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Journal articles on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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White, C. C. "Summer Affiliations and Their Effect on Students' Financial Status." American Journal of Occupational Therapy 40, no. 7 (July 1, 1986): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.5014/ajot.40.7.497.
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Seabrooke, Leonard, and Eleni Tsingou. "Distinctions, affiliations, and professional knowledge in financial reform expert groups." Journal of European Public Policy 21, no. 3 (March 10, 2014): 389–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2014.882967.
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Brooks, Matthew, Brad M. Beauvais, Clemens Scott Kruse, Lawrence Fulton, Michael Mileski, Zo Ramamonjiarivelo, Ramalingam Shanmugam, and Cristian Lieneck. "Accreditation and Certification: Do They Improve Hospital Financial and Quality Performance?" Healthcare 9, no. 7 (July 14, 2021): 887. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9070887.
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The relationship between healthcare organizational accreditation and their leaders’ professional certification in healthcare management is of specific interest to institutions of higher education and individuals in the healthcare management field. Since academic program accreditation is one piece of evidence of high-quality education, and since professional certification is an attestation to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of those who are certified, we expect alumni who graduated from accredited programs and obtained professional certification to have a positive impact on the organizations that they lead, compared with alumni who did not graduate from accredited programs and who did not obtain professional certification. The authors’ analysis examined the impact of hiring graduates from higher education programs that held external accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). Graduates’ affiliation with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) professional healthcare leadership organization was also assessed as an independent variable. Study outcomes focused on these graduates’ respective healthcare organization’s performance measures (cost, quality, and access) to assess the researchers’ inquiry into the perceived value of a CAHME-accredited graduate degree in healthcare administration and a professional ACHE affiliation. The results from this study found no effect of CAHME accreditation or ACHE affiliation on healthcare organization performance outcomes. The study findings support the need for future research surrounding healthcare administration professional graduate degree program characteristics and leader development affiliations, as perceived by various industry stakeholders.
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Neidermeyer, Presha E., Jack Dorminey, and Alan J. Wilson. "Cultural Factors, Economic Affiliations And The Adoption Of International Financial Reporting Standards." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 28, no. 5 (August 21, 2012): 815. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v28i5.7225.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We examine cultural characteristics in the context of economic affiliation and the timing of IFRS adoption. Prior work identifies cultural characteristics as key factors in the development of accounting systems world-wide. Our analysis extends this literature by showing that these same factors lead to economic clusters and to the propensity for adopting a universally accepted set of accounting rules. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that, at least in one case, cultural factors are able to predict economic affiliations. Second, we provide evidence that certain cultural characteristic are affiliated with the delay in adoption of IFRS. Our results are valuable to local as well as international accounting standard setters as they look to negotiate common ground for convergence. Our examination of the cultural aspects distinctive in adoption patterns may provide insight into what specific aspects of the IFRS must be modified to expand and accelerate convergence.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>
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Limodio, Nicola. "Terrorism Financing, Recruitment, and Attacks." Econometrica 90, no. 4 (2022): 1711–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ecta18530.
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This paper investigates the effect of terrorism financing and recruitment on attacks. I exploit a Sharia‐compliant institution in Pakistan, which induces unintended and quasi‐experimental variation in the funding of terrorist groups through their religious affiliation. The results indicate that higher terrorism financing, in a given location and period, generate more attacks in the same location and period. Financing exhibits a complementarity in producing attacks with terrorist recruitment, measured through data from Jihadist‐friendly online fora and machine learning. A higher supply of terror is responsible for the increase in attacks and is identified by studying groups with different affiliations operating in multiple cities. These findings are consistent with terrorist organizations facing financial frictions to their internal capital market.
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Jia, Ming, and Zhe Zhang. "The CEO's Representation of Demands and the Corporation's Response to External Pressures: Do Politically Affiliated Firms Donate More?" Management and Organization Review 9, no. 1 (March 2013): 87–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8784.2012.00297.x.
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AbstractThis study seeks to explain why firms respond in different ways to similar external administrative pressures, such as government demands for charitable giving, particularly in a transitional economy such as China's. Taking the perspective of the CEO's representation on external demands, the study explores the relationship between political affiliation and corporate giving, stimulated by powerful and politically affiliated CEOs, who are the government's natural constituency and who comply with governmental demands for donation. The study introduces contingent factors that influence the CEO's perception of how to satisfy government demands, and that moderate the relationship between political affiliation and corporate giving. Using firm-level data of corporate contributions following the Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, we find that corporations with CEOs who hold political affiliations have a significantly higher probability of donation and also more cash giving. This relationship is moderated by contingent factors such as government ownership, financial condition, and concentration of voting rights.
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Ghose, Biswajit, and Kailash Chandra Kabra. "Dynamic Capital Structure Adjustments and Business Group Affiliations: Indian Evidence." Business Perspectives and Research 6, no. 1 (September 4, 2017): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2278533717722656.
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This study examines the asymmetries in capital structure adjustment speed depending on firms’ affiliation to business groups. Using partial adjustment framework on a dataset of 2001 listed Indian non-financial firms over the period of 2005–2013, it was found that Indian firms annually adjusted about 37 percent of their deviation from target leverage. Groups firms, in general, adjust their leverage ratio slower than the stand-alone firms, suggesting lesser net benefits of adjustment for the former than the latter. The results are persistent irrespective of firms’ extent of deviation from their target leverage. However, the net benefits of adjustment and consequently the adjustment speed for both the groups of firms, irrespective of their extent of deviation from target leverage, seem to be alike, when they are over-levered and lower for group firms than the stand-alone firms, when they are under-levered. These findings indicate that both group and stand-alone firms face identical threats, when they are over-levered, whereas group firms possibly have alternative arrangements to reduce the owner–manager agency conflicts and tax liability, when they are under-levered. These findings are expected to prove helpful for financial managers in designing their capital structure based on ownership structure, and the nature and extent of deviation from the target leverage.
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Robinson, Thomas N., Todd D. Morrell, Benjamin J. Pomerantz, Julie K. Heimbach, Charles B. Cairns, and Alden H. Harken. "Therapeutically accessible clinical cardiac states11No other financial involvement, competing interests, or affiliations exist." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 191, no. 4 (October 2000): 452–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1072-7515(00)00696-7.
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Gupta, Parveen P., Kevin C. K. Lam, Heibatollah Sami, and Haiyan Zhou. "Do religion and politics impact corporate governance diversity policy?" Asian Review of Accounting 30, no. 1 (January 13, 2022): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ara-09-2021-0181.
