Managing Global and Local Institutional Pressures: Decentralisation and the Legitimacy Project in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-132
Author(s):  
Irsyad Zamjani
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Global And Local

Who do sovereign wealth funds say they are? Using structural topic modeling to delineate variegated capitalism in their official reports

2020 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2095180
Author(s):  
Caroline E Nowacki ◽  
Ashby Monk ◽  
Bertrand Decoster
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Structural Topic Modeling

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are an emerging community of investment organizations, subject to the conflicting demands of international and domestic institutions. From the lens of variegated capitalism, one can explain their diversity and apparent contradictions by underlining how they embody negotiations between global and local institutional pressures. Many SWFs now publish official reports, which represents a unique opportunity to analyze how they portray these institutional influences. We use an unsupervised machine learning method, structural topic modeling, to analyze the 2015 official reports of 40 SWFs and 17 public pension funds globally. With this novel method, we propose the first international, community-wide study that shows how capitalism is adapted across regions, political systems, and even organizational frontiers through SWFs. We show that region and political systems are factors supporting a polarization of missions between neoliberal and state capitalist view. However, this is nuanced by international clubs that support new investment strategies, and some high-profile SWFs that mix the neoliberal and state capitalist views.

Sunspot Groups as Tracers of Sub-Surface Processes

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
M. H. Gokhale
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Flux ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Surface Processes ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Sunspot Groups

AbstractData on sunspot groups have been quite useful for obtaining clues to several processes on global and local scales within the sun which lead to emergence of toroidal magnetic flux above the sun’s surface. I present here a report on such studies carried out at Indian Institute of Astrophysics during the last decade or so.

Establishing global and local coherence in discourse processing: Evidence from fMRI

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Ben Seipel ◽  
Virginia Clinton ◽  
Edward J. O'Brien ◽  
Philip Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Local Coherence ◽  
Global And Local

Coral husbandry for ocean futures: leveraging abiotic factors to increase survivorship, growth, and resilience in juvenile Montipora capitata

2021 ◽  
Vol 657 ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
JR Hancock ◽  
AR Barrows ◽  
TC Roome ◽  
AS Huffmyer ◽  
SB Matsuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
Larval Rearing ◽  
Abiotic Conditions ◽  
Montipora Capitata ◽  
Reef Restoration ◽  
Juvenile Corals ◽  
Bleaching Response ◽  
The Face ◽  
Survival And Growth ◽  
Global And Local

Reef restoration via direct outplanting of sexually propagated juvenile corals is a key strategy in preserving coral reef ecosystem function in the face of global and local stressors (e.g. ocean warming). To advance our capacity to scale and maximize the efficiency of restoration initiatives, we examined how abiotic conditions (i.e. larval rearing temperature, substrate condition, light intensity, and flow rate) interact to enhance post-settlement survival and growth of sexually propagated juvenile Montipora capitata. Larvae were reared at 3 temperatures (high: 28.9°C, ambient: 27.2°C, low: 24.5°C) for 72 h during larval development, and were subsequently settled on aragonite plugs conditioned in seawater (1 or 10 wk) and raised in different light and flow regimes. These juvenile corals underwent a natural bleaching event in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i (USA), in summer 2019, allowing us to opportunistically measure bleaching response in addition to survivorship and growth. This study demonstrates how leveraging light and flow can increase the survivorship and growth of juvenile M. capitata. In contrast, larval preconditioning and substrate conditioning had little overall effect on survivorship, growth, or bleaching response. Importantly, there was no optimal combination of abiotic conditions that maximized survival and growth in addition to bleaching tolerances. This study highlights the ability to tailor sexual reproduction for specific restoration goals by addressing knowledge gaps and incorporating practices that could improve resilience in propagated stocks.

The Indices of Creative Cities: the Global and Local Aspects

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Kačerauskas
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Global And Local

The paper deals with the indices of creative cities. Author analyses the different creativity indices suggested by both the followers and the critics of R. Florida. The author criticizes the Florida’s indices such as Bohemian, Melting pot, Gay, High tech, Innovation, Talent indices, as well as Minor integrative (diversity) and Major integrative indices. The indices of other authors presuppose the questions about the role of the region in defining certain creativity indices. The author makes conclusion that the uniform formula of creativity indices is impossible for two reasons. First, the creativity indices depend on the region of a city. Second, the very strategy to have the uniform creativity indices makes the cities similar to each other and no more unique, consequently, no more creative; as result, this strategy is anti-creative.

Investigation of Timing Anomalies in the Russian Stock Market in the Post-Crisis Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
I. Ya. Lukasevich
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Russian Stock Market ◽  
Economic Growth Rates ◽  
Global And Local

The implementation of the May presidential decree aimed at Russia’s joining the top five global economies and achieving economic growth rates above the world’s average while maintaining macroeconomic stability requires a highly developed and efficient stock market ensuring the accumulation of capital and its deployment in the most promising and productive sectors of the economy.The subject of the research is timing anomalies in the Russian stock market in 2012–2018. The relevance of the research is due to the information inefficiency of the Russian stock market and its imperfections leading to significant price deviations from the «fair» value of assets and depriving investors of the opportunity to form various strategies for deriving additional revenues not related to fundamental economic factors and objective processes occurring in the global and local economies and the economy of an individual business entity. Based on the trend analysis of the Broad Market USD Index (RUBMI), the paper demonstrates a methodology for simulating the analysis of price anomalies on large arrays of real data using statistical data processing methods and modern information technologies. The paper concludes that though the Russian stock market lacks even the weak form of efficiency, such well-known timing anomalies as the “day-of-the-week” effect and the “month” effect have not been observed in the recent years. Therefore, investors could not use these anomalies to derive regular revenues above the market average.

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