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The Unexpected Actor? Civil‐Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding around the world has sparked debate about its impact on public administration and governance. This article explores a growing yet less visible phenomenon threatening democracy. It examines the influence exerted by authoritarian populists over autonomous regulatory agencies through militarized patronage, that is, the ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha +2 more
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This scoping review maps EEG studies of temporal anticipation in coincidence anticipation timing (CAT) tasks. Eleven studies were identified, revealing high methodological variability. We provide practical recommendations to standardize CAT task design and EEG procedures, aiming to improve reproducibility and support future research in this emerging ...
André Felipe dos Santos +3 more
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A Hybrid Lifecycle Net Worth Optimization Model
ABSTRACT Financial advice is fragmented and not living up to its potential. Despite 75+ years of coexistence, the lifecycle models stemming from Ramsey (1926), Fisher (1930), Modigliani and Brumberg (1954), Friedman (1957), Modigliani (1966), Samuelson (1969), Merton (1969, 1971, 1992), as well as others, and the single‐period optimization models of de
Paul D. Kaplan, Thomas M. Idzorek
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The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds
ABSTRACT The backlash to ESG investing is in full swing, with dozens of states enacting measures aimed at curtailing the consideration of environmental, social, and governance factors in their pension funds. Meanwhile, ESG mutual funds are experiencing net outflows after a period of lagging performance. Is this the end for ESG funds?
Quinn Curtis
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ABSTRACT This paper establishes that mutual funds strategically time their trades in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) stocks around disclosure dates to inflate their sustainability ratings. This claim is supported by three empirical findings.
GIANPAOLO PARISE, MIRCO RUBIN
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Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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ABSTRACT We investigated the existence of a “deception‐general” ability (association between the ability to produce and detect lies) in 140 individuals (80 from prison and 60 from the general community) using the Deceptive Interaction Task (DeceIT). Deception production (d' Sender) and detection (d' Receiver) indexes were comparatively analyzed within ...
Andreea Turi +4 more
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data [PDF]
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm ...
Leigh, Andrew, Neill, Christine
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Calling All the Statesmen: The (not) Mubarak Trial [PDF]
I read the decision that exonerated ex-Minister of Interior of Egypt and his assistants from the charge of giving orders to kill demonstrators textually.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Abstract With the advent of soft ionization techniques such as electrospray (ESI) and matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) to produce intact gas‐phase ions from nonvolatile macromolecules, mass spectrometry has become an essential technique in the field of polymeric materials.
Thierry N. J. Fouquet +2 more
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