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PurposeIn this paper, the authors examine how religious and political factors affect a firm's corporate governance diversity policies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop five basic empirical models. Model 1 examines how religious beliefs and political affiliation determine whether a firm will establish diversity incentive in its senior executives' performance assessment. Model 2 investigates how the diversity goal, religious beliefs and political affiliation separately affect the level of actual diversity achieved. Model 3 examines how the diversity goal and environmental factors interact to affect the level of actual diversity achieved. Model 4 and Model 5 examine whether the diversity incentive in senior executives' compensation plan and the environmental factors (religious belief and political affiliation) help to reduce the compensation differentials between male and female executives.FindingsThe authors find that firms located in more liberal counties with more Mainline Protestants and less Republican voters in the United States are more likely to include workforce diversity as a criterion in evaluating their senior executives. The authors also provide evidence that firms with diversity goals have more female directors, more female senior executives and more minority directors. However, they find no evidence that the compensation differentials between male and female executives are smaller in these firms. Finally, they find that external environment affects the effectiveness of the implementation of the diversity goals.Originality/valueIn line withthis branch of research, the authors expand the literate on the link between corporate culture and corporate decision-making by investigating the non-financial performance measures. Besides the corporate decision-making in investment, financial reporting and social responsibilities as documented in prior studies, the authors argue that the religious beliefs and political affiliations could also affect the development and implementation of corporate non-financial performance goals in executive incentive contracts.
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Arioglu, Emrah. "Female board members: the effect of director affiliation." Gender in Management: An International Journal 35, no. 2 (March 23, 2020): 225–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-05-2019-0080.
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Purpose This study aims to investigate whether female directors have an effect on company financial performance in a patriarchal emerging country that has a collectivistic culture with a substantial gender equality gap and is characterized with a paternalistic management culture. In addition, it aims to investigate whether the affiliations of female directors matter performance-wise in a setting where the majority of the companies are ultimately controlled by large business groups including families. Design/methodology/approach The current study uses a unique hand-collected data set that covers all non-financial public companies quoted at the Borsa Istanbul between the years 2009 and 2017. To investigate the relationships between the presence and ratio of female directors and company financial performance, the current study uses the pooled ordinary least squares method, as well as the firm-fixed effects method to overcome potential omitted variables problems and various generalized method of moments methods to overcome potential reverse causality problems. Findings The findings of the current study demonstrate that the presence and percentage of female directors both have a positive effect on company financial performance in a cultural setting where the opposite might be expected. They also present evidence suggesting that the effect becomes larger as the level of the independence of female directors becomes greater. Originality/value The current study demonstrates that the presence of female directors on boards has a positive effect on company financial performance, even in a cultural setting that is very different from those of countries where the majority of previous studies on female directors are conducted on. In addition, it demonstrates how company financial performance varies with the level of the affiliation of female directors.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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Magdefrau, Melissa. "Financial Crisis, Relative Trust, and Religious Participation and Affiliation." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438355418.
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Alsaraireh, Ahmad. "Firm's value, financing constraints and dividend policy in relation to firm's political connections." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15824.
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The relationship between politicians and firms has attracted a considerable amount of research, especially in developing countries, where firms' political links are a widespread phenomenon. However, existing literature offers contradicting views about this relationship, espicially regarding the impact of firms' political connections on firms' market-performance. Furthermore, there is limited evidence on the impact of firms' political connections on some of the important corporate decisions, including firms' investment- and dividend-policies. Therefore, this thesis seeks to fill these gaps by offering three empirical essays with Jordan as a case study. The first essay examines the impact of firms' political links on their values by controlling for macroeconomic conditions. Also, in the extended models, by specifying three major events which occurred after 2008, namely, the establishment of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Global Financial Crisis, and the Arab Uprisings, we investigate the effects of these events on the relationship between firms' political ties and their value. The findings of this essay indicate that politically-connected firms have higher values compared to their non-connected counterparts in Jordan. Moreover, it is found that firms with stronger political-ties have higher values than firms with weaker ties. Furthermore, the positive effect of political connections continues, even after controlling for the macroeconomic conditions, though the latter are considered to be more important than political connections for firm valuation due to their impact on the share price. Interestingly, findings show that the events occurring after 2008 do not seem to have affected the relationship between political connections and firm value since the significant positive impact of political-ties on firm value persists during the post-event period. The second empirical essay studies the role of political connections in mitigating firms' financing-constraints. Moreover, it investigates the effect of the strength of political connections in alleviating these constraints. Finally, it looks at the impact of the above-mentioned three events which occurred after 2008, notwithstanding the new banking Corporate Governance Code issued in 2007. Findings of this essay reveal that firms' political connections are important in mitigating their financing-constraints. Furthermore, the results show that stronger political connections seem to reduce financing-constraints more than weaker connections. Finally, findings show that the impact of firms' political connections has diminished during the post-event period (2008 - 2014). The third essay examines how a firm's political connections can affect its dividend-policy. It also considers the impact of the strength of political connections on dividend-policy. Finally, we extend the empirical analysis by investigating any shift in the relationship between political connections and dividends due to the events of the Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Uprisings, and the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Results of this essay reveal that a firm's political connections have a significant positive impact on both the propensity to pay dividends and the dividend-payout ratio. Regarding the impact of the strength of political connections on dividends, it is found that firms with weaker political connections pay out more in dividends than firms with stronger connections. In terms of the impact of the events which occurred after 2008 on the relationship between political connections and dividends, the findings show that the impact of these connections on dividends is eliminated.
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Anchante, Cordova Piero Gustavo, and Bravo Ethel Elena Castilla. "Impacto financiero de la implementación de la NIIF17 “Contratos de seguros” en seguros vehiculares de las empresas aseguradoras ubicadas en Lima Metropolitana por el periodo 2020." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657617.
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La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto de la implementación de la NIIF 17 en las pólizas vehiculares de las empresas aseguradoras ubicadas en Lima Metropolitana por el periodo 2020, en vista de que, actualmente, las empresas del sector hacen uso de la NIIF 4: “Contratos de Seguros” y requieren de un estudio anticipado de la nueva norma.
