The 2007 Meltdown in Structured Securitization: Searching for Lessons not Scapegoats [PDF]
The intensity of recent turbulence in financial markets has surprised nearly everyone. This paper searches out the root causes of the crisis, distinguishing them from scapegoating explanations that have been used in policy circles to divert attention ...
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt +2 more
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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 +2 more
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How financial mechanisms can incentivize provision of ecosystem services from land restoration: A systematic review protocol. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Grigoriadis V +7 more
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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
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Criminality, chaos and corruption: Analyzing the narratives of labor migration dynamics in Malaysia. [PDF]
Asian Pac Migr J, 2023 Foley L.
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Agency Conflicts, Asset Substitution, and Securitization [PDF]
Asset-backed securities represent one of the largest and fastest growing financial markets. Under securitization, agents perform functions (for fees) that would alternatively be performed by a vertically integrated lender with ownership of a whole loan ...
Christopher Mayer, Yingjin Hila Gan
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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
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The Blockchain Technology Applied in the Development of Real Economy in Jiangsu under Deep Learning. [PDF]
Comput Intell Neurosci, 2022 Shi W, Huang Q.
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Bank incentives and optimal CDOs [PDF]
The paper examines a delegated monitoring problem between investors and a bank holding a portfolio of correlated loans displaying “contagion.” Moral hazard prevents the bank from monitoring continuously unless it is compensated with the right incentive ...
Pagès, H.
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