18 research outputs found
Essays on Information in Finance
No full textIn the first paper I investigate how firms' disclosure strategies shape the relationship between information disseminated on social media and stock returns. After constructing a novel and comprehensive dataset of over 7 million tweets posted by S&P 1500 firms, I adopt text analysis methods and find that firms with negative earnings surprises have higher announcement returns when they tweet about financial news, despite being ex-ante less likely to tweet about it. Further, I nd that rms which tweet about financial news have less short run autocorrelation in returns and higher demand for information from investors.
The second paper is a joint work with M. J. Arteaga-Garavito, M. M. Croce, and P. Farroni. We quantify the exposure of major financial markets to news shocks about global contagion risk accounting for local epidemic conditions. For a wide cross section of countries, we construct a novel data set comprising (i) announcements related to COVID19, and (ii) high-frequency data on epidemic news diffused through Twitter. Across several classes of financial assets, we provide novel empirical evidence about {financial dynamics (i) around epidemic announcements, (ii) at a daily frequency, and (iii) at an intra-daily frequency.} Formal estimations based on both contagion data and social media activity about COVID19 confirm that the market price of contagion risk is very significant. We conclude that prudential policies aimed at mitigating either global contagion or local diffusion may be extremely valuable.
The third paper is a joint work with Lucia Alessi, Brunella Bruno, Elena Carletti and Katja Neugebauer.
We analyze the determinants of coverage ratios and their components (NPLs and loss loan reserves) in a large sample of European banks. We find that bank-specific factors, and in particular credit risk variables including forward-looking indicators, matter the most. We also uncover that coverage ratios do not adjust sufficiently when asset quality deteriorates but that high-NPL banks tend to be relatively better covered. At the country level, specific macroprudential levers as well as developing NPL secondary markets enhance bank coverage policy. Our findings emphasize the importance of micro prudential oversight and call for more stringent macro policies in high-NPL countries
Cover your Assets: Non-Performing Loans and Coverage Ratios in Europe
No full textWe analyze the determinants of coverage ratios and their components (NPLs and loss loan reserves) in a large sample of European banks. We find that bank-specific factors, and in particular credit risk variables including forward-looking indicators, matter the most. We also uncover that coverage ratios do not adjust sufficiently when asset quality deteriorates but that high-NPL banks tend to be relatively better covered.
At the country level, specific macroprudential levers as well as developing NPL secondary markets enhance bank coverage policy. Our findings emphasize the importance of micro prudential oversight and call for more stringent macro policies in high-NPL countries
‘He Sang the Story’ Narrative and Poetic Identity in Keats’s Work
No full textStory-telling is a mode central to the practice and achievement of John Keats. In ‘Sleep and Poetry’, he refers to life as ‘The reading of an ever-changing tale’. This line suggests his sense of the centrality of narrative to human experiences. Yet the Keatsian narrative is as a medium for Keats to investigate the nature and development of his poetic identity. His idea of poetry and of the poet, and his narrative figuring of himself as a poet are my subject, as they are his, when in the phrase the thesis takes for its title Keats writes of a poet in Endymion, ‘He sang the story up into the air’ (II, 838).
Recent scholarship has interpreted Keats’s narrative techniques in different ways. Critical approaches have modified the Bloomian concept of the anxiety of influence by using a reader response approach, or have taken on board or swerved from a McGannian New Historicist perspective. In the process Keats’s formal achievement, once celebrated by critics such as Walter Jackson Bate and Helen Vendler, has received comparatively little attention. This thesis, adopting ideas and approaches associated with narratology (including its application to lyric poetry), analyses Keats’s poetic career, focusing on the poetry’s narrative techniques and its treatment of the narrator’s role. My approach might be described as aiming to accomplish a ‘poetics of attention’.
This thesis consists of eight chapters. Chapter one discusses ‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hill’ and ‘Sleep and Poetry’, poems that are crucial in understanding Keats’s use of narrative to explore his poetic identity. In chapter two, concentrating on Endymion’s enactment of imaginative struggle, I attempt to show the purposeful function of the poem’s ‘wandering’ and complex narrative structure, which allows Keats space to develop and examine his beliefs about mythology, beauty, and visionary quest. Chapters three and four examine narrative techniques and the narrator’s role in ‘Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil’ and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ as Keats questions the nature and function of ‘old Romance’, even as he employs it, thus bringing a modern self-consciousness to bear on his task. Chapters five and six are devoted to the narrativity shown in the odes. Such an exploration of the ‘lyric narrative’ seeks to shed new light on our understanding of Keats’s odes. Chapter seven considers the ambivalence that Keats creates in ‘Lamia’. Lamia’s enigmatic identity as a woman and a serpent makes the narrative complex and the narrator perplexed. Chapter eight analyses ‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ and ‘The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream’, arguing that Keats uses these two poems as narratives to explore his idea of poetry and of the poet.
