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Powell Emilia Justyna McDowell Steven Christian O’Brien Robert Oksasoglu Julia 《Constitutional Political Economy》2021,32(3):376-412
Constitutional Political Economy - States embracing Islam-based laws are frequently seen as struggling with establishing democratic institutions, jeopardizing human rights and encouraging executive... 相似文献
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Bridging the gap: How sustainable development can help companies create shareholder value and improve financial performance
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Fernando Gómez‐Bezares Wojciech Przychodzen Justyna Przychodzen 《Business ethics (Oxford, England)》2017,26(1):1-17
This study examines the effect of integrating sustainability into corporate strategy on various aspects of shareholder value creation and financial performance in the British capital market. The employed method is based on the content analysis of corporate disclosures and a new technique for assessing the adoption of the corporate sustainability concept (embracing the environmental, social, and financial aspects of a company's policies at the same time). Using extensive data of FTSE 350 firms covering the years 2006–2012, 65 companies were selected as meeting corporate sustainability criteria. For the above period, we find that these firms were characterized by higher financial risk exposure, lower asset growth rates, lower BV/MV ratios, lower EVA ratios, and higher MVA ratios. Such relations were generally present among different size and industry groupings. The results support the thesis that firms that incorporate sustainability issues into their business operations are better able to leverage their resources toward stronger financial performance and shareholder value creation than other companies. The paper contributes to the literature by offering a more holistic approach to corporate sustainable performance measurement and shedding additional light on its relation to financial performance in the context of the recent global financial crisis and its direct aftermath. 相似文献
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di Lorenzo Emilia Piscopo Gabriella Sibillo Marilena Tizzano Roberto 《Decisions in Economics and Finance》2021,44(1):23-35
Decisions in Economics and Finance - In its basic structure, the reverse mortgage (RM) is a contract where a home owner borrows a part or the totality of the future liquidation value of his home at... 相似文献
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Emilia Di Lorenzo 《North American actuarial journal : NAAJ》2013,17(2):49-50
Abstract This paper considers a Sparre Andersen collective risk model in which the distribution of the interclaim time is that of a sum of n independent exponential random variables; thus, the Erlang(n) model is a special case. The analysis is focused on the function φ(u), the expected discounted penalty at ruin, with u being the initial surplus. The penalty may depend on the deficit at ruin and possibly also on the surplus immediately before ruin. It is shown that the function φ(u) satisfies a certain integro-differential equation and that this equation can be solved in terms of Laplace transforms, extending a result found in Lin (2003). As a consequence, a closed-form expression is obtained for the discounted joint probability density of the deficit at ruin and the surplus just before ruin, if the initial surplus is zero. For this formula and other results, the roots of Lundberg’s fundamental equation in the right half of the complex plane play a central role. Also, it is shown that φ(u) satisfies Li’s (2003) renewal equation. Under the assumption that the penalty depends only on the deficit at ruin and that the individual claim amount density is a combination of exponential densities, a closed-form expression for φ(u) is derived. In this context, known results of the Cauchy matrix are useful. Surprisingly, certain results are best expressed in terms of divided differences, a topic deleted from the actuarial examinations at the end of last century. 相似文献
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This paper investigates the contribution of gender differences in job mobility to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that over the first 10 years of labour market experience job mobility accounts for up to 30% of total log wage growth for men and only 8.3% for women, and that this difference is mainly due to differences in returns to mobility. The gender mobility gap is robust to the inclusion of individual, job and firm characteristics, to different ways of accounting for individual unobserved heterogeneity, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Looking at the characteristics of the jobs and the firms' workers move to, we find that moves to larger firms represent by far the main source of gender differences in returns to mobility. We offer two possible explanations for this finding; one which involves differences in bargaining behaviour and one which relates to the theory of compensating differentials. 相似文献
