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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Political Elites as an Object of Coercive Influence in Contemporary World Politics

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015
: The article discusses the trend of securitization of the political elite as a reaction to strengthening of coercive influence upon these elites in terms of consolidation and strengthening of confrontation between different civilizations.
Alexey I. Podberezkin, Maxim V. Kharkevich   +1 more
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ESG Approaches in Securitization Transactions [PDF]

Финансовый журнал
The spread of the sustainable development concept has given rise to sustainable finance, as well as the infrastructure of the financial and consulting industry of valuations, verifications and various databases in the field of ESG.
Natalya A. Khutorova
doaj   +1 more source

AN URBAN MARKETPLACE UNDER PRESSURE: The Steady Gentrification Process of Porta Palazzo (Turin) Through the Eyes of Market Sellers and Policy Makers

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
wiley   +1 more source

About motives behind Securitization and its Implications: An Overview of Empirical Findings

Contemporary Economics, 2010
This article reviews empirical findings concerning motives behind securitization and its implications. It turns out that the main reasons for securitization are: earnings management, regulatory capital arbitrage, liquidity management and funding problems.
Krzysztof Jackowicz
doaj  

Just and unjust securitization of migration: a comparative analysis of migration to Poland from MENA countries and Ukraine

Frontiers in Political Science
Much research confirms that the country of origin of migrants (refugees), as well as their religion, determines the approach of the destination country society to newcomers.
Paulina Polko
doaj   +1 more source

Purging Minds Through Silencing Voices: Academic Freedom Under Islamic Republic of Iran's Security Apparatus Aftermath of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

INNOVATION FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IN SERBIAN CAPITAL MARKETSECURITIZATION MORTGAGE LOANS

Acta Economica, 2010
This work deals with legal and institutional presumptions and limits of the application of financial innovation of securitization on the market of the capital of Serbia.
Драган М. Момировић, PhD
doaj  

The importance of considering regimes in long‐term asset allocation to real estate

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate the long‐term, regime‐dependent asset allocation of an investor's wealth in a mixed‐asset portfolio that includes publicly traded real estate. We show that augmenting standard VAR models with Markov‐switching features not only improves predictive power for asset returns but also introduces economically meaningful horizon effects
Massimo Guidolin, Mingwei (Max) Liang, Milena Petrova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Securitization, three streams model and biodiversity in the Global South: A case study of Western Ghats of India

Earth System Governance
Biodiversity conservation is one of the most contentious issues in the Global South, particularly political authority's methods and objectives of managing conservation.
Justin Joseph, Anjan Kumar Sahu, Juha Vuori   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source