In his short creative life, Keats demonstrates different and various narrative skills. These narrative skills shape his ideas and ideals of poetry as well as of the poet. Via his use of narrative, we are able to see the evolution of his poetic identity. He presents himself as what he recommended a poet should be, a shape-changing figure, who might be best described as a ‘camelion Poet’
The employment of working class women in Leeds, 1880-1914.
No full textBetween 1880 and 1914 women's industrial employment in Leeds was transformed
by the introduction of the factory system in the consumer-goods trades. Women
came to predominate in ready-made tailoring, but have been neglected in
histories of the city.
Recent studies have argued that a. focus on the sex division of labour in
social production challenges conventional interpretations of working-class
history. This thesis contributes to current debates by examining women's work
in Leeds. It argues that the sex division of labour and the tensions between
sex and class had a critical impact on the development of the local labour
movement. Studies of women's work have shown the importance of regional
variations in the pattern of female employment. Leeds provides the
opportunity to study a hitherto neglected group, - female factory workers
employed outside cotton textiles.
Wonen's subordinate role within industry and their attitudes to work were
structured by the experience of work itself as well as by their early
socialisatjon and role in the family. The first section examines the
conditions of women's industrial employment. It suggests that job segregation
by sex structured the specific features of women's work in Leeds. Section two locates the extent and type of womens work in Leeds in the
context of the social conditions of family life and contemporary expectations
of appropriate sex roles. The varied family backgrounds, age and marital
status affected the attitudes of individual women to paid employment and
modified its effects..
The final section examines the attitudes of the Leeds labour movement towards
women workers and the tensions between sex and class. The labour movement
failed to address women's needs and to offer a real challenge to their
subordinate industrial position. This weakened union organisation and
independent labour politics in the city
(The) man, his body, and his society: masculinity and the male experience in English and Scottish medicine c.1640-c.1780.
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship(s) between medicine, the body and societal codes of masculinity in England and Scotland between c.1640 and c.1780. It responds to the way in which the men in histories of post-1660 masculinity are often disembodied, and to the comparative absence of men’s gendered experiences from the history of medicine. Its findings show that in both centuries the experience of being a man with a body that was the site of health and sickness was an open, candid, and often communal, one, inside and outside of the formal medical encounter. Thus, and on both sides of 1700, ill men had full freedom in the pursuit and acceptance of medical, familial and social assistance, while their physical suffering, and associated emotional distress, was met with sympathy. With their sick bodies the sites of honest self-examination and open discussion, it was in part this very public nature of their sicknesses that allowed men, as a gender and as individuals, independence and agency in their non-commercial health care. Indeed, later-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men suffered no constraints in their ability to respond to the vulnerabilities of their bodies, even where this involved behaviours or attributes allegedly associated with women and femininity, or inconsistent with ideals of active, independent, masculinity.
These findings indicate, therefore, great continuity across the period 1640-1780, and not only in masculine ideals of and involving the male corporeality. There seems to have been significant consistency across time in men’s social and medical experiences of both sickness and their pre-emptive preparation for it, and in an apparent collective self-confidence concerning their corporeal masculinity, their sex, and, possibly, even their sexual potential. Indeed, these sources suggest that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men had a resilient sense of self-identity (and personal masculinity), conceptually separable from the corporeal body and its known fragilities
A 'blessed asylum' or a utopian vision : the viability of a Protestant nunnery in early nineteenth-century England
No full textIn 1694, Mary Astell proposed the establishment of Protestant nunneries in England; in 1809, Helena Whitford reiterated the theme; yet, it was Lady Isabella King in 1816 who sought to put this radical idea into effect. A single, Irish, evangelically influenced gentlewoman, a younger daughter of the Earl of Kingston, she established the Ladies’ Association, a ‘conventual’ home for eighteen distressed gentlewomen at Bailbrook House in Bath in 1816, securing support for it from such influential figures as Queen Charlotte, William Wilberforce and Robert Southey. When Bailbrook House was sold in 1821, she relocated the Ladies’ Association to Clifton in Bristol, where its eventual failure in 1835 shattered her vision of establishing a national scheme of conventual homes that would benefit future generations of women.
Limited attention has yet been paid by historians to the role elite women played in creating and managing philanthropic institutions in the early nineteenth century, particularly those aimed at assisting other women in an urban setting. Some historians of philanthropy, such as Frank Prochaska, have identified an ‘explosion’ of early nineteenth-century female activity; however, elite women’s charitable contributions have tended to be understood as rural, concentrating on family estates. Kim Reynolds, who has addressed Victorian elite women’s philanthropy in an urban setting, maintains it functioned simply as a strand of elite women’s work.
