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The Poverty of Slavery : How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy
Wright, Robert E. - 2017
This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has … history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates … individuals from participating in the economy. Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer …
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The poverty of slavery : how unfree labor pollutes the economy
Wright, Robert E. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588428
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Size-Portfolio Idiosyncratic Volatility with Aggregate Return, Cross-Sectional Return, and GDP Growth : U.S. and International Evidence
Kuo, Chris - 2011
Firm size is an essential factor in examining the relation between returns and idiosyncratic volatilities. This paper documents that, when the idiosyncratic volatility is specified by firm size, the size-portfolio idiosyncratic volatility is statistically significant in explaining the future...
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Momentum investing : evidence from the US tourism and hospitality
Shaker Ahmed, Mohamed - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 31 (2022) 3, pp. 269-284
Purpose - The present research aims to examine a range of momentum trading strategies for the tourism and hospitality sector. Design/methodology/approach - The paper followed the methodology of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) to construct the portfolios. In this methodology, all portfolios were...
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What Does the CDS Market Imply for a U.S. Default?
Benzoni, Luca; Cabanilla, Christian; Cocco, Alessandro; … - 2023
As the debt ceiling episode unfolds, we highlight a sharp increase in trading activity and liquidity in the U.S. credit default swaps (CDS) market, as well as a spike in U.S. CDS premiums. Compared with the periods leading up to the 2011 and 2013 debt ceiling episodes, we show that elevated CDS...
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What Does the CDS Market Imply for a U.S. Default?
Benzoni, Luca; Cabanilla, Christian; Cocco, Alessandro; … - 2023
We document the sharp increase in trading activity, gross and net notional outstanding, and overall premiums in the U.S. credit default swaps (CDS) market that took place during the 2023 debt ceiling episode. Unlike the periods leading up to the 2011 and 2013 debt ceiling events, we show that in...
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18th-century plantation slavery, capitalism and the most precious colony in the world
Yazdani, Kaveh - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 108 (2021) 4, pp. 457-503
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Sklavenhandel heute : die dunkelste Seite der Globalisierung
Batstone, David - 2008
Am umfassendsten hat wohl Kevin Bales in "Die neue Sklaverei" (BA 7/01) und populärer, schon Schülern zugänglich, in … "Moderne Sklaverei" (BA 11/08) die Machenschaften der modernen Sklavenhändler und die Strukturen des Menschenhandels unserer … sich die Abschaffung der Sklaverei auf ihre Fahnen geschrieben haben. Aufzurütteln und zu eigenem Engagement zu ermutigen …
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Die Ware Mensch : Sklaverei im 21. Jahrhundert
Greve, Janna - In: Das Ende des Kasino-Kapitalismus? : Globalisierung und Krise, (pp. 117-123). 2009
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