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Bringing Nuance to Real Estate Financialisation: Insights From Brazil

Area, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Real estate has re‐emerged as an object of inquiry in geography and urban studies in recent years, particularly through the lens of the financialisation debate. The literature on financialisation has extensively documented how finance has reshaped real estate markets, often prioritising short‐term rent extraction in ways that can undermine ...
Stefano Pagin, Daniel Sanfelici
wiley   +1 more source

Blurring Migrant Solidarity: Navigating the Troubled Regime of ‘Helping Others’ From the Urban Ground of Palermo

Area, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores migrant solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 so‐called ‘migration crisis’ from the ground of the Southern Italian ‘solidarity city’ of Palermo, building on ethnographic material collected across 2022/2023. It argues that migrant solidarity both resists and reproduces racialised borders, as it is never entirely and ...
Francesca Guarino
wiley   +1 more source

Low‐Carbon Transition and Active Management: Evidence From Emerging Market Funds

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous literature finds mixed evidence on the performance of emerging mutual funds and how investors are becoming more aware of investing in companies involved in low‐carbon emission activities. Given the opportunities that emerging markets and sustainable investing offer to active management, this study aims to fill a gap in the literature ...
Juan Carlos Matallín‐Sáez, Amparo Soler‐Domínguez, Diego Víctor de Mingo‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE IMPACT OF SFAS166/167 ON BANK LIQUIDITY AND LENDING

Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions
This study examines whether, and to what extent, SFAS166/167 changed the role of securitization in bank liquidity and lending activities. We compare the sensitivity of on-balance sheet loan growth to the loan portfolio liquidity index proposed by ...
QIUHONG ZHAO, DANA A. FORGIONE
doaj   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of Transnational Labour Migration Revisited from a Crisis Complex Perspective

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of crisis complex to analyse the relationship between labour migration and crisis from an institution‐ and process‐oriented perspective. Such an interrogation is timely, given the increasingly crisis‐prone dynamics shaping global labour systems and migration governance, including recruitment, skills recognition and
Ioana Jipa‐Muşat, Nicola Piper
wiley   +1 more source

Intangible Value Creation Through Teamwork

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2023, comprising 38,502 firm‐year observations, we find that collaboration culture positively correlates with intangible value creation. We identify corporate innovation and human capital as the mechanisms via which collaboration correlates with intangible value creation.
Sagarika Mishra, Dinh Hoang Bach Phan, Vuong Thao Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
wiley   +1 more source

The Interface Between the Securitization Act of 2004 and the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act of 2010

Journal of Legal Studies, 2018
The interface between securitization law and insolvency law is the central legal concern in designing securitization transactions. The complex structure of these transactions under the Securitization Act of 2004 should be understood within a specific ...
Geronimo Russell Stanley Q.
doaj   +1 more source