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Geopolitical Risk and Domestic Bank Deposits
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the relationship between global geopolitical risk and bank deposit flows across a wide panel of European countries. Motivated by the pivotal role of deposit stability for financial intermediation and systemic resilience, we explore whether geopolitical shocks alter depositors’ portfolio choices.
Dimitris Anastasiou +3 more
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Gender Tokenism in Corporate Boardrooms in Europe
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the tension between the diversity spillover and tokenism hypotheses using a novel and extensive dataset of nearly 6 million private corporations across 29 European countries from 1986 to 2020. The diversity spillover hypothesis suggests that appointing women to supervisory roles facilitates greater female representation in executive
Hubert Drążkowski, Joanna Tyrowicz
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Comparing deep learning models for butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) species identification
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Deep learning models open new possibilities for the processing of image‐based species records. We used high‐performance computing to compare 40 models for butterfly and moth species identification based on a citizen science dataset with over 500,000 images of 162 species.
Friederike Barkmann +2 more
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Sign Language Recognition using Linguistically Derived Sub-Units [PDF]
, 2010 This work proposes to learn linguistically-derived sub-unit classifiers for sign language. The responses of these classifiers can be combined by Markov models, producing efficient sign-level recognition.
Bowden, R, Cooper, H
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Political Accountability During Crises: Evidence From 40 Years of Financial Policies
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We show that politicians facing a binding term limit are more likely to engage in financial deliberalization than those facing reelection, but only in the wake of a financial crisis. In particular, they implement policies that tend to favor incumbent financial institutions over the general population, such as increasing barriers to entry in ...
Orkun Saka, Yuemei Ji, Clement Minaudier
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An Arabic Sign Language Corpus for Instructional Language in School
, 2010 Machine translation (MT) technology has made significant progress over the last decade and now offers the potential for Arabic sign language (ArSL) signers to access text published in Arabic. The dominant model of MT is now corpus based.
Wald, Mike +2 more
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, 2020 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking.
Webster Jennifer, Zeshan Ulrike
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The Dynamics of Gender Norms and Fertility Decline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper models fertility as the outcome of gender‐biased technological progress interacting with endogenous social norms governing childcare. When rising female wages outpace norm adjustment, the inherited norm makes reallocating childcare toward fathers costly, so mothers bear a disproportionate burden and the shadow price of children ...
Xican Xi, Anson Zhou
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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence From Germany
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze how rising trade exposure from China and Eastern Europe affected collective bargaining coverage in German plants from 1996 to 2008. Using cross‐industry variation in trade exposure and instrumenting with trade flows from other high‐income countries, we find that higher import exposure increased the likelihood that plants exited ...
Daniel Baumgarten, Sybille Lehwald
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Assistive translation technology for deaf people: translating into and animating Irish sign language [PDF]
, 2008 Machine Translation (MT) for sign languages (SLs) can facilitate communication between Deaf and hearing people by translating information into the native and preferred language of the individuals.
Morrissey, Sara
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