Disparities in access to systemic therapies for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: an analysis from the International Liver Cancer Association. [PDF]
Allaire M +13 more
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Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in U.S. transportation infrastructure, resulting in widespread project delays, suspensions, and cancellations. In response, borrowers turned to refinancing to mitigate revenue shortfalls and benefit from historically low interest rates. This paper analyzes the surge in refinancing activity
Muhammet Mustafa Sever +2 more
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Electrifying long-haul freight trucks reduces societal costs in the United States. [PDF]
Porzio J +5 more
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When Public Budgets Break Bad: Administrative Fines as Hidden Taxation Under Fiscal Pressure
Abstract Do fiscally stressed governments turn administrative fines into hidden taxation? After the 2021 collapse of land‐transfer revenue removed local budgets' own‐source income, we compare Chinese cities with differing exposure to this common shock, using 20 million penalty records processed with a fine‐tuned language model.
Shenghua Lu, Hui Wang
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Primary health care policy investments in the Latin America context: Health systems experiences from Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. [PDF]
Massuda A +3 more
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ABSTRACT A recent raft of due diligence regulation (DDR) addressing social and environmental conditions in global value chains (GVCs) has spread across the UK and Europe. An emerging literature on DDR highlights the politics of its formation. Yet, we know little about how existing sustainability governance along GVCs interacts with DDR or the wider ...
Matthew Alford +4 more
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Synergistic emission reduction mechanism of command-and-control and market-based incentives: an empirical study based on core firms in supply chains. [PDF]
Wang L, Li R, Wang C, Li C.
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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The financial burden of cancer: A longitudinal analysis of out-of-pocket healthcare costs in Australia (2009-2021). [PDF]
Ali MA, Lu CY.
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ABSTRACT Platform companies like Uber and Airbnb are depicted as agile policy entrepreneurs who can navigate the boundaries of regulatory frameworks and manipulate regulations to their advantage; however, recent empirical studies suggest that their capacity to influence policy depends on the particular political and institutional context.
Eliska Drapalova, Kai Wegrich
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