Es así como el presente trabajo de investigación comprende seis capítulos; el Capítulo I: Marco teórico, donde se plantean los antecedentes, conceptos importantes y situación actual del tema de investigación para facilitar su comprensión; el Capítulo II: Plan de Investigación, donde se define el problema de investigación, así como la descripción de los objetivos e hipótesis; el Capítulo III: Metodología de la Investigación, donde se propone el tipo de investigación para la muestra de información cualitativa y cuantitativa; el Capítulo IV: Desarrollo, donde muestra el desarrollo de la investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa, así como el planteamiento de un caso práctico de la medición de reservas técnicas bajo NIIF 4 y NIIF 17 para evaluar su impacto; el Capítulo V: Análisis de resultados, donde se evalúan los resultados de la investigación y; por último, el Capítulo VI: Conclusiones y Recomendaciones, donde se describen las conclusiones de la investigación y se proponen las recomendacionesThe objective of this research work is to analyze the impact of the implementation of IFRS 17 in the vehicle policies of insurance companies located in Lima Metropolitana for the period 2020, given that, currently, insurance companies make use of IFRS 4: “Insurance contracts” and require an early study of the new standard. This is how the present research work comprises six chapters; Chapter I: Theoretical framework, where the antecedents, important concepts and current situation of the research topic are raised to facilitate its understanding; Chapter II: Research Plan, where the research problem is defined, as well as the description of the objectives and hypotheses; Chapter III: Research Methodology, where the type of research is proposed for the qualitative and quantitative information sample; Chapter IV: Development, where it shows the development of qualitative and quantitative research, as well as the approach of a practical case of the measurement of technical reserves under IFRS 4 and IFRS 17 to evaluate their impact; Chapter V: Analysis of results, where the results of the investigation are evaluated and; finally, Chapter VI: Conclusions and Recommendations, where the conclusions of the investigation are described and the recommendations are proposed.
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Hedenberg, Lena, and Carl-Johan Bengtsson. "Att förutspå framtiden - Finansiell stress och dess påverkan på träffsäkerheten i ett going concern-yttrande." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekonomivetenskap och juridik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-29020.
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Ett bolags finansiella rapportering är en viktig informationskälla för dess intressenter. När en revisor granskar ett bolags finansiella situationen ger det en kvalitetssäkring som kan vara avgörande för intressenternas beslutsfattande. Dock har ett antal revisionsskandaler, såsom Enronskandalen, lett till att revisionskvaliteten har ifrågasatts. Det första steget i revisionen är att identifiera om det råder tvivel om ett bolags fortlevnad, det andra steget är att avgöra om revisorn ska yttra sig angående going concern. Om ett bolag möter finansiell problematik kan det anses vara finansiellt stressat vilket kan ge revisorn incitament att utfärda ett going concernyttrande (GCY) och olika indikatorer på finansiell stress kan påverka yttrandets träffsäkerhet. Ytterligare en aspekt som kan påverka träffsäkerheten i ett GCY är enligt tidigare forskning revisorns byråtillhörighet där skillnader kan förekomma mellan grupperna Big 4 och non-Big4. Dock har det påvisats att Big 4 och non-Big 4 inte är homogena grupper.Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva och analysera skillnader i träffsäkerhet vid utfärdandet av GCY bland bolag som sedermera drabbats av konkurs, dels vid förekomsten av finansiell stress och dels kopplat till skillnader beroende på revisorns byråtillhörighet. Studiens urvalsram utgjordes av samtliga reviderade bolag som drabbats av konkurs mellan januari-september år 2014. 1 407 av dessa konkursdrabbade bolag ingick i datainsamlingen då de uppfyllde premisserna för studien. I resultatet presenteras träffsäkerheten i utfärdade GCY och hur det kan kopplas till olika indikatorer på finansiell stress, korrelationen mellan ett GCY och indikatorer på finansiell stress samt hur träffsäkerheten i utfärdade GCY och olika indikatorer på finansiell stress kan kopplas till byråtillhörighet. Dataanalysen inkluderade binär logistisk regression, ordinal logistisk regression och korrelationsanalys. Studien påvisade att finansiell stress har en positiv påverkan på träffsäkerheten i ett GCY. Vidare påvisade studien en störreträffsäkerhet bland Big 4 än bland byråer tillhörande gruppen non-Big 4. Studien påvisade även skillnader inom båda dessa grupper varvid andra egenskaper hos revisionsbyråerna än dess storlek tycks ha en inverkan på träffsäkerheten.A company's financial reports is an important source of information for its stakeholders. As an auditor reviews a company's financial situation it gives a seal of quality to it which could be critical for the stakeholders in their decision making. However, a number of auditing scandals, such as the Enron scandal, has led to the quality of the audit being questioned. The first step ofthe audit is to review a company's financial information and to identify if there are doubts about its survival, the second step is to determine if there is a need to issue a going concern opinion (GCO). A company facing financial problems can be considered financially distressed which can give the auditor an incentive to issue a GCO and different indicators of financial distresscan affect the accuracy of the GCO to different degrees. According to previous research, the auditors’ bureau affiliation can also be an aspect affecting the accuracy of a GCO and the accuracy can differ between the groups Big 4 and non-Big 4. However, in previous research it has been demonstrated that Big 4 and non-Big 4 are not homogenous groups.The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse differences in the accuracy of issued GCO’s among companies that later was affected by bankruptcy as financial distress occurred and also linked to differences depending on the auditor’s bureau affiliation. The study's sampling frame consisted of all audited companies affected by bankruptcy between January-September in 2014. 1 407 of these companies were used for the data gathering as they met the premises set for the study. The result presents the accuracy of issued GCO’s and how it can be linked to various indicators of financial distress, the correlation between a GCO and indicators of financial distress and how the accuracy of an issued GCO and various indicators of financial stress can be linked to bureau affiliation. This was conducted by using binary logistic regression, ordinal logistic regression and correlation analysis. The study showed that financial distress has a positive impact on the accuracy of a GCO. Furthermore, the study showed an increased accuracy for Big 4 in comparison to non-Big 4. The result also demonstrated thatdifferences within these groups exists whereby other characteristics of the bureau can have an impact on the accuracy of a GCO, rather than size.
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Varela, Iromisa Semedo. "Determinantes da performance financeira dos hotéis na região do Algarve." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13270.
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Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças EmpresariaisEste estudo analisa a influência da categoria, tamanho, filiação em cadeia e segmentação de mercado na performance financeira dos hotéis. A amostra é composta por 115 hotéis de 2 a 5 estrelas localizados na região do Algarve para o período de 2010 a 2014. Para este estudo foram utilizados indicadores de performance financeira específicos da indústria hoteleira, nomeadamente a receita por quarto (Revpar), a taxa de ocupação (TO), e outras medidas de performance como a rendibilidade do capital próprio (RCP) e a rendibilidade das vendas (RV). Os resultados sugerem que os hotéis de categoria superior tem maior dimensão e normalmente pertencem a uma cadeia de hotéis. Os resultados sugerem ainda que, a categoria influencia de forma positiva a taxa de ocupação e rendibilidade do capital próprio. O tamanho e o turismo sol e praia influênciam positivamente a rendibilidade das vendas e a rendibilidade do capital próprio. A filiação em cadeia afeta de forma positiva a rendibilidade do capita próprio, não tendo nenhuma influência nos outros indicadores de performance.
