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Abstract This paper proposes new risk measures by accurately estimating the components of solvency risk and focusing on prudential policy implementation. We use semi‐nonparametric statistics to model the stylised facts of the probability density functions, particularly the higher‐order moments of three variables: the solvency decline rate, the tier ...
Juan F. Rendón +2 more
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Islands, remoteness and effective policy making: Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand has been identified, by several measures, as being one of a few developed countries that have weathered the COVID‐19 pandemic in the best possible way. This outcome is generally attributed to strict but effective public health measures that included – besides very high vaccination rates – national and regional lockdowns ...
Patrick Barrett, Jacques Poot
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Abstract Conditional cash transfers (CCT) have become a common solution aiming to reduce poverty by increasing the human capital of children. In 2006, the Government of Costa Rica introduced Avancemos, a nationwide CCT program, with the premise that a monetary subsidy, conditional on school attendance, would offset adolescents' opportunity cost from ...
Jaime A. Meza‐Cordero +1 more
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Framing the change and changing frames: Tensions in participative strategy development
Abstract Participative strategy development serves to integrate the interests and perspectives of multiple stakeholders involved in today's complex environmental challenges, aiming at a better‐informed strategy for tackling these challenges, increased stakeholder ownership, and more democratic decision making.
Angelika Zimmermann, Jasper O. Kenter
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In invasive populations of the New Zealand Mud Snail in Europe shell morphology, which is fitness relevant, is sensitive to temperature. The genetic variation underlying size and shape is very limited. As temperature is obviously not the sole factor influencing shell morphology, their interaction will probably not be a factor limiting population ...
Lisa Männer +2 more
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Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition
Abstract The rise of digital currencies challenges practices of monetary sovereignty and impacts the international monetary order. Drawing on recent IPE debates about the public‐private nature of money, the critique of the “impossible trinity” and “territorial currencies,” this article explores the competition between China and the United States over ...
Ying Huang, Maximilian Mayer
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Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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Integración monetaria en el CARICOM
Este artículo intenta determinar si los países del CARICOM deberían formar una unión monetaria. Se sostiene que, aunque el CARICOM puede no satisfacer los criterios propuestos por Mundell para la formación de una unión monetaria, los costos incurridos ...
Wiston Giffíth
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Lorenzo Federico Pace, profesor de Derecho de la Unión Europea en la Università degli Studi del Molise (Italia) publica una nueva monografía sobre la propia esencia de la Unión Europea (UE) que llega en un momento crítico necesitado de reflexión.
Beatriz Tomás Mallén
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