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Selected AbstractsMarket Segmentation and Information Asymmetry in Chinese Stock Markets: A VAR AnalysisFINANCIAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2003Jian Yang G15/G32 Abstract This study examines the market segmentation and information asymmetry patterns in Chinese stock markets. The recursive cointegration analysis confirms that each of six markets is not linked with other markets in the long run. Further, the result from data-determined forecast error variance decomposition clearly shows that foreign investors in the Shanghai B-share market are better informed than Chinese domestic investors in two A-share markets and foreign investors in Shenzhen and Hong Kong markets over time. The finding challenges a widespread assumption of less informed foreign investors in the literature, but suggests that foreign investors could be more informed in emerging markets. [source] Hauling Down the Double Standard: Feminism, Social Purity and Sexual Science in Late Nineteenth-Century BritainGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2004Lesley Hall Nineteenth-century feminism and the related social purity movement, and the emergent scientific discourse of ,sexology', are usually seen as antagonistic. Both trends, in fact, were in profound opposition to the widespread assumption that the double moral standard was an embodiment of ,natural' transhistorical law. This article suggests that feminist agitation against the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s (and other manifestations of the deleterious legal status of women) overtly attacked unthinking social assumptions about sex and gender, destabilising concepts about the naturalness of the existing sexual system and creating the context for the pioneers of sexology to interrogate even further accepted notions of gender and sexuality. [source] Democratic demand for a social Europe?INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE, Issue 2 2005Preferences of the European citizenry Within the literature on European integration there is a widespread assumption that Europe is in need of intensified and more effective supranational social policy cooperation. However, on the political level it is doubtful whether such measures are welcomed by the national electorates. This article addresses this issue empirically by asking whether there is public demand for promoting greater European welfare policy cooperation and what are the determinants of such a demand. The data source used is the Eurobarometer survey 2000. A number of hypotheses dealing with socio-structural differences, the effects of welfare regime types, the subjective evaluation of the integration process and the role of identity will be scrutinised. Overall, the results indicate that at the attitudinal ,grass root' level there is no unequivocal support for a European welfare responsibility and that some fundamental cleavages are present. It is the regional and cultural aspects, especially, which turn out to be having an effect and to be influencing future political conflicts. A common European welfare arrangement, therefore, cannot be regarded as a solution to the problems the European Union is facing; rather it will raise new and severe problems of finding social and political support. [source] Does the invisible hand have a green thumb?THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, Issue 1 2009Incentives, linkages, the creation of wealth out of industrial waste in Victorian England ,Loop closing', that is, the creation of waste recycling linkages between different industries, has been hailed as a means of simultaneously achieving improved economic and environmental performance. As a result of the widespread assumption that traditional market incentives and institutions are not conducive to such an outcome, however, there remains a fair amount of scepticism as to what the capacity of business self-interest to promote this behaviour actually is. This article challenges the dominant negative perspective by discussing by-product development in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, Victorian England. Building on nineteenth and early twentieth century writings on the topic, as well as a more detailed analysis of the development of valuable by-products from highly problematic iron and coal gas production residuals, a case is made that the search for increased profitability within the context of private property rights often simultaneously promoted economic and environmental progress in the long run, as well as on different geographical scales. [source] An investigation into direct dye aggregationCOLORATION TECHNOLOGY, Issue 1 2002M. Ferus-Comelo The aggregation characteristics of the direct dye CI Yellow 162 have been investigated by measuring the optical transmittance at specific temperatures, in the presence and absence of electrolyte and surfactant, using a Hellma quartz immersion probe attached via fibre optical cables to a single-beam Zeiss Specord S 100 spectrophotometer. The experiments indicate that the dye in solution, without electrolyte, was monomolecular at temperatures of 70 °C and higher. The dye solution with electrolyte remained aggregated at temperatures up to 90 °C, a finding contrary to the still widespread assumption that the dyes are monomolecular at elevated temperatures. In the presence of a surfactant the dye appeared to be forming dye,surfactant micelles that were fairly stable even at higher temperatures. [source] Historical Perspectives on Family StudiesJOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 2 2000Stephanie Coontz This article explores the relationship of historical research to contemporary family studies. Family history was influenced greatly by fields such as sociology and anthropology, leading it to make several contributions to those fields in turn. The continuing collaboration of these disciplines can significantly enrich current family research, practice, and policy making. History's specific contribution lies in its attention to context. Although historical research confirms sociologic and ethnographic findings on the diversity of family forms, for example, it also reveals that all families are not created equal. The advantage of any particular type of family at any particular time is constructed out of contingent and historically variable social relationships. Historical research allows researchers to deepen their analysis of family diversity and family change by challenging widespread assumptions about what is and what is not truly new in family life. Such research complicates generalizations about the impact of family change and raises several methodological cautions about what can be compared and controlled for in analyzing family variations and outcomes. [source] | ||||||||||