This study analyzes the influence of category, size, chain affiliation and market segmentation in the hotel's financial performance. The sample used for the study includes 115 hotels (2 to 5 star hotels) located in the Algarve region, for the period 2010 to 2014. For this study we used specific indicators of financial performance of the hotel industry, such as revenue per room (Revpar), the occupancy rate (OR), and other performance measures such as return on equity (RE) and the return on sales (RS). The results suggest that the higher category hotels are larger and usually belong to a hotel chain. The results also suggest that the category influence positively the occupancy rate and return on equity. The size and sun and sand tourism positively influence the return on sales and return on equity. The chain affiliation affects positively the return on equity, having no significant effect on other performance indicators.
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Wong, Tze Sun. "Characteristics of Stocks and Individual Investor Herd Behavior: A Causal-Comparative Study." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5814.
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Some individual investors follow institutional investors in trading, a phenomenon called herding, that leads to excess market volatility and mispriced stocks. Individual investors who herded suffered from inferior investment performances and monetary losses, and the impact is broader in an individual investor dominant market such as Taiwan. Behavioral finance is the theoretical base of herd behavior. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to examine individual investor herd behavior as related to characteristics of stocks in the Taiwan stock market. The research questions addressed what differences in individual investor herd behavior, if any, existed by market capitalization, price-to-book (P/B) ratio, and industry affiliation. The target population was the individual investors who traded in Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) between January and December 2016. Participants were a purposive sampling of the target population with the exclusions of individual investors who traded illiquid stocks or exchange sanctioned stocks only. Data were collected through a subscription of TWSE data. The extent of individual herding estimated with Lakonishok, Shleifer, and Vishny's measure was 0.04. The 3 characteristics of stocks were separately and as a whole related to individual herding. The findings confirmed more serious sell-herding than buy-herding. The result from the logistic regression extended the knowledge of more serious herding in low P/B ratio stock with other variables controlled and different extents of herding by industry affiliation. The findings may improve individual investor financial literacy that may result in the positive social change of the alleviation of both herding and inferior investment performance.
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Daly, Marwa El. "Challenges and potentials of channeling local philanthropy towards development and aocial justice and the role of waqf (Islamic and Arab-civic endowments) in building community foundations." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16511.
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Diese Arbeit bietet eine solide theoretische Grundlage zu Philanthropie und religiös motivierten Spendenaktivitäten und deren Einfluss auf Wohltätigkeitstrends, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und einer auf dem Gedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit beruhenden Philanthropie. Untersucht werden dafür die Strukturen religiös motivierte Spenden, für die in der islamischen Tradition die Begriffe „zakat“, „Waqf“ oder im Plural auch „awqaf-“ oder „Sadaqa“ verwendet werden, der christliche Begriff dafür lautet „tithes“ oder „ushour“. Aufbauend auf diesem theoretischen Rahmenwerk analysiert die qualitative und quantitative Feldstudie auf nationaler Ebene, wie die ägyptische Öffentlichkeit Philanthropie, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte, Spenden, Freiwilligenarbeit und andere Konzepte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements wahrnimmt. Um eine umfassende und repräsentative Datengrundlage zu erhalten, wurden 2000 Haushalte, 200 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen erfasst, sowie Spender, Empfänger, religiöse Wohltäter und andere Akteure interviewt. Die so gewonnen Erkenntnisse lassen aussagekräftige Aufschlüsse über philanthropische Trends zu. Erstmals wird so auch eine finanzielle Einschätzung und Bewertung der Aktivitäten im lokalen Wohltätigkeitsbereich möglich, die sich auf mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar beziffern lassen. Die Erhebung weist nach, dass gemessen an den Pro-Kopf-Aufwendungen die privaten Spendenaktivitäten weitaus wichtiger sind als auswärtige wirtschaftliche Hilfe für Ägypten. Das wiederum lässt Rückschlüsse zu, welche Bedeutung lokale Wohltätigkeit erlangen kann, wenn sie richtig gesteuert wird und nicht wie bislang oft im Teufelskreis von ad-hoc-Spenden oder Hilfen von Privatperson an Privatperson gefangen ist. Die Studie stellt außerdem eine Verbindung her zwischen lokalen Wohltätigkeits-Mechanismen, die meist auf religiösen und kulturellen Werten beruhen, und modernen Strukturen, wie etwa Gemeinde-Stiftungen oder Gemeinde-„waqf“, innerhalb derer die Spenden eine nachhaltige Veränderung bewirken können. Daher bietet diese Arbeit also eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Grundlage, die nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis, sondern auch den nachhaltiger Aus- und Aufbau lokaler Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen in Ägypten ermöglicht. Zentral ist dabei vor allem die Rolle lokaler, individueller Spenden, die beispielsweise für Stiftungen auf der Gemeindeebene eingesetzt, wesentlich zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen könnten – und das nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern in der gesamten arabischen Region. Als konkretes Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, wurde ein innovatives Modell entwickelt, dass neben den wissenschaftlichen Daten das Konzept der „waqf“ berücksichtigt. Der Wissenschaftlerin und einem engagierten Vorstand ist es auf dieser Grundlage gelungen, die Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) zu gründen, die nicht nur ein Modell für eine Bürgerstiftung ist, sondern auch das tradierte Konzept der „waqf“ als praktikable und verbürgte Wohlstätigkeitsstruktur sinnvoll weiterentwickelt.This work provides a solid theoretical base on philanthropy, religious giving (Islamic zakat, ‘ushour, Waqf -plural: awqaf-, Sadaqa and Christian tithes or ‘ushour), and their implications on giving trends, development work, social justice philanthropy. The field study (quantitative and qualitative) that supports the theoretical framework reflects at a national level the Egyptian public’s perceptions on philanthropy, social justice, human rights, giving and volunteering and other concepts that determine the peoples’ civic engagement. The statistics cover 2000 households, 200 Civil Society Organizations distributed all over Egypt and interviews donors, recipients, religious people and other stakeholders. The numbers reflect philanthropic trends and for the first time provide a monetary estimate of local philanthropy of over USD 1 Billion annually. The survey proves that the per capita share of philanthropy outweighs the per capita share of foreign economic assistance to Egypt, which implies the significance of local giving if properly channeled, and not as it is actually consumed in the vicious circle of ad-hoc, person to person charity. In addition, the study relates local giving mechanisms derived from religion and culture to modern actual structures, like community foundations or community waqf that could bring about sustainable change in the communities. In sum, the work provides a comprehensive scientific base to help understand- and build on local philanthropy in Egypt. It explores the role that local individual giving could play in achieving sustainable development and building a new wave of community foundations not only in Egypt but in the Arab region at large. As a tangible result of this thesis, an innovative model that revives the concept of waqf and builds on the study’s results was created by the researcher and a dedicated board of trustees who succeeded in establishing Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) that not only introduces the community foundation model to Egypt, but revives and modernizes the waqf as a practical authentic philanthropic structure.
