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This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...
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economically and statistically significant negative impact on risk-adjusted returns of approximately 1-2 percentage points, holding … constant other relevant factors. The use of explicit limits on asset allocation can be a blunt instrument for regulating risk …-taking, in that they impede investment managers’ ability to exploit the benefits of portfolio diversification, and thus distort …
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Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
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risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments … analytical concepts—“the fetishization of the knowledge of risk” and “fictitious distance”—to help explain how the crisis spread …
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experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …
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European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...
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