Exceptional Circumstances: Electoral Boundary Conflict in Canada's Territories
Abstract This article investigates why electoral districting, which across most of Canada was reformed by the “electoral boundary revolution,” is instead increasingly fraught in two northern jurisdictions, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. While independent electoral‐boundary commissions and judicial rulings have depoliticized and professionalized ...
Aaron John Spitzer
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Strategic Implications of Board Interlocks: A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Board interlocks, stemming from directors' concurrent board appointments, have been viewed as a double‐edged sword that can generate both positive and negative effects, hinging on strategic outcomes and a multitude of contextual variables.
Joyce C. Wang
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Abstract The agri‐food supply chain has been a popular research topic in recent years. The combination of a demand for products of high quality and safety standards and the increasing number of stakeholders in supply chain networks has required the agri‐food business to transform from vertically integrated to vertically operated supply chain networks ...
Thanh_Tuan Chu, Thi Thu Tra Pham
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Electoral impact of the rental market: evidence from Israel
Abstract This paper studies housing tenure and voting patterns during the period from July 2013 to July 2023 in Israel, where the rental share of housing units increased from 24% to 29%, and six national elections for parliament took place. Using detailed neighbourhood panel data on rental units share and electoral outcomes, I find that switching a ...
Yael Elster
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman +1 more
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Abstract Financial history is plagued by a visibility trap. Using the Brussels Stock Exchange (1850–1913), we demonstrate that asset illiquidity introduced selection bias, which systematically inflated historical risk premia. Applying a latent return model, we argue that correcting for this illiquidity decreases the equity and corporate bond risk ...
Justin Case +2 more
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Payment integrity in government programs: Takeaways from incorporating the behavioral sciences in US federal evaluations. [PDF]
Duru M +6 more
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A note on the neutrality of profit taxes and tax compliance with imperfect detection [PDF]
In a tax-evasion model with profit tax, we reexamine and clarify the issues of neutrality and separability with imperfect detection of tax fraud.
Chiaen J. Wu, K. L. Glen Ueng
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Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain, 1878–1939
Abstract Government regulation of the banking sector is pervasive, making it difficult to empirically analyse when banks would voluntarily choose to issue equity if there were no minimum requirements on capital adequacy. A unique historical setting occurred in the late nineteenth‐century United Kingdom when joint‐stock banks were free to choose their ...
Gareth Campbell +2 more
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Financial Fraud Victimization Among Young Adults in Taiwan: Roles of Executive Functioning, Personality Traits, and the Self-Reported Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis. [PDF]
Yeh YC +5 more
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