the Context of Digital Transformation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence
Abstract The digitalization of private pension fund management has become increasingly important, both for day-to-day operations and for investment and risk management activities. The pandemic clearly demonstrated the crucial role of IT systems, as they ensured continuity and helped maintain the smooth functioning of operations even ...
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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Pension Funds and FDI. Is there a Link?

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, 2019
The significant factors determining Foreign Direct Investments are trade openness, economic growth and the institutional profile of the country. Among the latter determinants, pension system privatization attracts foreign investors, as it gives them a ...
Marcin Brycz, Teresa Kamińska
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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STATE PENSION FUND «PROMAGROFOND» AND ITS PLACE IN PENSION RUSSIA

RUDN Journal of Engineering Research, 2015
The article discusses the work of private pension funds “PROMAGROFOND”. Shown his place in the pension system in Russia. Particular attention is paid to the placement of the fund’s assets in the various organizations of the Russian Federation . Describes
A B Bogoslovskya, Y N Arefyeva
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