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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Economic capital"”.
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Economic Capital Analysis with Portfolios of Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Risks
… the problem of determining aggregate risk capital in financial entities has been intensively studied for quite long. As a result, canonical methods have been developed and even embedded in regulatory accords. While applauded by some and questioned by others, these methods provide a much …
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Essays on credit risk, risk adjusted performance and economic capital in financial institutions
… management and insurance industries 3. return on economic capital as a measure of value created by the holding of bank assets and the operation of bank business units.
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Economic and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Capital Predicting Educational Outcomes
Using the perspectives of social capital theory (Coleman, 1988) and life course theory (Elder et al., 2003), this study examined how economic capital and particular dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship predicted educational outcomes. The economic capital variables were family income, …
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A Treatise of PD-LGD Correlation Modelling
… that parameters used in Pillar I of Basel II capital estimations must be reflective of economic downturn conditions so that relevant risks are accounted for. This provision is based on the fact that the probability of default (PD) and LGD correlations are not captured in the proposed formula …
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Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)
… and diffusion of tensons from the perspective of capital--cultural, social, and economic capital. It views tensons as negotiations between poets for various types of capital. It also briefly uses game theory to analyze certain types of tensons as formal games.
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Well-being in the Workforce: The Role of Career Crafting, Decent Work, PERMA+4, and Work Volition in Economically Marginalized (EM) Workers and Non-EM Workers
… field of organizational positive psychology, yet economic context is often overlooked despite approximately one-third of the U.S. working population being economically marginalized workers. Moreover, it is unknown whether different economic contexts produce gaps in necessary resources for career, …
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A model for the utilisation of networks and leveraging of the economic benefits of migration capital in emerging markets
… migrant entrepreneurs? It explores the positive economic impact that involuntary migrant entrepreneurs have made in an emerging market economy, South Africa, through the establishment of sustainable businesses. The objective is to understand the underlying enablers and constraints that …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… in deviance and crime, work and the use of economic capital, their bodies, and differences in cultural capital such as education.</p>
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Incentives and Barriers to Participation in Community Nutrition Education Programs for Recipients of Food Stamps and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
… categories and themes. People of low socioeconomic status and those with the least education have higher rates of obesity and overweight and suffer disproportionately from poor health. Women receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) also receive Medicaid. Medicaid costs have …
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Ghumar: Historical Narratives and Gendered Practices of Dholis in Modern Rajasthan.
… contemporary locations in Rajasthan: Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, and Jasol, a small town in the Barmer district of Rajasthan. I argue that, in the performance and historical narratives of Ghumar, Dholi communities in both Jaipur and Jasol claim professional, ritual, and personal ties …
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A Quantitative Study of the Impact of Funding Disparities on Public Schools
… which frames school funding as a form of economic capital that perpetuates social inequalities. Findings are expected to clarify how funding disparities impact equity, providing insights for policymakers seeking reforms to promote fairer and more effective allocation of educational …
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Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
… has been done on racial, gender, and individual economic-based tensions, little research has addressed the underlying macro-level economic shifts in rural communities that influence both former conditions. Using hierarchical age-period-cohort with cross-classified random effect modeling …
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Nelygybės reprodukcija aukštajame moksle: VU TSPMI atvejis /
… to the VU IIRPS from a relatively lower socio-economic status. The discourse of VU IIRPS features highly global tendencies of higher education marketization, which is based on mostly neoliberal ideology and, particularly, its practical instrument of New Public Management. However, in Lithuanian …
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… considering influential factors at the macroeconomic level. Additionally, notwithstanding the National Restaurant Association’s call to support a greater number of African American restaurateurs, the financing behaviors regarding race remain understudied in the restaurant industry. Finally, …
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Unfolding women's lives : social factors that shape the leadership approaches of women school principals in Kenya
… competing interests in the field, their social capital, the economic capital of their schools, and their emotional capital. The contribution of this study is to explore the potential of a particular theoretical and methodological approach to deliver an explanatory account of leadership practices …
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An investigation of influences on strategic decision-making in popular recorded music industry micro-enterprises
… interplay between social, cultural, symbolic and economic capital, habitus, and field. The principle argument developed in this thesis is consistent with Bourdieu’s concept of recognition, and explores the desire for actors in this field to make strategic decisions that will position themselves …
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Factors Affecting Developing Planning in Africa: The Need for Local Input
… has failed to design and implement sound economic plans to bring prosperity to a billion Africans. This thesis proposes that for African countries to develop, ways should be found to include indigenous input into development planning. This assumption is based on both the literature which …
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Introducing Mangrove Mitigation to the Urban Development in Mumbai
Mumbai is the economic capital and the most densely urbanized coastal city of India. Environmental strain caused by rapid development of the city is studied with focus on one aspect of Mumbai's environment, the mangrove ecology, which has been threatened by urbanization ever since the city began to …
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Educational achievement : does parental cultural capital make a difference
… achievement and their parental cultural capital. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 parents of Form 1 and Form 2 secondary school underachieving girls. Throughout the interviews, parents gave information about their daughters' education, their involvement and their …
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Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods : design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities
… housing options on the market that are economically empowering, socially just, and which enhance the ecology of place by building all forms of capital-- economic capital, social capital, and environmental capital. Ecovillages provide a solution to this, as well as many other 'wicked' …
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