Can the WTO play a role in international financial regulation? This paper examines that question focusing specifically on the regulation of international derivatives, reasoning that if that complex and controversial category of instruments can be successfully regulated, international financial...

We examine momentum and reversal anomalies in corporate bond returns at the firm-level employing a novel dataset, SoKat Credit, comprising bonds of 323 of the largest and liquid companies over the period from 2002 to 2020. Our study documents significant short-term reversal in the...

This working paper suggest that most global governance institutions in health and finance have developed online services to increase their transparency and efficiency. In other words, these organizations increase the capacity of their members and selected stakeholders to access information,...

Digital inequalities have real consequences for individuals’ everyday lives—this basic assumption drives digital inequality research. Recent efforts have focused on tangible benefits of online engagement, yet subjective quality of life measures also matter as Internet outcomes. This article...

Testing communication theories requires a valid empirical basis, yet especially for usage time measures, retrospective self-reports have shown to be biased. This study draws on a unique data set of 923 Swiss internet users who had their internet use tracked for at least 30 days on mobile and...

In this article, we provide an in-depth overview of the literature on chilling effects and corporate profiling and connect the two topics. We start by explaining how profiling, within an increasingly data-rich environment, creates substantial power asymmetries between users and platforms (and...

We live in a world of data. Today more than ever, data are at the center of the economy. Individuals, organizations, and governments consume and produce large amounts of data. If the concept of big data aims to describe how large and complex data sets are analyzed15, it also describes how...

Nowadays it is commonplace to argue that candidates’ personal characteristics play a large part in determining how individuals vote. In the domain of political marketing this assumption is often given for granted, and no clear conceptual understanding of how image crafting techniques affect...

Previous research has proven reluctant in systematically addressing the role played by television exposure as a driver of personalization in voting behaviour. Similarly, the relationship between the rise of Internet-based political communication and the personalization trend has been...

This paper investigates the individual-level determinants of partisan attachments in the Second Italian Republic. Based on the marked personalisation of the political supply in the last two decades, our hypothesis is that there has been a shift in the ground on which psychological feelings of...