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Securitization of Longevity and Mortality Risk [PDF]

This paper deals with Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) through the securitization of longevity and mortality risks in pension plans and commercial life insurance. Various types of such mortality-linked securities are described (e.g., CATM bonds, longevity
Tomas Cipra
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
wiley   +1 more source

Why Settle for the Status Quo? A Critical Assessment of Pension Liability Measurement Under IFRS and US GAAP

Abacus, EarlyView.
Relevance and faithful representation are identified by standard‐setters as fundamental qualitative characteristics for useful accounting information. We critically assess whether current pension measurement guidance under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) results in pension ...
Divya Anantharaman, Darren Henderson
wiley   +1 more source

When property becomes rent

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Policy: Developing a Market-based Housing Finance System [PDF]

With housing policy declared as a priority policy concern of the Estrada administration, it is only logical to expect that an effective and sustainable housing finance system to put more teeth into such pronouncement is set in place.
Basilio, Leilanie Q., Llanto, Gilberto M.   +1 more
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Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The main claim of the paper is that displaced people mediate affective processes that aim to shape their movements, and that such mediations are critical for understanding: the importance of sensory relations and spaces of movement that might otherwise remain obscure; the ways to challenge affective politics; and the relationship among ...
SUZAN ILCAN
wiley   +1 more source

Markets, Systemic Risk, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis [PDF]

, 2008
The recent subprime mortgage meltdown is undermining financial market stability and has the potential to cause a true systemic breakdown, collapsing the world\u27s financial systems like a row of dominoes.
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies

Area, EarlyView.
Abstract This intervention has three aims: (1) to consider how solidarities are being policed in the academy; (2) how friendships and solidarities emerge in practices of resistance; and (3) what a radical geography which embraces a decolonial pedagogy can offer us in these unsettling times.
Shereen Fernandez
wiley   +1 more source

The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state

Area, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
wiley   +1 more source

Financial production and the subprime mortgage crisis. [PDF]

J Evol Econ, 2023
Tori D, Caverzasi E, Gallegati M.
europepmc   +1 more source