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We analyze a new fluctuation test for constant correlation with respect to its properties and possible applications in …
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The paper shows how-in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy-the currency composition of debt changes the risk profile of a company raising a given amount of financing, and thus affects the cost of debt. Foreign currency borrowing is cheaper when the exchange rate is positively correlated with the...
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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of the professors in the field of sociology. The basis is a full survey of professors at departments of sociology at … sociology professors, which indicates the ongoing dominance of specific pattern of recruitment. In particular the inclusion of …
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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of professors in the field of sociology. This investigation is based upon a full survey of professors at sociological …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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roots and bearers, their institutional academic bases within geography, economics, sociology, planning, and other fields …
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The idea of synthesising theory is receiving attention within public health as part of a drive to design theoretically … informed interventions. Theory synthesis is not a new idea, however, having been debated by sociologists for several decades …. We consider the various methodological approaches to theory synthesis and test the feasibility of one such approach by …
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important, if often under-appreciated, steps to incorporate insights from social and political theory, but that these (hard …
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Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit die Entscheidung, ob man in der Stadt oder auf dem Land wohnt und welche strukturellen Eigenschaften eine Stadt hat, dazu beiträgt, den Pro-Kopf-Ausstoß an schädlichen Treibhausgasen – insbesondere CO2 – zu reduzieren.
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