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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Differential effect of a distractor on primary saccades and perceptual localization

open access: bronze, 2002
Thomas Eggert   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Tax audits and the policing of corporate taxes: Insights from tax executives

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We interview public company tax executives to provide new evidence on how corporate taxpayers experience and navigate the income tax audit process. Interviewees describe being “targeted” by “tax police” and having to “defend” their positions. Thus, we adopt a structural metaphor of tax audits as police investigations and use a framework from ...
Jeri K. Seidman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peering into the world of wild passerines with 3D‐SOCS: Synchronized video capture and posture estimation

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Collection of large behavioural data‐sets on wild animals in natural habitats is vital in ecology and evolution studies. Recent progress in machine learning and computer vision, combined with inexpensive microcomputers, has unlocked a new frontier of fine‐scale markerless measurements.
Michael Chimento   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substitutes or complements? The effect of opening a food store on customer visits to neighborhood food stores

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the effects of new food store openings on customer traffic to incumbent stores using a modified difference‐in‐differences approach and cellphone location data from the contiguous United States in 2019. Analysis of both the intensive margin (total visit counts) and the extensive margin (unique visitors) reveals substantial ...
Modhurima Dey Amin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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