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Huang, Yu-Hsuan, and 黃俞瑄. "The Impact of Affiliation between Underwriters and Financial Groups on IPO Underwriting." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ep4u9b.
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Using the data of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) firms in Taiwan from 2000 to 2017, we study how the affiliation between IPO underwriters and financial groups affects the degree of IPO underpricing. We also examine whether the banks affiliated with IPO underwriters use the information that the underwriters acquired during the IPO process when they make lending decisions. The empirical results show that the degree of underpricing is smaller for the IPOs whose underwriters are affiliated with financial groups (group-affiliated underwriters). There are two possible explanations for this result. First, group-affiliated underwriters hope to maintain a long-term relationship with the IPO firms, so they are willing to offer a higher offer price for the IPO firms. Second, group-affiliated underwriters care about the reputation of the financial groups they belong to, so they prefer firms with lower information asymmetry, which have less need to signal their quality by IPO underpricing. We also find that the IPO firms that borrow from the banks affiliated with the IPO underwriters have better future financial performance than those that do not, which suggests that the lending banks may have used the information that the IPO underwriters acquired during the IPO process in their lending decisions.
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Nguyen, Hoang-Dung, and 阮黃勇. "Affiliation of Independent Directors and Independent Supervisors with Current Audit Firm and Financial Reporting Quality." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88066154137988154775.
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This research aims to investigate whether the presence of affiliated independent directors or independent supervisors affects accruals-based earnings management of Taiwanese listed companies. Independent directors/supervisors are “affiliated” if they previously assumed an auditing position at their current company’s audit firm. Independent directors/supervisors are “unaffiliated” if they possess auditing experience, but never worked for their company’s current audit firm. Using a sample of 3,887 firm-years over the period of 2008 – 2012 and four measures of discretionary accruals to estimate earnings quality, this study finds that the presence of unaffiliated independent directors/supervisors is positively associated with earnings quality. Affiliated independent directors/supervisors are also found to have positive impact on earnings quality, after controlling for endogeneity using the difference-on-difference and instrumental variable approach. By classifying unaffiliated and affiliated independent directors/supervisors into seven different “profiles” based on their affiliation relationship with their company’s current audit firm and their highest audit position ever held, this study aims to investigate whether specific “combinations” of affiliation type and audit experience (including staff, manager, and partner) affect earnings quality and whether these effects are significantly different from each other. Results indicate that the profile of independent directors/supervisors affiliated as audit staff and having audit partner experience is positively associated with positive performance-included discretionary accruals, and this impact is significantly different with the other affiliated and unaffiliated independent director/supervisor profiles. On the other hand, even though the three profiles of unaffiliated independent directors/supervisors, including unaffiliated audit staff, unaffiliated audit manager, and unaffiliated audit partner, are all positively linked with earnings quality, this study does not detect any significant difference among these relationships.
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Wei, Mei-Yeh, and 魏美玉. "The Study of Feasibility of Mergers between Bank of Taiwan and Hua Nan Commercial Bank based on the affiliation of financial industries." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50125256938340906767.
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There has been an ever-increasing trend of merger and acquisition among financial industries throughout Europe and the United States recently , with the aim of expanding the share of marketing , extending the market place , increasing business scope and reducing operating cost . In the wake of financial turmoil at home , the financial system in the Republic of China (ROC) has been getting deteriorated and weaker . With a view to upgrade competitiveness after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) , we all recognize the continued need for affiliation among financial industries . After the announcement of government-led merger plan among Bank of Taiwan , Land Bank of Taiwan and Central Trust of China , the action taken by financial industries to search for the object to be merged has been increasing . Nevertheless , it is a huge task , and it is not opportune to drastically reduce staff size under present social environment . Therefore the cost-reducing effect cannot manifest immediately , only can it compress the merger cost and time by selecting the appropriate merger object , in an attempt to significantly maximize the merger efficiency . Therefore mergers and acquisitions among financial industries in the ROC nowadays should focus on the following : 1. Government-owned is superior to privately owned . 2. Complementary is superior to Similarity . 3. Give the first priority to those who have compatible information system . Bank of Taiwan holds more than 35% shares of Hua Nan Commercial Bank . Both have the similar staff , salary system as well as similar culture background , long-term investment object , mergers between these two banks will mark a significant milestone and efficiency . Bank of Taiwan , as the biggest shareholder of Hua Nan Commercial Bank , may lead the merger plan . They have been under the governance of Provincial Government for decades that resulted in cultivating similar management concept and enterprise culture . The difficulty to integrate employees can be reduced ; Hua Nan Commercial Bank may bring the privatization management to the new bank , and focus on the commercial banking , investment banking , real estate developing and insurance business as four operation directions in the future . Merger efficiency can be maximized only if the internal and external cliché may be relied on . Due to lacking of appropriate law to govern merger , “Financial Institution Merger Act” is being under screening , as regards Bank of Taiwan and Hua Nan Commercial Bank case , to merge one bank into another new bank sounds more feasible . I hereby make the following suggestion as conclusion : 1. To speedily approve “Financial Institution Merger Act”and“Financial Institution Holding Company Act”. 2.To relax the restrictions on the affiliation of financial industries . 3.To establish the “Financial Supervisor Committee”. 4.To keep intimate communication among employees before and after merger. 5.To speedily announce the merger plan and its effect on customers , in order to reduce customers drain .
Books on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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Cormack, R. J. Religious affiliation and educational attainment in Northern Ireland: The financing of schools in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Standing Advisory Committee on Human Rights, 1991.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Examination of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act five years after its passage: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (P.L. 106-102), to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, July 13, 2004. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.
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Ty, Eleanor. Que(e)rying the American Dream in Films of the Early Twenty-First Century. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040887.003.0003.
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This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.
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Ottina, Theresa J. A financial profile of television stations by network affiliation, 1994-1998. National Association of Broadcasters, 1999.
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Ottina, Theresa J. A financial profile of television stations by network affiliation, 1990-1994. National Association of Broadcasters, 1995.
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Winford, Brandon K. John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178257.001.0001.
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This work combines black business and civil rights history to explain how economic concerns shaped the goals and objectives of the black freedom struggle. Brandon K. Winford examines the “black business activism” of banker and civil rights lawyer John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978). Born on the campus of Kittrell College in Vance County, North Carolina, he came of age in Jim Crow Atlanta, Georgia, where his father became an executive with the world-renowned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (NC Mutual). As president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank (M&F Bank), located on Durham’s “Black Wall Street,” Wheeler became the Tar Heel State’s most influential black power broker and among the top civil rights figures in the South. Winford places Wheeler at the center of his narrative to understand how black business leaders tackled civil rights while continuously pointing to the economy’s larger significance for the success and advancement of the postwar New South. In this way, Wheeler articulated a bold vision of regional prosperity, grounded in full citizenship and economic power for black people. He reminded the white South that its future was inextricably linked to the plight of black southerners. He spent his entire career trying to fulfill these ideals through his institutional and organizational affiliations, as part and parcel of his civil rights agenda. Winford draws on previously unexamined primary and secondary sources, including newspapers, business records, FBI reports, personal papers, financial statements, presidential files, legal documents, oral histories, and organizational and institutional records.
