THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC ON INVESTORS’ BEHAVIOUR IN THE LIGHT OF BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE by Marta Wiśniewska

“…The behaviour and attitude of market participants towards risk were volatile during the developing pandemic, which manifested itself in rapid buying of overvalued assets or rapid selling of assets.…”
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Washed away: industrial capital, labor, and floods by Anish Sugathan, Arpit Shah, Deepak Malghan

“…Employing a stacked difference-in-differences approach with carefully matched controls, we uncover persistent negative effects of floods on firms’ assets and employment, with striking heterogeneity across sectors and regions. …”
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A Blockchain-Assisted Federated Learning Framework for Secure and Self-Optimizing Digital Twins in Industrial IoT by Innocent Boakye Ababio, Jan Bieniek, Mohamed Rahouti, Thaier Hayajneh, Mohammed Aledhari, Dinesh C. Verma, Abdellah Chehri

“…The IIoT enables digital twins, virtual replicas of physical assets, to improve real-time decision-making, but challenges remain in trust, data security, and model accuracy. …”
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OPTIMIZATION by B. Gusakov, A. Sotnikova

“…The objective function of optimization is to choose the option that provides the max-imum growth rate of assets and the minimum period of the program with limited initial invest-ment resources. …”
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Knowledge Management in Practice A Critique on the Book Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Management by Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Behrouz Rasouli, Somayeh Jafari

“…Many researchers, professionals, and managers believe that knowledge is one of the key assets of organizations and businesses in the current era. …”
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A Multi-Objective Approach to Portfolio Optimization Problem Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Genetic Algorithm by Mohammad Moshrefi, Javad Behnamian

“…This study analyzes the portfolio optimization model, by considering the financial management and investment science in order to evaluate risks and return in regard with restrictions such as buyers’ assets for purchasing per share. Accordingly, a novel model is designed as linear programming in order to optimize the investment portfolio, considering the expected rate of return, the minimum risk, and the buyer’s assets. …”
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Optimal investment and reinsurance for the insurer and reinsurer with the joint exponential utility by Wuyuan Jiang, Zechao Miao, Jun Liu

“…Both the insurer and reinsurer are allowed to invest in risk-free assets and risky assets, and the market price of risk depends on a Markovian, affine-form, and square-root stochastic factor process. …”
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Performance and Exhaust Emission Characteristics of C.I Engine Using Biofuels and Its Diesel Blend with Nano-Additives by S. Jacob, L. Karikalan, J. Isaac JoshuaRamesh Lalvani, Aman Sharma, Maghalengam Kannappan

“…Depletion of fossil fuel assets makes it critical that we find biodiesel sources in the contemporary world. …”
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The Potential for a Sovereign Wealth Fund to Acquire and Exert Influence Over the Eurozone by Thomas Junghanns, Jan Körnert

“…We identify banks holding critical positions within the eurozone countries that might be exploited in the pursuit of power and determine whether SWFs could acquire simple or qualified majorities in these banks and whether they would have sufficient assets to enter into such investments. The paper concludes that three authoritarian regimes — China, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia — each have a SWF which would need to invest not even half of its assets to acquire such sweeping influence.…”
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THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC ON INVESTORS’ BEHAVIOUR IN THE LIGHT OF BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE by Marta Wiśniewska

“…The behaviour and attitude of market participantstowards risk were volatile during the developing pandemic, which manifested itself in rapid buyingof overvalued assets or rapid selling of assets.…”
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Does ESG disclosure enhance firm performance during COVID-19? Evidence from Nifty 500 firms by G. Vidya Bai, Daniel Frank, K. Sudhir Prabhu

“…The findings reveal a significant negative impact of the pandemic on Return on Assets (β =-4.812), Return on Equity (β =–.675), and Earnings Per Share (β = –2.875), highlighting the unfavorable effect of the pandemic on firm performance. …”
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INVESTMENT STRATEGIES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS VS ENDOWMENTS by E. S. Biryukov

“…The paper considers two main original approaches to investing the assets of institutional investors (the total amount of their assets in the world is about 100 trillion dollars) – the one of Norway's sovereign wealth fund Global and approach of Yale's endowment fund. …”
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Legal regime of business partnership property (considering international experience) by R. M. Artemenko

“…This is also indicated by the use of such concepts as “assets”, “funds”, “profit”, “goodwill”, “accumulated intangible assets of the enterprise”, “property of economic value” in the ECHR judgments to describe the category of property. …”
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ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INTERDEPENDENCES EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE by Nino Serdarević

“…Author argues that recently suggested financial management measures involving cash and assets manage ment,liquidity ratios and turns do not directly imply accounting information quality, prior computed within applied accounting conservatism. …”
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Traders’ Networks of Interactions and Structural Properties of Financial Markets: An Agent-Based Approach by Linda Ponta, Silvano Cincotti

“…In the market, agents trade risky assets in exchange for cash and share their sentiments by means of interactions that are determined by sparsely connected graphs. …”
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Situated Information Flow between Food Commodity and Regional Equity Markets: An EEMD-Based Transfer Entropy Analysis by Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Peterson Owusu Junior, Ahmed Bossman, Emmanuel Yaw Arhin

“…The intrinsic information shared by financial assets provides a means of assessing their mutual linkages. …”
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Industry 4.0: digital twins characteristics, applications, and challenges in-built environments by Heni Zribi, Taycir Ben Abid, Abdelkarim Elloumi, Yasmina Hani, Besma Bechir Graba, Aderrahman Elmhamedi

“…The emergence of Digital Twins (DT) represents a significant technological innovation aimed at enhancing the design, construction, and operation of built assets. DT are virtual representations of physical objects, allowing an effective management across various stages within the construction and infrastructure sectors. …”
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A Big Data Architecture for Digital Twin Creation of Railway Signals Based on Synthetic Data by Giulio Salierno, Letizia Leonardi, Giacomo Cabri

“…This trend has transformed traditional industrial production by exploiting Digital Twin (DT) models as virtual representations of physical manufacturing assets. In the railway industry, Digital Twin models offer significant benefits by enabling anticipation of developments in rail systems and subsystems, providing insight into the future performance of physical assets, and allowing testing and prototyping solutions prior to implementation. …”
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Penal Vs. Confiscation-Only Approaches in Money Laundering Control by Bikelis Skirmantas, Pranka Darius, Dainauskaitė Goda

“…This synergy facilitates the successful declaration of suspicious assets as ownerless and subject to forfeiture by the state.…”
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Study on Announcement Effect of Stock Repurchase from the Perspective of Configuration Analysis by Hong Bing Wang, Ai Hua Jin, Hai Yun Yu

“…Through the analysis of the degree of premium (DP), repurchase ratio (RR), natural logarithm of total assets (LAS), return on net assets (ROE), top 10 shareholder equity ratio (CR10), and executive shareholding ratio (MSL), it is found that the paths of high CAR stock repurchase effect include repurchase clause-oriented type and centralization-proportional matching type; the path of nonhigh CAR stock repurchase effect includes size-premium limit type, profit-proportion limit type, and repurchase clause limit type. …”
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