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This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000–2016 period. We construct a new database that offers information on the country in which the headquarters of private donors are located to test...
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The influential position of multinational corporations in the global economy of the twenty-first century is a …, and secondly, to discuss the causes and practical consequences of asymmetrical power constellations among corporations and … between corporations and other actors. This discussion is meant to facilitate a better alignment of applied research on …
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We compare the performance of the linear regression model, which is the current standard in science and practice for cross-sectional stock return forecasting, with that of machine learning methods, i.e., penalized linear models, support vector regression, random forests, gradient boosted trees...
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Recent years have seen greater interest in the theoretical foundations of abstract finance and their intersection with …
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's view of finance, the article conducts a thought-experiment comparing GDP with two counterfactual indicators corresponding … to historical views of finance as either non-productive or an actual cost to society. The analysis shows how changing …
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This article examines the conceptual transformation of what was once considered usury into finance. To counter … finance and financialization. Close examination of the realities of contemporary financialized debt, however, reveal that much … of this rhetoric is misleading and false. While the rhetoric of finance is unrelentingly oriented toward the future, the …
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Scholarship on the finance-security nexus has typically been concerned with "first order" phenomena, such as the … interpenetration of the finance and security sectors. This article contributes to the debate by turning to an apparent epiphenomenon …, namely The LEGO Movie , and using it to address some overlooked intersections between popular culture and the finance …
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The future is persistently considered in the sociology of finance from two divergent, problematic angles. The first … critical, sees on the contrary in the logic of finance a negation of the future and an exacerbation of the valuation of the …
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and finance capitalism from the perspective of time and temporality. Despite its function as a global commodity, cricket … juxtaposes the deviant temporal power of cricket with the time structures of finance capitalism to illustrate how the conduct of …
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speculative economy. Therefore, by examining how finance and gambling debts circulate in one particular text from the eighteenth … well as how we interact with finance as a form of entertainment. …
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