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Law and Finance: What Matters? Hong Kong as a Test Case
Yeung, Horace; Huang, Flora Xiao - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 3 (2012) 1
This paper, using Hong Kong as a test case, challenges one conventional theory and confirms another one in law and finance study: (i) legal families in relation to stock market development; (ii) transplant effect of foreign laws. Economists, most notably La Porta and colleagues, allege that...
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Legal origins and mortgage finance contradictions
Donkor-Hyiaman, Kenneth Appiah; Ghartey, Kenneth Nii Okai - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 10 (2017) 1, pp. 156-179
Purpose This study aims to examine why Ghana has English legal origins (hypothesised as a legal framework that promotes financial development) but has not developed a well-functioning mortgage finance market. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt the institutional autopsy approach...
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Circumventing the predatory state
C. Besenhard, Petra; G. Wenzel, Nikolai - In: International Journal of Development Issues 16 (2017) 3, pp. 245-259
world) involving post-colonial borders. Originality/value There already exists a rich literature on the Tuareg. This paper …
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Re-examining regional borders and the multinational enterprise
Aguilera, Ruth V.; Flores, Ricardo; Kim, Jin Uk - In: The Multinational Business Review 23 (2015) 4, pp. 374-394
key insights from the theory of the regional MNE and economic geography to re-orient the treatment of regional borders … effects”. Within this rubric, regional borders represent discrete border effects that generate discontinuities that are …
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Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Education in Four Nordic Countries
Ragnarsdóttir, Hanna - In: International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities … 3 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
equity, democracy, social justice and inclusion, while its main aim is to introduce and discuss main findings from case …
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Democracy as Othering Within Finnish Education
Simpson, Ashley - In: International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities … 3 (2018) 2, pp. 77-93
The word democracy is frequently uttered by academics, politicians, and, generally within society. Phrases such as … ‘democratic education', ‘democracy education' and ‘(student) participation' are often referred to within national curricula … democracy discourses are uttered by practitioners. For the purposes of this article the author analyses two in …
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The Efficacy of Working E-Portfolios to Assess Emergent and Digital Literacies Congruently in Social Contexts
Masek, Nicole - In: International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
Early childhood education instruction and assessment practices for emergent literacy were established in an era that prioritized standardization of knowledge based on age and stage of development. The evolution of 2.0 technologies has shifted culture within developed societies to prioritize...
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Exploring Factors Associated With Digital and Conventional Political Participation in the Caribbean
Adugu, Emmanuel; Broome, Pearson A - In: International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 9 (2018) 2, pp. 35-52
digital political participation are: political understanding, support for democracy, conventional political participation, and …
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Immersive Wearables: Their Political and Social Effects and What Both Mean for Western Liberal Democracy
Briggs, J. Ryan - In: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge … 10 (2018) 3, pp. 54-71
democracy. Precisely because immersive wearables will, in many cases, prove invaluable easy will it probably be for their …
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Algorithms Versus Hive Minds: A Premonition of Democracy's Future
Searle, Rick - In: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 7 (2016) 2, pp. 48-60
sustainability of democracy itself requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the …
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