Direct and Spillover Effects of Quality Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from California Hospitals
Do quality disclosure regulations in healthcare genuinely improve patient outcomes, or are the benefits more significant for ailments they aren’t even targeting?
Pollster choices vs voters’ decisions
How much do pollster decisions influence election results, and what might the true Harris vs. Trump margin be when various polling adjustments are considered?
The not-so-hidden risks of ‘hidden-to-maturity’ accounting
How can understanding ‘hidden-to-maturity’ accounting practices help prevent future bank collapses like the SVB meltdown in March 2023? This author presents a model analyzing balance sheet vulnerabilities and depositor run risks, providing insights into bank resilience and regulatory strategies.
Intersectionality: A critical framework for mainstream health psychology
How might embracing intersectionality in mainstream health psychology transform our understanding and approach to health equity and social justice issues?
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Why did expertly Why did expertly devised planning tools both clarify and obscure the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how can this insight change our preparation for future crises?
Clinician care priorities and practices in the fourth trimester
How are clinicians balancing the demands of postpartum care with limited resources, and what gaps do they face in adhering to professional guidelines during the critical fourth trimester?
Geopolitical risk perceptions
How can geopolitical risk be measured effectively given its lack of a universal standard? Yevheniia Bondarenko, Vivien Lewis and Yves Schüler discuss a new approach to developing geopolitical risk indicators using local newspaper coverage to capture diverse perceptions.
Casualties of War? Refining the Civilian-Military Dichotomy in World War I
Throughout the First World War, newspapers around the world mocked the British state for its lavish spending on captured German officers kept at Donington Hall, a refurbished English estate. Why was this camp such a controversial space of perceived decadence?
Venture Capital: A Catalyst for Innovation and Growth
How does Venture Capital serve as a catalyst for technological innovation and economic growth, while aligning the interests of entrepreneurs and investors in high-risk ventures?
Consumption dynamics and welfare under non-Gaussian earnings risk
How does non-Gaussian earnings risk impact individual welfare and consumption patterns in different economic settings, especially considering the key role of earnings dynamics in shaping economic behavior?
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism
How do neoliberal policies and practices persist despite global upheaval and social inequalities, and how do sexual politics shape both statecraft and community-based resistance across diverse global contexts?
The Battle for the Black Mind
How has the struggle to control the education of African Americans from the Civil War to Brown v. Board of Education shaped racial inequalities and defined access to American democracy? Discover the pivotal roles of philanthropies, religious groups, and black educators in “The Battle for the Black Mind” by Dr. Karida Brown.
Connecting Cities and Nature
How can integrating nature into urban environments enhance the well-being of city dwellers and contribute to more sustainable cities? Explore this concept through the lens of Biophilic Cities, which utilizes a network of global cities, scholars, and advocates to reveal the profound impacts of nature in urban areas on human health and urban resilience.
Consumer Credit Reporting Data
Are you curious about how consumer credit reporting data shape economic research and policy decisions? Discover the transformative role of credit files in understanding borrowing behaviors, economic measures, and the impact on financial markets.
How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife
How are midlife women reshaping the bounds of intimacy without the pressures of traditional commitment? Our study uncovers how Black and white women, frustrated with conventional relationships, are innovating with ‘situationships’—a blend of casual and committed liaisons—to maintain autonomy and explore romantic and sexual fulfillment.
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Peer‐Harming Disclosures
Do CEOs strategically disclose information to harm peers’ stock prices and improve their relative performance evaluations?
Corporate foreign bond issuance and interfirm loans in China
How do Chinese non-financial corporations in risky sectors use international bond issuance to exploit interest rate differentials, engage in speculative interfirm lending, and evade prudential regulation?
Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium
How does addressing the mismatch between theory and practice in offshoring analysis reveal non-monotonic employment effects across industries, as evidenced by post-Iron Curtain Germany?
Teaching Democracy and Capitalism
Why should we educate about democracy and capitalism? This essay discusses the intricacies and necessity of teaching these pivotal systems, emphasizing the use of engaging strategies like case studies to enhance understanding and stimulate informed decision-making in real-world contexts.
Human Dignity and Political Criticism
Can philosophical reevaluations of human dignity offer meaningful insights into contemporary political and social struggles? In “Human Dignity and Political Criticism,” Colin Bird challenges traditional views on dignity, advocating instead that it emerges relationally through acts of respect, which could reshape our understanding of societal norms and values.
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits
How do the unique personalities and experience levels of presidents influence their attempts to extend their terms in office?
Still going… sometimes in the dark”: Reflections of a woman of color educator
Can transformative teacher education truly rekindle professional passion and resilience?
Industrial Policies for Innovation: A Cost-Benefit Framework
When and how should governments use industrial policy to direct innovation to specific sectors? Daniel Garcia-Macia and Alexandre Sollaci discuss a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of industrial innovation policies, revealing that sector-specific fiscal support outperforms sector-neutral support only under stringent conditions while showing that most advanced economies, including China and the U.S., tend to over-subsidize innovation despite broadly targeting the right sectors.
Human Rights and Corruption: Problems and Potential of Individualising a Systemic Problem
Anne Peters examines the pitfalls and potentials of the recent deliberate legal-political strategy of individualising the systemic problem of corruption.
Shale gas revolution could paralyse the energy transition
The shale gas boom offers a cheaper, cleaner alternative to coal but risks stalling renewable energy growth. Without stricter climate policies, shale gas could indefinitely delay the path to net zero.
Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World
What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse
Court-Packing in Context
What alternative judicial reforms were proposed during the 1937 Court-packing crisis, and how might revisiting these lesser-known proposals inform today’s debate on Supreme Court reform?
Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development
What explains the origins and survival of the first states around 5000 years ago? Ola Olsson discusses the role of weather-related productivity shocks for early state development in ancient Egypt.
Chinese Exchange Rate Policy: Lessons for Global Investors
How can a dynamic currency overlay strategy, using a forecasting model based on the RMB central parity rate policy introduced by the People’s Bank of China in 2015, help global investors manage currency risk in Chinese equity positions through long and short CNH positions? Michael Melvin discusses.
Cities and Rivers
How can architecture move beyond iconic buildings to create holistic, culturally-informed solutions that transform landscapes and everyday experiences?
Death to Realism! Toward a Social Psychology of Palestinian Resistance
How does the enduring zero-sum logic of settler colonialism shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Palestinian resistance?
Competing Criteria: Rethinking Congressional Redistricting and Representation
How do the choices made during congressional redistricting shape group representation, and what do six decades of data reveal about the influence of different institutions?
Software Testing of Generative AI Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
How can we ensure the quality and safety of generative AI systems when traditional software testing techniques fall short?
Murmurations of Injustice: Dynamics of Structural Injustice and Epistemic Oppression
Structural injustice refers to systemic social, political, and economic inequalities that are embedded within institutions and societal structures, disproportionately disadvantaging certain groups while maintaining power imbalances.
The Impact of the 2022 Oil Embargo and Price Cap on Russian Oil Prices
How did the 2022 oil embargo and price cap impact Russian oil exports and pricing, particularly in terms of discounts on Urals crude and shifts in bargaining power with India and China?