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View article: Can Media Influence People’s Career Choices? A Systematic Review
Can Media Influence People’s Career Choices? A Systematic Review Open
The aim of this review was to synthesise and appraise the evidence on the impact of media on career decisions. Academic databases were searched for papers that investigated the link between media and career choice. There was some evidence …
View article: Financial perceptions and AI infringement risks
Financial perceptions and AI infringement risks Open
Artificial intelligence (AI)-related intellectual property (IP) infringement involves the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials during model training and the creation of content that may violate copyright, trademark, or patent laws. Th…
View article: Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualizing 20 years of US risk news
Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualizing 20 years of US risk news Open
This paper addresses the question of identifying and distinguishing risk amplification incidents and patterns in the news media. To meet this objective, our study incorporates a novel “floodlight” approach utilizing the Society for Risk An…
View article: FinSentGPT: A universal financial sentiment engine?
FinSentGPT: A universal financial sentiment engine? Open
We present FinSentGPT, a financial sentiment prediction model based on a fine-tuned version of the artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT. To assess the model’s effectiveness, we analyze a sample of US media news and a multi-langu…
View article: MetaMoney: Exploring the intersection of financial systems and virtual worlds
MetaMoney: Exploring the intersection of financial systems and virtual worlds Open
As digital assets and decentralized finance (DeFi) rapidly evolve, the integration between financial systems and virtual worlds—increasingly known as the metaverse—is expected to gain momentum. The metaverse promise to be a critical use-ca…
View article: Are the good spared? Corporate social responsibility as insurance against cyber security incidents
Are the good spared? Corporate social responsibility as insurance against cyber security incidents Open
Despite the increasing consensus that socially responsible behavior can act as insurance against externally induced shocks, supporting evidence remains somewhat inconsistent. Our study provides a clear demonstration of the insurance‐like p…
View article: ChatGPT for (Finance) research: The Bananarama Conjecture
ChatGPT for (Finance) research: The Bananarama Conjecture Open
We show, based on ratings by finance journal reviewers of generated output, that the recently released AI chatbot ChatGPT can significantly assist with finance research. In principle, these results should be generalisable across research d…
View article: Advertising expenditure and stock performance: A bibliometric analysis
Advertising expenditure and stock performance: A bibliometric analysis Open
Firms' advertising expenditure and its impact on their stock performance have been widely studied. However, existing reviews have often considered them independently, resulting in a fragmented understanding of the progress and contribution…
View article: Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability Open
We empirically study the relationship between the gender composition and the performance of teams. In our setting, teams of students are incentivized to develop business plans as part of a compulsory course in a business administration pro…
View article: Commodity risk in European dairy firms
Commodity risk in European dairy firms Open
We apply a multivariate mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) conditional quantile regression technique to understand the dairy commodity exposure of European dairy firms. Leveraging a theoretically sound hedonic dairy pricing framework, we show tha…
View article: Fertile LAND: Pricing non-fungible tokens
Fertile LAND: Pricing non-fungible tokens Open
The current popularity of non-fungible token (NFT) markets is one of the most notable public successes of blockchain technology. NFTs are blockchain-traded rights to any digital asset; including images, videos, music, even the parts of vir…
View article: Is non-fungible token pricing driven by cryptocurrencies?
Is non-fungible token pricing driven by cryptocurrencies? Open
In early 2021, non-fungible tokens (NFT) became the first application of blockchain technology to achieve clear public prominence. NFTs are tradeable rights to digital assets (images, music, videos, virtual creations) where ownership is re…
View article: Does Target Country Cultural Orientation Influence M&A?
Does Target Country Cultural Orientation Influence M&A? Open
We examine whether the cultural orientation of target firms influences outcomes of international mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Prior research shows that the national culture of the acquiring firm country influences M&A, as well the dista…