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Title: THE EFFECT OF STOCK MANIPULATION AND INSTITUTIONAL OWNERSHIP ON CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.
Creator: Li, Yuan, Cumming, Douglas, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Finance, College of Business
Abstract/Description: My first study proposes that stock price manipulation erodes trust, damages corporate reputation, reorients management towards short-termism, harms entrepreneurial innovation culture, and increases the cost of capital. I tested these ideas by linking stock manipulation data to corporate venture capital data for firms listed on NASDAQ and NYSE. The data indicate CVC investments in entrepreneurial firms are followed by a rise in market manipulation in the short run [-3 months, +3 months], but a...
Show moreMy first study proposes that stock price manipulation erodes trust, damages corporate reputation, reorients management towards short-termism, harms entrepreneurial innovation culture, and increases the cost of capital. I tested these ideas by linking stock manipulation data to corporate venture capital data for firms listed on NASDAQ and NYSE. The data indicate CVC investments in entrepreneurial firms are followed by a rise in market manipulation in the short run [-3 months, +3 months], but a decline thereafter. The data further indicates that stock manipulation harms the ability of CVCs to form investment syndicates and reduces the likelihood of successful IPO and acquisition exits. The hazard rate to IPO is 0.54 for CVC-backed firms that face market manipulation. Overall, the theory and evidence provide insights into how firm's manipulation can damage the effectiveness of their venture capital endeavors, ultimately contributing to sustainable growth and innovation.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014451
Subject Headings: Venture capital, Investments, Stocks, Finance, Economics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Working class against capitalist class is the main election issue of the Communist Party : Election platform, Communist Party U.S.A.
Creator: Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1930
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/2782466
Subject Headings: Working class --United States., Capitalism., Campaign literature, 1930 --Communist.
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Title: Speeding up the workers.
Creator: Barnett, James
Date Issued: 1932
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/2709309
Subject Headings: Industrial organization., Industrial efficiency., Labor and laboring classes., Capitalism.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Science, technology and economics under capitalism and in the Soviet Union.
Creator: Rubinshtein, Modest
Date Issued: 1932
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/225489
Subject Headings: Technology., Economics., Capitalism., Communism --Soviet Union., Socialism --Russia.
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Title: THE IMPACT OF CEO PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ON CORPORATE POLICIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE.
Creator: Faulkner, Matthew, Garcia-Feijoo, Luis, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Finance
Abstract/Description: Increasing evidence suggests the personal traits of chief executive officers (CEOs) can influence corporate policies. We examine how one dimension, past professional experiences, can affect corporate payout policy. Exploiting exogenous CEO turnovers and future employment, we hypothesize that CEOs experiencing a distress event in their past career alter the corporate payout policy at their subsequent firm of employment. We discover that CEOs having experienced prior professional career...
Show moreIncreasing evidence suggests the personal traits of chief executive officers (CEOs) can influence corporate policies. We examine how one dimension, past professional experiences, can affect corporate payout policy. Exploiting exogenous CEO turnovers and future employment, we hypothesize that CEOs experiencing a distress event in their past career alter the corporate payout policy at their subsequent firm of employment. We discover that CEOs having experienced prior professional career distress are less likely to pay dividends and use repurchases and pay out lower levels for each type of payout. Additionally, when CEOs with distress do have a payout policy greater than zero dollars, there exists a preference toward the use of repurchases in the payout policy, adding to the literature of substitution and differences between the two forms of payout. We find that dividend smoothing is reduced by CEOs that have past professional distress.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013305
Subject Headings: Chief executive officers, Social capital (Sociology), Experience, Dividends, Payouts
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CEO SOCIAL CAPITAL AND STOCK PRICE INFORMATIVENESS: US AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES.
Creator: Malinin, Artem, Garcia-Feijoo, Luis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Finance, College of Business
Abstract/Description: In Essay 1, I investigate the association between CEOs’ social capital and stock price informativeness in a sample of US firms. After accounting for the fact that larger networks attract more analysts following, I find that firms with larger CEO social capital exhibit higher private information incorporation and hence more informative stock prices. Results are consistent for five different proxies for stock price informativeness. Furthermore, the positive association between social capital...
