Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to the household sector by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This method analyses the degree as well as the speed of convergence, identifies the presence of club formation, and measures the behaviour of each country’s transition path relative to the panel average. We find evidence supporting integration in the deposit and short-term mortgage markets but not in the consumer credit market and longer term mortgages. …”
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Determinants of online brand communities’ and millennials’ characteristics: a social influence perspective by Ozuem, Wilson, Willis, Michelle, Howell, Kerry, Lancaster, Geoff, Ng, Raye

“…The main findings reveal four categories of customer engagement in OBCs (bias situators, sugar‐coaters, rationalisers, judgmentalists). …”
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Knowledge-based reactive planning and re-planning – a case-study approach by Djemai, Ramzi, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim, Dey, Maitreyee

“…Planning for uncertainties arising from indoor evacuations can be complex as there’s a fine balance to strike between a too-detailed plan and one that’s too vague. …”
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H∞ gain-scheduled dynamic output feedback control with transient performance applied to electrical microgrid by Fuentes, R. M., Lacerda, Marcio J., Morais, C. F., Oliveira, R. C. L. F., Palma, J. M.

“…We achieve this by employing changes in variables and congruence transformations, which lead to new synthesis conditions expressed as linear matrix inequalities. Additional fine-tuned scalar parameters can be used to enhance further the controller performance in terms of less conservative H-infinity guaranteed costs. …”
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Enhancing efficiency and robustness against collision attack using Mersenne number transform for hash function by Omar Maetouq, Ali Aboulqasim

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Price Competition, Efficiency and Riskiness in Investment Banking by Radić, Nemanja, Fiordelisi, Franco, Girardone, Claudia

“…Our paper examines the intertemporal relationships between price competition, cost efficiency and riskiness for a sample of investment banks inten large developed countries over 2000-2008.We show that price competition is rather limited in investment banking worldwide thus implying the existence of colluding oligopolies.We also find that although investment banks’ stability was granted by relatively low competitive pressures, banks appeared prone to take more risk thus giving some support to the competition-stability view for the investment banking industry.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…The implications of these empirical findings are discussed in the light of the debate about the possible restructuring of the regulatory framework for the Treasury bond market in Europe.…”
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Consumption, Wealth, Stock and Housing Returns: Evidence from Emerging Markets by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Sousa, Ricardo M.

“…We use quarterly data for a panel of 31 emerging economies and find that, when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. …”
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Ordered choice models of international banks' ratings with an indicator variable for country effects by Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Using data on international banks’ ratings we find that banks with a greater capitalisation, larger assets, and a higher return on assets have higher bank ratings. …”
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Book review : Streetwalking: LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara by López, María E.

“…In a similar vein, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic gives priority to the narration of the LGBTQ victims of police repression and political violence—those lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer individuals who hang out in parks and streets and find refuge in each other.…”
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The possibilities of disruption: serendipity, accidents and impasse driven search by Ross, Wendy

“…The feeling of impasse, when problem-solvers are stuck and unable to find a solution, is also explored as an important generative state for creativity. …”
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A comprehensive survey of fake review detection technology by Quyyam, Tayybaha, Qicheng, Yu

“…The survey also offers future research directions and an easy way to find datasets, carry out pre-processing, and extract multiple features. …”
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Neural network-based ammonium aeration control of wastewater treatment plant by Huja Husin, Maimun

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An IPA exploration of women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood in their late thirties by Barnett, Georgina

“…Consequently, some women find themselves in their late thirties and undecided about motherhood in the face of the relentless ticking of the biological clock. …”
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Making Assessment Meaningful by Hirst, Laura Lea

“…With larger student numbers it is becoming harder for academics to find the time to engage in formative assessment. …”
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Is the Future in T-Bond Trading? by Bojkova, Viara

“…These expectations predetermined the interest in looking at the investment decisions, particularly of institutional investors, to find out whether there is a shift towards T-bond holdings.…”
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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Bojcun, Marko

“…All of them are now recovering in terms of GDP output, but insofar as this is a truly global crisis, no one country, no region, let alone one that accounts for less than 2% of world GDP1 can find a lasting solution to the problems the crisis has thrown up.…”
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