Showing 1 - 10 of 6,508
Since its conceptualisation, the construction of privacy has been deeply gendered, as women and gender and sexual minorities are often at the receiving end of forms of privacy that are subordinating, rather than equalising. In this essay, I argue that, as a result of pervasive datafication, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358657
In this paper, we explore whether economic uncertainty differently affects the default risk of Islamic and conventional … uncertainty increases the default risk of conventional banks but does not affect Islamic banks’ default risk. To understand why … banks’ default risk is not significantly affected by uncertainty in all types of countries, but such a difference with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235684
. We use the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) proposed by Ahir et al. (2018) and Geopolitical Risk Index (GPR) introduced by …, the highest impact is observed on corporate loans. Meanwhile, geopolitical risk dampens consumer and mortgage loans but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828756
This paper analyses the exposure to climate risk of ABS, an asset class frequently pledged as collateral in the … and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and explores ways to measure their climate risk based on the characteristics of the … computation of ABS climate related risk proxies. Without necessarily being able to measure a concrete impact, we carved a series …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258296
Social scientists, in particular sociologists, claim that the distinction between universalistic and particularistic values is relevant to explaining the social behaviour of individuals (and societies). This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence that supports the claim. It first defines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055985
We study the role of global media during the Greek debt crisis and relate it to the transmission of events on financial actors' expectations. To identify news coverage about the Greek debt crisis, we apply topic modeling to a newly compiled dataset of over 430,000 articles from The International...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159621
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009356211
A fairly extensive literature from the field of empirical psychology has provided evidence that personality factors and attitudes toward credit may influence individuals' debt financing decisions. This paper investigates the importance of these factors by analysing the results of an original...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137589
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822240
I use the global crisis of 1914 as a window onto the phenomenon of investor reaction to complex news — such as sudden political upheaval. Based on a novel database of all stocks traded on the NYSE during 1914, along with “real-time” news accounts from major newspapers, I show that NYSE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978570