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ABSTRACT We find that banking relationships built through institutional cross‐ownership influence the granting of loans as well as loan contract terms. Firms that are newly added to institutional cross‐owners' portfolios are more likely to borrow from banks that previously issued loans to other firms within the same portfolio.
Zhiming Ma +3 more
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Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets
Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill +2 more
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The String of Diamonds Is Tight for Rumor Spreading [PDF]
For a rumor spreading protocol, the spread time is defined as the first time that everyone learns the rumor. We compare the synchronous push&pull rumor spreading protocol with its asynchronous variant, and show that for any n-vertex graph and any ...
Mehrabian, Abbas +2 more
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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A fuzzy rumor spreading model based on transmission capacity
This paper proposes a rumor spreading model that considers three main factors: the event importance, event ambiguity, and the publics critical sense, each of which are defined by decision makers using linguistic descriptions and then transformed into ...
Yi Zhang, Yue Wu, Jiuping Xu
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Impact of Rumor Spreading in a ‘Small World’ Social Network on Pricing Decision
: This paper adopts methodology of multi-agent based modeling to represent rumor spreading on small-world social network and to address impacts of rumor on pricing decision and profit of supplier.
Feng, Li, Ying, Wei
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Safe to Speak, Teach, and Research? Experiences of Reprisals in Danish Academia
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Liv Bjerre +6 more
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Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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