This dissertation draws upon a previously unstudied collection of papers compiled and annotated by Lady Isabella King, which span the existence of the Ladies’ Association, in order to explore the nature of Lady Isabella’s involvement in this philanthropic venture and her understanding of her role. Thus it not only seeks to recover Lady Isabella as an important historical figure in the development of early nineteenth-century philanthropic ventures, something for which she was recognised by her contemporaries, but also to
examine the structure of her unique experimental institution and cast some light on the sorts of women who became its residents. By doing so, it provides a case study in the development and practical application of a philanthropic ideal. It examines the ways that Lady Isabella, quite a conventional elite single woman, used her status, her location and her networks to create and maintain the institution for nearly twenty years. It provides a valuable opportunity to examine a number of the problems she faced in establishing and running the institution, given the social and gendered milieu in which she was operating, and the strategies she employed to achieve her ends.
I argue that Lady Isabella’s elite status provided her with the wealth and access to influential social circles to make a difference, that her single status added independence to devote time to her cause and while she was initially beset with self-doubts about her competence to author and manage the project, she gradually gained confidence as she developed ways to implement and manage the institution. At the same time the groundbreaking nature of the Ladies’ Association, the consequent public criticism and a growing discordant atmosphere among the residents of the institution lead to its closure in 1835
British immigration control procedures and Jewish refugees 1933-1942.
No full textPhDThis thesis is an historical account of the British
government's regulation of the immigration to the United
Kingdom of Jewish refugees in flight from Nazi persecution.
The focus of the study is the administration of immigration
controls, with particular emphasis on the groups of refugees
for whom entry was possible and the conditions subject to
which they were admitted. The administrative process is also
examined in the context of policy. The results of the
government's efforts to control the influx are set against
policy goals, in order to assess both the extent to which
the quest for control was successful, and the extent to
which it led to unintended consequences. The relationship
between policy and procedure is thus a key theme of this
study.
The bulk of the thesis is concerned with policy-making and
administration within government, and is based on documents
in the Public Record Office(PRO). Other sources used include
private papers of ministers and officials, records of Jewish
organisations, archives of refugee committees and
interviews, listed in the bibliography. The material largely
concerns the work of Whitehall departments, interdepartmental
relations and activities at Cabinet-level. Home
Office policy and practice are covered in particular detail.
The contributions of other government departments,
particularly the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Labour and
the Treasury, are also discussed. Another important topic is
the policy-making and administrative role of nongovernmental
organisations, especially refugee committees.
The introduction is followed by a chapter outlining the
legal and administrative history of immigration control
since 1905. succeeding chapters deal chronologically with
the British response to the immigration of Jewish refugees
from 1933 to 1942. The conclusion discusses whether British
policy was humanitarian or self-interested. Two appendixes
contain brief biographical notes on persons relevant to the
thesis and a list of Home Secretaries and Home Office
Permanent Under Secretaries
Grace Aguilar’s historical romances
No full textPhDMy dissertation looks critically at Grace Aguilar’s historical romance novels and short
stories, and investigates English writers’ uses of history in early- to mid-nineteenth century
fiction. Shifting the current critical emphasis on Aguilar’s Jewish texts, I
have analyzed the ways in which Aguilar revises the genres of the national tale, the
gothic romance, and the medieval romance in order to demonstrate her participation
in the construction of nineteenth-century domestic values.
In Chapter One, I introduce to critical debate Aguilar’s juvenilia, relying on
unpublished manuscripts and novels published only in the twentieth century to
establish the origins of Aguilar’s interest in history and historical writing. Locating
Aguilar’s narrative style in the early nineteenth-century national tale, I show that as a
child Aguilar envisioned the English and Scottish nations as a family, making
domesticity both a private and a public—a female and a male—value.
Chapter Two focuses on Aguilar’s use of history to express nineteenth-century
domestic ideals in her version of the gothic romance. Deploying the setting of the
Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, Aguilar writes gothic tales that unite
Jewish and Protestant gender values. She makes heroic the Jewish female martyr to
suggest not only that nineteenth-century Protestants and Jews share similar domestic
principles, but also that Jewish women could be seen as ideal models for Protestant
women.
