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New blockchain intermediaries: do ICO rating websites do their job well?
(2019)The Fintech revolution, crowdfunding and blockchain-based funding have dramatically reduced borrowing and lending transaction costs. Many have argued that ultimately this should lead to the complete disintermediation of ... -
Hierarchical dyadic congruence in family firms: The interplay of supervisor and supervisee socioemotional wealth importance and familial status
(2019)We extend McLarty, Vardaman, and Barnett’s analysis of how family firm supervisor attributes, in terms of familial status and socioemotional wealth importance, affect supervisee performance by considering the supervisee ... -
Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award
(WILEY, 2019)Since 2013, The Order of St John Award for Organ Donation has been offered to the families of deceased solid organ donors in the United Kingdom to honor the donors and inspire others to donate. We evaluate the effects of ... -
Polen als erster Anwendungsfall des neuen "EU Rahmens zur Stärkung des Rechtsstaatsprinzips"
(2016)Seitdem die neue polnische Regierung die Amtsgeschäfte übernommen hat, wird der Staat konsequent "umstrukturiert". Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Reform des Verfassungsgerichts sowie der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten. ... -
Exploring the dynamics of business survey data using Markov models
(2019)Business tendency surveys are widely used for monitoring economic activity. They provide timely feedback on the current business conditions and outlook. We identify the unobserved macroeconomic factors behind the distribution ... -
Political institutions and central bank independence revisited
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)We build on earlier studies regarding Central Bank Independence (CBI) by relating it to political, institutional and economic variables. The data suggest that CBI is positively related to the presence of federalism, the ... -
How accountability type influences information search processes and decision quality
(2019)This study investigates how accountability type (process or outcome) and causal chain framing influence information search processes and decision-making quality. Drawing on the accountability literature and causal reasoning ... -
Determinants of conflict minerals disclosure under the Dodd-Frank Act
(2018)This paper examines conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) as mandated by the Dodd–Frank Act. We rely on a thorough content analysis conducted by the Responsible Sourcing Network on a sample of 122 firms that filed CMDs with ... -
Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?
(2018)We examine the impact of job displacement and serious health problems on multiple measures of individual and household well-being using longitudinal data. We extend the previous literature by examining whether these shocks ... -
Inflation forecasts extracted from nominal and real yield curves
(2016)The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of inflation forecasts backed out from the nominal and real yield curves in the United Kingdom. We use the Nelson–Siegel (NS) framework to model the break-even inflation ... -
The Effect of Preference Similarity on the Formation of Clusters and the Connectivity of Social Networks
(2017)The current paper analyzes the formation of social networks determined by the preferences of their users, who are endowed with incomplete information regarding the characteristics of other users from who they receive ... -
Percutaneous real-time sonoelastography as a non-invasive tool for the characterization of solid focal liver lesions: A prospective study
(2016)Background: Real-time sonoelastography is currently used for the characterization of superficial solid lesions such as thyroid and breast masses. This study evaluates the usefulness of percutaneous sonoelastography for the ... -
A Discrete Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm for Consolidation in Cloud Computing
(2018)Consolidation problems in cloud computing (CC) encompass server consolidation, virtual machine (VM) consolidation, and task consolidation. These problems have become increasingly challenging for resource allocation in ... -
Intensive and Extensive Margins of Mining and Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
(2019)What are the economic consequences of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa? Using a panel of 3,635 districts from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1992 to 2012 we investigate the effects of mining on living standards ... -
Tempo e arte: note per una fenomenologia
(2018)Phenomenological thinking looks upon art not merely as a possible object of philosophical investigation, carried out by a specific discipline, i.e. aesthetics; rather, it considers art – notably its provenance and destination ... -
Regulatory competition in European company law. Where do we stand twenty years after Centros?
(2019)This article provides an overview of freedom of establishment and developments in the European market for corporate charters twenty years after the ECJ’s important Centros decision of March 1999. Both ... -
Subsidiary vs. Branch Banks: Are Their Balance Sheet Compositions Converging?
(2016)Presumably, foreign banks open subsidiaries and branches to perform different tasks. This paper studies the balance sheet composition of subsidiary and branch banks, testing for differences across groups and periods. ... -
A Hybrid Intelligent Fuzzy Predictive Model with Simulation for Supplier Evaluation and Selection
(2016)Supplier evaluation and selection constitutes a central issue in supply chain management (SCM). However, the data on which to base the corresponding choices in real life problems are often imprecise or vague, which has led ... -
The Impact of RES in the Italian Day-Ahead and Balancing Markets
(INT ASSOC ENERGY ECONOMICS, 2016)We empirically investigate the effect of RES generation on the Italian spot and regulation prices by examining price dynamics from 2012 to 2014 in day-ahead, intra-daily and balancing market sessions. Intra-day sessions ...
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