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This paper analyzes inflation trends in #Greece from the 1970s to the present, focusing on the impact of global #geopolitical tensions that have raised commodity prices and driven up #inflation.

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This article argues that #deportation of noncitizens following criminal convictions, though classified as a civil process, is punitive in nature & integral to the #criminaljustice system.

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Carbon Leakage in the EU Steel Sector

"Carbon Leakage in EU Steel" by Bidinot, Dufour & Varotto finds no evidence of significant direct or indirect carbon leakage from the EU steel sector under the ETS, questioning current mitigation measures. spkl.io/63325AsHgd #ClimatePolicy #CarbonLeakage #EU

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This article analyzes #Trump v. CASA, a Supreme Court case resolving the debate over “universal” injunctions—court orders blocking enforcement of a #law against all affected individuals, not just the plaintiffs.

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This article by Tom C. W. Lin @templelaw.bsky.social examines the significant risks #AI poses to financial markets, including market manipulation, #misinformation, & misconduct by bad actors & rogue nations.

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Abstract If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to use the term to refer to financing mechanisms that enable the Executive Branch to evade the usual congressional checks on spending -- either because they enable spending to occur without being fully accounted for in the federal budget, or because they enable spending to occur without congressional approval at all. From both the left and the right, critics of particular financing schemes accuse them of being slush funds. To right-leaning critics, both the Consumer Financial Protection Board and President Biden's student loan forgiveness program were impermissible slush funds. And left-leaning critics have applied the slush fund label to President Trump's efforts to fund the border wall, his seizure and sale of Venezuelan oil, his university settlements, his "Board of Peace," his efforts to shield some farmers from the effects of his tariffs, and many more. Slush funds seem to directly challenge Congress's constitutional power of the purse. But there is great disagreement over what constitutes a slush fund. And once we start digging, we can see that many deeply entrenched appropriations practices have some of the same key aspects as do the financing schemes that have attracted the pejorative label. This paper examines the variety of arrangements that may be characterized as slush funds. Doing so can help us understand why Congress has found delegation to the Executive Branch in the appropriations sphere so essential to achieving the tasks that the electorate wants the government to carry out. But it can also help us assess what sorts of delegation should raise greater or lesser concerns. And it can help us determine when courts should be deciding these questions and when the other branches should be thinking about these issues in a constitutional register. This paper undertakes that analysis.

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"Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse

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This paper by Daniel C. K. Chow highlights widespread #counterfeit shipments from #Alibaba suppliers to U.S. retailers & notes that current efforts to suppress #online counterfeits are ineffective.

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Brain regions used for training. Region definitions are from the Natural Scenes Dataset. d = dorsal, v = ventral, OFA = occipital face area, FFA = fusiform face area, OWFA = occipital word form area, VWFA = visual word form area, MFS = mid-fusiform sulcus, EBA = extrastriate body area, FBA = fusiform body area, OPA = occipital place area, PPA = parahippocampal place area, RSC = retrosplenial cortex.

Gijs Overgoor SMU Cox School of Business & co-authors introduce NeuroViT, a brain-aligned vision model showing how visual complexity and navigational affordance influence booking intentions & revenue.

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This figure shows the change in the campaign shortfall associated with an interquartile shift in each institutional characteristic of interest in Table 3 Column (5). For ease of interpretation, characteristics are ranked by the absolute magnitude of their estimated effects. Appendix E provides additional descriptive statistics.

This study finds that despite causing stronger negative #stock impacts, only one-third of short-selling activist campaigns from 2009-2022 targeted non-US #firms, even after considering share availability.

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This article critiques U.S. drug sentencing guidelines for focusing on drug type & quantity rather than offender culpability, proposing instead a role-based approach anchored in pre-Guidelines #data.

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The Impact of Advisors' Industry and Country Experience on Announcement Returns in Buy-Side M&A

This paper by Ecer shows that advisors with extensive industry and country experience deliver better buy-side deal outcomes, including higher abnormal returns and lower prices. spkl.io/63320ASsXM #M&A #Finance #Advisory

Estimating long-term water demand of grapevine under current and future climate projections in the Barossa region

This paper by Phogat et al. shows climate change could boost irrigation needs by up to 35% in the Barossa and Eden regions. Highlights the importance of adaptive water management for sustainable viticulture. spkl.io/63325ASs3H #WaterSecurity #Climate #Agriculture

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How does SSRN help advance #research? We’d like to share some thoughts from one of our 2.5 Million #researchers Robert C. Bird, business law professor at the University of Connecticut.

