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Can Economic Moats Provide Investors With a Competitive Advantage?
Get PDFThis thesis examines the relationship between competitive advantage and stock performance. Using Morningstar’s economic moat rating classifications, this paper contributes to the competitive advantage literature by providing an empirical assessment of whether wide moat stocks, or companies deemed to have sustainable competitive advantages, made for superior investments compared to non-wide moat stocks over a ten-year time-frame from 2008 to 2017. Additionally, this paper accounts for a previously under-studied topic within the economic moat literature by specifically analyzing three sectors and nine industries. The results indicate that wide moat stocks surprisingly may not make for a superior stock investment, as the wide moat observations in the selected sample were found to have a negative relationship with average annual returns (coefficient = -0.05) that was statistically significant at the 5% level. Companies with no economic moat, meanwhile, were found to have a positive relationship with average annual returns (coefficient = 0.02). Taken together, these results indicate that investment research firms such as Morningstar may place excessive weight on wide moat status and thus undervalue seemingly less attractive companies that have the potential to offer far higher returns
Ficciones de contagio voluntario: VIH/sida en el periodo especial
Get PDFIn the mid - 1990s, reports of young Cubans who were deliberately contracting HIV began to emerge in the US media. Although they received considerable attention outside the island, these stories were rarely discussed by the Castro regime, which disqualified them as the result of foreign fads and the immaturity of those affected. This article examines the responses to the aforementioned cases of intentional contagion in Cuban literature and film, both in the island and the exile. Using the theoretical framework of biopolitics, I argue that these cultural productions have explored, challenged, and given new meaning to the web of discourses on HIV/AIDS that circulated during the 1990s. I focus my attention on the novel Cólera de ángeles (1996) by Zoé Valdés, and short stories from the collections No dejes escapar la ira (2001) by Miguel Ángel Fraga, and Toda esa gente solitaria: 18 cuentos cubanos sobre el sida (1997), as well as the films Azúcar amarga (Bitter Sugar, 1996), directed by León Ichaso, and Boleto al paraíso (2010) by Gerardo Chijona
Does Inflation Targeting Matter for Economic Growth During Global Financial Crises? Evidence from Emerging Economies
Get PDFThis paper examines the effects of inflation targeting (IT) on output income per capita growth in emerging economies over the period 1990 - 2014, which includes key globalization years and accounts for two of the biggest global financial and economic crises in recent history: the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-99) and the Global Financial Crisis (2007-08). I break down my sample into five geographical regions (the World, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Emerging Market Economies) to account for the regional effects of IT on growth as indicated in previous literature. I employ Fixed-Effects and Random-Effects Models that control for traditional growth determinants, globalization and periods of global financial and economic crises. I find that inflation targeting during periods of global crises on the World level, especially in Asia, result in higher output income per capita for emerging economies. Inflation targeting in general is found to be detrimental to economic growth for all regions considered. I argue that policy makers advocate for the adoption of inflation targeting regimes in developing Asian economies in order to increasing their resilience with regard to economic growth when faced with global economic and financial crises
Post-Truth Overexposure: Media Consumption and Confidence in Institutions
Get PDFDoes increased consumption of media affect how the public views the institutions of government and media? This study analyzes the relationships between time spent consuming television and Internet, where a respondent gets their news from (television vs. Internet), and confidence in these institutions. I predict an inverse relationship between exposure to television and Internet and confidence in media and government. I further hypothesize that people who get their news primarily from the Internet have less confidence in these institutions than those who get their news from television. I test this relationship using a sample of 370 respondents from the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) dataset, controlling for race, gender, political views, education, respondents\u27 family income at the age of 16, and age. OLS regression analysis shows that more hours spent watching television positively impacts confidence in media, and that those who get their news from the Internet have less confidence in the media, as do conservatives, regardless of media consumption. No independent variables determine confidence in government, which is only associated negatively with being conservative. A second regression model using confidence in press instead of media shows that females are significantly less likely to trust the press and that people of color are significantly more likely to trust the press. The relationships from the first model retained their significance. This model shows a higher significance level for the conservative relationship. These differences are discussed along with recommendations for further research
No More Fucking Guns -7
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No More Fucking Guns -2
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MDOCS Poster-2018-03-21, Free To Rock
Get PDFWednesday, March 21, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) PALMTN Davis Auditorium
FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Rock & Roll spread like an uncontrollable virus across Eastern Europe despite Communist attempts to outlaw it. Thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western freedoms and embraced this music as the Sound of Freedom, helped fuel the nonviolent implosion of the Soviet regime. Free to Rock features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West and the Soviet Union who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold War.
Q&A with executive producers Nick Binkley and Doug Yeager (author of the companion book) after the film