Finally, in Chapter Three I explore Aguilar’s participation in the nineteenth-century
medievalist tradition by reflecting on her revision of nineteenth-century literary
idealizations of the Middle Ages. In these short stories, Aguilar fictionalizes the
sixteenth-century European chivalric ethos, looking critically at the role of women in
court society at the end of the Middle Ages. Deploying the tropes prevalent in
popular nineteenth-century anti-medievalist fiction, Aguilar debunks celebrations of
the Middle Ages by showing how chivalry is antagonistic to nineteenth-century
domesticity
The Sunflower, v.129, no.2 (August 29, 2024)
No full textArticle(s): Clash of the decade: College of Health Professions takes home first Clash of the Colleges win since 2017 -- Engineering students preps to win Clash of the Colleges spirit award -- ‘Creative outlet’: Resident Assistant bulletin boards go beyond educational content -- Student government updates election rules -- New program connects adult learners with resources -- Season's on set: Shockers swept by Kansas State in season-opening exhibition game -- Volleyball runners-up in AAC preseason poll -- What you need to know about WSU volleyball ahead of season -- 'The wrong road': Welcome, Wichita, to subscription parking -- Local franchise comes to Wichita: Family values highlighted in new coffee shop -- 'Blessed' -- ‘We are all “The Bravest American”’: WSU student writes novel on human resilience, human spirit -- Sip local — A student’s guide to coffee shops -- Scream and shoutPhotograph(s): The College of Heath celebrates their 2024 Clash of the Colleges win as they watch fireworks. This is the College of Health Profession’s first win since 2017. p. 1 -- A student from the W. Frank Barton School of Business laughs after being covered in bubbles on Aug. 23. Besides the main games, Clash of the Colleges also offered a bubble machine, rock climbing, inflatable bounce areas, and more. p. 1 -- Engineering students spell out “ENGINEERING!!” on their chests and stand in line before heading to the Clash of the Colleges event. The College of Engineering Pre-Party event took place at Devlin Hall on Aug. 23. p. 1 -- Engineering students chant together as they prepare to head outside for the Clash of the Colleges event on Aug. 23. The College of Engineering went on to win the spirit award. p. 1 -- Students from the College of Engineering prepare for Clash of the Colleges event. The students yelled various chants as they finished their Pre-Party event on Aug. 23. p. 1 -- Engineering students with letters painted on their chests yell for a video. Students also wore bandanas, face paint and hair spray to show their College of Engineering pride. p. 1 -- The D building of the Shocker Hall has the Lunar calender as it’s theme. Each floor and building has it’s own theme. p. 2 -- Pamela O’Neal and Cynthia Pizzini sit in a conference room. O’Neal is the associate director of Online and Adult Learning and Pizzini is an adult learner who mentors her peers. p. 2 -- Assistant Vice President for Student Services Alicia Martinez Newell speaks to the Faculty Senate on Sept. 25, 2023. p. 3 -- Senior Morgan Stout, junior Emerson Wilford and fifth-year Izzi Strand celebrate after a point during WSU’s exhibition game against Kansas State on Aug. 24. The Shockers were swept in three sets. p. 4 -- Fifth-year Sarah Barham attempts a kill against Kansas State. p. 4 -- Portrait of Piper Pinnetti, reporter. p. 5 -- Illustration of subscription parking. p. 5 -- Portrait of Baylor Henry, reporter. p. 5 -- The interior of Buffalo Brew Coffee Company, which opened in March at 150 N. Main. The cafe offers a range of food and drinks, from classic espresso drinks to frappes to Lotus energy drinks. p. 5 -- brahim Ibn Ibrahim, the author of “The Bravest American,” smiles for a photo. Ibrahim wrote the book as a testament to “the daily battles, triumphs, and the unyielding spirit” of ordinary individuals. p. 6 -- Ibrahim Ibn Ibrahim picks up a copy of his recently released book, “The Bravest American.” Ibrahim asserted that each and every American is the bravest American because of their “unspoken sacrifice and unyielding determination.” p. 6 -- The Piano Man from Greater Grounds Coffee & Co in downtown Wichita. p. 7 -- Sadie Cunningham cheers at the beginning of Clash of the Colleges on Aug. 23. p. 8 -- Students representing the Barton School of Business enter Cessna Stadium at the start of the games. The Clash of the Colleges tradition has brought together students from all six colleges since 2015. p. 8 -- Transition mentor Ellie Green gets the College of Fine Arts excited at the start of the Clash of the Colleges on Aug. 23. Fine Arts took third place in the 2024 games. p. 8 -- A student from the W. Frank Barton School of Business laughs after being covered in bubbles on Aug. 23. Besides the main games, Clash of the Colleges also offered a bubble machine, rock climbing, inflatable bounce areas and more. p. 8 -- Students from the College of Applied Studies run through a banner as their college is introduced. p. 8 -- College of Health Professions students take a group selfie before the games begin on Aug. 23. p. 8 -- Freshman electrical engineering student Camden Warren watches the Clash of the Colleges fireworks alongside freshman computer science student Isabella Roland on Aug. 23. p.
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
