Wall Street has recently seen a shift from active management, where investors or portfolio managers buy and sell stocks, towards passive management, where investors invest in funds that seek to match the returns of an underlying index. As the popularity of index funds has grown, questions have...

Ratings in emerging markets can serve as part of the early warning systems to reflect the weak signals of potential risks to the entity from the environment. Emerging markets have specific features that rating agencies usually consider in judgments of their credit ratings. They are underpinned...

Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt has been made to collect comparable statistics on the size of public procurement in...

How have practices of governance-through-knowledge modified themselves in response to a century of critiques of the objectivity of modern science? This article takes inspiration from the work of Jasanoff, Riles, Latour and others to identify a mode of 'governing as if': a pragmatic mode of...