Show moreIn Essay 1, I investigate the association between CEOs’ social capital and stock price informativeness in a sample of US firms. After accounting for the fact that larger networks attract more analysts following, I find that firms with larger CEO social capital exhibit higher private information incorporation and hence more informative stock prices. Results are consistent for five different proxies for stock price informativeness. Furthermore, the positive association between social capital and informativeness is driven by more diverse networks, as measured by gender, nationality, education, or professional diversity. Overall, results suggest that private information existing in networks may result in markets that are more informationally efficient. In Essay 2, I show that CEOs’ social capital has a positive impact on stock price informativeness in an international sample. Different robustness and endogeneity tests confirm those results. Moreover, I find that factors present at the country level can mitigate or reinforce social capital’s impact on informativeness. I consider characteristics not observable within one country that can influence such relation around the world including legal, cultural, and developmental. I uncover that for more developed countries and those with a higher quality of institutions a positive impact of social connectedness is more pronounced. In addition, I show the importance of CEOs’ connections characteristics for their impact on stock price informativeness. I find that if CEOs’ connections come from developed countries or countries that have better formal and informal institutions which affect information transparency, CEOs’ social capital becomes more important for informativeness.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013973
Subject Headings: Chief executive officers, Social capital (Sociology), Stocks--Prices
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Title: Asymmetric information in fads models in Lâevy markets.
Creator: Buckley, Winston S., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Abstract/Description: Fads models for stocks under asymmetric information in a purely continuous(GBM) market were first studied by P. Guasoni (2006), where optimal portfolios and maximum expected logarithmic utilities, including asymptotic utilities for the informed and uninformed investors, were presented. We generalized this theory to Lâevy markets, where stock prices and the process modeling the fads are allowed to include a jump component, in addition to the usual continuous component. We employ the methods of...
Show moreFads models for stocks under asymmetric information in a purely continuous(GBM) market were first studied by P. Guasoni (2006), where optimal portfolios and maximum expected logarithmic utilities, including asymptotic utilities for the informed and uninformed investors, were presented. We generalized this theory to Lâevy markets, where stock prices and the process modeling the fads are allowed to include a jump component, in addition to the usual continuous component. We employ the methods of stochastic calculus and optimization to obtain analogous results to those obtained in the purely continuous market. We approximate optimal portfolios and utilities using the instantaneous centralized and quasi-centralized moments of the stocks percentage returns. We also link the random portfolios of the investors, under asymmetric information to the purely deterministic optimal portfolio, under symmetric information.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3337187
Subject Headings: Investments, Mathematical models, Capital market, Mathematical models, Finance, Mathematical models, Information theory in economics, Capital asset pricing model, Lâevy processes
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Capital, capitalism and communism.
Creator: Cohalan, Daniel
Date Issued: 1937
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174895
Subject Headings: Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church., Communism and Christianity -- Catholic Church -- Ireland.
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Title: Henry George and Karl Marx.
Creator: McEachran, Frank
Date Issued: 1936
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172755
Subject Headings: Capitalism and Marxist policy., Henry George and Karl Marx., Marxism and social history.
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Title: Delivery failure close-out: an event study on the effects of newly adopted regulation SHO amendments.
Creator: Scherle, Richard., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: A generally illegal form of short selling in United States equity markets, called "naked shorting," occurs when a seller of stock sells shares that do not exist. This type of short selling has negative consequences that result from the tactic's ability to be used as a tool to artificially inflate an issuer's stock supply, which introduces significant harm to the integrity of the market's natural forces of supply and demand. Newly adopted amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission's...
