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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
wiley   +1 more source

Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown, Nicola Shelton   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Day-Ahead electricity price forecasting using a CNN-BiLSTM model in conjunction with autoregressive modeling and hyperparameter optimization

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
The inherent volatility in electricity prices exerts a significant impact on the dynamic nature of the electricity market, shaping the decision-making processes of its stakeholders.
Hamza Mubarak, Abdallah Abdellatif, Shameem Ahmad, Mohammad Zohurul Islam, S.M. Muyeen, Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Innocent Kamwa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Weather‐Induced Positive Sentiment and Insider Trading

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exploiting variations in sunshine exposure near insiders' locations, we find that weather‐induced positive sentiment leads to higher insider purchases, albeit with lower performance. Overoptimism induced by abnormally good weather serves as the underlying mechanism. The effect is more pronounced when insiders' purchase decisions are fuelled by
Douglas Cumming, Rui Sun, Limin Xu, Chia‐Feng (Jeffrey) Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TKU-PSO: An Efficient Particle Swarm Optimization Model for Top-K High-Utility Itemset Mining.

International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
Top-k high-utility itemset mining (top- HUIM) is a data mining procedure used to identify the most valuable patterns within transactional data. Although many algorithms are proposed for this purpose, they require substantial execution times when the ...
Simen Carstensen, Jerry Chun Wei Lin
doaj   +1 more source

High-throughput state-machine replication using software transactional memory. [PDF]

J Supercomput, 2016
Zhao W, Yang W, Zhang H, Yang J, Luo X, Zhu Y, Yang M, Luo C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Regression to Reasoning: Predicting M&A Announcement Returns With Large Language Models

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict short‐term market reactions to M&A announcements. We prompt OpenAI's latest reasoning models (o3, GPT‐5, and GPT‐5.1) to forecast whether the combined market value of acquirer and target will increase or decrease, drawing on deal‐, firm‐, and macroeconomic data for large ...
Maximilian Schreiter, Aldrik Struve, Maximilian Uhle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speed Bump and Stock Market Quality: Evidence From NYSE American

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Should trading speed of high‐frequency traders be regulated? Using the data from the New York Stock Exchange American, this paper examines the impact of a speed bump on market liquidity and price discovery. Our results indicate that the use of a speed bump can lower the costs of adverse selection through reducing informed trading.
Bo Liu, Ke Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice Under Real Interest Rate Risk

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We set up a life cycle model with real interest rate risk to demonstrate that real interest rates have implications for optimal household consumption and investments. Lower interest rates lead to higher optimal stock investments and lower consumption.
Marcel Fischer, Natascha Jankowski
wiley   +1 more source