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Gautney, Heather. The Influence of Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041051.003.0012.
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a massive protest movement calling for radical social change and an end to unbridled corruption. OWS emerged in September 2011 in New York with highly confrontational demonstrations against the Wall Street banks, and a small encampment in the city’s financial district. Within weeks, hundreds of local camps emerged throughout the U.S., along with ongoing series of vehement, decentralized protest actions. Much to the chagrin of the American political establishment, OWS operates as an elusive and flexible, “leaderless” organization, without a centralized authority or party affiliation, and uses occupation as a primary form of protest. This paper looks at the ways in which the movements’ leaderless organization and egalitarian social vision were/are deeply influenced by anarchist principles like anti-authoritarianism (anti-statism), anti-capitalism, direct action, and prefiguration. It then discusses attempts by Occupy camps, such as those in New York, Philadelphia, and Oakland, to repossess spaces, rights, and other forms of social wealth within different urban contexts. It analyzes how the Occupy camps, as well as innovations like the General Assemblies, spokescouncils, and social media formations, are transforming urban landscapes and creating new forms of social and political engagement based on anarchist praxis.
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Schneider, Margarethe. Exploring farmers´ motivation for collective action : A Q study on collaboration in Dutch agri-environment schemes. Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.410.
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Within the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, agri-environment schemes (AES) have been designed to address the degradation of the natural environment caused by agriculture. To improve the schemes’ ecological effectiveness, a collective approach focusing on a landscape instead of a single farm level is recommended. This approach is rarely applied across Europe except for the Netherlands, where all AES have to be realised collectively since 2016. As participation in the schemes is voluntary, understanding farmers’ motivation to join is crucial since the uptake and implementation of measures is prerequisite for achieving any effects. Hence, the aim of this study is to explore Dutch farmers’ motivation to participate in collective AES and to find out about the scheme’s main advantages and disadvantages perceived by the farmers. A Q study with 15 farmers from six provinces shows three dominant motivational views: a collective-oriented, a business-oriented and an environment-oriented perspective. All farmers unites their affection and care for nature, which is accompanied by different levels of problem awareness and affiliation to the collective. Financial compensation is deemed important by all, yet rather as necessary mean to enable required changes in farming practices than as additional source of revenue. While the Dutch schemes can still be further improved to allow for more flexibility, a better integration of the farmers’ knowledge and enhanced communication, all farmers dismiss many caveats related to collective action, indicating a potential to promote the Dutch approach beyond national borders.
Book chapters on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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"Japan Marketplace Financial Groups and Affiliations." In Japan's Financial Revolution and How American Firms are Profiting, 153–67. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315291970-19.
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Rothstein, William G. "Hospitals Affiliated with Medical Schools." In American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195041866.003.0024.
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After mid-century, university hospitals became more involved in research and the care of patients with very serious illnesses. This new orientation has created financial, teaching, and patient-care problems. In order to obtain access to more patients and patients with ordinary illnesses, medical schools affiliated with veterans’ and community hospitals. Many of these hospitals have become similar to university hospitals as a result. Medical schools experienced a serious shortage of facilities in their customary teaching hospitals after 1950. Many university hospitals had few beds or set aside many of their beds for the private patients of the faculty. Patients admitted for research purposes had serious or life-threatening diseases instead of the commonplace disorders needed for training medical students. The public hospitals affiliated with medical schools had heavy patient-care obligations that reduced their teaching and research activities. To obtain the use of more beds, medical schools affiliated with more community and public hospitals. The closeness of the affiliation has varied as a function of the ability of the medical school to appoint the hospital staff, the number of patients who could be used in teaching, and the type of students—residents and/or undergraduate medical students—who could be taught there. In 1962, 85 medical schools had 269 close or major affiliations and 180 limited affiliations with hospitals. Fifty-one of the hospitals with major affiliations were university hospitals and 100 others gave medical schools the exclusive right to appoint the hospital staffs. Dependence on university hospitals has continued to decline so that in 1975, only 60 of 107 medical schools owned 1 or more teaching hospitals, with an average of 600 total beds. All of the medical schools averaged 5.5 major affiliated hospitals, which provided an average of 2,800 beds per school. Public medical schools were more likely to own hospitals than private schools (39 of 62 public schools compared to 21 of 45 private schools), but they averaged fewer affiliated hospitals (5.1 compared to 6.0). In 1982, 419 hospitals were members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH), of which only 64 were university hospitals. Members of COTH included 84 state or municipal hospitals, 71 Veterans Administration and 3 other federal hospitals, and 261 voluntary or other nonpublic hospitals.
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Castillo-Muñoz, Verónica. "Revolution, Labor Unions, and Land Reform in Baja California." In Other California. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291638.003.0004.
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This chapter discusses the formation of labor organizations of Mexican and Asian workers, and their influence on both the labor movement and the movement for land reform. Following the decade of revolutionary upheaval, the population of Baja California increased from 23,537 in 1921 to 48,327 in 1930. During the same time frame, the Colorado River Land Company abandoned large tracts of uncultivated land, which led to an increase in unemployment and stiffer competition between Asian and Mexican workers. Unemployment, combined with the housing shortage caused by a new wave of Mexican migrant workers from the United States, led to the formation of labor unions where indigenous peoples, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans demanded access to farmland and called for restrictions on Chinese immigration. Chinese workers formed Chinese associations in the face of repression and forced deportations. While these struggles reveal how workers dealt with hard financial times, they also show how race, gender, and ethnic affiliations shaped activism and early land reform movements in the Mexicali Valley in the 1920s.
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McCargo, Duncan. "Privileged Caste?" In Fighting for Virtue, 30–55. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801449994.003.0002.
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This chapter examines what it means to be a Thai judge, and why judges think and behave in the ways they do. Most Thai judges are honest, hardworking, and well intentioned, dedicated to a lifelong career in public service that provides them with financial security but offers no prospect of worldly riches or fame. Yet despite their self-image as an exceptionally talented elite, not all judges excel at the business of judging. Many court judgments are flawed: their shortcomings are ameliorated by a system of close monitoring by senior administrators. Judges tend to believe that a combination of their rigorous selection procedures and their most favored status with the palace inoculates them against temptations and human failings: in short, they become the embodiment of virtuous legalism. Especially in recent years, the discourse of judicialization has fostered unrealistic expectations of the judiciary and placed judges under impossible pressures. As such, when Thai judges preside over cases brought against critics of the state, they struggle to distinguish between their formal role as neutral arbiters, and their own intimate affiliations with the monarchy and deep attachment to the status quo. Trying political cases places Thai judges in an extremely uncomfortable position.
