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Testing for Contagion in International Financial Markets: To See More, Go Higher

open access: yesFinancial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional measures of financial contagion rely on correlation shifts, overlooking higher moments such as skewness and kurtosis. We examine contagion during two major financial crises, incorporating lower‐ and higher‐moment measures. We analyze stock market returns from 22 major markets at different frequencies, offering a global perspective ...
Simeon Coleman, Vitor Leone
wiley   +1 more source

Unofficial Economic Activities and Fiscal Discipline in Hungary as Mirrored in Consecutive Enterprise Surveys on Tax Behaviour [PDF]

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The paper focuses on a segment of the hidden economy, i. e. on unofficial (unreported) economic activities of registered medium and large enterprises in Hungary.
Andras Semjen, Istvan Janos Toth
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(No) Pets on University Campuses: ‘Animaling’ Citizenship for Pet‐Friendly Spaces

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Rising support for pet‐friendly university campuses is driven largely by assumed human well‐being benefits, even though staff and, to a lesser extent, students, raise concerns about how companion animals can be active participants in campus life.
Clare Holdsworth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Power Consumption Data Tell the Story? - Electricity Intensity and Hidden Economy in Post-Socialist Countries [PDF]

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The paper disputes the frequently presented and quoted statement that in post-socialist economies data on power consumption are better indicators for aggregate output changes than data on official GDP.
Maria Lacko
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Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of a Patient Safety Culture Instrument for Home Care—A Multicentre Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To adapt an instrument to measure patient safety culture, as rated by home care workers, and examine its psychometric properties. Design A multicentre cross‐sectional psychometric study. Methods We adapted the Nursing Home Survey SOPS to measure safety culture in home care.
Tania Martins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic measurement of the unofficial economy

open access: yesFinancijska praksa, 1997
Vrlo je teško, a možda i nemoguće točno definirati pojam sive ekonomije. Unatoč velikom broju postojećih metoda, teško gaje i izmjeriti. Naime, različite metode mjere različita obilježja tog fenomena. Iako u službenim statističkim pokazateljima ne postoji stavka "neslužbeno gospodarstvo " kao dio nacionalnih računa, postoje posredni postupci kako bi se
openaire   +1 more source

Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As transnational land investments continue to expand across the Global South, land governance in many settings is shifting from largely informal arrangements towards greater formalization. However, we know less about how entrepreneurs sustain and rework land control as host states tighten regulation and introduce new formal requirements and ...
Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, Yasuyuki Kono
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunism, Institutions and Moral Costs: the Socio-Cultural Dimension of the Underground Economy in Croatia 1995-1999 [PDF]

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Since the causes and dynamics of the unofficial economy are inseparable from the sociocultural dimension, the authors analyze the dynamics of opportunism and (dis)trust in institutions in Croatia during the last half of the nineties. The analyses carried
Aleksandar Stulhofer, Ivan Rimac
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