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Pricing Wildfire Risk in Residential Real Estate: Invasive Grass-Fire Cycle

This paper by Wong & Yildirim links invasive grass proliferation to increased wildfire probability and a 2.6% drop in home values. Supports ecological risk assessment in climate adaptation. spkl.io/63326ASmKr #Wildfire #ClimateRisk

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What is Forensic Finance?

This paper by Griffin & Kruger surveys how finance research uncovers illicit activities like fraud, manipulation, and greenwashing. Highlights its importance for industry reform and market integrity. spkl.io/63322ASmB8 #Finance #FraudDetection #Regulation

The Latest Research on Cryptocurrency This list includes a selection of the latest research on cryptocurrency posted to SSRN in 2025. On the Impossibility of Transparent and Decentralized DeFi Trading by Hanna Halaburda (New York Unive…

Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a selection of the latest research on #cryptocurreny submitted to SSRN in 2025.

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This essay argues that #Canada’s output-based pricing systems primarily act as a #carbontax with intensity-based exemptions, & adding emissions trading distorts incentives by subsidizing low emitters.

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Points correspond to the change of the indirect dependence through Vietnam and Mexico measured in value of goods post-Trade War, obtained from estimating Equation (3), where P ostt has been substituted with multiple dummy variables, each representing a distinct quarter. The base period is the second quarter of 2018. Periods beyond the twelfth quarter are aggregated for analysis. The red line represents the 90% confidence interval.

This study examines whether U.S. #firms reducing direct reliance on #China by sourcing through #Vietnam & #Mexico have truly lessened their dependence or merely shifted it indirectly.

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This article examines how Founding-era courts used #historical practice in #legal interpretation, challenging modern theories that the Founders accepted practice-based updates to law’s meaning.

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This article emphasizes #librarians' expanding role in navigating AI-driven digital changes & the importance of #AI literacy for access & understanding in today's intelligent systems era.

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Competition Law and Antitrust Disputes in the Era of #Sports' Hyper-Commercialisation: America and Australia Compared

This article explores antitrust and competition law in commercial #sports.

Authors: Marc Edelman, Eric Windholz

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Algorithmic Harm: A Response to Critics

The authors explore the benefits and costs of personalization, challenges to their approaches, and whether #algorithms might be said to have an unconscious.

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein, Oren Bar-Gill

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Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes Obligations in the International Court of Justice's #Climate Change Advisory Opinion

The authors focus on the issue of erga omnes and erga omnes partes obligations.

Authors: Miles Jackson, Federica Paddeu
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Do female directors affect #equity costs? This study finds greater female board representation significantly lowers #firms' equity costs by improving #governance & reducing information asymmetry.

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Abstract Over a few months in 2025, the second Trump Administration dismantled the infrastructure for federal civil rights enforcement in the United States. In this paper, we describe key elements of this assault assess its impact, and sketch the beginnings of a set of longer-term goals for remaking civil rights enforcement. We begin with the premise that there is no returning to precisely the same doctrinal and institutional structures set up in the second part of the twentieth century. Restoring the regime to provide the protections that existed on January 20, 2025, when the present assault began, would resurrect what was already a hollowed-out system whose operation fell far short of the aspirations that first propelled it. Nor do we advise restoring the regime to the contours it occupied in, say, 1970, before the many cutbacks that prevented it from operating as intended. Such a restoration simply would not be feasible, even allowing for the dramatic change in political will necessary to secure the far more modest legal changes we recommend here. Nor would such a restoration address head on the evolution in both the manifestation of discriminatory practices and the resistance to remedies for them. We must instead rethink both the substantive doctrines through which we seek to achieve democratic equality and the institutional structures through which those doctrines will be elaborated and enforced. Examining the events of the last year, we believe that a lasting infrastructure for civil rights enforcement requires direct engagement with the specific tactics the current Administration has used to dismantle the pre-existing system. The paper focuses on three of these tactics, which we label erasure, demolition, and weaponization. More specifically, it argues that rebuilding will require structures designed to withstand more effectively future efforts that seek to (1) erase existing data pertaining to race, ethnicity, and gender in a host of realms and terminate…

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The Dismantling of Civil Rights Protections and Thoughts on Rebuilding

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This article reviews anti-discrimination law trends in #Australia, noting stagnation in #race, disability, & age protections, while sex & sexual harassment laws have seen dynamic developments.

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The Functions of #Cryptointermediaries

This paper argues that DeFi's promise of an alternative capital market free from intermediation is misleading.

Author: Vanessa Villanueva Collao

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J.S. Nelson from the PittLaw warns that excessive #workplace #surveillance can harm productivity, moral agency, & manager-employee trust. #Oversurveillance risks fostering deviance and ethical issues.

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