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Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth. "The New Evangelical NunMonastic Investiture and Petitions for Convent Positions." In Stripping the Veil, 213–47. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857286.003.0007.
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Chapter 6 considers the transformation of convents from traditional monastic institutions into complex, pluriconfessional, religious communities when evangelical secular authorities reintroduced novices into their territories. The controversies surrounding supplications to enter the convent and the establishment of revised rituals for the investiture of nuns show how diverse groups reinterpreted religious houses to serve their individual or collective financial, religious, or territorial needs. Certainly, evangelical theologians and territorial and civic officials did not intend these new “evangelical” convents to function like traditional convents; they reconfigured these institutions by asserting territorial authority over the devotional life and governance and by appropriating property management. Resident nuns with strong confessional affiliations used such institutional and confessional resolutions to strengthen co-religious presence within convents. These competing goals of devotional uniformity within the convent motivated traditional and evangelical women to recruit and educate the next generation of nuns in the convent schools. Finally, supplications demonstrate multiple motivations for evangelical and traditional women to enter convents in evangelical territories. The negotiations between these divergent interests of the applicants, families, convent congregations, abbesses, and territorial officials created a much more diverse novitiate than anyone expected. As a result, the women, including former nuns and newly professed women, faced shifting social norms and religious practices that allowed religious pluralism, unexpected coexistence, and established claustration in practice if not by mandate.
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Uğurlu, Mine. "Corporate R&D Investments and Risk." In Ethics and Sustainability in Global Supply Chain Management, 211–31. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2036-8.ch012.
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Corporate R&D Investments,that constitute basis for sustainable development, are influenced by external and firm-specific risks.Evidence shows that firms in Turkey have increased R&D spending during subprime crisis despite its procyclicality in most of the emerging countries.This chapter investigates if business group affiliation or corporate diversification that is predominant in Turkey stimulate R&D investments under risk.It focuses on internal capital markets of business groups or conglomerates that may enhance R&D spending by reducing financial constraints, and likelihood of distress of the affiliated firms.The results reveal that group affiliation and diversification positively affect corporate R&D spending when firm-specific risks rise.These results are significant during the global crisis period.Group-affiliated corporations increase their R&D investments as idiosyncratic risks rise.The diversified conglomerates increase R&D investments when earnings volatility and equity erosion rise.Results indicate that large firms are more inclined to reduce R&D investments under risk.
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Schimmelfennig, Frank, Thomas Winzen, Tobias Lenz, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, and Densua Mumford. "The Association of Southeast Asian Nations." In The Rise of International Parliaments, 223–40. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864974.003.0014.
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This chapter analyses the reasons why governments rejected a formal recognition of the ASEAN Interparliamentary Organization/Assembly for a long time, but finally established an official affiliation during the Charter-making process in 2008/10. Until today, ASEAN provides a comparatively unfavourable context for parliamentarization because the organization has little authority and the membership is largely non-democratic. Yet, when the Asian financial crisis hit the region in 1997/98, a demand for re-legitimation emerged, which was supplied as a result of the combination of a subsequent change in the purpose of the organization, which created affinities with other ‘parliamentarized’ organizations and diffusion from the European Union.
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Follini, Tamara. "The Distractions of John Cheever." In Writing for The New Yorker. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748682492.003.0007.
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This chapter considers John Cheever's Rolex advertisement, which can be read as the writer's comment, poised between self mockery and self congratulation, on his lifelong tussle with the marketplace and the conditions of magazine publication, considering Cheever's engagement with The New Yorker. While this was an affiliation from which Cheever frequently benefited, it was also one increasingly marked by financial frustration, creative limitation, and personal discord with the editors with whom he was most closely associated. More damagingly, Cheever's reputation, both during his lifetime and in subsequent decades, was perceived as so deeply entangled with that of the magazine that the association undoubtedly hindered, and may continue to unsettle, a just evaluation of his work.
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Razzack, Azra, and M. Atyab Siddiqui. "Managing Affairs." In The School at Ajmeri Gate, 175—C3.N27. Oxford University PressDelhi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9788194831624.003.0004.
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Abstract Chapter III, Managing Affairs, examines the arrangement of the school in its post-independence period—its management, its affiliation, its finances—simply put, its systems and structures. How does the school operate and what are the legalities under which it functions are discussed and analysed here. The various pinpricks which the institution faces vis-à-vis its financial resources, relationship with the Directorate of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, the tenuous minority character, interference by Waqf board and various stakeholders are reflected. The community, the alumni, and the local petty politicians too see themselves as a defender of the legacy of the institution. This poses a challenge. Frequent rifts and clashes are thus inevitable. As a consequence, the smooth and seamless functioning of the institution is adversely impacted.
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Gardner, Judith. "Beyond Principles." In War and Peace in Somalia, 239–50. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190947910.003.0020.
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This chapter challenges the conventional understanding of the roles of men and women in the Somali conflict. It suggests that women are involved in intra‐ and inter-clan conflict in many different ways, including in financing, mobilization, logistics, intelligence, and active fighting. The roles they take are closely connected with clan affiliation and the current situation of the clan. It appears that kinship and clan are often exploited for elite interests. However, women have also taken action to end conflict. In Kismayo, women have worked for peace through a range of means, including persuasion, mobilization, fundraising, organizing demonstrations, or advocacy. These findings underscore the importance of women's full and meaningful involvement in peace-building.
Conference papers on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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Pita, Marcelo, and Gustavo Torres. "Inferring Companies Similarities from Brazilian Government Expenditure Data." In XI Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2015.5878.
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A graph-based method is proposed for inferring similarities among companies from their affiliations in the context of expenditure financial transactions in the Brazilian Federal Government. There are trusted and untrusted companies. We performed a basic cluster analysis in the companies network to verify whether clusters (connected components) are discriminative concerning companies trustworthiness. Results show evidences that this is true, reinforcing the following hypotheses: (1) there are suppliers associations, which evidences the formation of cartels; and (2) public agencies and agents play an important role in the legality of financial transactions.
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Malchev, Bojan, Zorica Bozhinovska Lazarevska, Ivan Dionisijev, Todor Tocev, and Atanasko Atanasovski. "TRANSPARENCY REPORTS AND AUDIT MARKET ANALYSIS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA." In Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future. Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics-Skopje, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47063/ebtsf.2022.0005.
