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Unequal and Unstable: Income Inequality and Bank Risk
Abstract We present a model in which income inequality interacts with banks' risk‐taking incentives, generating financial instability. Competition and deposit insurance cause some banks to lend to lower‐income borrowers at underpriced rates, creating “risky banks” that fail in downturns, while others lend to higher‐income borrowers and avoid default ...
YULIYAN MITKOV, ULRICH SCHÜWER
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The Multifaceted Identity of Sufi Poet Mehmed Elif and His Poetry as a Mirror of Society
Sufi literature, which developed a verse identity in Anatolian geography from the 13th century to the first quarter of the 20th century, served the effort to establish a connection between “human-society” and “human-transcendent being” with a human ...
Murat Ayar
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Terzi Baba’nın “Kenzü’l-Miftâh” Adlı Eserinde Bazı Tasavvufî Kavramlara Yaklaşımı
Muhammed Vehbî meşhur adıyla Terzi baba XIX. yüzyılda yaşamıştır. Adı geçen zât, Abdullah Mekkî vasıtasıyla Nakşibendiyye tarîkatının Hâlidiyye kolunun kurucusu Mevlânâ Hâlid-i Bağdâdî’ye (ö. 1242/1827) intisâb etmiş ve onun halîfesi olmuştur. Terzi Baba,
Nuran Çeti̇n
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Learning in the Limit: Income Inference from Credit Extensions
ABSTRACT Combining a randomized controlled trial with administrative and survey data, this paper shows that credit limit extensions significantly increase total spending and income expectations. By controlling for changes in personal income expectations, the spending response to credit limit extensions weakens by approximately 30%.
XIAO YIN
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Too Much Finance: Mechanisms That Harm Growth and Policy Implications
ABSTRACT The mechanisms for the financial sector to harm growth arise through short‐termism of financial markets. This leads to the misallocation of resources in the private sector, leading to financial crises and damage to growth. However, harm to growth comes not only from financial crises, but also from the failure of short‐termist financial markets
Arup Daripa +2 more
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Abstract Introduction Constructed‐response situational judgement tests (CR‐SJTs) are used internationally to assess personal and professional attributes in health professions admissions, with over one million applicants to more than 500 programs having used them in the last decade. Despite this, a synthesis of their validity is lacking.
Alexander MacIntosh +7 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
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Gagasan Pluralisme Agama pada Kaum Teosofi Indonesia (1901-1933)
: This article elucidates the idea of religious pluralism among Indonesian theosophies society (MTI), an association of well-educated people of Nusantara from 1901 through 1933, whose members were dominated by the high-class of Javanese and Sumatran ...
Media Zainul Bahri
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life
Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
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