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Shadow sovereign ratings for unrated developing countries [PDF]
The authors attempt to predict sovereign ratings for developing countries that do not have risk ratings from agencies such as Fitch, Moody's, and Standard and Poor's.
De, Prabal +2 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma +6 more
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A new approach to K-nearest neighbors distance metrics on sovereign country credit rating
Kuwait Journal of ScienceThis study introduces feature importance K-nearest neighbors (FIKNN), an innovative adaptation of the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm tailored for classifying sovereign country credit ratings.
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Assessing Financial Vulnerability in Emerging Economies: A Summary of Empirical Results
East Asian Economic Review, 2000 This paper aims to identify key empirical regularities in the run-up to banking and currency crises that would enable officials and private market participants to recognize vulnerability to financial crises at an earlier stage. This, in turn, should make
Morris Goldstein +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Would an earlier inception of OMT by the ECB have prevented the 2012 Greek default?
International Review of Economics & FinanceTo avert further debt crises following the Greek default of 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted outright purchases of sovereign bonds as part of its monetary policy regime. This paper examines whether an earlier inception of such purchases (OMT)
Nicolas Mäder
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Ratings, rating agencies and the global financial system: Summary and policy implications [PDF]
In this introductory chapter, we begin with a brief overview of the issues that have Motivated our research into the role of credit ratings and credit rating agencies in the global financial system. We then summarize the main themes in each of the papers
Levich, Richard +2 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Expert Journal of Economics, 2019 The study proposes and tests a risk-free rate model that simultaneously lets the risk-free rate migrate between rating categories as risk-free rate ranges, and follow a random walk within rating categories as risk-free rate ranges.
Brian BARNARD
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