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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan, Saqib Aziz, Akanksha Jalan, Fazal Muhammad, Dhoha Trabelsi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legal Institute of Health Care Chaplaincy in Ukraine

Kościół i Prawo
The article is devoted to the legal regulation analysis of professional chaplaincy integration into the healthcare institutions of Ukraine, the identification of the main steps to be taken in the cooperative relations between state authorities and ...
Oleksandr Bilash, Nataliia Rosul
doaj   +1 more source

The Sector Liquidity Timing Ability of Bond Mutual Funds

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate whether bond mutual fund managers exhibit market liquidity timing skills in the U.S. corporate bond market. At the portfolio level, we find only weak evidence that bond funds adjust their overall market exposure in anticipation of changes in corporate bond market liquidity.
Zhengnan Yin, Niall O'Sullivan, Meadhbh Sherman, Yuting Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Development Under Economic Sanctions: Short‐Run Market Responses and Long‐Run Institutional Adjustment

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how the financial development of the target economy evolves under the long‐lasting economic sanctions, emphasizing the temporal patterns of the impact. Using panel data for 136 economies from 1980 to 2021 and an event‐study approach, we identified a temporal pattern that illustrates how economic sanctions exert a ...
Yu Jiang, Xue Meng
wiley   +1 more source

The Protective Paradox: Can School Connectedness Buffer Socioeconomic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health?

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established factor influencing adolescents’ mental health, as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and poorer overall wellbeing. One factor that may help protect students from these negative outcomes is school connectedness which is the ...
Esther Ariyo, Amurtiya Michael, Cindy Oreoluwa Ajala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hope deferred, humanity diminished? An ethnographic enquiry into the improvement of pastoral care offered to those serving an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) [PDF]

, 2020
This thesis represents research undertaken as part of a professional doctorate programme by a prison chaplain employed in Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Beedon, David Kirk
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Social Competence and Moderate Learning Difficulties: a Comparative Study of Pastoral Care in Mainstream and Special Secondary Schools

This study is concerned with the pastoral care of pupils with Moderate Learning Difficulties in special and mainstream secondary schools. It explores the relationship between pastoral care and social outcomes.
Ramshaw, Elizabeth
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Assessing the Impact of Strategic and Organizational Factors on Digital Capabilities

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital Transformation (DT) involves the use of new digital technologies to enable major business improvements that enhance customer experience, accelerate operations, create new business models, and improve the daily operations of companies.
Fátima Guadamillas, María Isabel González‐Ramos, Beatriz Ortiz, Mario J. Donate   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pastoral Care at School?

, 2016
Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit dem neuen Konzept von „Schulseelsorge“, das in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland im Hinblick auf die öffentlichen Schulen entwickelt wurde.
Meyer-Blanck, Michael
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Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: Land Management–Based Strategies Within a Nature‐Based Solutions Framework

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses serious threats to food security by affecting agricultural production processes in multiple ways. This study aims to analyze land management–based solution strategies that can be developed in response to this threat and presents a systematic and holistic framework through the relationship these strategies establish with ...
Nihal Genc, H. Ebru Colak
wiley   +1 more source