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The article presents the visitors’ motivations and behavior at the pilgrimage center in Krakow (Poland). Here, the relation between these elements, i.e. whether their motivations have a correlation with what buildings they visit, is emphasized for the first time. The most important motivations for visits were religious and tourist ones, often rated equally high by the same respondents. They visited religious, cultural and tourist buildings and facilities. The stay of visitors with religious motivations was not limited to religious practices, but was extended by tourist behavior. Similarly, visitors with tourist motivations visited religious buildings and participated in religious practices. However, they visit tourist and cultural facilities more often. Additionally, the three groups of respondents were categorized and, on the basis of importance of the religious and tourist motivations, three types were distinguished, i.e. pilgrims, religious tourists and tourists. Their characteristic has been expanded by the analysis of their behavior. Nowadays, visitors’ motivations and behavior at pilgrimage centers include those typical for pilgrims and tourists in the traditional meaning. In addition to their religious function, these sites offer cultural and tourist facilities. The article highlights the dedifferentiation approach to visitors’ motivations and behavior, and in respect of the spatial organization of pilgrimage centers. 相似文献
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Emilia Simeonova 《Atlantic Economic Journal》2009,37(3):279-298
The large and persistent differences in health outcomes between African Americans and whites have sometimes been attributed
to differences in the quality of the facilities in which they receive care. A large body of literature documents systematically
worse performance by facilities which serve a larger share of black patients. However, these estimates may be biased by unobserved
variables which correlate with the racial profile of the clinic and also affect outcomes. This paper uses a unique dataset
from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs system to examine the relationship between the quality of health care and the racial
profile of the patient population in an equal-access health care system. An instrumental variable is used to overcome the
omitted variable bias in the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates. Both the OLS and IV estimates show that increasing the
proportion of visits by African–American patients results in improved outcomes for all patients treated at the clinic. The
OLS results significantly underestimate the effect of increasing the proportion of black patients. Holding the overall clinic
load constant and adding one hundred outpatient visits by African Americans in a year would result in a 0.5 percentage point
decrease in 1-year mortality for the average patient in the clinic. Thus, contrary to results from the private health care
sector, increasing clinic racial integration in an equal access system would benefit all patients. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTIn tourism, the phenomenon of spatial agglomeration (concentration of economic activity) spreads beyond the borders of the territorial units. It is referred to as geographic ‘spillovers’ that enhances spatial interdependence and functional relationship of neighbouring regions. Within the standard procedure of cluster-mapping, only concentration inside a territorial unit may be analysed which is a source of biased results in tourism studies. However, tourist agglomeration centres sometimes occur at the juncture of territorial units and the economic entities located in them form spatial clusters with a different degree of membership to several centres of agglomerations located in the neighbourhood. Therefore, we propose to measure ‘inter-regional’ agglomeration in tourism providing modification of spatial autocorrelation measures (regarding neighbourhood and distance). In order to measure neighbourhood more precisely, we use geostatistical information (global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of tourism entities) and geographically weighted fuzzy clustering approach (FGWC). We examine the method on the example of Polish districts (NUTS-4) using database of 131,338 firms registered in section I (accommodation and food services) of Polish Classification of Activity in 2015. The results proved that a novel method of cluster-mapping considering spatial dependency combined with geographic information system (GIS) and FGWC method increases the accuracy of the identification of tourism clusters (inter-regional agglomeration). 相似文献
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Klaus G. Grunert Liisa Lähteenmäki Yasemin Boztug Emilia Martinsdóttir Øydis Ueland Annika Åström Piritta Lampila 《Journal of Consumer Policy》2009,32(3):269-287
Health claim perception was investigated by a web-based instrument with a sample of 4,612 respondents in the Nordic countries
(Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden). Respondents decided which of a pair of claims sounded better, was easier to understand
and was more convincing in their opinion. Claims were constructed from an underlying universe combining different active ingredients
(familiar, unfamiliar), type of claim (combination of information about ingredient, physiological function and health benefit),
framing (positive, negative), and use of qualifier (with, without “may”). Across pairs, the claims differed in the health
benefit addressed (cardiovascular health, dementia, bodyweight). Results showed that respondents could be grouped into two
roughly equally sized classes that differed in the type of claim preferred: one class prefers “long” claims that give the
full story consisting of active ingredient, physiological function and health benefit, whereas the other prefers “short” claims
consisting of the health benefit only. Results also showed that the familiar ingredient is preferred to the unfamiliar one,
whereas effects of positive versus negative framing depended on the type of health benefit addressed. 相似文献