Academic Articles & Research Papers

Integrated community-based HIV+NCD care in microfinance groups in Kenya: results from the Harambee cluster randomised trial.

Correction: Research on the impact of the development of green finance in the China region on residents' health.

Numerous overlapping programs add complexity, unpredictability to rural hospital finances.

Extreme temperatures and low-income household finance: evidence from payday loans.

Climate finance and the legitimacy machine: Insights from the Green Climate Fund in South Africa.

Global oil price and stock markets in oil exporting and European countries: Evidence during the Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war

The relationship between oil price movements and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical crisis like the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war is yet unexplored extensively. This study therefore examines the return-correlation...

An Improved Supervised-LDA Text Model and Its Application

Supervised-Latent Dirichlet Distribution Allocation (s-LDA) model cannot handle the multi-label problem and s-LDA model is not correct distribution in the classification model.The Supervised Labled-LDA(sl-LDA) model is proposed by adding a ...

Anthropology of Fishing

Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anth...

The Anthropology of Money

This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis...

Public Goods and Public Policy

One of the most interesting developments in the Anglo-American public finance literature of recent years has been the appearance, under the formidable aegis of Professor Samuelson, of a prescriptive theory of public expenditure based on the...

Globalization and public policy

Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Beyond Embedded Liberalism: Governing the International Trade Regime in an Era of Economic Nationalism (R. Higgott) 2. Domestic and International Regimes for the Developing World: The Doctrine for Political...

Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Government

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and politic...

The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentenc...

Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health: an analysis of AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset Version 2.0

Background Although it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China’s global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it volun...

Public Finance and Public Policy

PART I: BACKGROUND - Why Study Public Finance - Theoretical Tools of Public Finance - Empirical Tools of Public Finance - Tools of Budget Analysis - PART II: EXTERNALITIES AND PUBLIC GOODS - Externalities: Problems and Solutions - Externali...

Public Finance and Public Policy

The second edition of Public Finance and Public Policy retains the first edition's themes of investigation of responsibilities and limitations of government. The present edition has been rewritten and restructured. Public choice and politic...

An Algebraic Characterization of Prefix-Strict Languages

Let Σ+ be the set of all finite words over a finite alphabet Σ. A word u is called a strict prefix of a word v, if u is a prefix of v and there is no other way to show that u is a subword of v. A language L⊆Σ+ is said to be prefix-strict, i...

The Geography of Equity Analysis

ABSTRACT I provide evidence that geographically proximate analysts are more accurate than other analysts. Stock returns immediately surrounding forecast revisions suggest that local analysts impact prices more than other analysts. These eff...

Precificação de Fatores ESG no Mercado Brasileiro Utilizando Modelos de Fama-French

Objetivo do estudo: Identificar se o desempenho relacionado às dimensões ambiental, social e governança (ESG) representa um fator de risco significativo no processo de precificação de ações no mercado brasileiro, por meio da abordagem dos m...

Financing of Entrepreneurial Firms in Canada: Some Patterns

This article analyzes the patterns of financing for entrepreneurial firms in Canada. We compare the predictions of major theories of entrepreneurial finance and some more recent ideas (e.g., crowdfunding-related ideas/theories) with empiric...