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Asymmetric Shocks and Regional Risk Sharing: Evidence from Japan [PDF]

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We use the methodology of Kalemli-Ozcan, Sorensen, and Yosha ( 2003) to calculate the degree of insurance among the Japanese prefectures. Prefectural-level data for fiscal years 1975 to 1999 are used to analyze the impact of idiosyncratic shocks to ...
Fujiki, Hiroshi, Nakakuki, Masayuki
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Agrarian counterpoint

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
wiley   +1 more source

The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Litner Model of Payout and Managerial Rents [PDF]

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We develop a dynamic agency model where payout, investment and financing decisions are made by managers who attempt to maximize the rents they take from the firm, subject to a capital market constraint.
Bart M. Lambrecht, Stewart C. Myers
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Independent Board of Directors Group Faultlines and CSR: Evidence From India

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study, leveraging group faultline and upper echelons theories, explores how relation and task‐based faultlines among independent board members influence CSR investment under the contingency effect of the financial slack of the firms. This study, leveraging the concept of group faultline and upper echelons, first hypothesizes how the supra‐
Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Dividend policy issues in the European pharmaceutical industry: new empirical evidence. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Health Econ, 2023
Basse T   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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