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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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An analysis of Voter Fraud in The United States [PDF]
, 2007 As federal and state officials consider future reform efforts, as well as the merits of existing reforms, there is an acute need for better information and analysis about election and voter fraud issues.
Lorraine C. Minnite
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Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary CEO promises are powerful but understudied communication tools. We develop a dual‐mechanism framework theorizing that while CEO promises elevate stakeholder expectations, they simultaneously constrain strategic flexibility. We argue that CEO promise‐making is shaped by two competing pressures: making more promises when the ...
Majid Majzoubi +2 more
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Information‐seeking lobbying and strategic stockpiling under trade policy uncertainty
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This study investigates how firms engage in information‐seeking lobbying to address trade policy uncertainty. I argue that lobbying enables firms to gain early insights into forthcoming tariff actions, allowing them to strategically stockpile products likely to be targeted. Using shipping records of US firms during the 2018 US–
Bo Yang
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Opinion dynamics in financial markets via random networks. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Granha MFB +4 more
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Weaknesses in Institutional Organization: Explaining the Dismal Performance of Kenya's Coffee Cooperatives [PDF]
In this paper, we use the experience of Kenya's failing Coffee Cooperatives to show that, under certain circumstances, membership based organizations can give rise to perverse incentives that undermine the benefits of organizing and lead to a reduction ...
Mude, Andrew G.
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Universal banks and investment companies in Germany [PDF]
, 1995 Universal banking means that banks are permitted to offer all of the various kinds of financial services. This includes classical banking activities like the credit and deposit business, as well as investment services, placement and brokerage of ...
Baums, Theodor
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The Larger the Better? The Role of Interest-Group Size in Legislative Lobbying [PDF]
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the ...
Maik T. Schneider
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Perspectives On Machine Learning Inference Serving in Real‐World Settings
Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction As machine learning (ML)‐enabled systems become increasingly prevalent across industries, the engineering challenges of deploying and maintaining them in production have emerged as critical. The existing engineering knowledge base often derives from conceptual frameworks or case studies conducted by large technology companies ...
Dennis Muiruri +3 more
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