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On Imaginative Criminology and Its Significance
Societies, 2015 In growing numbers criminologists are discovering the value of imaginative and creative approaches for enquiry. There is now a critical mass of criminological work that engages substantively and theoretically with cultural artefacts such as film, fiction,
Jon Frauley
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Speculating on Speculative Execution [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019 Threat actors continue to design exploits that specifically target physical weaknesses in processor hardware rather than more traditional software vulnerabilities. The now infamous attacks, Spector and Meltdown, ushered in a new era of hardware-based security vulnerabilities that have caused some experts to question whether the potential cybersecurity ...
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What Motivates Speculators to Speculate? [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Land speculation that occurs on the urban border can be very problematic to the healthy development of cities—critical to economic growth. Speculative land investors, concerned with profits from trading in landed property, can especially affect developing countries where regulation is often poorly controlled and overly bureaucratic.
Bedane S. Gemeda +4 more
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Macroeconomic Conditions, Speculation, and Commodity Futures Returns
International Journal of Financial StudiesThis paper examines the dynamic relationships between speculative activities, commodity returns, and macroeconomic conditions across five sectors compassing 29 commodities.
Ramesh Adhikari, Kyle J. Putnam
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Money as Medium, Speculation and Scrypt
Lateral, 2014 Although they intervened on a culture of financialization in two very different ways, both Speculation and scrypt explore the intersection of money with the history of media, imperialism, colonialism, and computation. If capitalism is a kind of computer,
Stephanie Boluk
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Borsa Parole – A Market for Linguistic Speculation [PDF]
, 2012 This article describes a novel approach to linguistic field research consisting in exploiting the self-regulation of a market for collecting data on language use.
Bry, François, Kneißl, Fabian
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Financialization in the food system
Canadian Food Studies, 2015 There is growing concern about financialization in the food sector, which refers to the increasingly important role played by financial actors, markets, and motives in decisions along agrifood supply chains. Financial actors have long been intertwined in
Jennifer Clapp +2 more
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SEEU Review, 2017 Globalization of financial markets led to the enormous growth of volume and diversification of financial transactions. Financial derivatives were the basic elements of this growth.
Stankovska Aleksandra
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Economic Consequences of Housing Speculation
The Review of financial studies, 2019 By exploiting variation in state capital gains taxation as an instrument, we analyze the economic consequences of housing speculation during the U.S. housing boom in the 2000s. We find that housing speculation, anchored, in part, on extrapolation of past
Zhenyu Gao, M. Sockin, Wei Xiong
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SpecCFI: Mitigating Spectre Attacks using CFI Informed Speculation [PDF]
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019 Spectre attacks and their many subsequent variants are a new vulnerability class affecting modern CPUs. The attacks rely on the ability to misguide speculative execution, generally by exploiting the branch prediction structures, to execute a vulnerable ...
Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh +4 more
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