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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Political Uncertainty"”.
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The Political Economy of Alternative Investments
The growing concern surrounding modern political economy is especially evident as political uncertainty increasingly proves to be a critical factor in the global economy. Research on political uncertainty offers profound insights into organizational and human behavior, holding significant …
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Elections And Asset Pricing: The Politically Sensitive Equity Of Us Military Contractors
<p>I quantify the relationship between political uncertainty and equity volatility in the months around US elections from 1989-2012. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data are employed to measure political uncertainty faced by …
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Essays on family business groups, corporate investments, and cash management
… to outsiders. The third essay examines how political uncertainty affects corporate cash holdings. The study’s use of hand-collected data on political incidents of a non-electoral nature instead of national elections to proxy for political uncertainty mitigates endogeneity concerns. …
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Lobbying as a hedge on political risk : when size matters
… I find that large firms can better hedge the political uncertainty associated with this policy change through lobbying, which leads them to earn lower expected returns. I provide two strands of empirical evidence consistent with the model predictions. The first one looks at the behavior of a …
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Determinants of capital flight in Namibia
… of capital flight, whereas corruption and political uncertainty do not influence capital flight. The researcher therefore recommends that these factors should be taken into account when designing policies to prevent and reduce the outflows of capital from Namibia. Thus, the combination of …
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My mom is not interested : a case study of a daughter and her intellectually disabled mother
… endemic poverty, widespread HIV/Aids and ongoing political uncertainty. As disorganised attachments in early life result in complex relational disturbance, this research paper commences with a detailed review of the literature on disorganised attachment. It describes the intergenerational …
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A call to care : exploring the social politics of compassionate care and rescue in the context of a care programme for children in contemporary Swaziland
… orphan village'. Against a backdrop of political uncertainty, deepening economic-crisis related poverty, increasing numbers of children in need of extra-familial care and the parallel proliferation of humanitarian organisations being set up to deal with these systemic vulnerabilities, …
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To what extent do the writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York demonstrate a survival of heathen practices?
… 1023) was one of the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages and lived through the political uncertainty of King Æthelred and the Norse invasions resulting in the ascendancy of King Cnut. Although Christianity dominated the country, Wulfstan felt the need to preach …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… of domestic strain, social unrest, and political uncertainty. In doing so, this thesis explores how these plays articulate what this study terms ‘gentlemen’s anxiety’: a pervasive cultural response to the growing recognition that authority conventionally grounded in gentility was …
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Leadership traits, divergent thinking, and innovation in higher education
… as leaders’ decision-making processes affect political, social, and economic conditions globally. Considering market fluctuations and shifts, political uncertainty, environmental threats, and global societal issues, the question of leadership is at the heart of issues faced today as leaders …
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Political risk in Quebec, firm valuation, and business relocation announcements
… facilities outside Quebec in response to the political uncertainty in the Province. This political instability, which emanates from the separation demand supported by the French separatist party (Parti Quebecois), has a rather long history and provides a unique research opportunity to assess …
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Rethinking Uncertainty: Spinoza and Hume on Shaping Uncertain Secular Futures
… dissertation extends contemporary views about uncertainty. It does so through a reading of the role of uncertainty in the political thought of two modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. Despite uncertainty's notable and multi-disciplinary appeal in the academic literature, the …
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Aesthetic Citizenship: Popular Culture, Migrant Youth, and the Making of 'World Class' Delhi
… ways which make them socially, economically, and politically viable. My project examines how recent international and intranational immigrant youth who have come to Delhi to partake in its economic possibilities and, in some cases, to escape political uncertainty, are utilizing globally …
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Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda
… Juba peace talks in 2008. Taking the collapse of political settlement as my starting point while staying attuned to the history of humanitarian activity in the region more broadly, I address how each of these initiatives produces knowledge about the war between the Government of Uganda and the …
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A Causal Model of Linkages between Environment and Organizational Structure, and Its Performance Implications in International Service Distribution: An Empirical Study of Restaurant and Hotel Industry
… which includes five factors -- monitoring uncertainty, asset specificity, cultural distance, political uncertainty, and economic uncertainty. The model is suggestive of a picture in which five environmental factors vie for affecting the choice of market entry modes. All five environmental …
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Caso de estudio: desarrollo del planeamiento estratégico de la empresa familiar Grúas y Maniobras S.A.C.
… its greatest challenge: the pandemic and political uncertainty. In this research paper, we explore the case of Grúas y Maniobras, a family-owned business that has demonstrated its ability to reinvent itself and thrive in a dynamic and often challenging business environment. Grúas y …
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Essays in macroeconomics and political economy
… Rogoff (1989) sovereign debt paradox based on a political economy model of debt. It shows that the presence of political uncertainty reduces the ability of a country to save, and hence to replicate the debt contract after default. In a model where different parties alternate in power, an …
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Innovative Capabilities of the Agricultural Biotechnology Sector in Hungary
… accompanied transition and enduring the current political uncertainty surrounding national GM crop policy. The study uses qualitative methods, comprising a series of in-depth investigations. Data collection via interview and observation began in 2006. Data collection and analysis were guided by a …
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Not quite the same: a personal ecology perspective on the enduring impact of growing up with the troubles
… the context of the peace process and recent political developments, including Brexit. The study defines ‘personal ecology’ as the unique embeddedness of embodied individuals in dynamic socio-cultural and multi-sensorial environments that shift and evolve over time. This relational process …
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‘Becoming somebody in the future’: Exploring undergraduate Students’ Self-articulated Goals to develop a measure of Students’ Quality of Life in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
… lives in contexts of social, economic and political uncertainty. Although the last decade has witnessed growth in research on urban youth goals and experiences in sub-Saharan Africa, studies which measure their QoL are surprisingly few despite suggestions from research in psychology that …
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