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Toward a Greener Future: How and When Blockchain and Digitization Drive Green Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly affected small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and poses challenges in acquiring financing. Growing green investments require transformative infrastructure and innovative green financing solutions. Blockchain technology is ideal for delivering green environmental information because it provides real‐
Sikandar Rahman, Bailing Liu, Murad Ali, Sheikh Adeel, Dana Bakry, Saleh Bajaba, Mohammad Asif Salam, Hengky Latan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Agents: The New Politics of Recognition in Contemporary “Post-Race” Fiction

Lateral
What are the new racial politics of individual agency and collective recognition in a putatively “post-race” era defined, in large part, by platform capitalism’s increasingly pervasive technologies for identity management and securitization?
Maria Shivani Bose
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance business and social sustainability: A proposal [PDF]

Sustainability issues are emerging as a major focus for the insurance institutions, who have to face a number of challenges of the immediate future regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, climate changes, and catastrophic events ...
Trotta, Annarita, M. Sibillo, Di Lorenzo E., Di Lorenzo, Emilia, E. Di Lorenzo, A. Trotta, Piscopo, Gabriella, D'Amato, Valeria, Trotta A., D'Amato V., Sibillo, Marilena, V. D'Amato, Sibillo M., G. Piscopo, Piscopo G.   +14 more
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
wiley   +1 more source

Asset Securitization to Address Infrastructure Financing Gap in Indonesia [PDF]

, 2019
Given the pressing challenges on infrastructure financing in Indonesia amidst the nation's low fiscal capacity, innovative financing is needed to attract more private sector financing.
Andriansyah, Andriansyah, Adelia Surya, Pratiwi   +1 more
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Do Big Data Applications and Financial Innovation Lead to Enhanced Banking Performance? Evidence From the United Kingdom

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Big data and financial innovations are vital to enhancing the performance of banking institutions. However, limited evidence exists on the effects of big data applications and financial innovation on bank performance. This study addresses this gap by constructing a theoretical framework linking big data applications and financial innovations ...
Mandella Osei‐Assibey Bonsu, Yongsheng Guo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sector Liquidity Timing Ability of Bond Mutual Funds

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate whether bond mutual fund managers exhibit market liquidity timing skills in the U.S. corporate bond market. At the portfolio level, we find only weak evidence that bond funds adjust their overall market exposure in anticipation of changes in corporate bond market liquidity.
Zhengnan Yin, Niall O'Sullivan, Meadhbh Sherman, Yuting Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Banking on the Brink: The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis and R. K. Narayan’s Novel The Financial Expert

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014
According to Umberto Eco, «every story tells a story that has already been told» (Eco, 1985: 19). In this context, The Financial Expert, a novel written by R. K.
Devender Kumar
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