Show moreA generally illegal form of short selling in United States equity markets, called "naked shorting," occurs when a seller of stock sells shares that do not exist. This type of short selling has negative consequences that result from the tactic's ability to be used as a tool to artificially inflate an issuer's stock supply, which introduces significant harm to the integrity of the market's natural forces of supply and demand. Newly adopted amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission's short sale governance regulation, called Regulation SHO, required the mandatory purchasing of shares by certain market participants in order for those participants to close-out previously excused delivery failures, called "grandfathered" failures. This study examines the consequences of this new regulation, in terms of share price and volume, for those few securities that had the most persistent delivery failure problems. Because the regulation mandates the purchase of shares by certain influential market participants, I examine if the stock markets of these securities exhibited unusual volatility which may be indicative of the market maker trying to cover at low cost. Using technical analysis techniques, such as volume surge detection (using moving volume averages), the performance of the target securities will be compared with appropriate benchmark indices for the purpose of detecting unusual activity. Unusual activity may be consistent with my hypothesis that market makers may encourage additional volatility to cause liquidity problems for marginal investors which forces them to sell part or all of their position. As discussed in great detail, the extra marginal shares injected into the market by the action of forced selling by these marginal investors may be used by the market makers to lower their cost of regulation compliance.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/210002
Subject Headings: Securities industry, Investment analysis, Short selling, Capitalism, Moral and ethical aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Managerial reputation and Non-GAAP earnings disclosures.
Creator: Cheng, Yun, Kohlbeck, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Accounting
Abstract/Description: I examine how managerial reputation affects the quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosures and how the market reacts to non-GAAP earnings disclosures associated with managerial reputation. Although there was an initial dip in the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures after SOX and Regulation G, the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures has increased in recent years (Brown, Christensen, Elliott and Mergenthaler 2012). Motivated by the efficient contracting theory and managerial...
Show moreI examine how managerial reputation affects the quality of non-GAAP earnings disclosures and how the market reacts to non-GAAP earnings disclosures associated with managerial reputation. Although there was an initial dip in the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures after SOX and Regulation G, the frequency of non-GAAP earnings disclosures has increased in recent years (Brown, Christensen, Elliott and Mergenthaler 2012). Motivated by the efficient contracting theory and managerial reputation incentives, I investigate whether reputable managers are associated with higher quality non-GAAP earnings disclosures. I also investigate whether the market is more responsive to non-GAAP earnings disclosed by reputable managers. Using empirical models modified from prior research, I find that reputable managers are less likely to disclose non-GAAP earnings, which is consistent with the efficient contracting explanation. I also find that reputable managers exclude more recurring items that are related to future operating earnings when they disclose non-GAAP earnings, which is consistent with the rent extraction explanation in prior research. Finally, I find that managerial reputation has an incremental effect on the market reaction and that the market is more responsive to non-GAAP earnings disclosed by reputable managers if the unexpected earnings are positive. The study contributes to both non-GAAP earnings disclosures literature and managerial reputation incentives literature. It also has implications for investors, managers, and regulators.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004185, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004185
Subject Headings: Capital productivity -- Measurement, Disclosure in accounting, Industrial management, Investment analysis, Risk management
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Title: Capital budgeting in American county governments: Analysis of current practices.
Creator: Sekwat, Alex Sube, Florida Atlantic University, Thai, Khi V.
Abstract/Description: This study analyzes the current practices of capital budgeting in American county governments. The analysis includes a determination of the factors believed to influence the use of a capital budget in counties. The bulk of the data for the study were gathered by means of survey research. A questionnaire was designed, pre-tested, and administered to a select group of county finance officers across the United States. Stratified random sampling procedures were employed in the selection of the...