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Transparency reports are a communication link between audit firms and the general public about their work, internal policies, and quality control to increase the trust of information users. On the other hand, the need for transparency in audit firms is a factor that aims to substantially improve and maintain the quality of audits at the highest level. This paper is quantitative and qualitative research on the transparency of audit firms in the Republic of North Macedonia and analysis of the financial data contained in them, focusing on the audit firms' revenue. Through a detailed elaboration of each audit firm’s transparency reports in the period from 2007 to 2021, or a total of 372 individual transparency reports, we identified the state of transparency reports that differs in the period from 2007 to 2013 versus 2014 to 2021, positive trends of financial indicators over the years, as well as the structure of total revenues, i.e. participation of the individual services they offer. The hypothesis testing findings are early results, identifying the positive correlation between the number of employees and the audit-related turnover regardless of the audit firms' size and their affiliation with Big 4, an international network, or local audit firms. Between the number of customers, i.e. audit engagements and the audit-related turnover, there is a positive correlation for international network audit firms and local audit firms, but not for the Big 4. The paper contributes to the current literature on audit firms’ transparency in order to improve them and their real contribution to improving the quality of audit engagements. The results of the conducted quantitative analysis are a good basis for further in-depth research in identifying potential factors that correlate with the audit firms’ revenue.
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Abdulqadir Mustafa, Sanna. "The Kingdom of Norway's experience in monetary reform and exchange rate change and Iraq's access to it." In 11th International Conference of Economic and Administrative Reform: Necessities and Challenges. University of Human Development, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/icearnc/1.
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The Kingdom of Norway is a welfare state based on principles such as equality and security for all and has a responsibility to raise the living, health and economic level of the people regardless of the social status and class affiliation of the people through the existence of economic and financial institutions such as the Central Bank, which monitors the process of monetary reform and exchange rate change in terms of its legality based on the country's constitution, judiciary and finance. Monetary reform is a key pillar of the economic reform program in any country in the world, as well as in international economic bodies, because the exchange rate of a country's currency compared to other international currencies is the best proof of the strength of that country's national economy, which is important in the price system and a lever that affects the general price level and the balance of payments through its impact on exports and imports. It also affects the overall burden of the foreign indebtedness of that country, its general balance, external transfers, the state's ability to attract foreign investment, the degree of confidence in the national currency, savings and investment, and the state of the distribution of national income between different social strata and segments.
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Abdulqadir Mustafa, Sanna. ""The Kingdom of Norway's experience in monetary reform and exchange rate change and Iraq's access to it "." In 11th International Conference of Economic and Administrative Reform: Necessities and Challenges. University of Human Development, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicearnc/1.
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The Kingdom of Norway is a welfare state based on principles such as equality and security for all and has a responsibility to raise the living, health and economic level of the people regardless of the social status and class affiliation of the people through the existence of economic and financial institutions such as the Central Bank, which monitors the process of monetary reform and exchange rate change in terms of its legality based on the country's constitution, judiciary and finance. Monetary reform is a key pillar of the economic reform program in any country in the world, as well as in international economic bodies, because the exchange rate of a country's currency compared to other international currencies is the best proof of the strength of that country's national economy, which is important in the price system and a lever that affects the general price level and the balance of payments through its impact on exports and imports. It also affects the overall burden of the foreign indebtedness of that country, its general balance, external transfers, the state's ability to attract foreign investment, the degree of confidence in the national currency, savings and investment, and the state of the distribution of national income between different social strata and segments.
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Butnaru, Daniela. "Ethnic and religious connections reflected in anthroponomastics. Observations based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)]." In International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming”. Editura Mega, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30816/iconn5/2019/2.
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This study aims at presenting the ethnic and religious mosaic in the county of Suceava at the beginning of the 19th century based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)], published in 2017 by Marius Adumitroaei and Mircea Ciubotaru. These censuses include lists of landowners, tribute payers and people exempted from tribute, providing valuable information about the dynamic of the population, the financial state of the inhabitants, the types of work in which people were engaged at that time or prior to that period, the ethnic and religious affiliation of the people included in the censuses, their kinship, marital status and the like. Moreover, the censuses provide significant information regarding the anthroponomastics of the area, as they mark a major moment in the formation of the system of Romanian personal names, that is, the introduction on a large scale of a second name (which accompanied people’s first name). The ethnic connections illustrated by these documents can be noticed in the presence of ethnonyms, some of which became anthroponyms (Cazacu, Grecu, Leahu, Rusu, Turcu), as well as in the presence of foreign names specific to certain ethnic groups (Gorovei, Melniciuc, Clim, Clucenschi, etc.).
Reports on the topic "Financial affiliations"
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Chen, Yiran, and Hanming Fang. Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees via Financial Contributions Networks. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24130.
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Tennant, David. Business Surveys on the Impact of COVID-19 on Jamaican Firms. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003251.
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The datasets come from two surveys of Jamaican businesses conducted between May and June 2020. Two sets of self-administered surveys were conducted using Survey Monkey. A very small sample of financial institutions was surveyed to gain perspective on the challenges facing financiers as a result of the pandemic, and their efforts to respond to such challenges. Nine financial institutions completed this survey, and the results were used to complement the information derived from the second and major survey. The second survey targeted non-financial businesses operating in Jamaica. The sample of firms was selected from a list of all registered Jamaican firms, obtained from the Companies Office of Jamaica. A stratified random sample was used based on firm type, region, and sector. Some firms may have also participated in the study through contact made by their respective affiliations, which were approached to endorse the study and encourage their members to engage. A total of 390 firms completed the second survey. A significant degree of representation was achieved across size, type and age of business, sector and location of operation. Good gender representation was also achieved.
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Lalisse, Matthias. Measuring the Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp178.
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How much does money drive legislative outcomes in the United States? In this article, we use aggregated campaign finance data as well as a Transformer based text embedding model to predict roll call votes for legislation in the US Congress with more than 90% accuracy. In a series of model comparisons in which the input feature sets are varied, we investigate the extent to which campaign finance is predictive of voting behavior in comparison with variables like partisan affiliation. We find that the financial interests backing a legislator’s campaigns are independently predictive in both chambers of Congress, but also uncover a sizable asymmetry between the Senate and the House of Representatives. These findings are cross-referenced with a Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) linking legislators’ financial and voting records, in which we show that “legislators who vote together get paid together”, again discovering an asymmetry between the House and the Senate in the additional predictive power of campaign finance once party is accounted for. We suggest an explanation of these facts in terms of Thomas Ferguson’s Investment Theory of Party Competition: due to a number of structural differences between the House and Senate, but chiefly the lower amortized cost of obtaining individuated influence with Senators, political investors prefer operating on the House using the party as a proxy.