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An Empirical Analysis of Running-Behavior Influencing Factors for Crashes with Different Economic Losses

Urban Science
Miniature commercial trucks constitute a critical component of urban freight systems but face elevated crash risk due to distinctive driving patterns, frequent operation, and variable loads.
Peng Song, Yiping Wu, Hongpeng Zhang, Jian Rong, Ning Zhang, Jun Ma, Xiaoheng Sun   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

MORTGAGE INSURANCE AS A TOOL TO MAKE MORTGAGES MORE AFFORDABLE

Финансы: теория и практика, 2017
Nowadays, it is impossible to take out a mortgage without Private Mortgage Insurance. However, it is not obligatory for the borrower to insure against all the risks suggested by the bank.
G. T. Daraseliya
doaj  

Blockchain-Based Zero-Trust Supply Chain Security Integrated with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Inventory Optimization

Future Internet
Modern supply chain systems face significant challenges, including lack of transparency, inefficient inventory management, and vulnerability to disruptions and security threats.
Zhe Ma, Xuhesheng Chen, Tiejiang Sun, Xukang Wang, Ying Cheng Wu, Mengjie Zhou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protocol for an economic evaluation alongside the University Health Network Whiplash Intervention Trial: cost-effectiveness of education and activation, a rehabilitation program, and the legislated standard of care for acute whiplash injury in Ontario

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background Whiplash injury affects 83% of persons in a traffic collision and leads to whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). A major challenge facing health care decision makers is identifying cost-effective interventions due to lack of economic evidence ...
van der Velde Gabrielle, Côté Pierre, Bayoumi Ahmed M, Cassidy J David, Boyle Eleanor, Shearer Heather M, Stupar Maja, Jacobs Craig, Ammendolia Carlo, Carette Simon, van Tulder Maurits   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

From gateway to value ladder—The curious case of online mutual aid in China

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how InsurTech‐enabled information provision, specifically the disclosure of claimant information previously unavailable in conventional insurance, influences individuals' insurance uptake. We leverage Mutual Aid (MA) platforms as a natural context to examine how socially framed loss information, peer influence, and salience
Ze Chen, Runhuan Feng, Miao Guo, Tianyang Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of negative interest rates on European life insurance companies

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 2016 and 2022, life insurers in several European countries experienced negative long‐term interest rates, which put pressure on their business models. The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of negative interest rates on the stock performance of life insurers.
Nicolaus Grochola
wiley   +1 more source

Uninformative news, limited attention and institutional investors

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the universe of transaction‐level data in the U.S. corporate bond market around uninformative downgrades, we find an abnormal increase in trading volume, abnormal bond returns, and a subsequent reversal. On the contrary, we do not find a reversal for abnormal bond returns associated with informative rating actions.
Maria Efthymiou, Pingyi Lou, Andreas Milidonis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Responding to Regulatory Feedback: Financial Capacity, Revenue Expectations, and Firms' Responses to the Authority's Recommendations

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In various regulatory settings, firms receive feedback (i.e., firm‐specific private advice) from authorities on how to improve compliance. Although the literature sheds light on the authorities' decision of when to provide feedback, less is known about firms' decisions on how to respond.
Sanne R. van Duin, Henri C. Dekker, Juan P. Mendoza, Jacco L. Wielhouwer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Insurance on the Law of Torts [PDF]

, 1950
An experimental study of "Model-on-Demand" (MoD) identification is made on a pilot-scale brine-water mixing tank. MoD estimation is compared against semi-physical modeling techniques using identification data generated from a systematically designed m ...
Braun, M. W., McNamara, B. A., Rivera, Daniel E., Stenman, Anders   +3 more
core   +2 more sources