Show moreThis study analyzes the current practices of capital budgeting in American county governments. The analysis includes a determination of the factors believed to influence the use of a capital budget in counties. The bulk of the data for the study were gathered by means of survey research. A questionnaire was designed, pre-tested, and administered to a select group of county finance officers across the United States. Stratified random sampling procedures were employed in the selection of the sample frame. Limited supplementary data obtained from secondary sources were also used. Descriptive statistics, measures of association, and logistic regression procedures were used in the analysis and interpretation of the data. The analysis of the data using contingency tables and measures of association reveal a significant relationship between the dependent variable, i.e., the use of a capital budget, and several independent variables, notably: degree of urbanization, form of government, state requirements, capital improvement program (CIP), federal grants, state grants, and a periodic inspection program. No significant relationship was established between the use of a capital budget and the following independent variables: geographic region, risk and uncertainty, and size of capital budget or capital investments. Moreover, the analysis of the results reveals that counties with capital budget in contrast to counties without a one have a higher incidence and are more predisposed to: (1) utilize a CIP, (2) receive intergovernmental grants for capital investments, (3) consider risk and uncertainty in evaluating capital investment proposals, (4) have their infrastructure facilities in fairly good physical condition, (5) employ a periodic inspection program, (6) tend to have a large population (urban), and (7) have an elected or appointed professional administrator. Furthermore, logistic regression analysis was used to determine the covariates that have a strong explanatory power of the dependent variable. After testing several models, the parsimonious and best fitting model contained the following variables, and interaction terms: urbanization, state requirements, use a of CIP, interaction of federal grants and urbanization, and interaction of state grants and state requirements. Overall, the results from descriptive statistics, measures of association, and logistic regression analysis, seem to suggest that county governments that use a capital budget performed slightly better than counties without a capital budget when the independent variables are considered as performance indicators.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12361
Subject Headings: County Budgets--Appropriations and Expenditures, County Budgets--United States, Capital Budget--United States
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Economic transition, the case of China.
Creator: Lin, Min., Florida Atlantic University, Stronge, William B., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a study of China's economic transition from the traditional Soviet type socialist command economy which existed before 1978 to a market economy which China wants to achieve. Historical comparisons are applied to see the difference between early economic development and present reform efforts in China. The problems that China has encountered during the transition period also are presented and analysis are given.
Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15172
Subject Headings: China--Economic policy--1976-, Capitalism--China, China--Economic conditions
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Title: Private Capital Flows and Economic Development: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Asian and Latin American Countries.
Creator: Salome, Helena Johanna, Yuhn, Ky-hyang, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: After the 1980s debt crisis had officially come to an end, most developing nations in Asia and Latin America successfully reentered the global capital market. Private capital flows into these regions surged to unprecedented heights. Present paper gives an overview of what gave rise to this sudden come-back of external finance to the developing world, why its composition and geographical dispersion had changed, and how it affected the macroeconomic environment of the recipient nation....
Show moreAfter the 1980s debt crisis had officially come to an end, most developing nations in Asia and Latin America successfully reentered the global capital market. Private capital flows into these regions surged to unprecedented heights. Present paper gives an overview of what gave rise to this sudden come-back of external finance to the developing world, why its composition and geographical dispersion had changed, and how it affected the macroeconomic environment of the recipient nation. Furthermore, a cross-section econometric analysis is applied to thirty-four countries for the early 1990s, to determine the effect of private inflows on the growth rate of real GDP, as a proxy for economic development, in the context of a standard neoclassical growth equation framework. Results confirm the favorable impact of portfolio investment, but foreign direct investment appears to hinder economic growth. An attempt is made to interpret these results and compare them with existing empirical research.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000310
Subject Headings: Capital movements--Latin America, Capital movements--Asia, Latin America--Economic conditions--1982-, Asia--Economic conditions--1945-, Saving and investment--Latin America, Saving and investment--Asia
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Title: The menace of paternalism.
Creator: Kahn, Otto Hermann
Date Issued: 1918
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3089939
Subject Headings: World War, 1914-1918 -- United States., Industrial policy -- United States., Capitalism -- United States., Paternalism -- United States.
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Title: Agency costs and accounting quality within an all-equity setting: the role of free cash flows and growth opportunities.
