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Promise not fulfilled : FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR

Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...

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Cybersecurity risk

Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2020

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays intuitive relations with quantitative measures of...

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News media vs. FRED-MD for macroeconomic forecasting

Ellingsen, Jon; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif … - 2020

Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real-time out-of-sample forecasting comparison study with one of the most widely used data sets in the newer forecasting literature, namely the FRED-MD dataset. Focusing on U.S. GDP,...

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Does scientific progress affect culture? : a digital text analysis

Giorcelli, Michela; Lacetera, Nicola; Marinoni, Astrid - 2019

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by...

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Democracy and income in-equality : an empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

proxied by a country s dominant religion seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

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Policies against human trafficking : the role of religion and political institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development. …

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The effect of income on religiousness

Buser, Thomas - 2014

How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity...

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013

directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters … ́commitment to their religious organization to determine whether they are more likely to vote in line with this organizationś … recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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