Creator: Cabán, David, Kohlbeck, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Accounting
Abstract/Description: I investigate if all-equity firms are a heterogeneous group as it relates to agency costs and accounting quality. All-equity firms are a unique group of firms that choose a “corner solution” as their capital structure. Extant research, supported by well-established theories such as trade-off theory, free cash flow theory, and Jensen’s (1986) control hypothesis, generally conclude that agency conflicts motivate such structure. Research also supports the alternative argument that poor...
Show moreI investigate if all-equity firms are a heterogeneous group as it relates to agency costs and accounting quality. All-equity firms are a unique group of firms that choose a “corner solution” as their capital structure. Extant research, supported by well-established theories such as trade-off theory, free cash flow theory, and Jensen’s (1986) control hypothesis, generally conclude that agency conflicts motivate such structure. Research also supports the alternative argument that poor accounting quality makes debt so prohibitive that such firms are driven to this capital structure. I propose that an all-equity structure is not necessarily symptomatic of agency conflicts and poor accounting quality overall. I investigate if different motivations, within an all-equity setting, reflected by free cash flows and growth opportunities, result in different levels of agency cost and accounting quality. By anchoring on theories that link implicit costs of debt to free cash flow levels and growth opportunities, I hypothesize that free cash flows and growth opportunities are strongly linked to the justification or lack thereof for the pursuit of such strategy. I hypothesize and show that firms in the extremes of the free cash flow to growth rate spectrum exhibit significantly different levels of agency cost and accounting quality within the all-equity setting. These results support my main prediction that there exists agency costs and accounting quality differences within the all-equity setting which are associated with free cash flow levels and growth opportunities and that the pessimistic conclusions for pursuing an all-equity strategy reached by prior research should not be generalized to all such firms.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004432, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004432
Subject Headings: Business enterprises -- Valuation, Cash management, Corporations -- Finance, Corporations -- Growth, Financial risk management, Strategic planning, Venture capital
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Title: Long-term post-Katrina volunteerism: the ethics of an imported solidarity.
Creator: D'Aloia, Susan., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The trauma and devastation that resulted from Hurricane Katrina's landfall on August 29, 2005, produced a wide spread public perception of government neglect and ineptitude. Subsequently, a period of nationwide shame and concern for those most affected by the disaster elicited a wave of financial generosity from all social sectors. Yet, by late 2005 the media declared that the majority of Americans had become desensitized to the tragedy and its consequences, coining this shift in public...
Show moreThe trauma and devastation that resulted from Hurricane Katrina's landfall on August 29, 2005, produced a wide spread public perception of government neglect and ineptitude. Subsequently, a period of nationwide shame and concern for those most affected by the disaster elicited a wave of financial generosity from all social sectors. Yet, by late 2005 the media declared that the majority of Americans had become desensitized to the tragedy and its consequences, coining this shift in public perception as "Katrina fatigue." Thousands of volunteers contradicted this phenomenon, however, by performing service in the devastated city of New Orleans. Long-term volunteers defied "Katrina fatigue" by redirecting the trajectory of their lives so they could provide service. Conventionally accepted volunteer theory predicts that volunteers provide service and that their labor operates in conjunction with institutionally supported mechanisms of security and services., However, for the volunteer subjects in this study, Katrina and its immediate aftermath shattered the trust in such institutions. These volunteers did not assume that their service operated in conjunction with state sponsored agencies or corporations. Rather, they viewed their own acts of service as the means of promoting the recovery. This qualitative case study examines the deliberated choices and actions performed by long-term volunteers between the years 2005 and 2009. The primary subjects in this investigation include 15 volunteers who performed long-term and/or repeat delegations of service within organized networks. Volunteer subjects believed that if they did not perform the services they did, these services might not get done. Volunteers internalized contours of the larger political economy and their own perceived role within them. Performing service functioned partially to counteract this internalization and simultaneously redirect their lives., Second Line, a New Orleans street tradition of neighborhood processions, reveals more of what drives the long-term volunteer's desire. The root practice of Second Line processions embodies a form of cognitive liberation for the disenfranchised as the processions interrupt normal arrangements of order and power in the city, albeit temporarily. Volunteers desire to connect with poor and working class Black people in this capacity, and their attempts to do so played out in contexts that sometimes disrupted institutional or corporate power, constituting a demand for change on behalf of Katrina victims.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360619
Subject Headings: Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Social aspects, DIsaster relief, Emergency management, Social capital
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Title: FDI in the Third World: The impact on growth and human development.
Creator: Krappen, Ute., Florida Atlantic University, Scott, Gerald E., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: This thesis theoretically and empirically analyzes the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Third World countries. The competing theories of the impact of FDI on developing countries are examined. The contradictory results of former econometric tests and empirical surveys measuring the impact of FDI on growth are compared and contrasted. A human development accounting model is employed as a new approach to study the effects of FDI on social indicators. Finally the resulting policy...
Show moreThis thesis theoretically and empirically analyzes the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Third World countries. The competing theories of the impact of FDI on developing countries are examined. The contradictory results of former econometric tests and empirical surveys measuring the impact of FDI on growth are compared and contrasted. A human development accounting model is employed as a new approach to study the effects of FDI on social indicators. Finally the resulting policy implications are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14867
Subject Headings: Developing countries--Economic conditions, Capital movements--Developing countries, Investments, Foreign, Developing countries--Social conditions
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Title: Old enough to kill ; too young to die?: evaluating public opinion of the juvenile death penalty.
Creator: Chase, Kristen., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: In 2005, the United States Supreme Court found the execution of juvenile offenders to be unconstitutional, based in part on a "national consensus" against the death penalty for juveniles. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the flaws in existing methods of measuring public opinion and to determine the correlation between the age of an offender and the sentencing recommendation received. It was the hypothesis of my project that there would not be a statistically significant...
Show moreIn 2005, the United States Supreme Court found the execution of juvenile offenders to be unconstitutional, based in part on a "national consensus" against the death penalty for juveniles. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the flaws in existing methods of measuring public opinion and to determine the correlation between the age of an offender and the sentencing recommendation received. It was the hypothesis of my project that there would not be a statistically significant correlation between the offender's age and sentencing recommendation. To test this hypothesis, I asked 156 Florida Atlantic University students. This method of analysis was considered the best way to accurately determine public sentiment towards the juvenile death penalty, after a thorough review of existing methods revealed significant flaws. My results suggest that there is no correlation between the age of an offender and sentencing recommendations.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209986
Subject Headings: Criminal justice, Administration of, Juvenile justice, Administration of, Capital punishment, Punishment (Philosophy), Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Network of Ideas: Brokerage and Success Among Visual Artists in South Florida.
Creator: Hoyos, Patricia, Brown, Clifford T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: This study looks at artists’ careers as paths defined by their relative position in a dynamic professional network where innovation and creativity are highly regarded. Today, the theoretical and empirical study of networks has demonstrated that in some professions the individuals’ position in the network can facilitate or constrain their success. In studies about diffusion of information, for instance, some authors have found that individuals connected to a greater variety of sources are more...
Show moreThis study looks at artists’ careers as paths defined by their relative position in a dynamic professional network where innovation and creativity are highly regarded. Today, the theoretical and empirical study of networks has demonstrated that in some professions the individuals’ position in the network can facilitate or constrain their success. In studies about diffusion of information, for instance, some authors have found that individuals connected to a greater variety of sources are more creative and perform better. I explored this idea by looking at a network of visual artists and art institutions in Miami, and found a positive correlation between position and success, though, not explained by variety exclusively. In the network, artistic success is a function of connecting both across artistic categories and a hierarchical system; therefore, in an art world, creativity and innovation are mediated by key members, who distribute information and resources through affiliation, prominence and brokerage.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004605, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004605
Subject Headings: Art and society., Arts and society., Popular culture., Arts--Psychological aspects., Social capital (Sociology), Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Art patronage--United States--Florida.
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